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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Replying to @jbouie
It’s playacting at a race that they believe has more personal freedom than theirs does.
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That's very shrewd. Part of the identity of whiteness is a constricted expressive range of emotion. Playing at being black is a way of getting permission or access to a wider expressive range.
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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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Replying to @janecoaston @cjane87 and
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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Yes, exactly. It's very sinister.
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