‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience1

• Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
• November 7, 2024

Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person