Susan Scafidi’s quote from a Refinery29 interview about cultural appropriation during Halloween was mentioned in an AL DÍA article.
Susan Scafidi, professor at Fordham University and author of Who Owns Culture: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, stated in an interview for Refinery29 this past month that: “Halloween as a holiday has a history of being focused on inversion of power. It’s about turning the daily world on its head. People dress up as celebrities, cops, politicians, and other powerful figures, and it’s funny! But when you dress up as a culture that you are currently oppressing, or have subjugated in the past, you’re not inverting anything, you’re just kicking them when they are down… reinforcing current power structures in an offensive way.”