blackface or makeup?

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S.A.M.
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Re: Halloween Costumes

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At what point does putting on makeup to make your skin darker become putting on blackface? Doesn't blackface include exaggerating stereotyped physical attributes?
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Portia
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Re: Halloween Costumes

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S.A.M. wrote:At what point does putting on makeup to make your skin darker become putting on blackface? Doesn't blackface include exaggerating stereotyped physical attributes?
In my opinion, yes, but it appears that's not necessarily the case.
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