Sentences with phrase «blackface at»

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.

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

Not exact matches

And students at several schools have attended affairs in «blackface» or as Mexican stereotypes.

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.

The mayor's former big - bucks campaign donor and self - described» friend» Jona Rechnitz once dressed up in blackface, evidence of which could soon be presented at the bribery trial of former union head Norman Seabrook, sources tell The Post.

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.

At one point, in a fit of pique, she even forces them to wear blackface while serving dinner.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

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

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.

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.

Edgar Arceneaux Delves into Blackface and Media Bias at Performa 15, Sleek - Mag (online), 25/11/2015.

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.

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.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.