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blackface
📅 Updated:2025-02-12
🕒 Created:2018-11-16
🆔 ID:22301
Description
Blackface is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
It is considered a racially insensitive representation of blackness by the African American community.
See: racism
Not to be confused with black_face where a character has a black marking that encompasses their face, like some sheep or darker siamese/color-point cats.
