Blacking

Blacking may refer to:

• Blacking (polish), a nineteenth-century shoe polish
• Blacking up, putting on a style of theatrical makeup to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism
• Blacking (cryptography) In NSA jargon, encryption devices are often called blackers, because they convert red signals to black
• Sanitization (classified information)

People with the surname

• John Blacking (1928–1990), British ethnomusicologist and anthropologist

See also

• Blackening (disambiguation)
• Blacked, a pornography brand owned by Vixen Media Group