race impersonation racial impersonation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278957 An act in which an entertainer who dresses stereotypically, exaggeratedly, or otherwise provocatively as a person of a different socially constructed race. Such acts are usually highly offensive, but depend on heavily on social context and power dynamics (for instance blackface is almost exclusively derogatory whereas whiteface almost always is not). race impersonation