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Blackface is the tradition of a performer putting on stylized black makeup to appear as a stereotyped character of African descent. The usual version includes dark or pitch-black makeup and bulging red or white lips. Blackface was often used in Minstrel Shows. The image is associated with negative, stereotypical depictions of black people in the Western world and has become shorthand for anti-black racism. As much as some people would like to forget it, blackface was a part of mainstream American entertainment for almost 100 years until racial backlash ultimately capsized it. Because of their pervasiveness in the US, blackface minstrel shows traveled widely throughout Europe and Australia, where they were imitated by local actors. This led to domestic blackface traditions springing throughout the West and even in many non-Western countries. Lesser cultural stigma outside the US ironically allowed mainstream blackface to survive for far longer than in its country of origin. While most European countries nowadays do not consider the trope as mind-blowingly offensive as the Anglosphere, a mix of Eagleland Osmosis and a greater awareness about racism has led to it becoming increasingly socially unacceptable and controversial. Blackface characters still pop up in Japanese culture and media from time to time, often causing massive headaches for exporters. The trope remains a sensitive subject to this day, partially because of its close association with Uncle Tomfoolery, and causes quite a backlash whenever it shows up in mainstream American culture. Even depictions that criticize the trope or people who engage in it can cause a work to become embroiled in controversy. Instances of Fake Nationality involving lighter-skinned actors playing darker-skinned characters will often raise eyebrows due to straying too close to the trope. Yellowface is a similar practice involving Asian characters, while Brownface is for characters of various "brown" races. The inversion, black actors playing white people, is rarely done straight. When this happens, it's almost always in-universe and for comic effect. Compare and contrast Black Like Me. Both involve using makeup to make a white person look black. However, Black Like Me is usually done to teach a moral about tolerance to the audience. |
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The title character in Shakespeare's Othello was traditionally played by a white actor in makeup, though the original King's Men might not have used it. It wasn't until 1943 that a black actor played the role in a major stage production of the play, but the success of that production didn't stop the common practice of using blackface to last well through the 60s. | |
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Trading Places also uses it as a Paper-Thin Disguise for Dan Aykroyd in the scene on the train. The others with him are also in disguise/costume, but their target for a theft has met Aykroyd's character before, necessitating something more drastic: brown shoe polish. It doesn't fool anyone. | |
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Satirized by Jreg. One of the ideologies featured in Centricide 6 that join Nazi's "International Union of Nationalists" is Pan-Africanism, which is depicted by Greg Guevara jremself wearing a paper with the word "BLACKFACE" attached to jris face. | |
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Inverted in Chappelle's Show in sketches where the black host Dave Chappelle lightens his skin in order to play white character Chuck Taylor. Chuck has appeared in several episodes of the show, and as a Running Gag, his skin gets lighter and lighter with each appearance until his final appearance has him almost literally white. | |
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In the arcade version of Sunset Riders, a character caught in fire got a blackface look before he collapsed. The SNES version censors that, replacing it with the standard death drop animation instead. | |
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Tosh.0 once featured a Webredemption for the little boy who dressed up as Martin Luther King Jr., make up and all, as part of his Black History project. | |
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Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Wooster disguises himself in as part of a troupe of blackface minstrels comprised of his fellow Drones in order to escape J. Washburn Stoker, father of Pauline, the girl in of Bertie's ill-fated engagements. The minstrels were there as part of Stoker's son's birthday party. Wooster ends up having to perform Lady of Spain in blackface with the minstrels before being able to escape. Later the the Harley St. doctor Sir Roderick Glossop has to dress up in blackface to entertain a young boy who was promised that he could see the minstrels at Stoker's son's birthday party, but is unable to go in the confusion, while Jeeves advises Stoker to cover his face in black to be less visible during the night in order to catch Wooster. In another episode, Bertie is persuaded to disguise himself as an African chief in order to retrieve a tribal artifact, making things very awkward when the real chief shows up. In each case, unfortunate implications are mostly skirted because the joke is not on black people but on what a dolt Bertie is for thinking it would work. |
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The Sarah Silverman Program played with this. Sarah argued with a black man that being Jewish is harder than being black, and the two agreed to go through one day as the other ethnicity for a day to test it. Sarah dressed up in a horribly stereotypical and offensive way, receiving very unpleasant remarks, thinking they actually thought she was black and their responses were genuine racism. When she met the man in the usual spot she and the gang get their coffee and said that she agreed that being black was harder, the black man said he realised being Jewish was actually harder. He was wearing a yarmukle, peot, a long false nose, and a shirt saying 'I <3 Money'. The man left the place as the two exchanged suspicious looks. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Discussed and Lampshaded in "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", where the gang decides to do a sequel to Lethal Weapon with both Mac and Dennis alternate playing Murtaugh. Dennis refuses to be in blackface, but has no problem doing a "black voice." Mac dons full shoe polish and tries to retroactively use Laurence Olivier as justification. Nobody remarks on the fact that Frank spends the entire movie playing a villainous Native American stereotype. Used again in "Lethal Weapon 6," when Mac again darkens his skin to play Murtaugh. During the shower scene, Mac's makeup begins to wash off. Dee also plays Murtaugh's daughter in blackface and does a stereotypical voice. |
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Are You Being Served?: Mr. Grainger does himself up in blackface to perform "Mammy" in the B-plot of an episode. Ultimately, this rolls back into the main plot: In order to replace a malfunctioning animatronic Santa, the Men's and Lady's Wear staffers are auditioning for the role (and its extra pay). Grainger doesn't have time to remove the blackface before the audition... which makes him more attractive to the child brought in to select who'll get the role. The kid is black. Another episode has the staff performing a minstrel number, in blackface, to celebrate Old Mr Grace's supposed African heritage. As you can see on his face at the end of the show as his staff is strutting about in blackface, he is horrified at this spectacle. |
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Smiling Friends: Discussed in The Halloween Episode. Early in the episode, Charlie and Alan discuss about what sorts of costumes may be offensive in the future, citing blackface as an example. Later, towards the end is the Forest Demon, a horrible creature from a haunted forest that also has to repeatedly insist it actually looks like that, and that it's not wearing blackface. To it's credit, though, it lacks the Gag Lips, but the misconception is still definitely there. After chasing Pim into the Halloween party, it's forced to repeat this same spiel to partygoers that don't believe an ounce of it, and beat it to death before eating its corpse over its assumed offense. | |
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David Byrne put on dark makeup and a curly wig to play a black reporter in the "Self-Interview" used to promote Stop Making Sense. He would eventually apologize for the bit on a Twitter thread and on his blog in 2020, describing it as "a major mistake in judgement" and clarifying that the reason why he took so long to apologize is that he forgot about the bit's existence. | |
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Looney Tunes: Characters such as Bugs Bunny would often get soot blown in their faces, causing them to spontaneously parody The Jazz Singer or Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. A famous example is Bugs singing Al Jolson's "Mammy" in Blackface in Any Bonds Today?. Scenes featuring blackface tend to be Bowdlerized in modern TV airings, but The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set features unedited short cartoons featuring blackface and other stereotypes. note Whoopi Goldberg hosts an introductory segment on the disc to explain the intent behind this: while such stereotypes are bad, it would be worse to pretend that they didn't exist. Further details are here. | |
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Black Like Me: A white person makes himself look black and experiences everyday life as a black person and learning An Aesop about tolerance. | |
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The Turkish movie Battal Gazi had the protagonist, a Turkish warrior, disguising himself as an Indian sheikh using blackface. | |
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The Mad Men season 3 episode "My Old Kentucky Home" features Roger Sterling in blackface, singing the title song to his new, twenty-something wife. Some of the characters are horrified, but more about a respectable businessman making an ass of himself than moral indignation over the racial insensitivity. | |
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MadWorld has the Black Baron, revealed to be white by the announcers (who proceed to argue on whether or not it's important). He has the mannerisms of a stereotypical pimp. Perhaps bowing to how the overseas market would view it, Anarchy Reigns (which is in color as opposed to its precursor's Deliberately Monochrome) portrays the Baron as an actual black man who goes by the title "The Blacker Baron". | |
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Community: Chang dresses up as his Dungeons & Dragons Drow character, which includes jet black skin. Both Shirley, a black woman, and Pierce, a white man with antiquated social views, think he's in blackface. The episode was taken off of Hulu and Netflix following the 2020 George Floyd protests. In a season 4 episode, Pierce entertains a gathering with a "blackface Senor Wences routine in which he darkens his hand to act as a handpuppet of a stereotypical black caricature. |
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In opera, the title part in Verdi's adaptation of Othello and Monostatos in The Magic Flute were written for white actors using makeup, and some portrayals veered toward blackface caricature. Today they are usually done without the makeup (or with black performers) to avoid accusations of blackface. | |
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Occasionally in Classic Disney Shorts, particularly earlier Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies shorts. | |
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Peep Show: In one episode, Jeremy's girlfriend darkens his whole body to resemble a black man before sex. Jeremy is extremely uncomfortable with the idea. | |
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Scrubs has a flashback to an incident where Turk convinced JD to wear blackface (where Turk himself would be wearing whiteface) while they met with some friends of Turk's. Turk ends up being distracted at an inopportune moment, meaning that JD seems to be alone when the guys see him. It does not end well. | |
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In an episode of Gimme a Break!, Samantha dresses Joey up in blackface to perform at Nell's church in a Very Special Episode about racism. | |
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At WrestleMania VI, Roddy Piper fought Bad News Brown with half his body in blackface, after Bad News Brown called him racist. Apparently he did it as part of a mind game to show that color doesn't matter, but the WWE ended up burying the entire match and its promo from their network and on Peacock (having understandably gotten them in trouble with the latter on day one of their partnership). The paint was a concoction that could only be removed by a specific solvent (so Piper wouldn't sweat or smear the paint off during the match). Piper would claim later that André the Giant and Arnold Skaaland, as a joke, dumped the solvent down the drain and replaced it with plain water; it took weeks of scrubbing and sitting in a sauna for the paint to finally come off. | |
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In the Father Brown story "The God of the Gongs", a black murderer tries to escape the police by disguising himself in blackface as a minstrel performer, as the one kind of person who nobody would imagine would actually be black. | |
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Australian sketch-comedy Fast Forward had an all-white cast who played various ethnicities, with Michael Veitch and Magda Szubanski getting blacked-up for some roles (in one Magda only has her face painted black) and impersonations of Nat "King" Cole and Natalie Cole. Averted with a Paula Abdul impersonation, where Gina Riley just plays her as a white woman. Magda Szubanski has since expressed regret for this. | |
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Dear White People begins with a How We Got Here moment, where the main cast watch a news report depicting the race riot that ensued when a predominantly white fraternity threw blackface party. A montage following the end of the film showed pictures from numerous American universities were such parties had taken place. | |
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In Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson put on darker makeup to play Boomerang Bigot house slave Stephen. Jackson conceived of the look when deciding that Stephen had no white ancestry at all. Funnily enough, he actually wore more than needed because he thought he didn't look dark enough yet, only to later see the film and realize the photography was making him even darker. | |
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One of the many wild looks adorned by Goldust (or rather, "The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust" at the time), featured along with an afro wig and a boom box before the 1998 Royal Rumble on Raw. He happened to be facing Flash Funk, who actually was black. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper invites LeVar Burton to his podcast Fun With Flags, and, despite Leonard telling him it was racist, shows him a video of him portraying George Washington Carver. Burton was not pleased. | |
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In the Nero Wolfe novel Too Many Cooks, a witness to the murder claims to have seen an African American waiter at the scene of the crime, but when questioned another waiter reveals that it was actually a white man in blackface. As the novel is a critique of then-contemporary race relations, when questioned further the waiter rather scathingly points out that he can tell the difference between someone of actual African American descent and someone who's just covered themselves in burnt cork. The murderer was indeed a white man who had "blacked" himself up. | |
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Parodied by Spitting Image in "The White & White Minstrel Show" that features the polar opposite of this trope: black people wearing whitefaces. The sketch itself is a biting satire of The Apartheid Era in South Africa where they think "that blackfaces don't belong with black". | |
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The all-black cast of Stormy Weather makes the film an anomaly from The Golden Age of Hollywood era, and it's really wonderful to see such a rare showcase of black entertainers. But it does include a small moment of black characters participating in black minstrel. | |
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Although Colombian-born Zoe Saldana herself is considered black by American standards, her use of darker makeup and prostheses to play Nina Simone was part of the many difficulties faced by the 2016 biopic Nina. Simone had made her dark skin tone a key part of her identity, and for many other dark-skinned African-American fans of the singer it was such a slap in the face to cast a light-skinned actress in the role and then make her up to be darkernote when darker-skinned actresses were available who could have played the part without makeup ... indeed, Mary J Blige was originally cast that not only were several online petitions started calling for production to stop, Simone's family asked Saldana to never again quote the singer after she did so in a tweet to defend herself. | |
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In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rob and Laura manage to accidentally dye their hands black with permanent ink just before they need to attend a ceremony to accept an award from "the Committee for Interracial Understanding." Realizing that this could be a major Fee Fi Faux Pas, they eventually decide to wear fancy gloves to the banquet in an attempt to cover it up. Fortunately when the truth comes out, everyone sees the humorous side of it. | |
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In the episode "Korzenie" ("Roots") of Polish sitcom Swiat wedlug Kiepskich, the main protagonist wakes up to discover that not only him, but everyone around is suddenly black, including people on TV. Nobody understands his surprised reaction, all the pictures in the family album suggest that he has always been black, and his apartment holds a church service with gospel music. The episode ends with him finding out that his asshole neighbour is still white, and upon pointing it out he responds with "So what? Just because I'm white doesn't mean you can bully me! I'm a human being just like the rest of you!" The title of the episode references the TV miniseries, which was extremely popular in Poland in the 1980s. | |
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Pops up in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, where in the Alternate Universe in which the South won the Civil War it never becomes taboo. Also, Abraham Lincoln (who in real life regularly attended Minstrel Shows) used blackface to disguise himself as a black man to try to escape to Canada with Harriet Tubman. (They were caught by the Confederate forces.) There was also a clip from an in-universe film depicting Jefferson Davis' scheme to enforce slavery throughout the country in which a house slave also present at the event is clearly being depicted by a white actor in blackface, surely as a bit of commentary on the whole convention of blackface. | |
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The Smiths in American Dad! show up to a black organization's banquet in blackface after misreading the invitation. It turns out the party's name was "Black People Changing the Face of America". | |
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The antagonist Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus was often played by a white man in blackface, most notably by Anthony Quayle in the 1955 staging at Stratford-on-Avon that starred Laurence Olivier in the title role. | |
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Alluded to in the music video for "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and a pre-vitiligo Michael Jackson. The video, a satire of race relations in America, feature the two donning identical clown makeup and doing a vaudeville act in a parody of minstrel shows. Neither actually appear in blackface, but Jackson's white-painted lips against his dark skin deliberately reference it. | |
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A character seen briefly at the start (and in a throwaway gag near the middle) of Forbidden Zone is a slumlord and crack dealer played by a man in blackface; there are several others in bit parts throughout, done for comedic shock value. In a particularly odd case, one of the actors in blackface happened to actually be black. | |
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Parodied in Be Kind Rewind as Jack Black's character attempts to portray an overweight African-American. As soon as the locals see him in blackface (a majority of which are African American themselves), they react with disgust. Mos Def's character is given the part and Jack Black points out the hypocrisy that while he may not be black, he's still the right body type for the role. | |
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In One-Punch Man, Superalloy Darkshine, an originally pale, presumably Japanese, guy with a cartoony broad nose and thick lips, somehow got dark and shiny once he hit peak physicality. | |
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One episode of Do Not Adjust Your Set features the show's band, The Bonzo Dog Band, performing their song "Look Out, There's a Monster Coming" in blackface. This included rather large examples of exaggerated lips, even as far as blackface is concerned! | |
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Chang dresses up as his Dungeons & Dragons Drow character, which includes jet black skin. Both Shirley, a black woman, and Pierce, a white man with antiquated social views, think he's in blackface. The episode was taken off of Hulu and Netflix following the 2020 George Floyd protests. | |
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Gangs of New York features a propagandized performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which actors playing parts of slaves wear blackface. | |
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Chris Liley blacked up for the character S'Mouse in Angry Boys. The immediate reaction was one of disgust and made people leery of his most recent comedy series Lunatics, which featured a South African character who wears lots of fake tan. | |
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Archer: Krieger shows the other staff members a flyer for his horrible one-man show, which, according to their comments, includes him using blackface. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look: The show briefly uses blackface as a punchline to a skit about a group of historical re-enactors who get tired of covering the English Civil War all the time and briefly try to re-enact a scene from the Congolese Civil War while awkwardly trying not to be racist (and failing). This also happened in the very first episode after Mitchell had come out in a burqa for a parody of "Improve your looks!" show. He was sporting this trope underneath because he felt more natural when wearing it. |
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Lampshaded/parodied in Tropic Thunder—Robert Downey Jr.'s white Australian character, dedicated method actor Kirk Lazarus, portrays black Sergeant Lincoln Osiris by getting his face and body surgically altered to look like a fairly realistic black man. His character's personality, however, is embarrassingly over-the-top, and he stays in character at all times, much to the chagrin of the actually-black Alpa Chino. The fact that the whole thing is meant to be a parody of Oscar Bait and extreme Method Acting went over the heads of some critics and viewers, who claimed it was tantamount to blackface. On the flipside, though, the NAACP approved of the character in their own screening of the film, and Downey was nominated that year for an Oscar. It's also mentioned that the character's casting and actions are also highly controversial In-Universe. | |
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The Deuce: Vincent arrives at his bar to discover a band playing a cover of "96 Tears" with the lead singer in a blackface get-up. Vincent asks his bartender why the singer is dressed like Al Jolson, and she says it's because he's half black. This only confuses Vincent more. Although never named, the singer is supposed to be Garland Jeffreys, who covered "96 Tears" and was half black. | |
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In the seventh episode of the second season of The Knick, a vaudeville duo performs in blackface to entertain the audience of a ball. | |
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Depending on the country and the company, blackface is still used in some ballets, such as for the Moor doll in Petrouchka, the Moor doll in The Nutcracker (if the production has one), and the children in the Golden Idol sequence in La Bayadere. In the US and UK, some companies have eliminated blackface or cast the roles with dancers of color, although the practice has still not disappeared. | |
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Seinfeld: One episode has Kramer falling asleep in a tanning bed just before a date to meet his black girlfriend's parents. They are outraged that he appears to be in blackface. | |
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Referenced in The Mikado with N-Word Privileges that are generally reworded these days. "The n- serenader and the others of his race" shows up on the original version of "I've Got a Little List" of "society offenders who might well be underground", showing what Sir William S. Gilbert thought of the practice. | |
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During the 2001 Batman story "Close Before Striking", it was established that Bruce Wayne himself, of all people, tried this before he started his Dead Person Impersonation of Matches Malone, as one of his failed attempts at a deep cover identity was trying to pose as a black man to infiltrate the Joker's gang — only for the Clown Prince of Crime see right through it. | |
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This was also used in the 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond. Diamond's character dons blackface to join a group performing in a black nightclub in Harlem... in 1980. | |
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According to The Goodies, their ancestors were cruelly kidnapped by the BBC and forced into blackface as cast members on The Black and White Minstrel Show (see corresponding entry). They eventually fought for equal rights, no matter what colour paint, be it black, white, green, polka-dot. The episode was actually labelled: DO NOT BROADCAST - RACIST in the BBC archive. The Goodies also appear in blackface in the South Africa and Eckythump episodes. The show also mocked The Apartheid Era racists by showing how horrified they are of blackface performers: white people imitating black people. One episode has Bill Oddie covering his exposed arms and face with shoe polish and converting to Islam. | |
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Played for laughs in Life Support, Penne tries passing for an aboriginal to receive government benefits, but only paints her face black while wearing a tank top. | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Cartman briefly appears wearing blackface during his performance of "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch." | |
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Dear White People: Just as in the film, a party where white students dress up as black people occurs, and sparks the plot. | |
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The Mighty Boosh has two characters that brush against the trope, which got the episodes banned from streaming services in 2020: Julian Barret plays "Rudy", a partially two-dimensional guitarist/sage with an appearance resembling Jimi Hendrix. Barret has darkened skin as well as fake teeth to make him appear to be gap-toothed. He also has a large afro with a door to another dimension. In another episode, Rudy is fully three-dimensional and is no longer blackface, though he does retain his magic afro. The recurring character "the Spirit of Jazz" is played by Noel Fielding, with black and white face makeup to resemble Baron Samedi. In spite of the inhuman nature of the character, his dreadlocks and jive accent make it clear that the character is supposed to be black. |
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In The Office (US), Dwight has a warehouse employee dress up as Black Peter, complete with blackface. Luckily he figures out that the office staff will find it offensive, so he texts Black Peter to not show up. He appears later with most of the makeup wiped off. | |
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The 1973 French comedy Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (English title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) has a scene in which the protagonist, a bigot, accidentally gets a face full of ash. Although (unlike in similar gags from older animated shorts) he doesn't proceed to act "minstrel," he does get mistaken for a black person. | |
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The otherwise squeaky-clean classic Holiday Inn shows for Lincoln's Birthday a full minstrel show featuring dancers in blackface. Notably, its Spiritual Successor White Christmas omits this scene in favor of a blackface-free stage performance. | |
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Ex Bonzo, Neil Innes, reprised his blackface part for Python's successor series on TV, Rutland Weekend Television, where Innes provided the music; one of his musical interludes involved his performing pastiches of Motown acts like Four Tops. | |
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Alluded to in Glass Onion, where Birdie, a white woman, mentions having gotten in trouble recently thanks to a costume that she intended as a "tribute to Beyoncé." The details of the costume are never elaborated upon, but it's strongly implied that it included dark makeup. | |
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30 Rock: Has had two episodes removed from streaming services for riffing on the trope: Jenna Maroney has appeared in blackface twice. The first time, not unlike the The Sarah Silverman Show example, arose from an argument with Tracy Jordan about whether it is harder to be black or a woman; Toofer calls her out after spotting her in dark makeup doing a minstrel performance. The second occurred when Jenna dressed as Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann while her crossdressing boyfriend dressed as Natalie Portman in Black Swan making them ...two black swans. A live episode, where Kenneth defends live television, has a flashback to an Amos And Andy expy show— Tracy Jordan plays one half of the team, and Jon Hamm plays the other, in poorly applied blackface and horribly over-the-top mannerisms that finally got on Jordan's last nerve. Kenneth explains that the network thought two black people on the same show would make the audience nervous— "...a rule NBC still uses today!" |
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When Julianne Hough and friends went as characters from Orange Is the New Black in 2013, Hough dressed as "Crazy Eyes," a black inmate. Her costume included face make-up to darken her skin, which caused a controversy. She later apologized. | |
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In Nellie Bly's travel memoir Around the World in Seventy-Two Days she describes some of the male passengers aboard ship putting on a minstrel show, complete with blackface, as their boat sailed down the Red Sea. | |
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Episode 8 of Love Lab features a scene where the main characters pay tribute to American black celebrities by wearing brown makeup and imitating black culture. While intended as an Affectionate Parody, with the girls complimenting black women as strong and beautiful, the scene drew backlash from Western audiences due to its resemblance to a Minstrel Show. | |
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The pilot of the original Demo Reel had a bit where Tacoma, playing the Joker, wasn't sure if a black man wearing whiteface makeup was offensive or not. Rebecca points out that he's essentially playing a slave, so even if it is offensive they've got it coming. | |
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The Christmas episode of Adam Ruins Everything averts this when Adam talks about the different incarnations of Santa Claus. He mentions the Dutch Sinterklass' slave, Black Peter (who is usually depicted by a man in blackface), but his sister, Reah, prevents the camera from showing Peter. | |
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Tintin disguises himself as a black cabin boy in the album The Broken Ear. The animated series turned his disguise into Wig, Dress, Accent. It became something of an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole because both the comic and the episode had the antagonists being Properly Paranoid about Tintin following them and so they target two people who look like Tintin in disguise (an old, short man and a short fat man wearing a wig) but due to his very obvious disguise in the episode (similar facial features, voice and height with just a wig and a goatee), it becomes baffling that Alonso and Ramón didn't think of this guy as Tintin in disguise. | |
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The Man Show had two recurring skits where Jimmy Kimmel browned his skin. One skit had Jimmy dressing up like Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone and dispensing Cloudcuckoolander ramblings about nothing. Kimmel had previously developed his Malone impression for the radio, where costuming was not an issue. The other skit had him dressed up like Oprah Winfrey as a parody of Oprah's feminine lifestyle segments on her own show. It's worth noting that Kimmel deeply regrets these moments. | |
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British comedians and social commentators David Baddiel and Frank Skinner of Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned attracted controversy after footage was unearthed of a long-ago TV show where they regularly blacked up to parody black footballers while providing commentary. | |
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A very rare inversion in the 1932 film adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game. Black actor Noble Johnson wore makeup to play the White Russian Cossack Ivan. The black-and-white cinematography made this easier. | |
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In the 1936 film version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, Magnolia and the show boat troupe don blackface for the "Gallivantin' Around" number. Since one of the themes of this musical is the destructive nature of race prejudice, this may be deliberate irony — or it may just be a lamentable lapse of taste. | |
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In Brad Jones' Demo Reel, Gretchen said she played the title role in Othello while wearing blackface, and then whiteface over that. | |
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Metal Gear Solid: While normally fair-skinned, the only time Decoy Octopus is seen in-game is when he disguises himself as Donald Anderson, a Black man. | |
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"Real Housewife" socialite Luann de Lesseps caused controversy in 2018 by dressing as Diana Ross using blackface. | |
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Discussed and Lampshaded in "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", where the gang decides to do a sequel to Lethal Weapon with both Mac and Dennis alternate playing Murtaugh. Dennis refuses to be in blackface, but has no problem doing a "black voice." Mac dons full shoe polish and tries to retroactively use Laurence Olivier as justification. Nobody remarks on the fact that Frank spends the entire movie playing a villainous Native American stereotype. | |
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In the All in the Family episode "Birth of the Baby", Archie is forced by his lodge to appear in blackface in a minstrel show. Right before he's supposed to go onstage, he's informed that his daughter has gone into labor, so he ends up in the hospital in blackface. | |
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Saturday Night Live: When Fred Armisen started playing Barack Obama, a minor stink was raised about whether it constituted blackface. The issue died out after it was argued that Fred Armisen and Barack Obama are both mixed race and the fact that they're not the same mix just makes it a standard case of Fake Nationality. Plus the darkening of Armisen's skin looks like the spray tan it probably is, and most people aren't offended by spray tans. In some older episodes, Billy Crystal portrayed Sammy Davis Jr., using extensive makeup and darkened skin. Unlike some other examples, this was done very convincingly. Crystal even performed that character with Jesse Jackson when he hosted the show, without complaint from Jackson. Jimmy Fallon infamously impersonated Chris Rock in a sketch. Darrell Hammond played Jesse Jackson with fewer complaints. |
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In the pilot episode of Life's Too Short, Warwick Davis watches a performance of "Ebony and Ivory" performed by two dwarfs, one of whom is a woman in blackface. Warwick says that he's pretty sure you can't "black up" these days, but "maybe in the North." | |
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Rather shockingly, the only black nurse in Doctor in the House (1954) is played by a white actress. | |
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In The Book Thief which takes place in Nazi Germany, Rudy pretends to be the black Olympic runner Jesse Owens by painting himself black with a mixture of water and charcoal then runs an imaginary race. He doesn't realize that trying to emulate a black man could land him in serious trouble with the Nazis, something that his father quickly sets him straight on. | |
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Cloud Atlas: Inverted. Halle Berry plays a Jewish woman, Jocasta Ayrs, in Frobisher's story. | |
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Parodied in the first series of Little Britain in a recurring sketch featuring minstrels facing discrimination in a similar manner to minorities, with the joke being that they'd be accepted if they just stopped wearing blackface. It's also played straight as there are a number of black, Asian and Arabic characters played by the white leads. The copious use of blackface in the show would eventually get it pulled, then reedited by the BBC following the worldwide George Floyd protests in 2020. | |
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During a feud with Team 3D, the James Gang mocked them by cosplaying as them, complete with Kip James in blackface to imitate Brother Devon. | |
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Get Shorty: Miles blackmails April with an old photograph of her in blackface, which will destroy her career in Hollywood if it ever goes public. The photo is never shown, but it's implied to be a Halloween costume of Oprah Winfrey. April defends herself by saying that it was a long time ago and meant as a tribute, but caves to his demands all the same. | |
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In the Left Behind book Glorious Appearing, Mac McCullum had his face tinted dark to disguise himself as a Global Community officer of a different race so that he could go into Jerusalem to find Buck Williams. At that point, with the Global Community being more concerned about uniting together to destroy the Jews, the Christians, and the God they believe in, nobody on either side of the conflict either notices this or even cares to be offended by it. It also helps that Zeke Jr. is just that good of a makeup artist. | |
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Monica Vitti in L'eclisse made in 1962 dances wearing blackface with a spear imitating an African warrior. | |
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An inversion is mentioned in Unsounded: the people of Cresce are black, so actors in a Crescian play with fair-skinned roles wear paleface. | |
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The Birth of a Nation used blackface not as a comedic device, but as a means to allow white actors to portray black and "mulatto" characters in an overtly racist film. | |
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The Black Looks, an anti-robot hate group, hide their identities by wearing blackface in the classic Astro Boy story Capetown Lullaby (aside from their leader who wears a weird mask that looks like a black Gonzo the Muppet). | |
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Played with in Zoolander. At one point, Derek Zoolander uses a makeup kit to disguise himself as a black person, but blackface-Zoolander is played by an actual black person rather than Ben Stiller with his face painted. Not only did this help the film avoid negative publicity, but it creates a joke that the normally dim-witted Zoolander is unnaturally talented when it comes to cosmetics. | |
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After a rather infamous bootleg production of the show in Italy which utilized this trope, Marc Shaiman banned the usage of blackface in all productions of Hairspray. As a a result, if a production of the show has actors of a different race in the roles of the African Americans, the following message was put into the program of each show: | |
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A rare example of whiteface that was not intended to make a satirical point took place in the Doctor Who story "The Curse of Fenric". For a shot of a dead Soviet soldier under the sea, the only stunt artist available was black, which was considered unlikely for a WWII-era Soviet soldier. As a result, he was "whited up" for the shot. His facial features are still obviously Black British. | |
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In Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl there's a high school club that dresses up in blackface and revere what they think is black culture, but is really just a mishmash of African and African-American stereotypes. | |
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Seen in the pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire (which takes place in the 1920s) during the New Year's celebration. | |
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The Python crew occasionally donned blackface to play Indian or black roles for Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. For instance, on "The Atilla the Hun Show" (reimagining Atilla in a bland domestic sitcom) includes Eric Idle in an exaggerated blackface character named Uncle Tom. | |
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The very creepy Papa Lazarou from The League of Gentlemen is a subversion. That's what he really looks like. | |
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Unintentionally occurs with Passionate Patti in Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work due to a malfunctioning copy machine. | |
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In "Betsy~Tacy Go Downtown" of the Betsy-Tacy series, a major point in the beginning of the book is a girl having passes to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on stage. Betsy, Tacy, and Tib try to get up their own play, where Tacy is to wear blackface. They end up attending "Uncle Tom's Cabin", where there are many performers in blackface. Which isn't too surprising, as the book takes place sometime around 1904 in Minnesota. | |
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There's an unusual version in Sharps which inverts the connotations of blackface. Nobility and elite soldiers from The Empire are darker skinned than people in the city states that have broken off, and so in the provinces, when actors portray aristocratic characters in plays, they darken their skin and put on plummy accents that are pale imitation of how Imperials actually talk. | |
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The Golden Girls: The episode "Mixed Blessings" has Rose and Blanche wearing mud face treatments, which makes it look like they're in blackface as they watch Dorothy and the mother of her son's black girlfriend argue about their children's mixed relationship. Rose explains, "This is mud on our face. We're not really black." The episode was removed from Netflix in 2020 for its depiction of "blackface." | |
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A number of Pokémon: The Series episodes were altered or pulled from rotation as a result of the controversy surrounding this trope: An episode where Ash disguises as a Passimian was skipped over in international releases of the Sun and Moon arc, as the makeup Lillie puts on him could be mistaken for this trope. | |
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Face/Off: In this promo, Greg Cannom transformed young model Malia Bautista into an 60-year-old African-American. | |
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South Park riffs on this trope in "Summer Sucks". The town gets covered in ashes, causing all the ash-covered residents to look like they're in blackface. Needless to say, Chef, the resident black man who'd just returned from his vacation, isn't pleased. | |
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Comes up during an episode of OneyPlays, in which Jeff Bandelin relates an unfortunate story (with included photo) from his childhood where his parents dressed him as a Smurf. Unfortunately, due to the high contrast of the old photo and the dark blue face paint used on the costume, the photo instead looks like poor, young Jeff is actually wearing blackface. In fact, it's this story which is implied to have inspired the similar events which occured in Smiling Friends, as detailed below. | |
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The book Kaboom! Explosive Animation from America and Japan mentions that "Even today, the question can be legitimately asked: How much of Mickey Mouse is mouse, and how much is blackface clown?" | |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons has used this in the same vein as Looney Tunes. | |
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In one of the Little House on the Prairie books, the town has a contest where different townsfolk each put on a little show. Laura's father and a few of his friends win it with a Blackface routine. Don't bother looking for this scene on the television series, obviously. | |
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In Up Pompeii, Lurcio covers his body in black makeup to disguise himself as a Nubian eunuch. | |
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The Three Stooges disguised themselves as slaves using blackface in the Civil War-themed short "Uncivil Warbirds". | |
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Bart Baker had a few parodies with himself in blackface. An elderly Chris Brown in "Senior Citizen Love" (International Love) Rihanna in the "Pour It Up" parody Kanye West in the "Bound 2" parody. |
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In 1941 (1979), when Sgt. Tree's tank heads to the Pacific to face against the Japanese sub, Private Jones, played by Frank McRae gets flour on his face, and Pvt Foley, played by John Candy, laughs at him. Until Jones points out that he has soot on his face, and guffaws while telling Foley to "go the back of the tank." | |
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In The Littlest Rebel, Shirley Temple plays the daughter of a Confederate family during The American Civil War. When Yankee troops invade her home, she dons blackface to disguise herself as a slave. Blackface is also featured in another Temple film, Dimples, although there it's not worn by Shirley herself. | |
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Family Guy Parodied in season 9, when Chris wanted to dress up as Bill Cosby for Halloween, using blackface as well as his trademark sweater. Lois tried telling him it’s wrong, but Chris just said, ‘Why, don’t I look like him?’ Lois agreed that he did, but then said, ‘You can’t just go out on the street in blackface, it’s racist! Now go put on that Indian head gear I bought you!’ Defied in another episode, where Peter gets in trouble for accidentally shooting Cleveland Brown Jr. and tries to prove he's not racist by wearing a fake afro and painting himself brown. He doesn't even get to do it because the moment Lois hears this plan, she completely snaps and starts beating the living shit out of Peter with a rolled-up magazine while screaming how sick she is of his horrible ideas. |
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Watchmen (2019): Inverted for the reinvented backstory for Hooded Justice, as the show's version is a black man named Will Reeves who applied makeup around his eyes to make himself seem white. When Ozymandias meets with Dr. Manhattan after the latter's return to Earth, Veidt chastises Osterman, who was born white, for taking the appearance of a black man. |
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The Black and White Minstrel Show performed musical numbers in blackface on a primetime BBC slot from 1958 to 1978. The show scaled back the blackface numbers toward the end of its run. Its cancellation was not due to the blackface, however, but due to cutbacks on variety shows. The stage show version continued until 1987! | |
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It's implied Barney once used this on How I Met Your Mother. He mentions that the worst lie he ever told to get a woman into bed (and that is a very competitive category) was when he used a seduction technique called "The Soul Man". We're not told the details of what it involved, but aside from namedropping the film of the same name, he explains that he used it to hook up with a woman who would only date black guys, and that he did it while going by the alias "Barnell". | |
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Kingdom of Loathing features a status effect called Black Face, which raises your Muscle stat and damage, but lowers your combat initiative. The effect description simply reads: "Yeah, we went there." | |
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I Love Lucy: When Lucy goes into labor, Ricky had been performing — and he shows up at the hospital in a faux-African tribal getup and blackface. | |
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A white actor with dark make-up plays a black farm hand in Seven Chances. | |
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Averted and Inverted in Watermelon Man. Originally, the film producers wanted a white man who'd be made up as a black man for the rest of the film. Instead director Melvin Van Peebles managed to convince them to cast Godfrey Cambridge, who was made up as a white man for the first section of the film before his transformation. | |
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The cover of Joe's Garage features Zappa posing comically with dark makeup on his face, with the cover of Acts II & III depicting a woman applying the makeup onto him. | |
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In The Last Emperor, the deposed Emperor Pu-yi performs a concert backed up by Chinese musicians in blackface. | |
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Babylon: Sidney, a black jazz trumpetist in the 1930s, is made to wear blackface so that his appearance will match the white musicians who are also in blackface. He goes through with it under great pressure but quits his position immediately afterward. | |
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