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Blackface As a Prism For Seeing the World
4 days ago
by Jeet Heer
George Luks's Queen Liliokalani cartoon from Verdict, January 16, 1899 Blackface, as we’ve touched on before in this blog, was a pervasive part of American popular culture in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. I’d go so far as to argue that blackface was the dominant aesthetic prism through whi ...
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How Should Someone (I’m Looking At You, Georges) Own Up To Blackface?
4 days ago
by dsb nola
In last night’s mayoral debate John Georges denied Dambala’s claim (in the person of Roy Couhig) that Georges and his frat buddies at Tulane wore blackface (for annual parties) in the 1980s, or that Georges supervised the wearing of blackface as president of his fraternity. Predictably, Georges went ...
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