Blackface
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blackface-175-3109014
title:
Blackface
text:
Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment. Scholarship on the origins or definition of blackface vary with some taking a global perspective that includes European culture and Western colonialism. Scholars with this wider view may date the practice of blackface to as early as Medieval Europe's mystery plays when bitumen and coal were used to darken the skin of white performers portraying demon
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Theatrical makeup caricaturing Black people
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
date created:
2002-09-23T05:38:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:02:29Z
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image:
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13
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