You are buying a beautifully written story by one of the best authors working in Romance today. Henson, I will ask her for an autograph.īy buying a book by Beverly Jenkins, you’re not appropriating anything. We simply like the show and if enough people watch it, hopefully they will make more of it. We are not claiming its heritage for ourselves. By watching the show, we are supporting it. Its creators want as many people as possible to watch it. The fact that we watch Empire as a family doesn’t make us guilty of cultural appropriation. This person pretended to be African-American and used those claims to become branch president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP.) She claimed to belong to a certain group and directly profited from her deception. When you pretend to be African-American and spend half of your life claiming African-American heritage like Rachel Dolezal, you are guilty of cultural appropriation. The tribe has made the decision to sell their moccasins, so they clearly don’t mind if the general public wears them, and the tribe benefits from the sale. I’m supporting the tribe with my purchase. If I go and buy a pair of moccasins from the tribal shop, I’m not engaging in any cultural appropriation. Not only the tribe gets nothing, but since I don’t know what these symbols mean, I’m just throwing them together, disrespecting their cultural heritage. I’m profiting from their culture and I’m diluting the value of their product. If I decide to set up shop next to them and make cheap knock-off moccasins with the same tribal designs, I’m guilty of cultural appropriation.
Let’s say there is an Native American tribe that produces moccasins with their traditional tribal designs. Let’s look at it in the context of goods, services, and art. People use it in different ways, and it’s a topic that generates heated debate, so its definition can seem a little vague and it’s easy to get confused. I didn’t want to be accused while on the bus I took daily….“Ĭlearly, there is some confusion to the term. “ I own several books of Beverly’s but with all the talk about cultural appropriation, I stopped buying them. We received a comment from one of the readers who is worried that if she read books by Beverly Jenkins, she might be accused of cultural appropriation.
I linked to this story on Beverly Jenkins, which is a really good read.
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