Scholarly Article (revised)

In the article, "Go White Girl Go! : Hip Hop Booty Dancing and the White Female Body" by Melissa Campbell, Campbell explains the controversial topic between booty shaking and white women. Booty shaking, also known as freak dancing, is commonly associated with the black community. The article covered topics such as the problem of subculture, the consumption of black sexuality, and irony related to the term “hoochie”. Freak dancing has influenced many other styles of dancing as well like lap dancing. Booty dancing or freak dancing, serve as a very sexual way of dancing. The way a female is moving and grinding on their male partner is like they are having sexual intercourse. This sometimes falsely portrays these females. This is uncommon amongst white culture, and when seen, is very shocking to the black community. An African American perspective on white females is that they don’t have a lot of rhythm and that the are unable to dance. African American males would somewhat pimp white females, which deprive these white individuals of their rights. Freak dancing is considered to be the preferable way of dancing amongst teenagers. Although race should not be an issue in today’s society, race is still a main determinant in some aspects in most communities.

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