Although many people who use blackface say they don’t intend to offend, the act has long held deep racist connotations.
Each Christmas, international media attention turns to the Netherlands, where thousands of people paint their faces black while dressing up asDespite protest from black and anti-racist activists, many Dutch people defend the practice as a part of their culture and not something intended to hurt black people.
The way of highlighting this purported lack of humanity was in exaggerating the physical characteristics of African-American people, such as their skin colour, lipsize, eye shape, etc, and also stereotypes about the way they conducted themselves, such as being intellectually slow and lazy with regard to work ethic.
The propagation of such attitudes and caricatures served the purpose of codifying white identity in opposition to the black other,Blackface is by no means exclusive to the West and variations are now common across the Middle East and South Asia, where it is also used to represent a caricature of those of African origin.show was criticised for portraying Sudanese people using non-Sudanese actors in blackface.
While most of those who use blackface or brownface insist they never meant to offend or were unaware of the racist connotations, such controversies continue to rear their head regularly.
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