Sentences with phrase «american blackface»
Disembodied eyes and lips float, hostage, in the electric black of the minstrel stage, distorting the African body into American blackface.»
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Pastor Mark Burns, an African - American supporter of Donald Trump who has been defending the candidate's recent outreach to minority voters in the media, tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, mocking her outreach to black voters.
Extra features on this non-SE include: a comprehensive commentary by director Hoblit and co-screenwriter Billy Ray, with the occasional comment from Bruce Willis sandwiched in; another yak - track from producer David Foster, who concentrates on the film's background in WWII history; ten deleted scenes (in 16x9) that reveal that an even more structurally and politically complex film lies on the cutting room floor, with elective commentary from Ray and Hoblit — they're especially sorry to see go, as am I, a bit in which the American soldiers entertain their German captors by donning blackface; a 4 - part photo gallery — see Bruce make serious expressions for «The Poster Shoot»; and trailers for Hart's War, Windtalkers, and the TV shows «Jeremiah» and «Stargate SG - 1».
Using high - quality film stills and boxed sections focusing on major themes and personalities, Lace takes the reader through the early blackface actors, the servant roles so prevalent in Depression - era cinema, the broadened awareness of African Americans following WWII, the blaxploitation films of the 1960s, and the impact of Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.
The artist draws from a range of Japanese and African - American cultural trends in her «a3» (Afro - Asiatic Allegory) series: ukiyo - e, hip hop culture, blackface performance tradition, and ganguro.
In her painting a3 blackface # 65 (2003), Iona Rozeal Brown layers African - American and Japanese skin tones and fashions to create a comical yet strangely beautiful female hybrid.
In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.