The radical magazine Current Affairs recently published an essay by Briahna Joy Gray critical of critics of the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’. Gray was particularly disparaging of an essay that I had published in the New York Times. I enjoy Current Affairs, and it often carries insightful articles. I thought, however, that Gray’s piece, while raising some important points, was confused and tendentious in its criticisms. Current Affairs refused me a reply; I did not need a right of reply, the editor Nathan Robinson […]

Categories: Justice & Liberties, Race & Immigration • Tags: adolph reed, chris ofili, chuck berry, cultural appropriation, dana schutz, elvis presley, inequality, mf husain, racism