Question

Consider the following quote: “Out of our unique isolation, both from our native cultures and from white America, we forged this nation’s most significant original culture. In turn, ‘mainstream’ society has coveted our style, our slang and our song, seeking to appropriate the one truly American culture as its own.”
Why do you think Hannah-Jones places the word “mainstream” in quotation marks?

Answer 1

The text written by Hannah Jones that is given in the question allows us to infer through context clues that the author is unhappy with mainstream American culture.

Quotation marks are used for three main reasons when writing. These are:

• To designate dialogue, meaning that when we are referencing something that was said by another, we wrap it in quotation marks.
• To indicate a title. When we reference the title of a movie, song, article, etc, we use quotation marks.
• To show that the word used was intended to be ironic, metaphoric, or a euphemism

Using the context clues present, we can conclude that Hannah Jones used quotation marks to indicate the word mainstream is being used as a euphemism, in an attempt to downplay and conceal the offensive nature of the word she truly wishes to use.

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