Solidarity is For Miley Cyrus: The Racial Implications of her VMA Performance

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2. Yes...that is my sense as well. She fed into all the old stereotypes about AA women dating back

to days of slavery, using black women as mere props, which might be bad enough, but exploiting them in such a stereotypical and controversially sexual way moved the performance from merely provocative to something far less defensible.

That said, i'm sure most viewers probably didn't pick up on some of what she was doing, but I'm betting her target audience certainly will.


Meh, I only hope she grows up and finds a way to actually display and market her own (vocal?) talents. This surely doesn't seem to me to be the way.