ethnicity Tag

And yes, trying on blackness with make-up continues to be black face Last week, I discovered a thread on the web. The Tweet I saw read “Can we start a thread and post the entire white girls cosplaying as black women on Instagram? Let’s air them out because that is ALARMING.” I couldn’t stop scrolling through the replies. There have been dozens of photos of white girls from Instagram who looked like they were trying to rework themselves into mixed race and black girls with fake tan, make-up, hoop earrings, tightly permed curls, bandanas (I mean really?) and possibly even a little bit of Photoshop to make themselves look thiccer. I cackled on the racial...