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Definition of blackface
: makeup applied to a performer playing a black person especially in a minstrel show; also : a performer wearing such makeup
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Recent Examples of blackface from the Web
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The show is adapted from a movie of the same name that follows the events leading up to a blackface party at a fictional and predominantly white Ivy League university.
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Not everyone thinks Kim Kardashian West donned blackface intentionally to promote her new beauty line in a series of ads.
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Germany’s Confederations Cup campaign opens against Australia in the Black Sea resort of Sochi where people in blackface wearing African clothing and carrying bananas marched in a government-parade last month.
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Minniti, believing he and Neuman, both of whom are white, had been cast in blackface, reported the incident to the school as racist.
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Eugene, Nov. 9: Three people were seen wearing blackface on the University of Oregon campus.
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Pictures of the Carnival and the men in blackface soon emerged on the city's official website and Facebook page.
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The student who wore blackface said that he was required to attend a 45-minute counseling session at the school as a form of discipline.
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A photograph on the city government's official website showed two people in blackface at Saturday's parade.
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First Known Use of blackface
1847
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See words that rhyme with blackface Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about blackface
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