digital blackface

English

Noun

digital blackface (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The practice where non-black people co-opt online expressions of black imagery, slang, catchphrases, or culture, often to convey comic relief or express emotions.
    • 2002 January 17, A.J. Bowser, “BET’s ‘Cita’: Dumb or digital bamboozle?”, in New York Amsterdam News, page 23:
    • 2017 August 11, Molly Roberts, “What white people missed about FaceApp’s ‘blackface’ filters”, in The Washington Post, page A.17:
    • 2018 July 13, Bobbi Booker, “‘Digital blackface’ unmasks social media unease”, in Philadelphia Tribune, page 2B:
    • 2019 February 8, Kelly Weill, “‘Digital Blackface’: Pro-Trump Trolls Are Impersonating Black People on Twitter”, in The Daily Beast, Tech:
      “It’s a concerted effort to put on basically a digital blackface,” Shireen Mitchell, founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women told The Daily Beast. Mitchell said she’s been observing these impostor accounts since 2013, long before Trump’s ascendancy.
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