— Last checked and updated May 01, 2020 by Leah Vecchione, Langara College Library & Information Technology practicum student.

The Basics

Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri. “The Cultural Appropriation Debate Is over. It’s Time for Action.” The Globe and Mail, May 19, 2017. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Elliott, Alicia. “On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing With Empathy and Writing With Love.” Room Magazine. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Johnson, Maisha Z. “What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm.” everyday feminism, June 14, 2015. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

McArdle, Molly. “‘You Will Be Tokenized’: Speaking Out About the State of Diversity in Publishing.” Brooklyn Magazine, Feb. 24, 2016. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

A Deeper Dive

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” YouTube, uploaded by TED, Oct 7, 2009. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Watch Video

Chau Bradley, Helen. “Words of (Dis)Comfort: On the Luxuries and Limitations of Reading While White.” (Accessed 05/01/2020) Carte Blanche, Mar. 7, 2019. Read Article

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “The Urgency of Intersectionality.” YouTube, uploaded by TED, Dec. 7, 2016. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Watch Video

Gonsalez, Marcos Santiago. “When ‘Good Writing’ Means ‘White Writing’.” Electric Literature, Nov. 1, 2017. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Jemisin, Nora K. “Don’t Put My Book in the African American Section.” N. K. Jemisin, May 26, 2010. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Leduc, Amanda. “When All Your Faves Are Problematic.” Open Book, Feb. 26, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

McGrath, Laura B. “Comping White.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan. 21, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Minosh Pyle, Kai. “CanLit, AmLit—NishLit? Rematriating Indigenous Literature Beyond Borders.” Carte Blanche, Feb. 7, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Muhammad-Ali, Khaalidah. “More Than Numbers.” Fireside Magazine, Aug. 10, 2018. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Ng, Celeste. “Why I Don’t Want to Be the Next Amy Tan.” HuffPost, March 18, 2010. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Nunnally, Mya. “7 Casually Racist Things That White Authors Do.” BOOK RIOT, 3 Feb. 2018. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article 

Shraya, Vivek. “How Did the Suffering of Marginalized Artists Become So Marketable?” NOW, May 1, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Statement from the TWUC Equity Task Force in Response to WRITE MAGAZINE editorial “Winning the Appropriation Prize.” Writers Union, May 15, 2017. Read Statement  – To review the original editorial by Hal Niedzviecki, please read the following: Schilling, Vincent. “Write What You Don’t Know: Write Magazine Editor Resigns after Cultural Article.” Indian Country Today, May 10, 2017. (Accessed 05/01/2020)

Thom, Kai Cheng. “They Call Me Literary Fascism: Reflections of a Sensitivity Reader.” All Lit Up, March 1, 2019. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Read Article

Whittaker, Alison. “White critics don’t know how to deal with the golden age of Indigenous stories.” The Guardian, March 15, 2019. Read Article

Writing the Other: Resources and classes to be more inclusive in writing. (Accessed 05/01/2020) Visit Site

Writing with Color. (Accessed 05/01/2020) More Info

The ethics of cultural appropriation, edited by James O. Young, Conrad G. Brunk. Read

Style Guides

NABJ Style Guide. National Association of Black Journalists. (Accessed 05/01/2020) More Info

Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style. Brush Education, Feb. 2018. (Accessed 05/01/2020) More Info