How To Use Blackface In A Sentence
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Two fraternities at the university were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party.
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Significantly, they establish their love for each other through the rehearsals and performance of this blackface play.
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A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
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In October of 2003, members purchased cheviot rams at the breeding sales and crossed them onto the native blackface Ox Mountain ewes.
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Mountain horned blackface sheep make a welcome return to Mayo's premier Show, in Swinford this year.
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In "The Scottsboro Boys," Messrs. Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004 while writing the musical) and David Thompson, the show's librettist, have compressed this complicated sequence of events into a lengthy one-act musical that makes use of all the theatrical conventions of the old-fashioned blackface minstrel shows that were popular well into the 20th century.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn
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They were blackfaced, light, fleeced sheep.
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Though Peder and Susie are not wearing blackface, the chronological events of Beret's gaze perform a sort of minstrel act on them.
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It is certainly no accident that most of the creators of blackface minstrelsy spent time in the city known as “the Queen of the West.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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It seems that the performers were rehearsing in blackface.
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The white practice of copying African American mannerisms became so widespread that actors performing in blackface eventually squeezed black theater out of existence.
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It is not surprising then that Eddie Cantor, the aging, former vaudevillian and radio headliner-turned-television star, performed his most popular musical numbers in blackface.
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The sale attracts buyers from all over Ireland because the Mourne blackface has all the qualities required for profitable sheep farming in the difficult years ahead.
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At left is a video via The Smoking Gun of a group of white Louisiana college students who have used mud to deck themselves out in blackface so they can "hilariously" reenact the Jena 6 assault.
"I'm not a racist."
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When fat people are portrayed on film, they're usually played by thin actors in fat suits, a phenomena that's been compared to a modern version of the blackface minstrel show.
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Done up in blackface, Olivier gives a very intelligent reading of the part, providing real conviction to lines that could easily have elicited laughter.
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Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
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Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
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“Just as the minstrel stage held out the possibility that whites could be ‘black’ for a while but nonetheless white,” David Roediger, the leading historian of “whiteness,” has written, “it offered the possibilities that, via blackface, preindustrial joys could survive amidst industrial discipline.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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He makes an excellent case for the value, integrity, and racial equanimity of blackface minstrel performance.
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Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
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Meat from Scotland's famous blackface sheep, one of the country's oldest breeds, can be ordered online.
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Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Alexander believes that Jews did blackface because this type of performance enabled Jews to identify with the sense of exile and loss of home faced by African Americans.
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In these a hambone was a performer in blackface overacting dialect routines (as in the song, "The Ham-Fat Man").
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
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How had a white dancer in blackface captured a rowdy crowd of laborers?
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Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
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They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch.
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Cut to a Broadway theater, where the blackfaced hero sings ‘Mammy’ in a style at once cantorial and operatic, at an energy level that is overpowering.
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Soon he branches out on his own and progresses quickly from chorus singer to a featured act while appearing in blackface with one of the country's popular minstrel shows.
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But Si had already been made aware of his enemy's intention, and had instructed Meg how to act in such an emergency, for it might well be that trouble would come when he was out looking after a 'hogging' he had of 'blackfaces' that were pasturing above the Forks, where the Lewis
Border Ghost Stories
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Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies.
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Most of the rest of the songs, original and traditional, are performed in blackface to illustrate the progress of his minstrel career.
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Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans.
SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
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Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift).
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
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Blackface minstrelsy was widely popular but not “respectable.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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When Barack was starting out as a politician, his rivals dismissed him as inauthentically African-American or even "the white man in blackface".
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Foot-and-mouth won't just destroy my livelihood - it would kill off a whole line of blackface sheep that I can trace back over the years.
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The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
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Over 30 percent of MGM's cartoons released between 1946 and 1953 presented either characters in blackface or servile African American maids.
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The racist aspects of the custom have been downplayed in recent decades, and the tale of Black Peter now describes him as a chimney sweep instead of a slave, which explains the blackface.
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Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
