Consumerist appropriation severs style from the social system that produces the underclass

Evidence

The desire to be “down” has promoted a conservative appropriation of specific aspects of underclass black life, whose reality is dehumanized via a process of commodification wherein no correlation is made between mainstream hedonistic consumerism and the reproduction of a social system that perpetuates and maintains an underclass, (hooks, So now buying glamor is about buying out of too-white cultures which have no style - the white bread connotations of being uncomfortable in your own body and not being able to dance don’t fit the transformative promise of fashion. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2862

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact, dense mechanism: the act of enjoying decontextualized Black style actively obscures the structure that creates the streets styled borrowings reference.
• XREF: connects to: Commodity fetishism in mass production dictates conventional human behavior — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 46; Society represses the negative and then reabsorbs the subversive art that resists it. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 65; Teasing builds solidarity on shared consumption, not shared citizenship — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 793 (+1 more)