Perspective: Blackface has been shunned in the U.S. Brownface deserves the same scrutiny.
Yalitza Aparicio at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 24. TV personality Yeka Rosales, a comedic actress for a Mexican-based Televisa network, is facing criticism after dressing up in brownface and wearing a prosthetic nose to mimic the indigenous Mexican actress. By Ed Morales March 15 at 3:53 AM About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to cover issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter.
The spectacle of Rosales’s “satire” on the show “La Parodia” was nothing short of grotesque, performing an ignorant, awkward and silly stereotype often assigned to indigenous people. Brownface parody is a long-running element of Mexican entertainment, including the character named La India María from the 1972 film “Tonta, Tonta, Pero No Tanto” . But the practice — and the racism that underlies it — has persisted.
So it’s not surprising that black- and brownface pops up on TV shows in countries such as Peru and Colombia. Even in Miami, you can find a character like Yeyo Vargas, an Afro-Dominican played by Carlos Marrero, a white Cuban American actor. Vargas, who is described as president of the fictional ULPO and Barack Obama’s “adviser of Latin American and Caribbean affairs,” was ripe for ridicule in a South Florida milieu dominated by Republican Cuban Americans.
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