{"id":1124,"date":"2018-03-06T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-humanities\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:17:31","slug":"digital-blackface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/2018\/03\/06\/digital-blackface\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Blackface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Parker Mathias<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wl6ch4eTi-w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was moved to do this project by backlash I had seen in regards to the concept of &#8216;digital blackface&#8217; after the publishing of the Teen Vogue article about it, by Laura Michele Jackson, in August of 2017. I thought my circle of friends were fairly accepting and open-minded, but mostly balked at the idea that they might need to reflect on their reliance on black over-reaction and performance on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For this project I did a deep dive and tried to gather sources from different political leanings to try and understand various viewpoints on the subject. I thought it was weird that otherwise self-professed liberal people ended up in exactly the same camp as hardcore right wing commenters when it came to &#8216;digital blackface&#8217;; the almost-universal answer to the issue seemed to be that acknowledging race at all in reaction gifs and images was the <em>real<\/em> racism.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed, and still seems to me that this argument just lets the openly racist among us operate with greater freedom. Reproduced images of black people can&#8217;t protest when a white person uses them to advance white supremacy. When Rachel Dolezal was exposed, the right wing seized on the momentum presented by the idea of &#8216;fake&#8217; black people to attack Movement for Black Lives activist Shaun King. The difference between conservatives weaponizing entertaining images of black people today and conservatives attending minstrel shows in the 1920&#8217;s is one of degrees.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author: Parker Mathias I was moved to do this project by backlash I had seen in regards to the concept of &#8216;digital blackface&#8217; after the publishing of the Teen Vogue article about it, by Laura Michele Jackson, in August of 2017. I thought my circle of friends were fairly accepting and open-minded, but mostly balked&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/2018\/03\/06\/digital-blackface\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Digital Blackface\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[257],"tags":[66,256,255],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-and-representation","tag-day-of-dh","tag-race-and-culture","tag-representation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8keRV-i8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/digital-scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}