Redface
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redface-311-9068574
title:
Redface
text:
Redface is the wearing of makeup to darken or redden skin tone, or feathers, warpaint, etc. by non-Natives to impersonate a Native American or Indigenous Canadian person, or to in some other way perpetuate stereotypes of Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States. It is analogous to the wearing of Blackface. In the early twentieth century, it was often white performers, who wore blackface or redface when portraying Plains Indians in Hollywood Westerns. In the early days of television sit
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Use of costumes to caricature Indigenous Americans
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redface
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date modified:
2024-04-15T03:00:39Z
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