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brownwashing 

Conspicuous over-representation disproportionate to the population of racial minorities in advertising.
Who is this retailer trying to target with this advertisement full of brownwashing? You'd get the impression that ethnic minorities make up 50% of the population by watching it, when in actual fact they are only 2% of the population in this area.

browncapping 

Having an emergent need to defecate.
"I'm browncapping so bad I'm going to turtlehead if we don't find a bathroom soon."
browncapping by Crawlover July 3, 2004

Brownwashing 

Brownwashing is a casting practice in the film industry of mainly The United States in which POC actors are cast in historically non-POC character roles. The film industry has a history of frequently casting POC actors for roles involving White, non-Hispanic culture.
Hermione Granger although a fictional character she has historically perceived as a young white girl this was up until recently when a Play based on the books announced their casting of a black woman to play the roll of Germione Granger. The Brownwashing of this popular fictional white character is just a small sample of this ever growing trend in entertainment industry.
Brownwashing by NateBlank July 23, 2017

Brownwashing 

The act of replacing historically white figures with non white figures.
Guy 1: "Did you see the new television program claiming a decent portion of vikings in Scandinavia were black?"

Guy 2: "well, that's because the media has been brownwashing history so non white folk don't get offended by white history being too white"
Brownwashing by TradWaman March 9, 2019

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Browncapping 

Dude, I have to crap so bad I'm browncapping!
Browncapping by screaming j December 16, 2008