Beyond Halloween: What’s really scary about ‘blackface’
"Blackface disturbs even when the wearer intends to pay tribute – as with actress Julianne Hough’s recent Halloween costume in homage to a TV character, and the Utah Jazz’s retweeted photo about former NBA players Karl Malone and John Stockton. Blackface also divides, like the story about the San Diego high school football coaches who donned blackface to mimic a Jamaican bobsled team."
Cultural Appropriation, A Perennial Issue On Halloween
"It goes deeper than what you're dressed like," she said. "When you really look at it and you really study these tropes and stereotypes and what they mean and how they affect us as Native people, you know they're all rooted in a historically violent past."
My Culture Is Not a Costume: Institutional Practices and Racism
by Cameron C Beatty, Michelle L Boettcher
This chapter critically considers the roles of racist traditions and actions in promoting and perpetuating racism, power, privilege, and oppression in fraternity and sorority life.This Halloween, Choose Respect
"When you dress in blackface or a Native American headdress for Halloween, you're placing yourself in association with a history of Western imperialism, slavery, and violence against minority groups. When you dress as "ghetto fab," as a "redneck," or as an "illegal alien," you're mocking the racial and socioeconomic inequalities in our society and appropriating what you think is minority culture for your one night of fun."
Research Guides: Halloween: Costumes & Cultural Appropriation (2024)
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