— 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. 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. Read Article

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

A Deeper Dive

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” YouTube, uploaded by TED, Oct 7, 2009. Watch Video

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

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “The Urgency of Intersectionality.” YouTube, uploaded by TED, Dec. 7, 2016. Watch Video

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation. Edited by James O. Young, Conrad G. Brunk. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Read

Gonsalez, Marcos Santiago. “When ‘Good Writing’ Means ‘White Writing’.” Electric Literature, Nov. 1, 2017. Read Article

Jemisin, Nora K. “Don’t Put My Book in the African American Section.” N. K. Jemisin, May 26, 2010. Read Article

Leduc, Amanda. “When All Your Faves Are Problematic.” Open Book, Feb. 26, 2019. Read Article

McGrath, Laura B. “Comping White.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan. 21, 2019. Read Article

Minosh Pyle, Kai. “CanLit, AmLit—NishLit? Rematriating Indigenous Literature Beyond Borders.” Carte Blanche, Feb. 7, 2019. Read Article

Muhammad-Ali, Khaalidah. “More Than Numbers.” Fireside Magazine, Aug. 10, 2018. Read Article

Ng, Celeste. “Why I Don’t Want to Be the Next Amy Tan.” HuffPost, March 18, 2010. Read Article

Nunnally, Mya. “7 Casually Racist Things That White Authors Do.” BOOK RIOT, 3 Feb. 2018. Read Article 

Shraya, Vivek. “How Did the Suffering of Marginalized Artists Become So Marketable?” NOW, May 1, 2019. 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.

Thom, Kai Cheng. “They Call Me Literary Fascism: Reflections of a Sensitivity Reader.” All Lit Up, March 1, 2019. 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

Style Guides

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

Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style. Brush Education, Feb. 2018. More Info