12 Facts About Blackface

Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-Black people to portray a caricature of a Black person.

Blackface was a performance tradition in the American theater for roughly 100 years beginning around 1830.

Blackface featured prominently in film at least into the 1930s, and the "aural blackface" of the Amos 'n' Andy radio show lasted into the 1950s.

Blackface makeup was largely eliminated even from live-action film comedy in the U S after the end of the 1930s, when public sensibilities regarding race were beginning to change and blackface became increasingly associated with racism and bigotry.

Blackface expects to be treated as a fellow student and instead learns the isolation of 'being black' on campus.

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Blackface's personally cast Jolie to play herself, defending the choice to have Jolie "sporting a spray tan and a corkscrew wig.

Blackface performances are not unusual within the Latino community of Miami.

Blackface performances have, for instance, tried to work through U S racial and ethnic classifications in conflict with national identities.

Blackface was one of the influences in the development of characters such as Mickey Mouse.

Blackface's immediately received a flurry of hate messages and death threats, and two days later, posted another message in which she apologized to whoever had been offended, but argued that she had been "naively" trying to "express her support for all these communities.

Blackface has been a contentious issue in the music scene outside of hip hop.

Blackface minstrelsy was the conduit through which African-American and African-American-influenced music, comedy, and dance first reached the white American mainstream.