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In Dakota Johnson's second crack at hosting SNL after nine years, there was an important theme of appropriation – that is sampling minority culture without context and losing the original meaning of the artifact in the interest of the majority's amusement. We talk about socioeconomic- and race-based othering in Home Movies, black friends and black-up bands with Justin Timberlake's musical performance of Sanctified, and the long history of the Dozens in Roast (a film by Please Don't Destroy).
By Charisse L'PreeIn Dakota Johnson's second crack at hosting SNL after nine years, there was an important theme of appropriation – that is sampling minority culture without context and losing the original meaning of the artifact in the interest of the majority's amusement. We talk about socioeconomic- and race-based othering in Home Movies, black friends and black-up bands with Justin Timberlake's musical performance of Sanctified, and the long history of the Dozens in Roast (a film by Please Don't Destroy).