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Colombia: where performances of blackface continue
29 Jun 2019
Symeon Brown
Reporter
The tradition of blackface, where white people put on dark make-up to caricature black people, is now widely condemned as racist and offensive.
But that’s not the case everywhere.
In Colombia, performances of blackface continue. And what makes them different is that they are carried out by people descended from the country’s African slaves.
Video at link:
https://www.channel4.com/news/colombia-where-performances-of-blackface-continue