Sentences with phrase «back blackface»

If Mr. Lee meant to bring back blackface entertainment as a metaphor for the current black performers he finds obnoxious, he has miscalculated.

Not exact matches

The straw that broke the camel's back was when he insisted that I [a black woman] should not be offended when he [a white man] laughs at blackface and minstrel shows.
Perhaps paradoxically, she often achieves this through unabashedly excessive detail, like in One Day and Back Then (Standing), where her character stands in a field of sea reeds in blackface, looking out at us, wearing all black (including stiletto boots), ready for a night out on the town.
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