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When will white people stop appropriating black culture as ‘fun’ and ‘quirky’ hobbies?

When will white people stop appropriating black culture as ‘fun’ and ‘quirky’ hobbies?

Kai Jie Cai, MA Postcolonial Studies “Swing Patrol […] isn’t just an erasure of Black history it is an erasure of what London looks like today.” Swing dance emerged within the African American community alongside Jazz during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance era. Since the black body was excluded from the
spiritadmin Feb 7, 2020

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