Khadija Mbowe | Digital Blackface...is complicated...kind of... | Khadija Mbowe @KhadijaMbowe | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
Hello and welcome to another video, this one is on Digital Blackface or at least trying to understand what is.. I’m giving y’all some history (American AND Canadian), some extra context, and talking about how this phenomenon turns black people…into things. (Even though we're all things cause #capitalism.) Thanks for watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos!

Love Khadija

Time Stamps:
0:00 Play
00:16 Intro
2:12 Part 1 Digital what now?
4:31 Part 2 The Minstrelsy Origin story
12:03 Part 3 Caricatures of Blackness
17:11 Part 4 Gifs, memes, and Black folx
23:30 Part 5 Linguistic Minstrelsy and Imagined Black English
31:51 Part 6 The Culture Industry and Black commodification
35:54 Part 7 Final thoughts

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Ways to help:
19 organizations supporting Black Canadians
ellecanada.com/culture/society/9-organizations-supporting-black-canadians-to-donate-to

15 indigenous Human rights organizations to follow
humanrightscareers.com/issues/indigenous-human-rights-organizations

Some interesting reads:

Articles
Online Imagined Black English
arachne.cc/issues/01/online-imagined_manuel-arturo-abreu.html
History of Blackface
black-face.com
Digital Blackface: How 21st Century Internet Language Reinforces Racism
escholarship.org/content/qt91d9k96z/qt91d9k96z.pdf
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction Gifs
teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
The Complicated history of Canadian Blackface
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/20/Complicated-History-Canadian-Blackface
Why are memes of Black people reaching so popular online?
theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/08/why-are-memes-of-black-people-reacting-so-popular-online
How the history of Blackface is rooted in racism
history.com/news/blackface-history-racism-origins
What’s the deal with Blackface?
cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada/what-s-the-deal-with-blackface-1.5497247


Videos:
Black American Sign Language
youtube.com/watch?v=3HDm3kx3rhY&t=43s
The White internet’s love affair with Digital Blackface
nytimes.com/video/arts/100000005615988/the-white-internets-love-affair-with-digital-blackface.html
Can y'all find a personality and stop stealing black people’s.........
youtube.com/watch?v=KEN_ab4h4Zk&list=PLUSaNj8HSXW_B1uFc3W352VffPXi2SGlR&index=9&t=245s
The linguistics of AAVE
youtube.com/watch?v=pkzVOXKXfQk&list=PLUSaNj8HSXW_B1uFc3W352VffPXi2SGlR&index=17&t=181s
A look at Canada’s long history of Blackface
youtube.com/watch?v=5n6UkouDYr4&list=PLUSaNj8HSXW_B1uFc3W352VffPXi2SGlR&index=16&t=2s



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