Editing Wigger (section)

==Phenomenon==
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Bakari Kitwana, "a culture critic who's been tracking American hip hop for years", has written "Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America".<ref>{{cite web |last=Kitwana |first=Bakari |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4773208 |title=Why White Kids Love Hip Hop |website=NPR |access-date=2015-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730032451/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4773208 |archive-date=2015-07-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1993, an article in the UK newspaper ''The Independent'' described the phenomenon of white, middle-class children who were "wannabe blacks".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/wiggers-just-wannabe-black-white-middleclass-kids-are-adopting-black-street-style-and-chilling-out-to-rap-music-david-usborne-reports-from-washington-1462591.html |title=Wiggers just wannabe black: White middle-class kids are adopting black street style and chilling out to rap music |newspaper=The Independent |date=1993-08-22 |access-date=2015-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925195255/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/wiggers-just-wannabe-black-white-middleclass-kids-are-adopting-black-street-style-and-chilling-out-to-rap-music-david-usborne-reports-from-washington-1462591.html |archive-date=2015-09-25 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The African-American hip hop artist [[Azealia Banks]] has criticized white rapper [[Iggy Azalea]] "for failing to comment on 'black issues' despite capitalising on the appropriation of African American culture in her music".<ref name="Tan">{{cite web |last1=Tan |first1=Monica |title=Azealia Banks's Twitter beef with Iggy Azalea over US race issues misses point |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/05/azealia-bankss-beef-with-wigger-iggy-azalea-over-us-race-issues-misses-point |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 November 2018 |language=en |date=5 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909234724/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/05/azealia-bankss-beef-with-wigger-iggy-azalea-over-us-race-issues-misses-point |archive-date=9 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Banks has called Azalea a "wigger", and there have been "accusations of racism against Azalea" focused on her "insensitivity to the complexities of [[race relations]] and [[cultural appropriation]]".<ref name="Tan"/>

Robert A. Clift's documentary titled "Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity" questions white enthusiasts of black hip-hop culture. The [[term of art]] ''wigger'' "is used both proudly and derisively to describe white enthusiasts of black hip-hop culture".<ref name="Stuever">{{cite news |last1=Stuever |first1=Hank |title='Blacking Up' documentary questions white enthusiasts of black hip-hop culture |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=30 January 2010 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904040.html |access-date=19 November 2018 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017103221/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904040.html |archive-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Clift's documentary examines "racial and cultural ownership and authenticity—a path that begins with the stolen blackness seen in the success of [[Stephen Foster]], [[Al Jolson]], [[Benny Goodman]], [[Elvis Presley]], the [[Rolling Stones]]—all the way up to [[Vanilla Ice]] (popular music's ur-wigger) and [[Eminem]]".<ref name="Stuever"/> A review of the documentary refers to the wiggers as "white [[poseur]]s".<ref name="Stuever"/>