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Blackface is the practice of performers of any race or ethnicity, usually white people, using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people, e.g. African Americans, on stage or in entertainment. Scholarship on the origins or definition of blackface vary with some taking a global perspective that includes European…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Blackface | is a | practice of performers of any race or ethnicity | 0.90 | text |
| Blackface | is a | form of cross-dressing in which one puts on the insignias of a sex | 0.90 | text |
| Blackface | is a | precedent it established in the introduction of African-American culture to an international audience | 0.90 | text |
| William Shakespeare's Othello | instance of | in works | 0.80 | text |
| Anne of Denmark's personal performance in The Masque of Blackness | instance of | in works | 0.80 | text |
| opera into popular terms for a general audience | instance of | translating formal works | 0.80 | text |
| Lauren Michele Jackson | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| Victoria Princewill | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| Shafiqah Hudson criticized non-Black people sharing animated images | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| or GIFs | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| of Black people or Black-skinned emojis | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| calling the practice | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
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