In truth, Miley exemplifies the white impulse to shake the stigma its mainstream status affords while simultaneously exercising the power of whiteness to define blackness. Charges of cultural appropriation and the rampant slut shaming she now faces draw a narrow lens to her actions. And it would take a dull palette to assume she couldn’t sincerely recognize the appeal of rap music and gold accessories. It would be unfair to demand Miley remain faithful to her teenage aesthetic when no self-aware person does. Twenty-year-old Miley tweets screengrabs of her iPhone, boasting songs from Gucci Mane, French Montana, and Juicy J. Sixteen-year-old Miley had never heard a Jay Z song (despite the name-check in her hit single “Party in the USA”). She’s taken cues from Rihanna and hip-hop culture at large and added gold chains, even a grill. No longer confined to a Disney contract, she dresses in cropped shirts, leather bras, and bondage-inspired Versace. Her loyalty to the white girlhood she was born into via Hannah Montana is under scrutiny. For every witchy, androgynous Rooney Mara, there’s a Taylor Swift, a Zooey Deschanel, and a Miley Cyrus. Any resemblance to real-life white girls doesn’t matter all exceptions are exempt from consideration. Above all she is mainstream, either by consumer habits or design. The “white girl” is vulnerable, trivial, and self-involved. As the default, heteronormative white femininity must provide the ultimate foil to patriarchal masculinity. The straight American “white girl” serves as the normative gender performance, the femininity from which all femininity deviates, through which all women of color are otherized. ![]() The girlhood implied by the label is central to understanding how it regulates not only white girls’ behavior but everyone else’s too. Only outprivileged by white men, the white girl’s assumed universality lets us project onto “white girl” our attitudes about race, gender, class, and the behavior appropriate within those parameters. Today the symbolic potency of white femininity is shifting. Not just reproductively but as future missionaries, schoolteachers, moral custodians of the dark frontier-Columbia leading the way. Historically, white girlhood stood for the preservation of whiteness. Like a hipster’s, the white girl’s class status goes without saying-there is no Twitter account for PoorWhiteGirlProblems. The tastes, habits, and concerns of the white girl, like those of the hipster, are often punch lines used as self-evident definitions for the label. Like the late aughts’ “hipster,” “white girl” is a label applied either dismissively or self-consciously. Later a black man sings the song and, that’s it, that’s the whole joke. There's a famous scene in the 2004 Wayans brothers’ comedy White Chicks: The opening bars of piano introduce Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” and the car full of white girls squeals in delight before launching into the cloyingly earnest lyrics. audience means that white consumers decide not only what blackness is, but also what they want out of it Keke Palmer, Raven Symone, Keisha Knight seem to be fine.The presumed generic whiteness of the mainstream U.S. What's going on with Lindsey, Amanda,Jamie Lynn and Miley ? ![]() My beautiful black women don't get upset up this, just remember "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." ![]() The same people welcome women like Miley, and Iggy A with open arms praising them. What's funny people are always going after Rihanna, but Miley is mimicking the things Rihanna does.It boggles my mind how the black community are so quick to attack us black women. Miley Cyrus is just using the black community to make her money just like Justin Timberlake did.Once she makes her money off of the niave black people watch her go back to the "Lily White Girl". Black women are constantly being severely criticized, while white women are glorified for this type of behavior. I also like how Azealia isn't afraid to speak her mind, without the fear of being called bitter. I love the fact that Azealia Banks bought this to his attention, it's something that needed to be addressed. I am not a fan of the whole twerking movement, but they made valid points.
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