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the makeup used by white actors to portray slaves.

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When was Blackface - album - created?

Blackface - album - was created on 1995-09-26.


What is blackface?

Blackface is a style of theatrical makeup in which a white person blackens their face in order to portray a black person.


What blackface stage actor signify the segregation laws?

The blackface stage actor's name was Jim Crow. Before the official Jim Crow it was "Daddy Jim Crow".


A show featured perfomers wearing blackface?

Was called a minstrel show.


Where can someone find information about blackface?

Blackface is the use of makeup to make a non black person look black. It was used frequently in vaudeville and minstrel shows. The practice dates back to at least 1441.


What is the impact of blackface minstrelsy on African Americans?

Blackface minstrelsy was prolific in the 1800s. It stereotyped slaves as dumb and happy or exaggeratedly refined. The caricatures fed a racist narrative about African behavior, attitudes, and culture.


What does blackface scottish goat like to eat?

They eat grass twigs and leaves


Who was the founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition?

Daniel Decatur Emmett


Putting on the cork refers to this style of entertainment?

Refers to blackface used in Minstrelsy


What is a Scottish breed of sheep?

There are a few Scottish breeds: Scottish Blackface, Cheviot and a recent hybrid called a Bowmont


Was there any controversy regarding tom and jerry?

There was an exploding gag were a character would have something blow up in his face resulting in blackface


Blackface refers to what?

The makeup used by white actors to portray slaves