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by Guest Contributor Marisol LeBron, originally published at Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo
Last year Puerto Rican artist Miguel Luciano created a pair of Nike Air Force Ones with the image of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, head of the Puerto Rican Indepencence group Los Macheteros.
by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
Discussions about American Apparel’s new Afrika line of clothing on this blog, Feministing and Racialicious sparked some confusion among people who wondered “What’s so wrong with being inspired by another culture?” Nothing, really. But “inspiration” drawn from a historically oppressed culture comes with a tangle of […]
by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published on What Tami Said
So, over on Feministing, Samhita wrote an article about the new Afrika line of clothing by American Apparel. Under the headline: “Jungle prints are back,” the blogger wrote:
And this time to add to the classiness, they are being marketed as the “Afrika” […]
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