blackface, like many forms of racism, is a pleasurable activity for the practitioner. it allows them to relish in mockery and, like traditional minstrelsy, frees them to behave in taboo or transgressive ways, that they can attribute to the racial costumehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1174798801334390788 …
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See also Native American-themed sports teams. Playing at a fantasy of noble savagery.
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In general, that was kind of the point of minstrelsy, the idea that blackness gives you permission to do more.
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But the "more" paradoxically allowed the black-masked white performer to inhabit a diminished blackness: As the art historian Manthia Diawara writes: the caricature silenced the black body by deforming it, leaving “room only for white supremacy to speak through it.”
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