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Blackface Minstrelsy

  • A time when whites would paint their faces black and mock the African American community
  • Held in the White House
  • Actors received their debut using blackface
  • Culture appropriation: when one culture takes the customs of another culture
  • Culture misappropriation: theft of cultural commodities for use of economic gain or for creation of stereotype
  • Culture confusion

Racial Antipathy

Misappropriation in American Indian Culture

There is little to no sympathy shown for Native American people and all other minority groups. If there is, it is ideolized sympathy.

By: Sierra Kearney

  • a strong disliking towards an individual or group of people whom belong to a certain race
  • Apply false labels to minority groups
  • "unsophisticated, barbarous raider"
  • Puts targets on minorities

Singing Redface

  • Taking on Native American character through song
  • Thanksgiving school plays "I am a little Indian"
  • Leads to playing Indian - acting how Indians act or how they are perceived to act

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