Sentences with phrase «wearing blackface»

* According to the results of an investigation by a law firm hired by the University of Oregon, law professor Nancy Shurtz committed «discriminatory harassment» by wearing a blackface costume on Halloween, in violation of the school's anti-discrimination policies.

In one telling scene, the New York artist is shown wearing blackface while chatting amiably with an older gent on a park bench in the Sixième.

It's better to hire a white model and have her wearing blackface.

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

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.

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.

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

Grace has her gangsters wear blackface and serve dinner to the slaves, who find the exercise offensive.

When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan's Inaugural Gala, The New Yorker, 06/01/2017.

Not exact matches

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

After Khaled emerges from the filthy coal in the opening scene, he's framed to highlight that he's wearing what amounts to blackface.

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.