From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Racism and Representation in Entertainment

jsykgrl — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:14:33 +0000

At some point this week, I came across a BuzzFeed post entitled, “The BuzzFeed Black History Reading List,” which included a series of essays and articles reflecting upon the end of Black History Month. One of the articles in this post shines an accusatory spotlight down on Hollywood’s use of Blackface today. After some initial disbelief and some precursory digging, I found the amount of performers who have performed in blackface appalling and the names I ...

“Why isn’t it racist?”

Michela — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:08:38 +0000

Over break I went to my roommate Alex’s house for the week. One night, Alex and I were watching TV and stumbled upon MTV’s show, The Real World Road Rules Challenge. About five minutes in, we witnessed two cast mates attempting to “poke fun” at their friends’ interracial relationship by using black face, which they did by covering their faces with nutella. While the two of us stared at each other in disbelief, her mom ...

Black face – Contemporary Racism

From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Racism and Representation in Entertainment

“Why isn’t it racist?”