How many times have there been people in blackface in the media being hauled over the coals of late? (housegoeshome.com)
Instead, the work reveals an ignorance of issues surrounding the racial appropriation of blackness by whites — a type of privileged identity tourism, evoking no less than the history of blackface minstrel shows. (hyperallergic.com)
Early blackface minstrels were all male, so cross-dressing white men also played black women who were often portrayed as unappealingly and grotesquely mannish, in the matronly mammy mold, or as highly sexually provocative.» (housegoeshome.com)