The parade Social_event has been critiqued Judgment_communication by local residents , academics , and the media for its racist depiction of minority groups , which , despite an official ban on blackface effective in 1964 , has continued to include Cause_to_be_included blackface , brownface , or redface caricatures and other racial and ethnic impersonation , as of 2017 's parade .

The parade Social_event has been critiqued Judgment_communication by local residents , academics , and the media for its racist depiction of minority groups , which , despite an official ban on blackface effective in 1964 , has continued to include Cause_to_be_included blackface , brownface , or redface caricatures and other racial and ethnic impersonation , as of 2017 's parade .