At its root, cultural appropriation comes down to power. It happens in two different ways: first, when members of a dominant culture take and use elements from a culture of people that has been ...

Since its launch in 2019, Disney+ notified subscribers that movies like Dumbo and Peter Pan are “presented as originally created” and “may contain outdated cultural depictions,” but the ...

Intentionally or not, this renders the members of cultures invisible, as they disappear behind promotional campaigns of “whitening” and “hegemonization” of copied cultural objects and practices. To ...

In the 1941 Disney movie "Dumbo," a group of crows sit on a branch, one of them smoking a cigar. They laugh, dance, sing and make fun of Dumbo, a little elephant with big ears, who sits nearby ...

Discussions of cultural appropriation can contribute to greater self-consciousness and cross-cultural awareness. In a 2015 Atlantic article, “ The Dos and Don’ts of Cultural Appropriation,” the ...

imagine you're gwen stefani's pr team and you've done the years of work to bury her fetishism and cultural appropriation from the public's consciousness and in 2023 she brings it back to the ...

Some “Avatar” critics are accusing film director James Cameron of cultural appropriation. The “Avatar 2: The Way of Water” director, 68, is accused of stealing themes, history and imagery ...

And that means this is a great time to talk about how some costumes might seem like a great idea, but actually hurtful to many people because they are a form of cultural appropriation.

Hailey Bieber's viral TikTok post about her recent lip routine is facing some backlash and accusations of "cultural appropriation" among social media users. "Ready for all the fall things ...

The phrase “cultural appropriation” appears in many forms and many contexts. And the debates surrounding it have swelled periodically, especially in the last 20 years.