Culinary Injustice (Guest Post)

Culinary Injustice by Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia It is not rare to find people who make statements such as “people who dislike reggaetón are being racists and classists” (Rivera-Rideau 2005). In the early eighties, many people claimed that anyone who chanted “disco sucks” was racist and homophobic (Hubbs 2007, Lawrence 2006, Hughes 1994); and some […]

CFP: Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (deadline: Jul. 20, 2020)

A Special Issue of The British Journal of Aesthetics In recent years, there have been heated debates both in the public opinion and in academic contexts over the phenomenon of “cultural appropriation”—i.e. when ‘members of one culture … take for their own, or for their own use, items produced by a member or members of […]