Book: Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity
Chapter: 5. Response to K. Merinda Simmons: When is it OK to Borrow? Discourses on Syncretism and Cultural Appropriation
Blurb:
Leftist criticisms of “cultural appropriation” negatively value
a cultural phenomenon that is structurally analogous to what
other leftist discourses laud as subversive creolization or
hybridity. This chapter compares the two phenomena and their
competing evaluations in political discourses and suggests that
an alternative set of critical questions would provide a more
sophisticated point of entry for cultural critique.