Example sentences for: blackface

How can you use “blackface” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was not mentioned in Raymond Pace Alexander's piece how he worked in the 1950s to try to desegregate Girard College (he failed) and how he tried to get the Mummers in their annual parade to stop using blackface makeup (he failed there, too).

  • It's jarring to move from the lurid theatricality of "Mein Kampf " to the head-on, propless portraits of Levinthal's "Blackface" series.

  • The risk is falling into the Cops and Firemen in Blackface Defense.

  • A major retrospective of Levinthal's work, including some images from "Blackface" (1995-96), is now on display at the International Center of Photography on the Upper East Side of New York City.

  • It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.


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