"Digital blackface" nghĩa là gì?

"Digital blackface" = mặt đen kỹ thuật số -> người da trắng dùng GIF, meme, biểu tượng cảm xúc và các hình ảnh khác của người da đen để thể hiện các phản ứng cảm xúc khác nhau trên mạng.

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While reaction GIFs can be hilarious, when white people use GIFs of black people, it can be a form of digital blackface.

From Oprah Winfrey to Rihanna to Stanley Hudson from ‘The Office,’ reaction GIFs and memes have become staples in digital communications online. But anti-racism advocates say the use of these digital tools could be a form of digital blackface. Calgary comedian and anti-racism advocate Adora Nwofor says the use of these often stereotypical GIFs can be problematic when used by non-Black people.

But the exaggerated gesturing of the GIF has not come without its drawbacks. GIFs have been critiqued for their role in the perpetuation (bất diệt, duy trì) of digital blackface. GIFs like those of Oprah waving her arms, Tiffany Pollard rubbing her temple, or Shaq shimmying, are modern examples of minstrelsy, making a caricature (tranh biếm hóa) out of a Black person’s actions for white entertainment. As Lauren Michele Jackson wrote for Teen Vogue, “white and nonblack users seem to especially prefer GIFs with black people when it comes to emitting their most exaggerated emotions.” What made GIFs unique and convenient allowed them to be misused and adapted into reductive stereotypes.

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