Sentences with phrase «of blackface»

He explained he grew up in Senegal and so had no knowledge of blackface.

What the text does not mention as alarming is that a white artist's variation of blackface, even on a wax replica, is no show of racial solidarity.

Usage of blackface inappropriately disregards the existence of black culture.

The new cell divided and was placed in the uterus of a blackface ewe to develop.

Sprinkling the dialogue with liberal bromides protects the makers from the accurate charge of producing the gay equivalent of a blackface minstrel show.

However, many people have argued that his actions were problematic and racist, and accused the artist of blackface.

Not exact matches

To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

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.

In addition, it was suspended in 2002 after an issue with students wearing «blackface» Halloween costumes to one of the fraternity's parties.

Recently a blogger created a mini-controversy in the Lieberman - Lamont race by a posting picture of Lieberman in blackface.

Yesterday, when Jane Hamsher of firedoglake posted a picture on Huffington Post of Joe Lieberman photoshopped into wearing blackface, she was trying to make a point about what she sees as his hypocritical attempts to reach out to black voters.

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

It consisted of 2face Idibia, Faze and Blackface.

Erstwhile rapper of the defunct Plantashun Boyz, Blackface, also publicly accused Wizkid of stealing his song.

The mayor's former big - bucks campaign donor and self - described» friend» Jona Rechnitz once dressed up in blackface, evidence of which could...

Last week, for instance, Joe Lieberman called on his Democratic primary opponent, Ned Lamont, to denounce one of his supporters who posted on the HuffingtonPost a doctored picture of the Connecticut senator in blackface.

The cartoonist who drew an image of Clinton in blackface, which was tweeted — and then deleted — by a pastor who is a Trump supporter, is standing by his caricature.

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.

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.»

in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.

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.

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.

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.

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

The house is full of revelers in blackface, eating watermelon and filling their cups from a «Purple Drank» fountain.

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.

Landing its sharp social commentary somewhere between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Society, Get Out takes racism's more traditional forms — slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface — for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.

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

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.

Written and directed by Jean - Claude La Marre (the Pastor Jones franchise), Chocolate City is basically a blackface version of Magic Mike that trades shamelessly in the same sort of titillating fare which made that flick a runaway hit a few years ago.

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.

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.

She doesn't have her glasses on the first time she watches it so is startled when she realizes that Astaire performs a solo dance referred to as the «Bojangles of Harlem» in blackface.

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.

In this video a young man in blackface, stylishly attired in tailcoat and bowtie, and a drawing of a piano stool become partners in crime as they carry out the «murder» of a baby grand.

was a musical art performance piece featuring a band of superman clad musicians with fake bulging muscles in blackface (and redface).

Hodge employs work from the same era, using the most prevalent depictions of the Black subject (blackface, minstrelsy, slavery, etc).

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.

But suffice it to say that it reads like a high - brow flame war, with talk of «conceptual blackface,» «white male privilege,» postmodern «tropes» and «Friedian affect of theatricality.»

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.

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

Unfortunately, the television audience never saw the second half of Vereen's performance, where the actor attended to the issue of race and blackface in Williams» own words.

The discovery of ganguro, which translates as «blackface,» propelled Rozeal to explore issues of race, gender, and class in her work.

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.

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.

For his performance, Vereen also donned blackface, in order to access the vulnerability and reality of Williams» legacy.

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.

Vereen controversially appeared in blackface, and, due to the racially charged nature of the performance, it was never aired on television.

Faisal Kutty mentions a lecture on Muslim «blackface» in Orientalism by Dr. Ariel Salzmann, on «the use of denigrating Muslim stereotypes in quotidian Western European culture.»