Black face. Behind the Blackface

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	To do so, they had first to win white audiences away from white minstrels
There is evidence from the 1450s onward of the blackening of faces with charcoal as a means to evade identification, and in association with pagan themes	To many, it seems inconceivable that the make-up that Jolson wore was not racist; now and for all time

Blackface: the Sad History of Minstrel Shows

But dressing up as another race lets us make light of the role racism still plays in our society, reinforcing and ignoring its impact simultaneously.

Gucci blackface sweater: Gucci removes $890 sweater, apologizes after receiving backlash: The minstrel shows did expose whites to African-American music and dance
Blackface and Morris dancing: Such lovers were usually lampooned less savagely than the dandy, since their carefree plantation world represented little threat to city audiences
What is blackface?: Come on, get over it! You see it from Shakespearean times onwards - this figure of white people 'blacking up'

But those are just not the facts of history, nor the man named Al Jolson	For us, costume season anxiety begins and ends with trying to cobble together a passable outfit
Created by the original Virginia Minstrels, he was one of hundreds of similar preening, irresponsible, impossibly overdressed characters who strutted their gaudy stuff on the minstrel stage	Between-the-act performers drew heavily on American folklore and folk song, so it was no surprise that the unique culture of black Americans became a regular feature of these brief skits

Blackface

Leonard says this creates a false sense of diversity in at atmospheres that include "everything but the actual person, the community, and the culture.

Don't get what's wrong with blackface? Here's why it's so offensive.: Chinua Achebe Tin windup toy of "Ham and Sam The Minstrel Team
Behind the Blackface: Another theory is that the blackface tradition derives from earlier forms of the dance involving a Moroccan king and his followers
Blackface and Morris dancing: By distorting the features and culture of African Americans—including their looks, language, dance, deportment, and character—white Americans were able to codify whiteness across class and geopolitical lines as its antithesis