Racial Plagiarism and Fashion

This article attempts to chart a path out of the stultifying binary oppositions of “cultural appropriation” and “cultural appreciation” with regard to fashion and beauty forms and practices. “Racial plagiarism,” this essay argues, is a more precise analytic framework for understanding and critiquing...

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Published in:QED (East Lansing, Mich.) Mich.), 2017-10, Vol.4 (3), p.67-80
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