Sentences with phrase «about blackness»

#BlackPanther is a love letter about blackness, to a world that often ghettoizes it without realizing that it is on black backs that this planet revolves.

The note responds with a statement of Cassel Oliver's from the catalogue, arguing that the show's mission is to resist «reductive conclusions about blackness: what it is or what it ain't.

But don't worry about the blackness of the first as this is to be expected and not a problem.

Does it help that your role model appears unapologetic when it comes to talking about blackness?

You wrote your dissertation about blackness in abstraction and then also penned an article on the subject for Art in America in January 2015.

The incident has launched a productive dialogue around the stakes of representation and the persistence of «afropessimism» in art and the media, whereby mainstream narratives about blackness continue to focus on, and even fetishise, violence and disenfranchisement, to the exclusion of other themes.

«The craziest thing about blackness is that «black people» didn't create it, Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created black people...» — Hank Willis Thomas, Gifted

The value of this work is tied to Blackness in the context of struggle and state - sanctioned violence... Apparently we can not care about Blackness unless it is hurting.

Apparently we can not care about Blackness unless it is hurting.

If you read the story, you would know that she was responding to some lady - of - color who was wailing about the blackness of santa & jesus.

Both spoke two different but complementary truths about blackness which white theologians do not want to hear but must hear if we are to create theologies that are liberating and a society that is humane and just for all of its citizens.

The natural segue into a meaningful, timely, and necessary discussion about blackness led me to consider a new approach to discussing race matters with my future students.

Talk: Fred Moten and Arthur Jafa at CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities Fred Moten, the poet and theorist who recently released Black and Blur, the first series in a trilogy of books about blackness and aesthetics, will talk this week with filmmaker Arthur Jafa.

In response to Piper's request, Cassel Oliver added: «It is clear however, that some experiences are hard to transcend and that stigmas about blackness remain not only in the public's consciousness, but also in the consciousness of artists themselves.

Each time, he goes past the role of black artist without ever letting one forget about blackness.

Meanwhile «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties» returns to Bearden's times, but it is not just about blackness.

I'm an interdisciplinary artist thinking about blackness, being, and resistance in the context of networked virtual life.

Dave McKenzie, born in Jamaica, uses homemade bookstands for found images about blackness.

The New Yorker writes that Sherald «wondrously troubles assumptions about blackness and representation in portraiture.»

The images she creates speak about blackness — African blackness, American blackness, and the blackness of the 20th century color field — compounding these issues of race and history with those of gender.

There was Simone Browne, who writes about blackness and surveillance; Adrian Chen, who writes for the New Yorker about online communities; and Rob Horning, who writes for the New Inquiry.

Perry makes work about blackness, black femininity and African American heritage, often taking her personal history as a point of departure.

The first talk of the day, moderated by Aria Dean, will be about blackness online, and will feature artists Manuel Arturo Abreu, Hannah Black, Devin Kenny, and Mendi + Keith Obadike.

#BlackPanther is a love letter about blackness, to a world that often ghettoizes it without realizing that it is on black backs that this planet revolves.

'» [i] For her part, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has said that Radical Presence intends to «resist reductive conclusions about blackness» [ii] and to present a version of performance in black history that transcends traditional categories of music, dance, and storytelling.

She continues, «talking about my body, talking about blackness, talking about womanhood, and talking about disability as a whole, I take very seriously.

It looks to be the most overtly black Hollywood film in years, but Coogler's last film is about blackness in a somewhat quieter, more subversive fashion.

Conversations about blackness and race do not have to be limited to the month of February, or to elementary classrooms.

Beyond the socio - economic benefits, Black teachers held the promise of political power, and they would partner with clergymen, businessmen and parents in the community to raise up a generation of African - American youth who knew their history and affirmed a collective narrative about our Blackness: We are intellectual.

Los Angeles Times writer Tre» vell Anderson described the film as a «love letter about blackness.»

The painting isn't about blackness or womanhood — perhaps those ideas are hinted at.

It asks questions: what is being said here about color, about blackness, about materiality or meaning?

'» [1] For her part, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has said that Radical Presence intends to «resist reductive conclusions about blackness» [2] and to present a version of performance in black history that transcends traditional categories of music, dance, and storytelling.