Friday, October 16, 2009

BlackFace French VOGUE Cover: High Fashion or Racist?





























In relation to the post previous to this, apparently VOGUE's new photoshoot that will be featured in the French issue is of a white women covered in black makeup. Here is an article that discusses it more in detail and there is a video of a cnn report at the end of the article that is interesting.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/blackface-french-vogue-cover-high-fashion-or-racist-525298/

Maybe after having taken this class I've become more aware but...what is the deal with blackface showing up in the media recently?

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