Blackface

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Blackface is the practice of performers using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a racialized caricature of black people, e.g. African Americans, on stage or in entertainment. It is overwhelmingly condemned as a racist and deeply inappropriate act.

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Image: Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.