6: Video excerpt, Amandla Stenberg and Quinn Masterson’s “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” 2015.

6: Video excerpt, Amandla Stenberg and Quinn Masterson’s “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” 2015.

The teenaged actress Amandla Stenberg explains what “cultural appropriation” is, in a video produced for her and her cowriter’s history class.

Suggested activity: Ask students what, if anything, in Hidary’s performance could be considered “cultural appropriation.”

Source: Amandla Stenberg and Quinn Masterson, “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows” (2015, <http://amandla.tumblr.com/post/107484511963/dont-cash-crop-my-cornrows-a-crash-discourse-on>, accessed February 23, 2016), web video.