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1. "Birth of a Nation" (1915)A cinematic triumph, "Birth of a Nation" was also astonishingly racist.Director D.W. Griffith's saga, which ran over three hours and was shown in two parts, followed a South Carolina town during the Civil War and pitted white men in blackface against actors playing the Ku Klux Klan protecting the "Aryan" cause.
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Blackface (Object Lessons) A book that explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. On the most basic level, blackface is the application of any ...
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The 40 Best Australian Movies of All Time. 1. Australia (2008) PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance. In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
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This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.. Blackface is the practice of non-black performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in ...
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It's been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the United States. It was racist and offensive then, and it's still racist and offensive today. The origins of blackface date back to the minstrel shows of mid-19th century. White performers darkened their skin with polish and cork, put on tattered ...
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Eric Lott's Love and Theft is a comprehensive exploration of "blackface, minstrelsy and the American working class." Lott breaks down the ways in which white artists who wore blackface would borrow black humor, style, music and dance to entertain white audiences while crafting a persona of the black person as lazy and stupid in order to play down African-Americans' influence on art.
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SYDNEY, Australia — In the United States, painting yourself black to impersonate a person of color is considered a particularly grotesque form of racism. In Australia, it keeps happening. Indeed ...
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A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too. Director Busby Berkeley Stars Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Charles Winninger. 25.
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2. Pens Up Guns Down (2017) 11 min | Documentary, Short. Rate this. Go inside the culture of battle rap where talented artists from Flint, Michigan's Bloody Scene use their words as weapons instead of guns. Directors: Chad Hankins, Gerardo Orozco | Stars: Beige, Blackface, Domanyce, Terrell Dante Houston. 3.
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A Brief Guide to 21st-Century Blackface. By Aisha Harris Sept. 25, 2020. There's a scene in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" in which embittered TV writer Pierre Delacroix, frustrated by his white ...
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