Thursday, October 21, 2010
Something to think about...
Today we talked about race in subcultures. Many people seemed to think that race was not a dominant factor for subcultures, and that subcultures having dominant races just naturally developed that way, but did not mean the subcultures themselves were racist. But the article about afro-punk gave me a different perspective on the issue. While blacks were allowed to participate in the punk subculture, their experience was not the same as their white peers. This makes me think that race must play more of a role in subcultures than we concluded today in class. Anyone else have similar thoughts? Different ones?
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I don't know, I think that it differs with each subculture. I thought a really interesting little line in the afro punk story was "what do you do with hair that doesn't spike?". I thought it was an interesting way of pointing out the ways that racial/ethnic differences make ones experience of things such as a subculture different. African American hair is extremely kinky/curly and can't spike like straight caucasian hair. Just interesting racial differences.
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