... -race person, I'll admit that the pictures are interesting. It seems like it's not just blackface, but an exploration of the mixing of cultures and ethnicities, and imagining the models in different ... Gates wrote for the Daily Beast that she was not surprised by the French Vogue blackface, saying: "I would be fooling myself if I thought the draftsmen behind fashion's most beautiful ...

... week Tyra Banks put her pint-size top model “wanna bes” in blackface and of course Robert Downey Jr. won an Oscar nomination for his black face portrayal. ... racist. At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now.” The problem is in some instances we have given blackface a pass. When Downey did it in Tropic Thunder there was some outcry, but others simply found his ...

... comedic purposes. Was she painted black? Sure. Was she adhering to the racist undertone that "blackface" implies? I believe not, and according to the black people who called into Dallas radio stations this morning regarding this, no. I don't think anyone is offended by her outfit. Blackface implies racism. I don't think her outfit is racist. It is just, to ...

... racial enlightenment is still very uneven indeed. Modern ‘blackface’ First, French Vogue published a photograph ... ;impression” of the Jackson Five in black make-up, or blackface, that would not have been out of place in an Alabama minstrel show in the 1890s. ... make us a bit more sensitive to what it means to put someone in blackface, to put a caricature wig of an African-American ...

... for V Magazine. Photo: Mario Sorrenti for V Blackface is making headlines for the third time in as many weeks. The upcoming issue (#62 ... brings up parallel concerns with French Vogue's use of blackface: Why didn't the magazine use a darker-skinned model instead of ... a white model black? Tell us what you think - leave a comment! Blackface on Model Sasha Pivovarova in V Magazine originally ...

... Model Lara Stone painted in full-on blackface for a recent editorial in French Vogue Does this disturb you ... folk, it should. For most people, just the image of a white person in blackface/acting or aping a black person is enough to raise ... by feeling upset that a white person is putting on blackface. In 2009. Really. It just says to me that these folks are obviously mentally stagnant and backward. ...