Commonly perpetrated by females of European descent (white) which involves artificial tanning (spray tanning and tanning booths) and using
makeup to manipulate facial features in order to appear to have some
type of Black African ancestry.
The general point of blackfishing is for a female of European descent to appear of African,
Arab, or Hispanic ancestry.
Some consider it to be equivalent to modern day “black
face” because it capitalizes off the looks of historically oppressed groups of people by people who come from more privileged backgrounds.
“Emma Hallberg is a beautiful mixed
race Swede.”
“No, Emma isn’t mixed
race, she’s just blackfishing.”
“They want to be black without being black.”