digital blackface
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In truth, the show is a farce of Black intellect, and as for the image of brazen ignorance Cita so proudly flaunts – if she is an apt representation of a silly-sassy sister – she's not the type of image Black folks should look to for “unique views,” especially when, comparatively, the computer-generated character Cita is just a case of “digital blackface.”"
- "Thankfully, it's a rare in-person performance today that features a white actor made up as a minstrel. But what some call “digital blackface” is all too common."
- "“[W]e have the new phenomenon of Digital Blackface in the tech space,” explained Sedgrid Lewis in his article “Top 3 Types of Digital Blackface.” “Digital Blackface is the practice of non-Black people's claims of Black identity through social media sites and technology. […]”"
- "“It’s a concerted effort to put on basically a digital blackface,” Shireen Mitchell, founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women told The Daily Beast. Mitchell said she’s been observing these impostor accounts since 2013, long before Trump’s ascendancy."