Sentences with word «blackface»

How many times have there been people in blackface in the media being hauled over the coals of late?

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.

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.»

He also got in trouble in 2013 for wearing blackface at a Purim party.

In it, a likeness of President Obama kneels in front of the ZOMBiES (who stand in front of a mash - up between the Confederate flag and that of ISIS) with a bag over his head, prepped for decapitation; Defense Distributed - designed guns are plucked out of 3D printers by potentially felonious hands; Robert Downey Jr. dons blackface in Tropic Thunder; and Eric Garner meets his death at the hands of the NYPD.

Finally, Edgar Arceneaux was profiled on Season 8 of ART21 and during the documentary, he explained his interest in a controversial performance by Broadway veteran Ben Vereen in which he appeared in blackface at President Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural celebration.

Wilmut and his colleagues transplanted a nucleus from a mammary gland cell of a Finn Dorsett sheep into the enucleated egg of a Scottish blackface ewe.

He investigates historical patterns through drawings, installations, and multimedia events, such as the reenactment of Ben Vereen's tragically misunderstood blackface performance at Ronald Reagan's 1981 Inaugural Gala.

Cheshire (2008), a sculptural installation, alludes to the disembodied smile of the cat in Alice in Wonderland as well as to the caricatured wide grin associated with blackface minstrelsy.

An adult cell from the mammary gland of a Finn - Dorset ewe acted as the nuclear donor; it was fused with an enucleated egg from a Scottish Blackface ewe, which acted as the cytoplasmic (or egg) donor.

Hanging up witch decorations at Halloween is no better than wearing blackface costumes or taking a slur, like «Redskins,» as the name of your football team, she says.

If we don't talk about blackface and teach students about its place in history, then the ideology behind why it was used will continue.

In a case that made national headlines, Walters and two others were initially suspended after riding in blackface on a float adorned with buckets of fried chicken and watermelons and labeled «Black to the Future: Broad Channel 2098.»

Activist claims Benedict Cumberbatch's androgynous Zoolander 2 character is «modern equivalent of using blackface»

The Kindezi Schools Old 4th Ward campus held a Black History play with second graders using blackface masks to reflect...

Again, the club won't get involved in this, even as it should be regarded as a downright embarrassment that Diego Simeone's talisman is out here donning blackface for a costume party.

Usage of blackface inappropriately disregards the existence of black culture.

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.

If someone makes a decent 2D platformer where you play as Mario who runs around with his dick out and jumps on blackface goombas... it's really a moot point if the game was completely free on a free site.

In the sole video, Maren Hassinger dares one to discern blackness from blackface.

Was it conceptual blackface?

And the Lieberman blackface graphic worked in the same way.

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

Thomas read aloud the tag for a Maxwell House ad from the 1920s, where two butlers in blackface serve an immensely satisfied middle - aged white woman coffee.

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.

In its modern form, the character is commonly depicted as a blackamoor, with blackface make - up, and dressed in stylized colourful Renaissance attire, akin to Maures in European heraldry, and similar to Moorish characters in the «Moors and Christians» Iberian folk festivals commemorating the Reconquista.

After the Plantashun Boiz split up in 2004, Blackface led a solo musical career.

Blackface accused 2face of stealing «Let Somebody Love You».

They transferred 277 nuclei from the mammary cell line — from a white - faced breed known as a Finn Dorset — into eggs from the hardy Scottish blackface breed.

Bookended by a news - making frat party with a whites - in - blackface theme, and propelled by a narrative concerning Sam's assault against the school's «randomization of housing» (the only all - black residence hall, Parker / Armstrong, is on the verge of being diversified), the movie feels monumentally topical.

It was entertaining enough to hang around three stars for me, propelled by the fun chemistry between Astaire and Rogers (fun fact: I heard they hated each other in real life), but the completely unnecessary, racially insensitive Fred Astaire - in - blackface dance dropped the film an extra star.

His plans misfire when his «minstrel show for the new millenium» becomes a mega-hit, inspiring fans all over the country to don blackface call themselves «real» (n - words).

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

The question of why the filmmakers used Droopy when they were just going to disregard his brand image pales next to the question of why they were still employing blackface gags in 1957.

He advocated for the 13th Amendment and also promoted blackface minstrelsy.

FINAL WORDS: This is actually a really enjoyable light - hearted classic comedy, and I enjoyed how the cha - NO SERIOUSLY HOLY FUCKING BLACKFACE BATMAN WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT?!

I'm not advocating blackface or whiteface minstrelsy (that implies bad acting, doesn't it?)

We can not simply keep making excuses for incidents with blackface happening at our schools.

Samantha Blackmon and Alisha Karabinus came together to in a video for Not Your Mama's Gamer about the art and animation style of Cuphead and its invocation of blackface tropes, however unintentional.

Los Angeles - based Arceneaux is also presenting at Baltic, «Until, Until, Until,» his re-staging Ben Vereen's controversial blackface performance at Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural celebration.

The paintings include images of blackface performers, hooded Klansmen and tangled nooses atop collages of vintage sheet music and broadsides.

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.

Disembodied eyes and lips float, hostage, in the electric black of the minstrel stage, distorting the African body into American blackface.»

In the exhibition Bootleg Baby, content - rich icons such as Moors, Black Power figures, consumer logos, blackface children, cheap signage, graffiti, and celebrities are layered one upon another in paintings that are stacked and hinged on the walls as charms.

Snapchat in particular may have good reason to be wary of the incident: In the past few years it's gotten in trouble for things like yellowface and blackface filters.

I just don't think we should paint our kids in blackface if it offends and hurts people.»

Yet I'm a little befuddled by the parameters and enduring pain of blackface thing.