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Originally Posted by christiangirl
Blackface was a very specific type of theatrical makeup used for a specific purpose. I don't consider the above use of face/body paint to be an example of "blackface."
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The specific purpose was to depict Blackness and usually a parody of Blackness. Blackface was not only used by actors in stage performances and movies. It also did not and does not always look like this:
The people in that photo are darkening their skin to pretend to be something and someone they are not. In that sense, life is a stage and we are all actors. Sure, we can just call it "black or brown makeup on their face and/or bodies" but that still boils down to the same thing and the problems with it are rooted in the history of blackface.
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(This isn't for christiangirl) Wikipedia sometimes gets it right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface