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Just weeks after supermodel Lara Stone posed in blackface for French Vogue and an Australian sketch comedy group parodied the Jackson Five in blackface, models on the latest episode of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model appeared in blackface for a photo shoot challenge.

On Wednesday's episode of "ANTM" cycle 13, Banks asked the six remaining contestants to pose as "hapa" or women from mixed cultural backgrounds in a sugar cane field in Hawaii.

"What happens when men and women from different places come together? Babies! Lots of babies that are from different cultures. A mix. Hapa. Hapa means half in Hawaiian," Banks explained.

The red-headed and fair skinned Nicole Fox was transformed into "Malagasy and Japanese," and southern blond Laura Kirkpatrick, whose pale skin was sunburned from the Maui sun, was made to look "Mexican and Greek."  Offering inspiration, Tyra told bleached blond Erin Wagner, who was made up to look "Tibetan, like the Dali Lama, and Egyption" to, "Think about the people in Egypt and what they've been through!"