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💅 Lints digital Blackface (#209)
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- text: Memes and Misogynoir
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href: https://www.theawl.com/2014/08/memes-and-misogynoir/
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a form of appropriation where non-Black individuals use memes and gifs featuring Black people and even emojis with dark skin; a 21st century version of Black minstrelsy, which was prevalent in the 19th and 20th centuries
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a form of appropriation where non-Black individuals use memes and gifs featuring Black people and even emojis with dark skin; a 21st century version of Black minstrelsy, which was prevalent in the 19th and 20th centuries
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## Issues
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Digital Blackface is also an issue of representation and culture appropriation: memes and gifs are often used in spaces where no real Black people are present, which presents them as a prop to be used in all-white spaces. Black culture is stolen from Black people and commodified by non-Black people.
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## Examples
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- Online personas: It can go further than appropration. Falsified personas are easy to spot as they almost always use terms like "as a black woman..." [sic] and resort to incorrect and illegitimate use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).[1](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/your-slip-is-showing-4chan-trolls-operation-lollipop)
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"On Twitter lie countless handles featuring a Black person’s image, run by users who are most assuredly not Black. These accounts, which often include a “ghetto” name — the formula prefix “La+” is a favored trope — are riddled with poor attempts at Black vernacular, and feature stereotypes from the minstrel stage." [2](https://www.theawl.com/2014/08/memes-and-misogynoir/)
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