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  2. Elizabeth Eckford - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  3. Blackface - Wikipedia

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    Black men paint their faces with charcoal which represents three things. Firstly, the blackface is used as a tool to remember their African ancestors. Secondly, the black face is representative of the disguise or concealment on the run which slaves would have used to evade the Spanish colonizers.

  4. Wojak - Wikipedia

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    The image typically depicts Wojak wearing a black watch cap and a black hooded sweatshirt, with dark circles under his eyes, while smoking a cigarette. The archetype often embodies nihilism , clinical depression , hopelessness, and despair, with a belief in the incipient end of the world to causes ranging from climate apocalypse , to peak oil ...

  5. Rage comic - Wikipedia

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    The very first rage comic, originally published on 4chan in 2008 [dubious – discuss]. A rage comic is a short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces, or rage faces, which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity. [1]

  6. Brownface - Wikipedia

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    Their target audience was the white middle class, anyone who was seen as 'normal' or 'accepted,' and served mainly to reassure them about their own social standings and importance. Brownface, although always an element in these shows, became a much bigger part during the late 1800s and early 1900s, with a reappearance during the Civil Rights ...

  7. Blackface and Morris dancing - Wikipedia

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    Regardless of the historical basis for black face disguise in border morris, the practice has become increasingly controversial. Although initially confined to specific folk events or newspaper articles, the issue was brought into focus by the rapidly changed social awareness following the George Floyd Protests and growing international impact ...

  8. Spy vs. Spy - Wikipedia

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    Spy vs. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera.

  9. Whiteface (performance) - Wikipedia

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    Whiteface is a type of performance in which a dark person uses makeup in order to appear white-skinned, usually to portray a stereotype. [1] The term is a reversal of the form of performance known as blackface, in which makeup was used by a performer to make themselves look like a black person, usually to portray a stereotype.