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Back in 2013, Adam Curtis wrote about the perpetual cycle of scandal and outrage. Ten years on, we have completely spun out of control.

Curtis makes reference throughout to the journalistic practice of exposé, placing monolithic structures of government/business under the microscope of public opinion. The pinnacle of 'honest journalism', with your favourite newspaper regularly committing itself to 'the pursuit of truth'.

Whether it is All The Presidents Men, Spotlight, or more recent exaltations of journalistic practice. There is a cultural obsession with the cycle of scandal. An obsession that is clouding the judgement of the public on social media. Any issues with murky reverence, what will be the next scandal after the UCLA Protests? How will tomorrow outrage me more than yesterday?

Full story on Substack.

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📺 Debunking Media Propaganda: Dana's Insightful Talk with Joshua T. Berglan 🚨 👉 Tune in as Dana and Joshua T. Berglan delve into the impact of media propaganda, especially in the context of true crime and its portrayal in society. Join them in unraveling how media has seeded certain narratives into the public psyche for decades, and why these portrayals are problematic. 💥 Dana challenges the glamorization of criminals in media, comparing the celebrity status of figures like Manson to that of cultural icons like Elvis. This discussion explores the potential design behind such media trends and their effects on public perception and values. 📌 For a deeper exploration of media influence and its societal implications, watch the full episode. #MediaPropaganda, #TrueCrime, #PublicPerception, #JoshuaTBerglan, #GlamorizationOfCrime, #SocietalImpact, #MediaNarratives, #CulturalAnalysis, #MindControl, #CriticalThinking, #MediaCritique, #SocietalValues, #InfluentialMedia, #DanaAndJoshua

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February is Black History Month, a month set to observe the history of the movements and achievements of African Americans and their descendants.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. I wanted to use my career as a platform.”

— Cicely Tyson

“All I want for my children — and I think all you want for yours — is a fair and equal chance and respect for their dignity as human beings. Give us that and we’ll do the rest.”

— Jackie Robinson

“I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.”

— Serena Williams

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.”

— Jesse Williams

“This all started as a love story. And it still is. This love transformed me from a curious, stargazing young girl to a professional astrophysicist, hot on the heels of celestial discovery. Who knew that chasing after the universe would ground me so deeply to my mission here on Earth. Then again, when do we ever know where love's first flutter will truly take us.”

— Jedidah Isler

“Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.”

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“NASA is an incredible investment for our nation because what we do not only uncovers new knowledge, it helps raise the bar of human achievement.”

— Charles Frank Bolden Jr.

"I believe that higher education is one of the best investments anybody can make in their future."

— Barack Obama  

“If a black man is always cast as the drug dealer but rarely as the righteous successful business man, the conclusion is that it is not believable for a man of color to be inherently good or successful or on the side of righteousness. Good, bad or indifferent, tv helps define our collective reality. If a child grows up never seeing themselves representative as successful or as the hero, then they are the anomaly if they succeed and the expectation if they fail.”

— Yara Shahidi

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To read more of my Black History posts, visit Unapologetic Ingenuity & Luminary Essence - Black History.

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WEEK 4: Managing Cultural Property

podcast

a 60 sec vlog

a photography blog post

What is cultural appropriation?

The Macquarie Dictionary defines Cultural Appropriation (sometimes referred to as Cultural Misappropriation) as,  “The adoption by a group of a specific element of another culture, as forms of dress, personal adornments, music and art styles, religious beliefs, social behaviour, etc., usually involving some degree of assimilation into the culture which is borrowing it, and sometimes viewed negatively by the group from which the appropriation is made.”

How do we manage cultural appropriation in our own work?

By offering explanations for our choices and doing before hand research e.g. weather it is appropriate to use the item or not. Representation matters as well, such as in the case of runways displaying turbans and head scarfs, they should use the people who would wear those things for the reason it was designed. Though like dreads, there is variations in history of these particular things with not one specific race/culture “owning the items”, if the design is clearly similar to a race/culture this can be stated or state why it is not. 

Should cultural property (or cultural heritage) be protected?  If so how?

Yes. There is no need to wear religious clothing if you have so subscription to the faith or don’t understand the meaning of the item and it’s only for leisure.

PROMPTS

Sanaa Hamid Photographic Series - Haute Spotter

Tania Phipps-Rufus’ Article - The Gaurdian

References

https://www.dazeddigital.com/tag/cultural-appropriation

cultural appropriation. (2017). In S. Butler (Ed.), Macquarie Dictionary. (7th ed.). [Online]. South Yarra: Macquarie Dictionary Publishers. Available from: http://ezproxy.kingston.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/macqdict/cultural_appropriation/0?institutionId=110 [Accessed 20 August 2019].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation

Barnett, C. (1998), The Cultural Turn: Fashion or Progress in Human Geography?. Antipode, 30: 379-394. doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00085

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume3/pdf/shand.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Craig_Thompson3/publication/24098966_Speaking_of_Fashion_Consumers%27_Uses_of_Fashion_Discourses_and_the_Appropriation_of_Countervailing_Cultural_Meanings/links/5759a17208aed884620b1b6d.pdf

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Yara Shahidi is an amazing individual, actress, activist and STEM advocate who delivers and articulates powerful messages of great importance. On “Black-ish”, a television show that has earned and deserves enormous critical acclaim for its discussion and tackling of complex social and race issues, Yara Shahidi portrays the character, Zoey Johnson.

One of her favorite Zoey lines is: "I'm cool, plus I'm black, which is cool, so I win twice.”

As stated within the article:

“Ultimately, as an actor, every story has to be told, but it’s more than saying ‘I want to make sure that every black person on TV is a good role model.’ What we are lacking now is the balance of good, bad and indifferent characters. We have a lot of characters that are entertaining to watch, and they are all played by talented people, but it’s not who you want to be or your sister or your mother or brother to be.”  - Yara Shahidi

As a dynamic force in Hollywood, what keeps her grounded the most:

“I feel like there is nowhere to go other than the ground, if that makes any sense,” she said while laughing. She went into detail about stereotypes that black actors face and how they can be misinterpreted. “So many times, actors will get bad reps for being full of themselves. Confidence, especially on women and people of color, is misconstrued as being conceited,” she said.

“What makes me just ‘Yara’ and not refer to myself as ‘an actress Yara Shahidi,’  is the fact that I’m a kid and I like being a kid. I like having a normal life. My normal is different from most people’s normal, but there still is a balance of I talk to friends and sometimes I text too much, and I’m also in school and balancing classes, and I have a family that supports that. So acting has not absorbed my entire world, which has allowed me to have a base reality. My base reality is our reality. It’s not a set. It’s not a character. It’s not a show. It’s planet Earth.” 

“She’ll have hour-long conversations with random people if she knows anything about what they are trying to do, like ‘ok, here are all of my connections I have, here’s this, here’s that.’ And so many people are like ‘stop talking and monetize that,’ but it comes from this place in her heart where she can’t stop talking if she knows how to help you, and that is just very powerful to watch,” she said.

To read the full article, visit: BLAVITY EXCLUSIVE: YARA SHAHIDI TALKS ABOUT NORMALIZING DIVERSITY, HER ASPIRATIONS, ‘BLACK-ISH’ & MORE

Photo Credit: Adrienne Raquel/NY Mag