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[quote=Anonymous]the point of the article was that the black female body is being used as currency to uphold the supposed primacy/desirability of white female sexuality. MC's appropriation of twerking in and of itself has a long history of white appropriation (and parody) of black cultural forms, but it was also the juxtaposition of black and white in this particular way--the thick black female body as foil to the thin white female body and that MC was both appropriating but also parodying, by exaggerating, traits associatted with blackness (steretoypes)--that is problematic, It is at once a sexualization of the black female body and stripping that body of real power or individual identity by turning it into a parody. I guess the only good thing is that people agree how horrible the entire experience was--but its important to recognize the long standing cultural fetishes and assumptions around blackness and sexuality. for the person who complained about race being a part of everything---well, yes, in America, in pop culture, race is central to so much. [/quote]

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