American mainstream popular culture has always incorporated black vernacular traditions

Evidence

And, of course, silenced and unacknowledged, the fact of American popular culture itself, which has always contained within it, whether silenced or not, black American popular vernacular traditions. It may be hard to remember that, when viewed from outside of the United States, American mainstream popular culture has always involved certain traditions that could only be attributed to black cultural vernacular traditions. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 271

Categorization

• XREF: This silent incorporation of black vernacular into the mainstream parallels the later argument that dominant culture ‘otherises’ while simultaneously appropriating — a mechanism the Islamophobia readings on Orientalism will echo.