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"blackness" Definitions
  1. [uncountable, singular] the fact of being completely dark or completely black in colour
  2. [uncountable] the fact of being full of anger or hate or of being without hope
  3. [uncountable] the fact of belonging to a group of people who have dark skin and who come from or whose ancestors came from Africa

951 Sentences With "blackness"

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New York was Baldwin's blackness and hatred of that blackness.
" The next chant began, "Anti-blackness anywhere is anti-blackness everywhere!
We pathologize blackness in the way we exchangeably refer to blackness and stigma.
They could hide their blackness behind a darker blackness, a false one, a safe one.
A strong appeal of Simpson's work is that she has always embraced the inherent complexity of blackness, her own blackness as well as the blackness that runs ineluctably through American history.
The Obamas' engagement with their blackness mirrored the culture's engagement with the variety of blackness teeming within it.
Hussle loved and embraced his blackness, a blackness that was bigger than the sum of its intriguing parts.
There is a history of wanting to dilute the Blackness of one's children because of the longstanding stigmatization of Blackness.
Believing in the aesthetic value of Blackness was just one of the many means of resisting racism and anti-Blackness.
No-loc bans are designed to oppress and shame Black people not just for expressing Blackness, but *for* their Blackness.
And so do I. Names like Devante not only signify Blackness, they trigger associations with a certain kind of Blackness.
" He adds, "my work questions what is blackness within these environments and where can blackness be seen in the future.
But we all drink from the well poisoned by the anti-blackness that wants everyone to forget when blackness goes viral.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not just a self-described comics fan but the premier writer on blackness and anti-blackness in America.
Blackness is rich and plentiful, which means that our lives matter even when we aren't clapping back at white supremacy and anti-Blackness.
"DeCarava used blackness as an affirmative value, as a kind of beautiful blackness through which his subjects both moved and emerged," Mr. Bey said.
What are the questions we have for ourselves, and all the different identities we house, in queerness, in blackness, in thinking about blackness being expansive?
In his latest collection, Jericho Brown tackles history and trauma both private and public, personal and narrative — especially blackness and anti-blackness, queerness and anti-queerness.
But whatever she decides will be judged through the lens of her Blackness; how she expresses that Blackness is layered into many parts of Being Serena.
Maria believes her blackness can be reinforced through TV shows, hairstyles, music, and food—she doesn't seem to grasp that blackness can exist beyond these things.
In these works, blackness seems to be depicted from the outside and therefore appears—as blackness is often seen, by others—under the sign of monstrosity.
O. In his latest collection, Brown tackles history and trauma both private and public, personal and narrative — especially blackness and anti-blackness, queerness and anti-queerness.
For him, the "black" in post-black refers to a construction of what blackness is, and "post-black" is a means for redefining the parameters of blackness.
When I ask him about his name, he gives me an equation: Arcane = Mystery Abyss = Eternal Blackness Arcane + Abyss = Arcanabyss He is the mystery of eternal blackness.
By creating vulnerable and tender images and sounds of blackness, I believe that people will begin to see possibility for something more true of what blackness is.
Pendleton's fragmentation of black images reflects blackness as incomplete, in motion, and the artist works to disrupt space that presents a logic of identity related to blackness.
Ligon's "One Black Day" (2012) and Jones's series "Composition for Sharps" (all 2010) are joined in the ways they subtly use black materials to differentiate blackness from Blackness.
Blacks are becoming more savvy about the difference between "authentic blackness" and "strategic blackness," says Tanya Hernandez, a professor at Fordham University's School of Law in New York City.
" Looking back at her marriage, Dolezal writes, "Kevin's Blackness wasn't the cause of our disconnect; if anything, it was his disdain for Blackness that created so much distance between us.
His designs affirmed that blackness loves shapes, innovation, and luxury; the designs, with colorful colorways and avant-garde shapes, said that blackness is beyond what we have and can survive.
The young African immigrant must locate herself along three divides: the first between blackness and whiteness; the second within blackness, between native and foreign; the third between African and American.
There's blackness — the mere state of one's racial self — and there's being politically black, which amounts to the degree to which one wields or weaponizes or calls attention to one's blackness.
Her beauty — and her blackness — just felt so normal.
The civil rights and black power movements are a moment where old ways of thinking about blackness begin to recede and new ways of understanding blackness begin to come to the fore.
What playwrights like Love and Harris are doing in that sense is staging an intervention: not just writing blackness into history but, in a kind of double axel, blackness into gayness into history.
Blackness was often a source of comedy in American culture.
In general, my blackness and my service have peacefully coexisted.
I've never been able to hide or deny my blackness.
It's about how we define blackness through our own communities.
It comes down, then, after all to this unforgivable blackness.
Instead, she made sure her Blackness was front and center.
Blackness is a big word with a lot of definitions.
As a political statement, it is unapologetic in its blackness.
It's about seeing what's possible when that blackness is gone.
Because of our blackness, we are always high on security.
It was a display of unapologetic blackness and political activism.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe.
How do you use your blackness both for and against?
But Obama could pivot into unapologetic blackness on a dime.
I felt like I could find my place in blackness.
Then a hand picks up the phone, and there's blackness.
On "Roc," the Emersons' blackness was put at the fore.
I became concerned with how Detroiters were thinking about blackness.
Blackness, whiteness, all of this stuff is all a performance.
And it drifts utterly alone in the blackness of space.
National Geographic recently apologized for its role in pathologizing blackness.
Now she's running a Vogue cover that captures peak blackness.
But, alas, the need to defend blackness against derision continues.
Their blackness makes each inclusion subtly register as an exclusion.
When the baby was born, that blackness would be colder.
Yes to more of understanding and celebrating blackness in America.
Growing up in Africa, there is a dignity about blackness.
Why would you limit it to the flattest blackness possible?
There are conversations about blackness, asexuality, consent, and sexual harassment.
But that didn't prevent blackness from manifesting in the crowd.
Racists define both blackness and whiteness in just that manner.
Beyoncé's saying it should be ranks as peak unapologetic blackness.
What life experience forced this reminder of his own blackness?
It fits a societal algorithm that blackness itself is suspect.
"Black Is the Body" obscures the blackness of her body.
These men were owning their blackness in a whitewashed world.
All that velvet blackness pressed up against so much colour.
If our definition of blackness rests on visibility even more than genealogy, then blackness would not be as inclusive as it is now — it would exclude those who pass as white and, perhaps, more.
These contrasting backgrounds present wildly different experiences of blackness, with one sticking out dramatically and the other camouflaged nearly to the point of invisibility, making the viewer reconsider how they understand blackness in context.
"I hope that people will have an eye toward the complexity of blackness, and that blackness is not monolithic," said Ato Blankson-Wood, a black actor who portrays one half of a gay couple.
In that vein, Edwards's Blackness in Abstraction makes a contribution to the conversation by presenting an opportunity to explore blackness, the experiences that blacken subjects, and how this paint-by-numbers mentality affects race.
Much has already been written about the many ways in which Beyoncé's new single, "Formation" — which she performed during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show — is an anthem dedicated to blackness, southern blackness, feminism, and more.
It's also reserved for actions, people, and things associated with Blackness.
I get confused because I'm like, What constitutes blackness to you?
She wasn't always this brazen in her display of her Blackness.
He transcended the medium, authentically portraying Blackness on the big screen.
For Issa Rae, being comfortable in her Blackness was a journey.
The video is a varied breakthrough on blackness, womanhood and freedom.
Either way, her potential blackness has been largely ignored or deemphasized.
It may take the blackness away from what I'm seeing now.
The animals approach the lights, sparkling like jewels in the blackness.
My Blackness isn't defined by the colors red, black, and green.
My first thoughts about creativity and art were founded in blackness.
Gift of Gab: It's a celebration of the beauty of blackness.
ABC has a great opportunity to showcase the diversity of Blackness.
But the blackness onscreen is as rich and textured as skin.
Our blackness itself is the mark, and it cannot be erased.
"It is (done) in the blackness of the night," he said.
They all shared that condition, terribly minimal and tragically sufficient — blackness.
"I was surrounded by nothing but blackness and stars," she said.
Blackness in the American imagination was first conceived as a nightmare.
It is a grief and a blackness, and it changes you.
My blackness does not inhibit me from being beautiful and intelligent.
Upon entering college, you will become someone's first foray into blackness.
The engines gunned, and they roared off into the desert blackness.
She eventually escapes, but the total blackness outside looks equally overwhelming.
On a recent afternoon, three men slept in sour-smelling blackness.
There is blackness in the interior, staring out from the openings.
" — Aliya Frazier, 46, Inwood "Aretha Franklin was the definition of blackness.
Beyond my blackness, he sees me clearly for who I am.
What are those miles of blackness the nanocraft will cruise through?
For Ojih Odutola this meant challenging how art programs teach blackness.
There's also the complicated perception of Blackness within the Latinx community.
I felt hot tears, and pure terror … and then more blackness.
Black "doesn't represent all blackness, that is impossible," said Mr. Osajyefo.
Ms. Cooley said online memes questioning Ms. Harris's blackness were ludicrous.
In its simple elegance, it totally problematizes blackness as a category.
Then, "there's Kerry James Marshall's policeman in uniform, where blackness as a racial identity and blackness as a color are conjoined — very different than Kelly's intention but somehow connected through the two colors," Mr. Ligon said.
Hussle also embodied the trans-Atlantic routes of black identity — the crisscrossing and crosscutting ways of global blackness and the awareness that no one culture or country or tribe has ownership of a blissfully variegated blackness.
Media tends to perpetuate negative stereotypes surrounding Blackness, so I'm very interested in reclaiming that language and pushing other notions of Blackness such as Black joy and elements of love, tenderness, and vulnerability that aren't usually seen.
Because Blackness is not a monolith of course everyone has different tastes.
Visualizing unseen blackness is a theme that runs throughout Lawson's photography oeuvre.
In 137 minutes, Beyoncé puts Blackness centerstage for the world to see.
Instead of bringing a flower crown to Coachella, Queen Bey brought Blackness.
American Artist examines blackness and detachment with broken shards of digital culture.
I'll just say the ability to define what blackness is, it's hard.
Her non-blended pieces feel like celebrations of individuality, blackness, and womanhood.
The burden of blackness will be his birthright as an American man.
Black Habits is a celebration of Blackness—the good and the bad.
Instead, growing up, Huang said he identified much more closely with Blackness.
Conservative and liberal white women continue to perpetrate racism and anti-blackness.
The "culture" of the Baltimore Police Department is rooted in anti-blackness.
Pusha also addresses Drake reckoning with his own blackness in the song.
Poverty, in the minds of many white Americans, is associated with blackness.
Blackness isn't just "praying it away" or not going to the doctor.
All black people should follow her lead and refuse to shrink blackness.
Push the hell out of Black Panther in all its blackity blackness.
Kali represents the time before this world existed, when all was blackness.
They're just floating out there in the nothing-y blackness, watching, inscrutable.
A long middle stretch shows only messages with blackness and background noise.
The emphasis on blackness is not just a marketing gimmick, he said.
And as I've gotten older, I've realized that my blackness is indelible.
Even today, blackness is a commodity—from our humor to our culture.
What are some of the similarities between Nova Scotian blackness and Indigenousness?
In the conversations surrounding blackness in Canada, how are Nova Scotians represented?
In my head, blackness was something that began and ended in America.
They are black to demonstrate that blackness can have complexity. Depth. Richness.
"I like these depictions of blackness as hollow outlines," Jean-Raymond said.
I'm really enjoying seeing the weird, eccentric qualities of blackness being explored.
We've already seen what blackness looks like on screen when it's unapologetic.
Before, popular films reduced blackness to a set of archetypes and stereotypes.
The same culture that told Mariah Carey not to announce her blackness.
Business ownership aligns in the whiteness-assumption checklist; not so for blackness.
In the panic, she was tossed overboard, tumbling into the predawn blackness.
But he, too, doubled-down on his blackness when times got tough.
It doesn't bother me because I'm not going there looking for blackness.
" Wicker concludes, "The heart of the matter was the fear of blackness.
Like Obama was during his candidacy and administration, her blackness was questioned.
They sending letters, they don't want to get up in this blackness.
Blackness was never forced to owe black people an apology for anything.
Its lyrics are desperate and defiant, inextricably tied to West's own blackness.
The idea of blackness becomes like a counter narrative of American nationalism.
They are arguments that, by defining blackness through struggle, ultimately lend validity to Dolezal's "reclaiming" blackness as a positive state of mind—a clear misappropriation of the messaging of Steve Biko and others in the Black consciousness movement.
Coming as it did right before The Kingdom Choir's beautiful rendition of "Stand By Me," Curry's address made sure that the official entry of blackness—American blackness, specifically—to the British monarchy would be a conscious, examined event.
My blackness, my transness, they're parts of me, they're not all of me.
"My intention is to show the immense complexity of blackness within the religion."
That's what I love about it, that Blackness just exists on the show.
My Gazelle's dinky automatic light was no comfort in the vast inky blackness.
Most days, my Anti-Blackness Force Field is on point, close to impenetrable.
Do you feel any responsibility to talk about your blackness on your show?
I also think about this idea of blackness and where it came from.
What is it about blackness that makes it an interesting conversation for you?
It. In Omaha, we had protests that radiated compassionate solidarity and pro-Blackness.
So do I have the right to then represent blackness in the now?
Blackness, especially when attached to a black woman's body, is overwhelmingly gendered masculine.
For many whites, these characterizations were the only way they encountered cultural blackness.
Justin Bieber's relationship with Black people and Blackness itself has always been… interesting.
I want to use my blackness to bring a different point of view.
What have been some meaningful representations of female blackness in culture for you?
Far from shying away, Beyoncé has embraced her blackness and issues of race.
Childish Gambino's callout of anti-Blackness, "This Is America" appears in both categories.
Anti-Blackness has been an established component of beauty standards around the world.
But the merger of Blackness and upheaval is complicated, to say the least.
In the blackness of the room, Klaver sensed a presence at her bedside.
As Laur Jackson noted in a recent essay about the blackness of meme
My blackness has been ignored for so long, because that's what was easiest.
It is this authentic celebration of brownness and Blackness that quells my anxiety.
The cave's surfaces are pockmarked and asteroid-like, hanging in fields of blackness.
Not a photo of a black square but a photo of total blackness.
For Jayla, the quinceañera was an occasion to celebrate blackness and black womanhood.
Wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase wasn't enough to overcome my blackness.
"If you're an athlete or a musician, your blackness is acceptable," she says.
But I don't need to see them to understand how anti-Blackness works.
He was erasing old associations about blackness and replacing them with new ones.
The historic printed media on view addresses stereotypes of blackness through the decades.
"I am very much interested in the blackness that I carry," explains Alston.
My work thinks through the relationship between Blackness, trans/gressive subjectivities, and ecology.
"Black Panther," by contrast, is steeped very specifically and purposefully in its blackness.
Is her gray area one that wonders if Blackness counts in the canon?
" One feels the Devil everywhere, in the "blackness that unfolded in all directions.
It's no surprise that studies show tipping encourages anti-blackness in service industries.
Sometimes there are just specks which, at night, dot the blackness like stars.
Monica did a lot of winking, especially under a spell of casual blackness.
Lizzo's blackness, however, has also been called into question in a controversial manner.
Popular culture today offers a wide variety of nuanced, rich representations of blackness.
Kelley has to be good for Emira and her blackness, that is it.
I'm pretty sure that my gender has always been tied to my Blackness.
Lyndsey did so, and found that in total blackness her symptoms abated somewhat.
His hair has the slick, uniform blackness that comes only from a bottle.
Lakeith's character [Logan] seems like a person who's totally neutered of his blackness.
Before a lot of these teenagers came to Howard, blackness was narrowly defined.
Their complaints include that he was estranged from neither black people nor blackness.
His inclusion illustrates the complexities of blackness in different time periods and locations.
So if blackness is, in fact, inherently political, if even our alternative fictions must be bound to a history both complex and inerasable, at least let there be Wakandas where blackness can be owned and celebrated – and where it can thrive.
Their differing views on the politics of blackness (Micah is race-conscious and activist-minded, whereas Jo prefers not to define herself solely through the lens of blackness), as well as Jo's existing relationship, threaten to derail whatever chemistry they have.
Mr. Young, 45, is the author of 11 books, including "Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015" and "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
Practitioners of unapologetic blackness know their culture is being watched and shared, and the pride isn't so much in the blackness itself but in its encryption, in what the 1990s fashion company (and Solange) called Fubu — For us, by us.
But just because I'm light-skinned, that doesn't negate my blackness in any way.
She has, without needing to do so vocally, represented Blackness in her bodily presence.
Queerness and blackness are already complicated identities; things get even messier when they're intertwined.
Much ink has already been spilt investigating Mapplethorpe's relationship — or lack thereof — to Blackness.
At a time when blackness still invites unwarranted violence, young Wash's hard lessons resonate.
Blackness is frustrating crackers nowadays because it's threatening their sense of security and being.
Setting aside the frustration of defining blackness by pain, what else does this implicate?
Moira's queerness, and her blackness, are much less explored in the series' first season.
In BLACK, we're attempting to show the spectrum of blackness—on our own terms.
A Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner, she wrote about Blackness for Black people. pic.twitter.
But blackness existed well before stigma that is informed and structured by white supremacy.
First, we must recognize that anti-blackness is the heart of all of this.
But it's important to remember blackness — like all identities — holds a multitude of perspectives.
For many millennials, being Black — and embracing said Blackness — has never been more lit.
However, my favorite example among the series' complex profiles of Blackness is Coco Conners.
She represents the image of blackness we have been sold as acceptable and marketable.
To drag down to where that hair is itself lost against a greater blackness.
Now there are enough black characters that none of them need to represent blackness.
Eventually, Ms. Jackson made blackness an important part of her music and presence, too.
But to erase Panther's blackness is to ignore a crucial part of his importance.
Researchers have repeatedly documented the mental associations Americans make between blackness, criminality and violence.
Being Somali and in the West means dealing with Islamophobia, anti-blackness, and xenophobia.
There are a lot of places where you completely relinquish your ties to blackness.
It's no longer just his own misconceived sense of blackness, but all of ours.
That was the moment that really helped crystalize for me the blackness of Jonestown.
Beyoncé, arguably the greatest professional entertainer of our time, chooses to love her blackness.
Especially Southeast Asian people, who get a lot of hate and anti-blackness sentiment.
That's because LCD screens can't reach the same level of blackness as OLED displays.
Just don't pivot it to an ignorant place where we're talking about somebody's blackness.
The show is a multicultural utopia, but she still gets to keep her blackness.
He was an example — perhaps even the goal — of sensual, confident androgyny, and blackness.
I've learned my own knowledge of how diverse blackness is in Japan was limited.
Commercial advertisers denigrated blackness to sell everything from tobacco to molasses to breakfast cereal.
" She added: "Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people.
In it, our world appears lonely and fragile set against the blackness of space.
Out of the blackness of the deep, deep ocean comes a snub-nosed creature.
"Pretrial incarceration has become the penalty for poverty, for mental illness and for blackness."
Are there any criteria by which white creators can successfully make work about blackness?
She consistently centered blackness in her narratives, but not an idealized version of it.
Getting a glimpse of Earth against the blackness of space is a transformative moment.
The guilty thrill of being surrounded by blackness without having to live like them.
She consistently centered blackness in her narratives, but not an idealized version of it.
At some point, along with ''Lemonade,'' they've all been deemed unapologetic in their blackness.
Tori Sampson makes her Playwrights Horizons debut with a parable of blackness and beauty.
Ask a Showrunner "Blackness is also joy and laughter and vodka," the showrunner said.
They embody a form of communal storytelling that ties into larger questions of Blackness.
This new emphasis on exploring blackness departs from the formulae of the Harlem Renaissance.
Let each artwork in Blackness in Abstraction discover this paradox and leave it unresolved.
It's not something they confront the world with every day, like blackness or gayness.
Writer Max Mohenu explained why less diverse places helped appreciate his blackness and queerness.
Kenya Barris' award-winning project — which examines Blackness from the perspective of a family that has achieved the American dream — was in rare form during the season 4 opener, and they were out to prove that Blackness can be explored on multiple levels.
My parents always told me that I'm a celebration of my blackness and my whiteness.
"I just want it to feel like it's normalized regular Blackness," Rae, 31, told me.
With "Dear, Black Love" #r29unbothered is celebrating relationships through the lens of Blackness and intersectionality.
Hague said he even saw the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth.
So I was in the true, fucking blackness—the darkest time of my whole life.
And, as such, she was deemed "unsympathetic," a feeling amplified, however implicitly, by her blackness.
Capuano sought to downplay how Pressley's blackness, youth, and gender were factoring into the campaign.
Of course, what complicated things then, and continues to complicate things now, was my blackness.
Lannes' lettering — small, white, regular — flickers across the churning blackness like candles in the wind.
And that makes it a city that embraces blackness more than most around the country.
What all of these television portrayals did was delimit Blackness to homogenous grief and tragedy.
The care that the series has shown to Blackness has been a particular bright spot.
Anthologies were never merely archival, he insists, but meant to demonstrate something essential about blackness.
Passengers would be able to see Earth against the blackness of space and feel weightlessness.
"Anti-Blackness is at the center of the murder of Black trans women," Cullors said.
Even looking within, my original perspective of depression was through the lens of stereotypical blackness.
But the character's blackness creates and results in a ripple effect felt throughout the film.
The diver goes into free fall, carried ever deeper away from light and into blackness.
It's almost as if they are saying that blackness, on its own, simply isn't enough.
For many of these parts, Jackson's Blackness shines as the main tenet of his character.
Many of us understand you don't date anyone who diminishes your feelings, or your Blackness.
It's interesting because so much of my thinking around blackness has developed here in America.
Shuttling through the blackness into the further reaches of my past, I hear a voice.
Her obsession with quantifying and defining her own blackness leads down to an emotional spiral.
The Kardashians may be using Blackness to bolster their brand, but at least they're consistent.
Joseph often shoots in black-and-white, which emphasizes the blackness of his subjects' skin.
One night, a whole turbot was roasted on the bone until its skin neared blackness.
Queen Bey's new video has managed to spark discussions about activism, art, and celebrating Blackness.
They've had to be the musings of my own navigations around this thing called blackness.
Yet this freedom is never guaranteed, particularly in a world still marred by anti-blackness.
My first book, me, aunt jemima, and the nail gun, was about understanding my blackness.
When Solange isn't performing a tribute to Houston's Third Ward, she is celebrating her blackness.
Blackness in Insecure isn't rested on the burden to be powerful, cool, insightful, and progressive.
It's that her output is infused by a fundamental orientation — culturally, politically, psychically — to blackness.
Because Whitney rejected both imperatives, the connection between his work and blackness is visually indiscernible.
A few shows do wink at different kinds of blackness, offering a better way forward.
For Prince Rogers Nelson, who died last year at 57, blackness could take any form.
They blast into a banquet hall with a dose of rappity-rap B-boy blackness.
"When they questioned his blackness, that left a sour taste in my mouth," he says.
The idea of blackness, crafted by generations of white supremacy, has been paralyzing and narrow.
Then a searing, liquid-white light began spilling out over the edge of the blackness.
People don't relate those types of things to Blackness or any other race but white.
Despite all the intersections between Blackness and gothness, there is still racism within the space.
Total blackness to a blurry light Romo doesn't remember the gunshot that changed her life.
"To Pimp a Butterfly" ponders blackness at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In case of evacuation, passengers&apos eyes will already be acclimated to the blackness outside.
The doctor ordered a "push" on my sedative, and I succumbed to the sweet blackness.
Deep down we all know that life is only pain and there is only blackness.
Until the 1940s, zombies were largely a reflection of the fears of voodooism and blackness.
In Odutola's universe, the depth of blackness is without end, the dimensions infinite and unfathomable.
And I think we need more international stories, too, 'cause blackness isn't just in America.
What do you think BlacKkKlansman could be trying to explain about blackness to its audiences?
In 2015 curator, Adrienne Edwards wrote "Blackness in Abstraction" in Art in America, an essay that cogently explores Adam Pendleton's recent "Black Dada" works and outlines a history of contemporary artists' conceptual visual ruminations, which have presented blackness in multitudes since the early 1940s.
I would tell that story about skinny jeans without centering white European bodies or punk rocker bodies, because it shows how the fashion industry usurped that narrative, flattening Blackness and queer Blackness, by making that style of jean synonymous with a white style culture.
But blackness contains multitudes, and to reduce it the way Carson does to poverty and broken homes is a gross oversimplification for the 45 million African-American people in the US. It's also sad that he can only define blackness in terms of deprivation.
Carson isn't trying to discredit Obama's blackness in order to appeal to black voters, he's selling himself as authentically black to conservative whites, and the resulting process is pretty damn ugly: Blackness, in Carson's campaign rhetoric, is connected with poverty and the perpetration of violence.
While the picture is a photograph of Williams, it is also a study of the weight of blackness: the blackness of the hair that tops her slightly less dark face and the black liquid intelligence of her eyes, offset by the whiteness of her blouse.
"These blackfishing threads just remind me how blackness is viewed as a commodity," one person tweeted.
Another major consideration in their work is the human relationship to the Blackness of the universe.
I continue to ask questions about what blackness looks like in cities and how it's pictured.
It's looking down on a kind of blackness with which you don't want to be associated.
Beyoncé's Blackness should come as a surprise to no one, despite this hilarious Saturday Night Live!
Yet there are political references here: to Trump, Obama, blackness in America, gun control, et al.
Today, it's evolved to mean any Black person who doesn't fit the negative stereotype of blackness.
The Kardashian-Jenner family has been accused of stealing Black men, weaponizing whiteness, and appropriating Blackness.
For her Hauser & Wirth debut, Sherald restructures historical notions of blackness through the use of grisaille.
Tackling everything from entertainment to the justice system, these movies and shows dig deeper into Blackness.
This a commentary on the commodification of Blackness that happens at the corporate and cultural level.
Wading through the blackness, she pounded on the door of her neighbors, who were also Polish.
"Formation" is a notably complex meditation on female blackness, the United States of America, and capitalism.
It was a moment that once again exhibited how anti-Blackness moves in pro-women spaces.
We remember, we cherish, & we rise up against transmisogyny, anti-Blackness, and the criminalization of migrants.
But Dre makes a strong case for his son identifying with Blackness in an affirmative way.
Unlike, say, BET, blackness is simply the prism, and only occasionally the conversation starter for OWN.
Everywhere I went, I was taught covertly that blackness was to never be addressed at best.
He blew the dust from the machinery with his mouth and inhaled the rich petroleum blackness.
BLACKNESS was photographed in my previous residence in Crown Heights, off of Nostrand and St. Marks.
My boat trundles through the blackness, beacon shining out into the dark, and I get worried.
And an AMG "Night Packages" added $650 worth of shimmery, goth-y blackness to the exterior.
He tries to avoid the pitch blackness that descends in many areas without powered street lamps.
They're refugees, in a sense—racist and anti-Semitic parodies of Jewish liberal identification with blackness.
And that, especially, was when I felt that "White Noise" hadn't been written from inside blackness.
Observers, however, must first be willing to give blackness and feminism the benefit of the doubt.
But because of those women i have learned that i do not thrive despite my blackness.
And both of those combined so that I just wanted to emphasize the beauty of blackness.
The truth is, I am insecure about my Blackness — which is painful and embarrassing to admit.
Even being a light-skinned actress, I know that I am a palatable version of blackness.
As Dr. King masterfully illustrates, whiteness is only superior with a foil and that is blackness.
Others felt that the project, and their role in it, was an assault on their blackness.
Xavier's bootstrapping is matched with an active rejection of surface symbols of blackness and hip-hop.
What I love most about Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love" (20043) is its unabashed celebration of blackness.
Instead, his movie is full of white people whom Peele reveals as insatiable predators of blackness.
Black women who could show other black women that blackness was something to take pride in.
I think of Antonio Delgado in New York, whose blackness was something that Republicans dwelled on.
Engineers at MIT have created a material that's so black it set a new blackness record.
After 45 minutes of talky intrigue and betrayal, a tiny iceberg is visible in the blackness.
For decades, natural hair, as well as hairstyles associated with "blackness" like cornrows, has been criticized.
While there isn't anything inherently wrong with exploring, or engaging with "blackness," it's almost always exploitative.
But he plainly hoped to disconcert Look's readers by making her blackness the picture's central issue.
I mean, there are obvious examples of people we still think have that kind of blackness.
Everyone is trying to secure the Black vote, but who is trying to actually assist blackness?
Model and YouTuber Ari Fitz joined YouTube in 2013, focusing on fashion, queer culture, and blackness.
Right now, a bounty of television, movies and music engages with this idea of performing blackness.
When I made my claim, I did not feel as if I were betraying my blackness.
They taught me pronouns, they taught me gender fluidity, and all of the intricacies of blackness.
In blackness, hope is often complicated by the intrusion of death, bloodshed, depression, incarceration, grief, brutality.
There is narrative within narrative; from art historical allusions to references to pop culture and Blackness.
No, they were stories—the Blackness, the dark Americana—that define the history of this country.
And if you got something to say 🤷🏾‍♀️ I dont take notes rooted in anti-blackness.
Earthgang's Mirrorland, which is inspired by the legendary film, creates a similar universe of boundless Blackness.
Recently renewed for a second season, the latter explores themes like blackness, sexuality and police violence.
So I floated in pitch blackness and waited for a profound experience to wash over me.
The show contextualizes her work in relation to the multiplicity of beauty, sexuality, representation, and blackness.
I like the blackness of it, sort of the opposite of the light of a mirror.
This time I took classic tales and transformed them into a story about Africa and blackness.
My struggle with the lack of blackness in live music spaces goes back to my late teens.
I'm theorizing blackness, rather than commemorating African-American history, and that generates a certain degree of skepticism.
This season delivered on that promise by exploring all kinds of Blackness, for better and for worse.
"I hate to put it in monolithic terms, but it's a way of connecting blackness," Hamilton said.
But even if we could determine what would be the "right" percentage, blackness would lose its inclusivity.
We shut our lights off to experience total blackness, then swept our hands to agitate fluorescent phytoplankton.
The truth is the "culture" that's being passed off as normal policing was — and is — anti-blackness.
I grew up in public housing, so in a way it reflects many different states of blackness.
I think because of politics, race and class are often subsumed into the same category of blackness.
In this clip, the idea that Blackness is an affliction is transferred to whiteness, with hilarious results.
Our Blackness is seen as dangerous, and our skin color is seen as threatening to police officers.
I'm shifting to a mentality where I want to stop discussing blackness as a mental health problem.
Mr. Cosby made blackness palatable to a country historically conditioned to think the worst of black people.
My gayness, my blackness—me being proud of where I come from is what makes me special.
I think it lends itself to larger conversations about anti-blackness and imperial ideas of American exceptionalism.
" Lizzo, whose given name is Melissa Jefferson, said her "second favorite thing" about herself is her "blackness.
"mixing" in America for centuries and it simply created shades of brown—newer gradations of blackness—which
It is blackness you despise or fear or resent or simply don't understand or care to know.
To humanize Blackness, we must share stories that allow us to encounter Black characters in everyday life.
Photographers Shikieth, Gareth Smit, and Stacey Tyrell employ photographic approaches that explore blackness in vastly different contexts.
More successful as art project than satire, the show dares to ask after a definition of blackness.
Outside of the capsule's windows, they'd see the deep blackness of space and the curvature of Earth.
Still, we had guided each other through smothering blackness, supplying pinpricks of light only the other could.
And that fiction — the American crime of blackness — can turn a broken taillight into a death sentence.
To see our planet as this majestic blue ball floating in the blackness of space is breathtaking.
The show is influenced by artist Kerry James Marshall's use of blackness as a state of visibility.
"Even when black women get represented, it's always in the way of lessening their blackness," says July.
Mainstream American culture, she argues, demands stereotyped images of "real" blackness, even while it denies black pain.
In "Blackness in Opera," the musicologist Naomi André writes that Krenek's Jonny was reliant on minstrel caricatures.
Both deftly unpack the absurdity of a white culture that simultaneously fetishizes, and is repulsed by, blackness.
What the museum communicates with this arrangement is that there is no one way to express blackness.
The blackness around him shows so sympathy or empathy and the evil thats overcoming him is overwhelming.
In gray outlines the word "Volar," Spanish for "to fly," radiates across the blackness of the wall.
In the media at the time, their blackness was made to seem inextricable from their presumed criminality.
Consider his project BLACKNESS, beautiful black-and-white photos of all-gendered people, vulnerable in their exposure.
"I'm thinking about blackness and being people of color and in its full rainbow glory," she explains.
The work is also black — its blackness providing a lens through which to see and be seen.
John, with his exuberant confidence, gave us jobs and invited us to be bold in our blackness.
It is reductive to think that blackness, as it is represented in art, should be only symbolic.
"Atlanta" specializes in the properties of blackness, the adjustment of heft and levity for bizarrely emotional effect.
Blackness isn't a cause or a solution but a state of being around which anything is possible.
People feeling like they can buy or own whatever they want … if that thing pertains to blackness.
And at the center of it is what can only be described as a refulgent, tasteful blackness.
It would be to recognize that much of their existence is privileged, and conversely blackness is oppressed.
Despite the city's dwindling black population, there is a history of blackness in the city, she said.
"It was really important for me to make space for blackness in San Francisco again," she said.
For them, the natural hair movement isn't just about ease and aesthetics, but about combating anti-Blackness.
This is a battle about blackness, and yet the major players on both sides are white people.
" Dr. deGregory added that the rigorously trained bands' performance is "unapologetic in its blackness but not undisciplined.
The exigency of his love, the blackness of his phrasing: Together, they are simply beautiful to me.
The composition features a coupling of drawings that are resonant mappings of the illogic of anti-blackness.
Dirty Computer is a pop paradise that grapples with the intersection of her politics, blackness, and sexuality.
She, like Ms. Benton-Smith, couldn't find a preschool that reflected "blackness or African heritage," she said.
As a biracial child, I felt like I was in the middle of both my whiteness and blackness.
"So many times in the conversation, [colorism is used] as a straight up denial of blackness," she says.
"They saw skin tone, but not in order to enforce an idea of whiteness or blackness," she says.
Many of us have seen firsthand the ravages of conservative fundamentalism, anti-Blackness, and prejudicial legislation and policing.
I'm not telling you what quantifies blackness because I really want people to have that conversation with themselves.
Just as with FIFA 17, people were complaining about the game's "blackness" even before NBA 2K17 was released.
I didn't know if that was going to work … now we're talking about "what is blackness" or something.
How can I begin to tell the reality of blackness from my very particular and specific lived experience?
He's best known for tweeting "I love my blackness, and yours," but there's so much more like it.
Each week, the comedy sends Twitter into a flurry of meaningful conversations about love, friendship, and Blackness itself.
The abundance of Blackness I experience on a daily basis has given me a deeper purpose at work.
The luxury car against the blackness of space is a perfect representation of the banality of human culture.
Nevertheless, because we are dealing in memes, his non-blackness is presented as a fact in the macro.
Incredible to watch a major blockbuster celebrate blackness while exploring its relationship to various facets of pop culture.
Everything I do and say will be colored with other people's biases of what Blackness is and means.
This year was a win for those who sit at the intersection of Blackness and pop culture fandom.
Additionally, Dick Gregory is known primarily as an activist known for speaking out against racism and anti-Blackness.
That flight profile will allow passengers to see the Earth against the blackness of space and feel weightlessness.
I was soon looking at the yawning blackness of a Linux command line—my new AI art studio.
"While" also means that these two experiences of blackness and depression do intersect and feed off each other.
Just as with FIFA 17, people were complaining about the game's "blackness" before NBA 2K17 was even released.
We were in good company though and I'm forever in awe of the beauty and community of Blackness.
The results are photographs that reference blackness through more apparent connections and less obvious juxtapositions and sometimes contradictions.
Apropos of the Pepe controversy, there was a strong tendency among cartoonists to associate frogs with stereotypical blackness.
The blackness became darker, and the silence changed like she was on the verge of hearing it differently.
When it was dropped into the blackness of the deep sea, the LED lights embedded in it flashed.
I'm not saying that everyone who wears a weave or has a Jheri curl hates themselves or blackness.
"I believe our whiteness is so tangled up in our relationship to blackness," Dow told Vox last year.
They're investigating blackness, not exclusively in terms of racism but as a matter of ontology: What is it?
Even our black president has come further unfettered, not simply addressing race but almost luxuriating in his blackness.
"The exhibition puts forth an experience of diverse approaches to blackness through specific works of art," writes Edwards.
Which is to say, it's the story of a halfback trying, and failing, to outrun his own blackness.
But Clara's being "almost" white means nothing here; her blackness is what keeps her outside of British history.
"My acceptance of myself, my ethnicity, my blackness, my everything is there whether or not I have hair."
To Gilbert, Ocean Parkway must have looked like a stark and forbidding horizon of blackness, moonlight, and waves.
T'Challa was the first black superhero, created to capture the imagination and ascribe a supernatural power to blackness.
So you're saying that in Detroit, blackness doesn't necessarily have to be defined by oppressive whiteness around it?
And she chooses to love Blue Ivy's blackness, as well as her own, by publicly embracing an aesthetic.
I fumbled around and I did find the slot, but when I inserted my card the blackness remained.
To me, that speaks to the need to deny blackness, but still portray some kind of racial difference.
The problem is how rarely the wide, far-reaching spectrum of blackness is taught, shown, celebrated, and acknowledged.
Black Panther is blackness elevated—nobility up the ass—with blackity black "excellence" personified as transformative but idealistic.
There are, no doubt, as many individual experiences of whiteness as there are of blackness in this country.
The film opens with a powerful affirmation of blackness, both in the beauty of it and the burden.
It's almost as if he transferred the original Charlie's blackness onto the Oompa Loompas, to much worse effect.
Is there a facet of blackness you haven't seen onscreen that you hope to see or play someday?
Centuries of demonizing and ridiculing blackness have, in effect, forced black people to abandon what was once sacred.
The painter's brilliantly simple gambit, one that has allowed for decades of elaboration, was to literalize that blackness.
But the larger implication was that by embracing her blackness, Beyoncé was no longer trading in generic pop.
"Green," about rich black families who have literally buried their blackness, doesn't really mesh with the play's superstructure.
One friend of mine was relieved when a genetic test put him over the quarter line for blackness.
Lewis also concluded that instructional materials were quick to equate blackness with slavery, especially when writing about Jamestown.
I wanted to defend my sexuality, what I wore, my Blackness, my Mexican-ness, My Native American-ness.
Many a black artist has explored blackness, but few have found it as fascinating as Peele appears to.
He contrasts his relationship to his blackness with that of Key, whose biological and adoptive fathers were black.
"You're told, 'You've got this special gift, this thing that will cure you of your blackness,' " he says.
There were songs about blackness, wearing dashikis, all coming from a strong pro-black strain in our community.
This debased depiction of blackness underwrote a white supremacist impulse that metastasized into every aspect of American life.
De-Andra Pryce, a Brooklyn 18-year-old, speaks of reconciling her law-enforcement ambitions with her blackness.
But about a year ago, it started happening more frequently and the tunnel vision turned to total blackness.
You often see just his skin or nostrils or lips, and there is often white contrasting against blackness.
I felt as though Hughes was trying to explain blackness—and DeCarava's photographs of it—to white people.
But even a casual glance makes it clear that Michelle Robinson offered Barack Obama more than mere blackness.
Fernando grabbed his backpack and opened his door; in the blackness, the car's overhead light seemed glaringly bright.
If blackness is so easily detached from Dre's prized codes of urban authenticity, what does that make him?
Once Papa Pope [played by Joe Morton] showed up, we say blackness of a different kind showed up.
"Winsome twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Offutt's keen ear and eye."
In the last 30 years, blackness has migrated from the margins of American popular culture to its center.
It is not a stretch here to link people's feelings about Obama to their feelings about his blackness.
"It turns out people don't respond well when put in pitch blackness with a headset on," he said.
" She said she didn't believe that "all black heroes have to have pro-blackness in their origin story.
Shapes and atmospheres loom in whites and textured grays from Stygian blackness: sculpted light, with a muscular feel.
Sure, this album is a celebration of blackness (see: single "Charcoal Baby") and of being an outsider ("Orlando").
The posters form new layers of intertextuality expanding and challenging our relationship to and understanding of contemporary blackness.
"How is nobody mentioning the anti-blackness and blatant bigotry in this book?" one reader wrote on Goodreads.
Kwame Brathwaite's photographs fused the two mediums to push the boundaries of beauty, transforming how we define Blackness.
Yes, society seems to want to embrace a lot of things associated with blackness without actually being black.
That being said, blackness is not a choice in the way that deciding to have an abortion is.
Clapping hand emojis have entered the Pumpkin Spice Latte Danger Zone: basic, banal and stripped of their Blackness.
Historically, racial Blackness and the color black have been valued for the extent to which they've contoured whiteness.
Blackness in Abstraction in on view at Pace Gallery (510 West 25th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through August 19.
I follow some of Romaneiro's collaborators, who had also been distracted by the scallops, inside, into complete blackness.
Rather, the film forces us to ask uncomfortable questions of our own racial and gender identities (like whether the idea of "earning" blackness through experiences of discrimination is valid), the uncertainties and ambiguities around which will lend themselves to the case that Dolezal continues to make about her claim to blackness.
But credit Hynes with connecting his romantic instability to a personal insecurity that in turn connects to what the larger society makes of his blackness and queerness—and for having the consciousness to insist that his blackness is rooted in Africa, and not just because his father was born there.
And I realized if it is just on blackness and not the right black, you haven't really made progress.
Black-ish centers on Blackness, without apology, and Zoey, the eldest daughter is in the middle of it all.
The work is playful, but it's also vehemently resistant to being pinned down to a definitive version of Blackness.
My belonging to blackness, participating in unknown culture and befriending her daughter disrupted the comfort the woman's ignorance provided.
It is moreso an exploration of the dark side of Blackness than it is a cultural musing on race.
One potent way of being American, no matter where you or your parents are from, is enacting anti-blackness.
That's a problem when there's a predominantly white America (and Academy voting membership) that attaches blackness only to pain.
On the record, blackness is not being flaunted; instead, it functions as an insider's message purely for black people.
" Stahly-Butts adds: "We understand the bail outs as connected to the long and deep history of anti-Blackness.
Aesthetically, racial ambiguity has always been preferred over the assumed neutrality of whiteness and the assumed undesirability of Blackness.
Here, both artists play with theories of reproduction and authorship to question preconceived notions of queerness and Blackness, respectively.
For Trump, their implicit performance of tell-it-like-it-is Blackness can be strategically leveraged as self-affirmation.
Anti-Blackness is as global as it is local — and it is no respecter of class or socioeconomic standing.
Iyapo Repository can also be a way to create fantastic new narratives about blackness—stories unbound by current realities.
The film, which was released in 2018, was also praised for celebrating blackness as well as highlighting African culture.
In this first episode, we want to tell a nuanced story that centers a theme of blackness and Afrofuturism.
He was not always free to relax into his blackness, out of fear that it would frighten white America.
It pairs "The Middle," about getting by in the heartland, with "Black-ish," which asks whether prosperity dilutes blackness.
We don't all agree on what blackness or Americanness means, or whether we should even reconcile those two things.
There are dresses fashioned after couture gowns and a painted pitch of blackness that is both proud and carefree.
In all these paintings, the one unchanging feature is the uniform blackness of the skin of the lives depicted.
" He shows, in excruciating detail, how blackness "served as an easily grasped symbol of the Negro's baseness and wickedness.
We also have to admit that, within our culture, there is a lot of misogyny, homophobia, anti-blackness. Yes.
Simone Browne rightly considers facial recognition part of the long history of the surveillance of Blackness, starting with slavery.
The worlds I mentioned, traveled between for school and home — of blackness and whiteness — seemed so foreign to me.
The collection characterizes blackness in a number of ways: as a speck, as flowers primed to be cut down.
"I felt her lightness lessened my Blackness," she continues, as if racial identity were contained in a skin tone.
The foil may also spur scientists to investigate the core properties of blackness, as well as its upper limits.
She is also working against the stereotypes of hyperaggressive and hyper-sexualized blackness that pervade popular culture, she explains.
We slowly zoom in on a single figure on the deck, staring out into the blackness, scanning for …something.
"I've worked on jobs where there was a lot of support, celebration, and understanding of my Blackness," she adds.
It also gives them the chance to fetishize and gleefully consume Emira's youth, her blackness, and her perceived coolness.
It was our word, because only we were mindful enough to recognize when that pro-blackness was a performance.
She just doesn't identify historically with the burden of blackness because she was raised with a sense of [possibility].
And winsome twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Offutt's keen ear and eye.
A new multimedia installation by Adam Pendleton, with live events daily, will explore the politics and aesthetics of blackness.
But it's surprising he's pivoting back to Blackness so quickly, especially given the way he marketed his last album.
There is a hilarious Key and Peele skit that sums up how President Barack Obama sometimes navigated his blackness.
Those are examples of how this tight association we have between blackness and crime can influence what we see.
"I started [searching] the Internet to find representation of blackness in science fiction books, film, and television," he says.
This king also illustrates how the performance of Blackness continues to be used to serve the objectives of whiteness.
Sarastro's slave Monostatos is black, and his blackness is presented as the reason for his lust, sloth and rage.
"Their wide-open mouth, armed with transparent, saber-like teeth, effectively disappear in the surrounding blackness," said Dr. Webb.
But there has never been a Super Bowl performance this subversive, militant, or flagrant in its assertion of blackness.
But more interesting than their shtick is why Asian-American audiences enjoy watching Asian Americans performing caricatures of Blackness.
It's a movie that's championed as much for its inherent blackness as it is for how normalized that is.
In the same way that she wanted to play up her appreciation of Blackness to get into Howard University and then sue them for discriminating against her as a white woman, she is now trying to continue her journey as proponent of optional Blackness while resenting the struggle that comes with it.
Martine Syms's Lessons LXXV, on view in Times Square, is part of a powerful ongoing series exploring notions of blackness.
We believe that subsections of blackness are ultimately destructive ways of "othering" ourselves in the eyes of the larger society.
This wreckage of masculinity and humanity is surrounded by the blackness of what I take to be unexposed Polaroid prints.
It wasn't until high school, when she discovered the author Toni Morrison, that she began to fully embrace her blackness.
She later used her writing to deconstruct both homophobia within the black community and anti- blackness in the feminist movement.
It's not just that Olivia was complex; it's that "Scandal" didn't situate her blackness at the center of the narrative.
But at the same time, blackness has become something trendy and "diversity" has taken on the mantle of a buzzword.
It's the symbol of the idea that blackness is something that can be applied, caricatured, laughed at, and then dismissed.
Instead, blackness is open and inclusive because it has had to be to survive, at least in its American construction.
Her upbringing, apparently, has as much to do with Dolezal's claims of blackness as white privilege and white saviorism do.
Many have criticized the anti-blackness that permeates the Asian-American community as a symptom of the "model minority" myth.
But soon I was back in the blackness, running through an alley onto an unlit cycle path bordering deep fields.
The works examine blackness from various vantage points, providing a sense of the concerns that inform artists working in Toronto.
Perhaps foregrounding a nonblack parent might lead to the charge that we were distancing ourselves from the stigma of blackness.
And OMG, I could see more distinct outlines and details between the First Order's starships and the blackness of space.
In a time where you feel hated just for existing, it means a lot to see Blackness celebrated like this.
On This Is Us, Beth's Blackness isn't completely neutralized like Olivia Pope's on Scandal (Shonda, please give Liv a homegirl).
The whole installation evokes a sense of Blackness as a cultural place and space to occupy and also to build.
But that wasn't always the case — in the early days, the D.C. fixer's Blackness wasn't even discussed in the show.
An astronaut floats alone with the blackness of space behind him and the bright blue limb of the Earth below.
He dared to affirm the beauty of blackness he dared to affirm the power and the capacity of African-Americans.
These children were in such closer proximity to American blackness, to humanity, than their parents were, or their parents' parents.
People like Blackness—but if it's too Black, or if it seems too intimidating, then they don't want it anymore.
"Well, on Saturday, Beyoncé did exactly that: She defined herself and every ounce of her Blackness with the video "Formation.
You can't Grasp your own hustle, your blackness, you can't grasp Your own pussy, your black pussy dies for touch.
Songs like "Brilliant Nigga" and "Sexy Black Timberlake" celebrate Blackness while also being Tres' personal examination into his own masculinity.
And as a group, they generate a concentrated heat, but they also raise questions about the exoticizing of racial blackness.
"When PERFORMING blackness gets more attention than actually BEING BLACK" Racial fluidity, though, isn't confined to people in the headlines.
Silicon Valley can ignore every sign of life on this planet, but will never escape the blackness of the web.
Dedicating space to their work, and to including sexuality in blackness, presents a full self—one that still feels rare.
And on a deeper level, the debate about Harris lays bare the myopic way in which liberals engage with blackness.
Anti-blackness is not only pervasive, it is one of the linchpins of our American social, political, and economic order.
However, there are those that believe because I am light skin I cannot claim my blackness because I'm half white.
It is joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, camaraderie and crushing loneliness, euphoric hope and the inky blackness of despair.
Ali reveled in valiant blackness, a courageous moral and philosophical argument that black life be treated with dignity and respect.
Sometimes, these accounts plagiarize content or appropriate black slang, following a viral recipe for success that parodies blackness for profit.
So really, the political work is in normalizing the image of blackness and telling as many black stories as possible.
At certain points there is a short video burned into my brain; these memories are surrounded by periods of blackness.
"We're playing with blackness and darkness in a way that I've never really seen before on a stage." he said.
Blackness today should have the allowance it needs to be unapologetically flawed, unapologetically unique, and unapologetically unwoke if need be.
His pieces, curated by PAMM's Assistant Curator Diana Nawi, raise questions about the troubling face of contemporary conversations about blackness.
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Just know Blackness is, and always will be, incredible, whether it's in the fictional Wakanda or the very real world.
Closer scrutiny reveals that the blackness is layered and textured, and the hand-action is not just up and down.
School was a place that was majority black—where I found out a lot of my blackness through black people.
In the act of all of this, the idea of blackness being more than the "oppression" has often been overlooked.
Its blackness is also what distinguishes it from other plays I've seen in the last year about race and racism.
It's somehow worse than total blackness, to have that last bit of the day, to watch it shift and dim.
The boys who were told that their creativity, their softness, their queerness and their beauty were incompatible with their blackness.
The song serves as a wry critique on gentrification and modern attempts to use wealth to overcome one's perceived blackness.
I continue to think about the implications of that comment and the need for blackness to be presented in protest.
But any time a black person is on trial, there's a sinking feeling that blackness might be on trial, too.
Awkwafina's defenders have attributed her performance of Blackness to her multicultural upbringing in Queens, as depicted in her new series.
These tokens of minstrelsy are loud and disruptive, caricatures of the kind of blackness that Patterson has sought to escape.
The late pop star's relationship to his blackness was so ambiguous that you could literally see it in his face.
The author of "How to Be Black" can't not watch "When They See Us Now" — it would be blackness malpractice.
Janelle Monáe is known for breaking boundaries in their music and visual art, exploring themes of queerness, blackness, and feminism.
These guys seemed drawn to our blackness rather than to us (we were the only black people in the restaurant).
Blackness means such different things to so many people, and to flatten that experience I think is almost anti-black.
"Art professors don't know how to read blackness — as a color, a material, a concept, a tool," she tells me.
"In the art world, the whole idea of blackness in opposition to whiteness, it's just kind of late," Chromati says.
"In the art world, the whole idea of blackness in opposition to whiteness, it's just kind of late," Chromati says.
Her work is to create safe spaces for black youth to organize around racism and anti blackness particularly in schools.
Looking up, I saw the jellyfish hovering above, bobbing softly in the blackness like an immense Portuguese man-of-war.
Beck also discovers that, as the scandal evolves, his blackness supersedes his blueness when it comes to how he's treated.
Throughout "Somnyama Ngonyama," Muholi expertly uses her body as a canvas to reclaim blackness as not just statement, but performance.
The fears of abandoning your roots and stepping out of your blackness to, say, date someone of a different race.
How does the video speak to your larger point about the misrepresentation of blackness in places like the British Museum?
There's stuff I won't think of, like the pockets of blackness that we don't know that I'm most excited about.
He turned my mind inside out with his malleable take on gender, his emboldened blackness, his masculinity slippery like satin.
These men have no ill intent in their ideas about or depictions of blackness; they also have no lived experience.
Is this blackness – at once immediate and unknowable – what the "you" (or the painting) revealed to Uslé in a dream?
But unlike O.J. Simpson in an earlier era, Smollett was never able to rally the community behind him because blacks are becoming more savvy about the difference between "authentic blackness" and "strategic blackness," Tanya Hernandez, a professor at Fordham University's School of Law in New York, told me during an earlier talk about Smollett.
To come into my blackness as an adult and appreciate it has been something that has taken me a long time.
That you have to do this by not speaking about your true experience, by not addressing the unique identity of blackness.
It's weird to me that this is the way America acknowledges that there is a history of blackness in this country.
They are hidden to reveal what the artist Carrie Mae Weems calls, "a cloud of invisibility," that erases and essentializes blackness.
Not just a correction for years of diversity neglect, it's a big0budget blockbuster that digs into the roots of blackness itself.
Her maternal grandmother, Mercy, mocks and degrades her for her blackness, going so far as to shave off Díaz's "bad" hair.
I mean sure, there's certainly other places in the world where the burden of blackness isn't engrained within an entire culture.
Plenty of internet trolls have been questioning Markle's Blackness over the last few weeks on both sides of the racial spectrum.
Corporate spaces attempt to suppress my 'blackness' in the way I dress, talk, and even the way I style my hair.
Put it in the hands of a mostly black, already beloved creative team deeply invested in creating positive portrayals of blackness.
The effective result of the one-drop rule is that blackness, unlike whiteness, is not based on an idea of purity.
This will happen again, until we do something about the anti-blackness inside of us all, for once and for all.
This season, she used her well-seasoned blackness to school the guide at the nursing home she and Annalise were touring.
Few are writing as incisively about race in the US — about white supremacy and (anti-)blackness specifically — as Ta-Nehisi Coates.
It feels so powerful and loving to be surrounded by blackness, especially when you've grown up in majority white-centric spaces.
Plus, in typical OnePlus tradition, there's a nice dark theme that flips all the menus and the app drawer into blackness.
He performs a minstrelsy of "hood" Blackness and parades around his Black wife in a way that clearly makes Nola uncomfortable.
But the weight of blackness is planetary and its balance is always unwieldy; it sometimes zigs when it should have zagged.
This is the neighborhood where Carmen was born and where her ancestors were persecuted for their blackness and magical abilities alike.
Black artists have been making use of the conventions of Old Master paintings to reimagine blackness for the past fifty years.
They show up on the front lines to support themselves, their families, their communities, and Blackness itself over and over again.
The image itself is innocuous looking: A circular dent in a window of the station's Cupola against the blackness of space.
" When it comes to reparations, Moore says, "we're not having an abstract conversation about what whiteness and blackness makes you feel.
But when our culture creators follow that story arc, it illuminates the resilience of Blackness itself... for better and for worse.
It was widely condemned for playing on racial fears by featuring a black man's mug shot and linking blackness with depravity.
" Later explaining to Jack and Rebecca, "I never understood what my blackness meant until a white man called me a n—–.
The "jokes" denied Jenner's identity and suggested her identity as a woman is on equal grounds with Dolezal's claim to blackness.
With the visual album version of Lemonade, Beyoncé proudly and fiercely lays claim to her blackness for the world to see.
What I want instead are more stories that represent what it's like to just be alive in this world called blackness.
With every other phone (in default shooting mode), the photos above would be a few smears on a slab of blackness.
I was trying to combat institutional painting, a very white history of painting, and surround it with a story of blackness.
A series can be groundbreaking for its storytelling and centering of Blackness without breaking our hearts and spirits in the process.
HK Abolition in the USA is the movement to end anti-blackness and really gained traction around the anti-slavery movement.
Some critics say she has intentionally encouraged her own racial ambiguity in order to capitalize on the perceived "coolness" of blackness.
So given the UK's past relationship to blackness in pop culture, you'd probably be wise to cautiously approach this recent 'trend.
Wey hopes that both black and non-black people come to his dinners and leave with a better understanding of blackness.
In that instant, as the electronic daylight threw the surrounding Parisian dusk into momentary blackness, the Princess shone at her brightest.
Ronda Rousey's mom just bro'd out with our African American camera guy ... telling him they've got something in common -- their blackness!
While the notion of "blackness" is often at the forefront of such discussions, the idea of "whiteness" is frequently left unexamined.
There is the issue of my blackness, too, which many, because of unconscious bias, interpret as inherently lazy, deviant, sick, unclean.
Maybe her apparent lack of legible blackness — of grit, stank and swagger — made a striking contrast with his abundance of it.
However, their delight in the concept of blackness could occasionally veer into the exploitative, sometimes propagating negative stereotypes of black people.
Instead he embraced both his blackness and his androgynous bravado, characteristics that don't necessarily go hand in hand on first thought.
I cannot detach my Blackness, my femininity, my queerness, or my mental health from an analysis on what happened in Orlando.
On a marble fortified against bottomless blackness by a shell of air and color, fragile and miraculous as a soap bubble.
But there is light on the stage, too, in the form of the tiny electric candles that prick the enveloping blackness.
This week, blackness, distrust in media, the original instructions to Tetris, face tattoos, and contemporary women artists in Georgia and more.
The murder, which went unsolved for 12 years, marked Perry, infecting her with a "viscous blackness" unleashed by the killer's act.
Reynolds's engaging, clear prose shines a light on difficult and confusing subjects, including anti-blackness and the creation of racial capitalism.
Toni Morrison coined the phrase "black surrogacy" to describe how blackness in classic American literature marked the limits of rational experience.
The Huxtables were notable not simply because they were black but because there was nothing flamboyant or ideological about their blackness.
But the criminal-justice apparatus that preys upon black men has wound up linking blackness and incarceration statistically — and, apparently, culturally.
The murder, which went unsolved for 215 years, marked Perry, infecting her with a 'viscous blackness' unleashed by the killer's act.
But in failing to acknowledge the nuances of each, it flattens and compounds these different facets of Blackness into nameless characters.
Ifemelu heads for America, while Obinze moves to London, and the two must wrestle with their Blackness abroad without each other.
"[D]on't say I don't have soul or what you consider to be 'Blackness,'" she told Ebony in that same profile.
Ifemelu finds herself wrestling with her blackness in America, while Obinze is forced to live undocumented in London following 9/11.
That's why I also think blackness can be a metaphor for otherness, for being the underdog, the villain, the black worker.
Issa Rae: I talk a lot about my blackness and not feeling black enough and feeling like, What am I then?
The obsession with consuming Black culture, and the rampant anti-Blackness that cuts across all of the racialized Americas is exhausting.
L, and Jessica Vaughn, four black artists who address aspects of blackness in abstract and conceptual forms that imply bodies unseen.
George M. Johnson is an HIV advocate whose upcoming YA memoir deals with blackness, queerness, and navigating life at its intersection.
As the documentary's narrative goes, blackness was a saving grace and escape and means of relating to the only pure and loving beings during her formative adolescent years (her siblings); and in her adulthood, blackness became something she had to wholly and fully adopt in order to continue to access that reciprocal love and community validation.
As my nightlife circles shifted through mood swings of half-hearted inclusivity and decorative blackness, I sank into another spiral of depression.
And that in itself is refreshing as well, that the experience of Black people is not always in context of their blackness.
The space tourists will see the planet against the blackness of space and feel weightless for minutes during part of the flight.
But, I empathize with her because I've been there — vilified for a mistake, my Blackness automatically making me be seen as aggressor.
If Kodak's blackness cries for freedom, it's anti-black to build that freedom on the backs of our own time and again.
Hip-hop quickly rose to become one of the most formidable challengers of anti-blackness in America and on the global stage.
Her blackness has always been a crucial part of who she is and it's even more obvious among Hollywood's lack of diversity.
For the Baxter Street fair, though, Morris said it wasn't about inviting black artists to "perform blackness" in a non-black space.
It felt even odder considering that The Bold Type never once, throughout its entire first season, ever acknowledged Kat's blackness out loud.
Once they realized they couldn't package blackness with a white face like Iggy's, they moved on to a brown face like Bruno's.
Or to avoid that scenario, blackness may exercise a limit to claims on identification based on a random percentage of African ancestry.
And we know where blackness begins, and despite all of Dolezal's attempts, we know what it is not — it is not her.
"Here It Is" addresses "fear of blackness in white culture," according to the Color Purple author in an introduction to the piece.
He reminds his son that his Blackness doesn't have to be proved to the rich white and Asian kids at his school.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed's exhibition on Governors Island is overwhelming in its maximalism as it attempts to address the enormous issue of blackness.
With her brown skin and big hair, Bennett certainly falls outside the realm of "traditional beauty:" a coded word designated for Blackness.
Lamar is perfect accompaniment on this track, an artist whose own oeuvre is largely is dedicated to and in celebration of blackness.
The result is an annular eclipse, in which a thin ring of the sun's surface surrounds the blackness created by the moon.
Zimmerman perceived Martin's blackness as inherently suspicious, and his acquittal affirmed that his fearful perspective is shared by the American justice system.
I remember a feeling of being sucked backwards, extremely slowly like being pulled through water, and this blackness fading in and out.
I think she was reacting to how much her blackness was suppressed and maligned, even by her own family members growing up.
"Dancehall is often about gun violence or crime or blackness," Stephen Chin, 55, a Jamaican-born photographer living in New York, says.
The parsing of critics whose ways of seeing have been forged in the margins, who can interpret the visual language of blackness.
By Wednesday morning, Lopez had become a trending topic on Twitter and the center of a discussion around anti-blackness in comedy.
But she's talked as much about how her blackness and nerdiness has contributed to her feeling as "other" as her body size.
For all of the historical significance, slave isn't the version of Blackness that a Black actor would want to get typecast into.
While Black fans cherish her nostalgic portrayals of Blackness the most, Smollett-Bell has had a pretty robust and well-rounded career.
Dr. Reynaldo Anderson is the co-editor of several books on race and futurity, including Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness.
Having a white partner, or being attracted to a white person, doesn't change most Black people's history, or perception of their Blackness.
You exist at the intersection of Islamophobia, anti-blackness, misogyny, and now I would imagine queerphobia because you came out recently, yes?
In the way Dr. J was so cool with his blackness, with the sexy Afro, AI brought hip-hop to the league.
My gayness, my Blackness, my gender, even the way I wear my hair, I think all of those things make me special.
"On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of," Mencken wrote.
El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) rose to become a champion of blackness—and he was also murdered while doing so.
But anyone who has been keeping score at least since 2012 knows the problem Mr. Crutcher's plan ran into: blackness in America.
In the lines from "Howl" that, I suspect, Hayes has in mind, you can see how blackness is used as a prop.
Unapologetic Blackness, eons before that became the ubiquitous noun used by mainstream media outlets to label anything featuring a majority black cast.
I don't know how long I spent in that noisy blackness, but when my vision returned, I was not with my mom.
The photo series is also a contemporary view of how those early representations of blackness still inform notions of beauty and value.
Is it because the protesting group's Muslim-ness, 'foreign-ness,' brown, and blackness is the key motivator for people to condemn them?
In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness.
In the video, blackness exposes whiteness and not the other way around; this act of reassembly offers an alternate way of seeing.
In this new nearly three-week performance series, programmed by Marýa Wethers, the focus is the intersections among blackness, queerness and indigeneity.
The artist's largest solo exhibition to date explores blackness as a color, an idea, an identity, a method, and a political movement.
I chose to title the album 'Black Origami' because like 'Dark Energy' I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness.
Increasingly, though, he has wanted to do more for blackness — building that pipeline, for instance, through which other artists' ideas would flow.
"If you had a black father around, I think that role model gave him a context to understand his blackness," he says.
"One of the things about this extraordinary instrument that I have is the blackness in it, the natural flavor," Ms. Price said.
Oneman mentions rap, which has long inspired sensationalist fears about the places where partying, drug dealing, blackness and criminality seem to collide.
Her interpretation got all the way to No. 2, along the way changing King's vocal emphasis to, instead, revel in Harlem's blackness.
He pinpoints the pressures of being an athlete, but one can also infer that his blackness plays a part in it, too.
Morrison, who died this week at the age of 88, not only made me confront my blackness, she made me love it.
" Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University and the author of "The Condemnation of Blackness.
The production ends with a sly concluding vision of ineffable beauty, in which slender columns of light slice through the pitch blackness.
Talented lyricist Rapsody (real name Marlanna Evans) has seen, heard, and personally experienced enough anti-Blackness and sexism to last a lifetime.
His blackness isn't just obvious, it's aggressive; through Mr. Maaravi's lens, he is the modern embodiment of generations of idealized black bodies.
As a woman who embraces blackness as forthrightly and easily as she wears a Givenchy wedding dress and Queen Mary's diamond tiara.
Ari Fitz created videos on queerness and blackness on their channel for years before coming out as nonbinary on Twitter in 2018.
His keynote is a commitment to blackness both represented and literal, modelling flesh in pigments of acrylic carbon, ivory, and Mars Black.
The vitriol directed toward Lizzo feels especially wrong-headed, considering the pains Lizzo has gone to emphasize her blackness in various ways.
Some black people were nervous, too, that the president and the first lady would feel forced to sidestep or suppress their blackness.
So a great deal of the astonishment over the proud detail of its blackness comes with an awareness of a white gaze.
Presented by All for One Theater in the Beckett Theater at Theater Row, it, too, is cloaked in an unusually enveloping blackness.
Azikiwe Mohammed's Blackest Night: A Survey in Blackness continues at SCAD Museum of Art (601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA) through August 31.
In other news of blackness, I'm sure you've heard about that recent court case where dreadlocks at work were basically outlawed, right?
In many such spaces, black persons can expect to be racially profiled or to encounter acute disrespect on the basis of blackness.
The crucial thing for me with the video—as with the album cover—is to empower blackness, empower LGBT people of colour.
Black Panther is Afrofuturism writ large, the incorporation of distinctly African and African-American narrative symbolism as a means to reclaim modern blackness.
"Everyone I've photographed has a complex story spanning across cultures, interweaving their blackness into the fabrication of Islam and vice-versa," Rogers said.
His cult of personality + ideology that scapegoats blackness + militaristic sense of order = the American bent toward fascism that's become all too obvious lately.
During the month people are paying a little bit more attention to ways in which information about blackness is disseminated online or otherwise.
Elliott Brown Jr., who received his BFA in photography from NYU in 2016, uses portraiture to explore how blackness and queer identity converge.
But then I also think you can see in Black History Month the power over people who ascribe to that idea of blackness.
Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.
So there's this construct already being built at a very young age for these children as to what the standard is for blackness.
All that light tells your body when to wake up, and the pitch blackness in the evening informs when you should be asleep.
The absurdity of just now teaching a 59-year-old Virginian about anti-blackness in America is laughable to the point of pain.
Usually sporting billowy locks of golden hair, the braids felt in a way like an announcement of her blackness, an imprimatur of it.
Alex responds that she has an opportunity to be a role model for young women; Kat calls him out for questioning her blackness.
That Glover is woke shouldn't come as a surprise after the success of his hit show Atlanta, an undeniable ode to contemporary Blackness.
This would enable "everyday people, tourists, the ability to see our Earth as a ball floating in the blackness of space," Kelly said.
Contemporary black artists, institutions, and art movements have been working to create works and spaces that will establish a future history for blackness.
Clotilde Jiménez's recent series of self-portraits explore the intersections of blackness and homosexuality (Read: Collage Portraits Explore Violence Against Queer Black Males).
"Shuman explained that, because the Antarctic is shrouded in the blackness of polar night right now, "all the visible [satellite] channels are dark.
In the case of Insecure, there's no pressure for protagonist Issa to represent all black women or any grand political statement on blackness.
When you look up into the night sky you see an ocean of blackness and islands of spheres of energy, light and matter.
And it's in this way TPAB cover art also symbolizes Obama's invitation of hip-hop and, by proxy, blackness into the White House.
Lamar's proclamation as an individual in an antagonistic America that sees blackness as something to be ignored and dehumanized is a bold one.
Moreover, he was a self-contained artist, singer, songwriter and producer, who didn't perform blackness -- that is the difference between inspiration and appropriation.
Imagine living your whole life in your Black body, choosing to date a white person, and subsequently having all of your Blackness questioned.
Race is almost entirely ignored in gritty supernatural drama Misfits to the point where it almost feels unnatural when Nathan acknowledges Curtis' Blackness.
I love that Black-ish refuses to acknowledge a binary of Blackness that is either all politics and justice or culture and tradition.
It is difficult, it is confusing, and it marks the beginning of a lifelong journey to fully accepting, understanding and loving one's Blackness.
"There is an increasingly prejudicial connection being made between Blackness & Islam which fuels the erasure of Black Muslims in pop culture," he wrote.
Those green backgrounds become the hangar of a First Order Star Destroyer, the blackness of space, and the interior of a crashed ship.
Donald Glover's Atlanta on the FX Network revels in its blackness, not on behalf of white consumption, but completely for the opposite reasons.
Also, being that we're talking about blackness, it's also about raising awareness of something that some people might not want to talk about.
At LA's Main Museum, an evening of multimedia performance including hip-hop, poetry, and readings looked at the intersections between queerness and blackness.
And it's in this way  TPAB cover art also symbolizes Obama's invitation of hip-hop and, by proxy, blackness into the White House.
" She continues, "talking about my body, talking about blackness, talking about womanhood, and talking about disability as a whole, I take very seriously.
The best hope is that, as time wears on, the nation forgets about Markle's blackness and she blends in, effectively passing for white.
Any film, movie, book, or other medium that seeks to tell a story of Blackness is incomplete if it doesn't address both sides.
So now that we're starting to get broader stories that center blackness, that center the Latinx community and Asian communities, it's a blessing.
They are not going to apologize for their blackness -- whether it's on the Coachella stage, before the Pulitzer committee or even in Starbucks.
Within the smoke's blackness, Garth's brothers, Mark and Greg, and Mark's wife, Eva, each escaped without knowing if the others had made it.
The blaze ended, and the cockpit window looked out into the blackness of the cosmos with an expansive view of Earth's curved horizon.
Ann Nesby, former leader of the group Sounds of Blackness, is scheduled to be among the draws during house music day on Saturday.
Across installations, there are hinky title screens and interstitials and moments of blackness that jerk you in and out of the experience. Smooth.
When Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl in a tribute to the Black Panthers, it was a proud and important display of Blackness.
Blackness is a thing that still needs defending and to be unapologetically shared with the world — and so clothing, self-expression, is activism.
So the racist tropes of blackness are, here's a culture that's incomplete, in which the culture is making them make the wrong decisions.
Get Out was notably a direct commentary on racism and anti-blackness, which catered to a black audience while entertaining the white gaze.
Blackness that shares the same social space as them, in the same privileged spaces as them, and not the media's casting of PoCs.
Because where they can fight imperialism, injustice, anti-blackness, and live to see another day, our real-life heroes have no such luck.
In the pitch-blackness, I groped my way to the edge of the bed and stretched out gingerly on the left-hand side.
He repurposed these brands and fabrics to create beautiful things, but to also to say that blackness dresses itself for reasons beyond survival.
This memoir is raw, breaks the rules and centers around the ownership of blackness, which was the longest public fight of Prince's career.
"I picked up from my peers that my blackness was not a good thing, or made me too different," she said by phone.
In trying to expand the perception of blackness, we have to be very careful about making sure that we're responsibly representing different demographics.
Mr. Wickland told the others to follow him as they crawled to a bathroom window, but he lost them in the choking blackness.
I'd been reading books without black heroines, which nearly stripped me of the ability to write in my own voice, blackness and all.
Enter the Event Horizon Telescope, named for a black hole's point of no return; whatever crosses the event horizon falls into blackness everlasting.
The tortured minstrel face embodied the assertion that blackness was grotesque in itself because it could never achieve the mythical ideal of whiteness.
"I'd like for the blackness to stay where it's been for so long, but we may not get what we want," she said.
Her marriage to him, he suggests, gave her the ability to reclaim her blackness while holding on to a basic image of straightness.
Only when the video ends, and blackness drops across each screen like a closing eyelid, do the loss and alienation really sink in.
Still, Afrogoths all over the world are continuing to shift the relationship between Blackness and individual creative expression in new and interesting ways.
I want to see episodes about anti-Blackness, the gender wage gap, immigration, and more — we've got a lot to talk about, people.
I was coming to terms with who I was as a person, with my blackness, with being at the bottom of the world.
Many of them suggest that casting experience as an intersection of super-abstract social identities, such as "femaleness" and "blackness," elides historical specificity.
For a striking display of shooting stars, look up into the sky&aposs inky blackness in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning.
The title comes from a quote in Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs's landmark 1989 documentary on life at the intersection of queerness and blackness.
Most of these photographs announce their blackness — and their claim to a hallowed, threatened, vital, debated, unfurling black history — by showing black faces.
Monday night, like many other times in American history, blackness was celebrated on a field, with both teams comprised of predominantly black players.
" In terms of the novel, Kunzru explains that this is the now-familiar quest for authenticity, in that "Carter feels that blackness is realness.
Passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness and get to see the curvature of Earth against the blackness of space during their suborbital ride.
This was an Anglican affair punctuated by some unapologetic blackness: the exuberance of traditional black preaching backed up by some down-home gospel music.
Passengers on the space plane ride will experience minutes of weightlessness and see Earth against the blackness of space while floating in the cabin.
"I'm lost," the man says, and something about the coal blackness in his eyes tells her he's not talking about finding his way home.
Here, she's repeatedly compared to Caitlyn Jenner in an attempt to expose the apparent double standard of acknowledging Caitlyn's womanhood without validating Dolezal's blackness.
Without Hurt and Pyle, the images we associate with exoplanets would be a single pixel of light surrounded by the vast blackness of space.
Waving Confederate flags is about promoting slavery and anti-Blackness, and waving swastika-laden flags is about getting rid of "undesirable" populations — like Jews.
Much like hooks, Sherald's most recent display of work emphasizes the interior self as integral to fully representing Blackness and the Black American experience.
I'm curious to hear more about your decision to emphasize achievement when it comes to representing blackness and what you're hoping that will do.
They are like sentries that remind me of how beautiful blackness has always been represented and how I am a part of that continuum.
By refusing to treat blackness as a determining characteristic when it's not, Ms. Rhimes burst the door wide open for black women on television.
If they didn't get the message, the album titles spelled it out: ''Black Unity,'' ''Black Saint,'' ''In Pursuit of Blackness,'' ''Power to the People.
Every time Cicely Tyson, who plays Annalise's mom on How to Get Away With Murder, makes an appearance on the show, it's blackness peaks.
Way too often, queer Black women are either completely erased from heteronormative cultural representations of Blackness or defined exclusively by the oppression they face.
I never used to mention my race, but over the course of the last few years, I have increasingly drawn strength from my Blackness.
Outside of popular culture all synonyms for "blackness" in the dictionary are nasty and negative, while every synonym for "whiteness" is positive and beautiful.
So it should come as no surprise that the CW's new drama Black Lightning is being marketed to television viewers for, well, it's blackness.
Most likely it will just be footage of the inky blackness of space, perhaps with our speck of a home planet in the background.
Throughout Urban Riders, Bourouissa's images do capitalize on the horse's associations and the riders' blackness to challenge viewers, but not to a problematic extent.
As a collagist of the era, questions of where Blackness and queerness fit into what the media chose to represent became paramount to Arnold.
Christopher Cornelison, a research assistant professor and principal investigator at the BioInnovation Laboratory at Kennesaw State University, watched his colleagues recede into Stygian blackness.
The movie posters are even mostly rendered in grayscale, making her skin truly white against the blackness, red lips turned to a dark gray.
When astronauts look out the windows of their spacecraft, they won't see a sunrise over a blue marble, but the blackness of deep space.
It doesn't fetishize or trivialize the complexities of Blackness but celebrates it richly in a story that is both existentially profound and proudly empathetic.
The asteroid Eros, for example, is shown in a kind of chiaroscuro mosaic, making its five-hourly tumble in multiple exposures through the blackness.
And for show that garnered so much attention for finally having a Black bachelorette, they were surprisingly mum about her Blackness during the season.
The media hysteria over the blackness of the latest member into the family demonstrates how taken for granted the whiteness of the monarchy is.
"Just look at the quality of the picture: the strength, the energy, the violence, the blackness," Mr. Turquin said in an interview on Wednesday.
The speech was feather-light on policy, but what was there was just repackaged Republican claptrap that reinforced negative perceptions about liberalism and blackness.
Then, in 2009, she presented " The Shipment ," a play that deals with blackness in ways that I continue to find perplexing, fascinating, and necessary.
The project as a whole really tackles African identity specifically, but it speaks to blackness and a response to white supremacy in every way.
Northern papers celebrated Owens' American-ness and noted his blackness, but hardly framed Owens' performance as a refutation of Nazism, let alone American racism.
That same unapologetic Blackness from "Formation" re-emerges in Lemonade's stunning visuals and through the array of Black hair that appears throughout the piece.
Season four, episode 16 "Moo Moo" is the first time Brooklyn Nine-Nine fully committed an episode to talking about blackness and racial profiling.
As black Muslim women, our bodies are heavily policed in public—both hypersexualized because of our blackness and desexualized because of our Muslim identity.
My understanding of relationships is developing, as is my knowledge of race, but I'm still unpacking how my sexuality really relates to my Blackness.
" Not because she actually was Black, but because, as she writes, "There's a kind of Blackness that is defined by its opposition to whiteness.
But this intimate, textured story—which has been dubbed a paean to urban Blackness—also portrays a powerful testament to a Black woman's love.
We all have to better understand those three pillars, and how we harm one another with anti-blackness, Indigenous erasure/displacement, and so on.
Insecure continues to be a refreshing gateway to that humdrum of the regular debt-having, awkward-talking blackness that many live and love in.
With this alchemic mix of multivalent aesthetic expression — grounded in her blackness and, yes, her pop appeal — Solange has finally found her Holy Ghost.
The treatment — which leaves behind a dense, carbonized layer of blackness — has been around since at least the 18th century, though earlier examples exist.
I grew up in a state where black people make up 2 percent of the population, so I needed a refuge for my blackness.
It's clear that Kat is there to check off the diversity box, but her character was written in a way that erased her blackness.
The show is filled with such images, portraits of black children and adults that convey blackness as person, as culture and also as color.
The punches are thrown while under spotlight, then in blackness, characters moving in and out of visibility and heightening the tension of the scene.
Visualizations of blackness are almost always imbued with political meaning, but Ms. Sherald presents the interior lives of her figures without editorializing about them.
With Bushmaster's arrival as a new villain, he brings this facet of blackness that we didn't see much of in Season 1: Caribbean culture.
He noted a "clear difference" between how his blackness was perceived in Paris; there, his Americanness was the most conspicuous part of his identity.
Blackness was the overarching theme of DeCarava's art — his form, his content and the subject matter (the stories his images tell) all in one.
"I think it's a really important symbolic politics to embrace blackness on the census, which is a highly political and politicized space," she said.
Both discovered their talent as children; both were encouraged by teachers; both found, in art, a way to describe blackness as they knew it.
It took me a long time before I understood that being an equal in an exclusively white environment meant erasing and devaluing my blackness.
There can be no doubt that the vitriol aimed at Markle since her relationship with Prince Harry went public has stunk of anti-blackness.
But even with positive changes happening, anti-Blackness still exists, and there are many Latinx women who are wary to accept their African roots.
Any time a black politician has to demonstrate her blackness or prove her connections to the black community, she is already in serious trouble.
Is it possible, then, that HFPA was turned off by the production's insuppressible Blackness as well as the fact that a woman directed it?
" But along the way, he resorts to a challenging gesture, flipping his cap backward and "feeling his Blackness leap and throb to an 8.0.
But even if this is true, it does nothing to erase the many ways he's expressed his racism — and in particular, his anti-blackness.
"The blackness of the black Margarita is achieved with the addition of charcoal powder, and the glass is rimmed with black salt," Nourse wrote.
"I wanted this space to represent blackness and its vastness but I wanted it to be as inviting as any other bookstore," she said.
This is not equivalent to our contemporary racialized notions of Blackness, but eventually, the black magus is linked to Ethiopia, Africa, and the East.
The assemblages cobble together found images, objects, and texts in a process that turns museum and gallery walls into sprawling scrapbook meditations on blackness.
" The idea is not "this is only for black people," but instead, he says, that his subjects' blackness "shouldn't have to be pointed out.
They have a black father and black relatives, and they'll be able to acquire whatever social markers of blackness there are in your particular community.
"  Moyo says that Wilson's response highlights that "for a long time, white people have had the privilege to take anything from blackness that benefits them.
This is Afrofuturism writ large, the incorporation of distinctly African and African-American narrative symbolism in sci-fi as a means to reclaim modern blackness.
For Quinn Blackness has a mercurial morphology though it is, in the public consciousness, linked to certain persistent notions, such as physical power and brutality.
I chose the image for the cover specifically because I felt it fully captured the self-critical force of post-blackness as a representational theory.
Black History Month is rooted in a certain idea of blackness, and it gives me pause when I start to consider who made that up.
The sitcom shines for its portrayal of everyday Blackness, both when it elects to tackle race-specific story lines, and when it's just having fun.
There are people that will deny me my Blackness, and there are people that just need to know what 'side' you're on, or some nonsense.
Orientalism of the Middle East is one of the lasting remnants of colonization, which was born from Western attitudes of anti-blackness and racial subjugation.
"It doesn't matter how rich or educated you are, because of your blackness, you have a lot in common with the poorest person," Fountain said.
The January 2005 Ken Burns documentary that borrowed Du Bois's memorable phrase "unforgivable blackness" for its title further pushed Johnson's case into the public eye.
And our big black ideas and expression are threatening to further expose them, so they'll try to trivialize and minimize our blackness by stereotyping us.
Much ink has been spilled, along with head scratching and expended energy, trying to understand who Dolezal is and what she wants from claiming blackness.
That may result in even the whitest of white people, among other groups, claiming blackness because of some percentage of sub-Saharan African genetic ancestry.
Beyond Oprah ... he also has some seriously harsh words for anyone questioning his "blackness" -- and this part of the rebuttal includes him breaking into song.
As VICE's Brian Josephs wrote, in the beginning of his career, Kanye West validated blackness in mainstream culture, something that he continues to champion now.
Peele's is a sharp, incisive film about liberal racism and supposed allies who are actually engaged in a very literal and gruesome appropriation of blackness.
The beauty of Black Panther, however, is that it offers a more layered alternative to the monolithic representations of Blackness we typically see in films.
They are perceived to be less innocent than their classmates, and are rarely offered culturally affirming images of blackness inside or outside of the classroom.
The writers of Insatiable have never met a stereotype they don't love, whether they're portraying fatness or queerness or Blackness or pretty much anything else.
Why is it necessary in 2016, for us to plead with America to see our blackness as more than a threat, more than a menace?
Many of us, who are either immigrants or whose families have been here for years, do not know how to talk about our own blackness.
Shauna's dreams of Deja expressing her Blackness through the drill team could have been easily thwarted by a white woman who didn't understand its importance.
Kardashian was forced to apologize to her fans after calling them "petty" for bringing up the racism and anti-Blackness of beauty blogger Jeffree Star.
Brief as it may have been, for a brief eight years, through Obama, blackness and hip-hop culture found a place in the White House.
"I thought a good way to continue this celebration of blackness into March was by honoring black women during Women's History Month," he tells Mashable.
Instead Lamar is interested in pursuing the history of black music to reconfirm a truth: That perseverance lies at the core of blackness in America.
She follows in the tradition of black performers like Michael Jackson and Tina Turner, but she is unique in imagining blackness as something so big.
" The selection of images in the exhibition aims to re-contextualize blackness, mostly into a visual language that helps the artist "make sense of things.
This proximity heats WASP-12b to almost 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning that despite its blackness it glows deep red like a massive gaseous charcoal briquette.
The blues, greens and browns of Earth's oceans and land masses stand out against the blackness of space as clouds move above the planet's surface.
It's a system in which whiteness and wealth are signifiers of purity and moral superiority, while blackness and sex work are impure and morally inferior.
In any case, the argument holds for Dolezal: why would she do this unless the decision came out of a sincerely felt identification with blackness?
It's a pattern, he says, that has long existed among some black celebrities, who gain fame only to later try to distance themselves from blackness.
His SpaceShipTwo should let six paying customers fly into the blackness of space and experience zero gravity; about 700 people have paid deposits for tickets.
The January 2005 Ken Burns documentary that borrowed Du Bois's memorable phrase — Unforgivable Blackness — for its title further pushed Johnson's case into the public eye.
The poet Claudia Rankine is using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality.
But that was the point: to reduce the islands to a derogatory stereotype of blackness and thereby imply that their residents could never rule themselves.
In reality, when you look at the Earth from space, there's a thin blue line that separates the sunlit Earth from the blackness of space.
Meanwhile, the abstract artists on the second floor created work that doesn't depict people or easily recognizable symbols even though it conceptually relates to blackness.
The Carters don't differ very much from most billionaires with hearts of gold, despite the renewed sense of social responsibility their blackness instills in them.
Black Panther was deemed "revolutionary" for its all-black leading cast, but most importantly one that didn't view blackness through the lens of white storytellers.
It wasn't until I left those spaces that I was able to appreciate my blackness, my hair, and all of the other things like that.
And, having witnessed a white graffiti artist with similar charges walk without sentencing, Cosme believes the entire process subscribes to a logic of anti-blackness.
Jordan E. Cooper's "Ain't No Mo'" comes out of the "Colored Museum" tradition in its gathering of a handful of sketches around blackness in crisis.
Will we continue to have blackness and whiteness locked in this dialectic, and will we continue imagining our being existing somewhere between these two poles?
Nevertheless, centuries of institutional racism — and the dehumanization of black people upon which it relied — have left an indelible imprint on how Americans process blackness.
Mr. Ové's large-scale sculptural installation, "Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness," is currently on show in the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco.
It elevates a different kind of nuance in black portraiture, one that is even rarer: Ms. Sherald paints blackness that is quiet, ordinary and individual.
Painter and collagist William Villalongo makes work that explores Blackness and navigates the politics of historical erasure to reassess Western, American and African art histories.
Instead, how about: Blackness, since its modern inception, was identified as a perverse form of American capital by white purveyors who refused to abdicate power.
The Johnsons are wealthy, attractive, and stylish, but dad Andre lives in perpetual fear of his kids disconnecting from their blackness, and him by extension.
"Between 'Atlanta' and his music, Glover's work could have an antiseptic quality, cleansing us of Kanye's descent into anti-blackness and celebratory idiocy," Young observes.
" She lamented that Mr. Coates's book, which is specifically about the lives of black males, "is one that many readers will use to define blackness.

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