![]() Miley is doing her best to promote herself as a part of rachet culture, which Jody Rosen describes as “the potent sexual symbolism of black female bodies,” while simultaneously treating the black women in her videos and performances as props. In short, she can imagine that she is being “ghetto” without having any concept of what living in a ghetto would really mean. Her status as a member of a traditionally oppressive race and class means that she is able to pick and choose what parts of black culture she wants to embrace without having to deal with the racism and racialization that black women live with every day. She, a wealthy white woman, is taking elements from black culture in order to achieve a specific image. What Miley is doing is cultural appropriation. I read a great post this morning by Anne Theriault on Huffington Post Canada (there’s a Huffington Post Canada?) detailing the racial appropriation of Cyrus and calling White feminists out on their familiar to address this aspect of the performance in their fervor to defend her. There has been the predictable admonishments of Cyrus’ risque, sexualized behaviour and the predictable response from White feminists defending her right to be as slutty as she wants to be.īut, very few commented on the racial overtones of Cyrus’ performance. Yesterday, we’ve seen several memes and quite a bit of conservative finger-wagging (which, in feminist circles, is known as slut-shaming). On Sunday, at the MTV VMA Awards, she did this. Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, a Disney Channel princess. ![]() ![]() In case you have been living under a rock for the last week: there is this girl named Miley Cyrus. ![]()
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