Sentences with phrase «blackness for»

All the artists for the show were black, and the workshop, says Searle, led to her confronting the issue of blackness for the first time, and realizing that up to now her work had not really engaged with her own sense of self.

She mentioned Mendi + Keith Obadike's Blackness for Sale, in which the artists auctioned blackness on eBay.

Most African American contemporary artists will admit in confidence that they are often expected to perform their Blackness for the power players of the art mainstream, regardless of their choice of artistic medium.

Dean describes the environment: «At night, you watch in the blackness for the rotations of the lighthouse and you decipher time in the gaps between the flashes.

If you fall for that which has ensnared so many, your soul will be frozen in silent blackness for all eternity when you die.

Daisy and the five go on to have their own respective kids, those kids have their own kids, and so on and so on, up to the moment where the sun burns out and the universe experiences heat de.ath to what remain are cold, cosmic cor.pses and eternal blackness for everything residing, de.ad or alive at the time.

Not exact matches

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

The «outer darkness» (or blackness), Jesus talked about, is reserved for David Silverman.

For wisdom, we need to look past the rhetoric of the opportunists to the original ideologues of modern blackness, and how they defined blackness itself — men like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick.

Hawthorne, for example, in 1859, on the very verge of the Civil War, saw «that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere.

It's like a church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.

Where for eternity past there had been warm fellowship and a loving relationship, there was now only broken fellowship, a sense of deep and agonizing loss, a hopeless despair, and the blackness of depravity.

For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

For me, Malcolm was a cultural prophet of blackness.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

God wants to expose the wickedness of sin in all its ugliness, and so chooses Israel to bear the curse of sin for the world in all its blackness and horror.

However this morning after a pain filled, tossing and turning night, I awakened far to early, after trying for an hour to go back to sleep, with the events of this last week going round and round in my mind, filled with anxiety, every muscle in my body tense, fighting to not be engulfed by the blackness of depression, I cried, Father I can not do this.

It's past 4 A.M. in Squaw Valley, Calif. — the dead of night, the hour of the wolf, when sane people are sleeping under warm blankets, not standing in the chilly blackness at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada waiting for a horse race to begin.

Two ladies out for a walk by Blackness Castle, a beauty spot on the south bank of the Firth of Forth, are more gently dismissive.»

For the rest of eternity, it will sit inertly, slowly fading to blackness.

She had gotten a musical performance — paid for by her soft drink client — seamlessly inserted into a TV awards show, without any moment of blackness before or after.

I was on the look out for something that stayed put and had a glossy, rich blackness to it.

You came here looking for great Blackness dates and now you're one step closer to finding them.

The New York Times Magazine featured a lengthy article («Why «Black Panther» Is a Defining Moment for Black America») hailing the film for being «steeped very specifically and purposefully in its blackness.»

But rather than violence and abandonment, he's offered the promise of Wakanda — what the fictional fantasy of Wakanda represents, and, by proxy, what America ought to represent at its best: hope, innovation, opportunity, aspiration for Black youth upon seeing Blackness excel.

The comic enabled dignified, empowered, positive representations of blackness deployed on a global level: Black visual pleasure and desire for escapism through fantasy cinema recognized and served.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

The multiculturalism of the unlikely allies is a source of jokes — except for Denzel Washington's blackness, which is never mentioned.

Films have on occasion broadened the scope, perhaps none as widely as Blindness (2008), Fernando Meirelles's failed attempt to translate the devastating dark beauty of José Saramago's novel to screen, in which all of its many characters — except for one, played by a miscast Julianne Moore — lose their sight not to the usual blackness but a bright white light.

It mirrors what happens in the film» — in which Kaluuya's character, Chris, must escape from a cultish group of suburbanites who fetishize his race, reducing him to a dark - skinned vessel for their own projections of what «blackness» is.

Blackness, especially American Blackness is its own unique culture wrapped up music, fashion and in our struggle for Civil Rights.

They're so keen to make Chris feel special that he becomes weirdly fetishised for his blackness.

Two stand - out sequences include Lisa swimming out over a massive open trench with nothing but blackness below and a headlong rush for the surface lit only by a red flare as Great White Sharks attack the two women.

Your classroom's deconstruction of blackness (or race) may be written in your plans for the week, or you may encounter the unexpected as I did.

I had to literally break it down for him that the point of the gesture was so show that a non-aggressive surrender wasn't enough to save Mike Brown because his blackness made him a threat, disposable, or both.

Standing passengers peered worriedly through the windows into the blackness, as if hoping for some explanatory vision or revelation.

I remember closing my eyes and wishing for complete, beautiful blackness.

It insists on the important historical role of black liberation movements for other pursuits of social justice and requires that attention be paid to the diverse experiences of blackness and American citizenship within our country.

The award - winning poet on why she's using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness, her questions for Lionel Shriver, and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality

In terms of controlling light pollution in the bedroom, Home Depot sells cardboard blackout shades for under $ 10, or you can spend $ 300 or more on a Designer Plus Slumber Shade Blackout, with a side track system that is guaranteed to cast your bedroom into complete and total blackness — perfect for light - sensitive sleepers.

For most, eternal silence and blackness.

For the first time, blackness had been flaunted with the utmost dignity.

Aesthetically, the vast blackness of space has been traded for the crushing whiteness of a snowstorm.

For some time we even toyed with adding a pseudo-minimap or compass of some sort, but ultimately we didn't want any UI elements to interrupt the blackness or the reveals of the world.

Focusing is Senua's way of imposing her will on her world, and it's used extensively, not only in combat but in sequences where she has to listen for the precise direction of the chanting of an evasive boss, or feel her way through the pitch blackness of a lair where frightful blobbing enemies lurk.

Outside of her work for museums and biennials, Edwards has independently curated exhibitions at galleries, most notably «Blackness in Abstraction,» an expansive survey of the color black in non-figurative work, for New York's Pace Gallery in 2016.

It's hard to believe that an independently run alternative venue would host this show: a rather formalist set of triptychs made by a twenty - three year old white man, who used his material, charcoal, as a euphemism for blackness.

Blackness, for her, is not only her subject; it is also her question.

It's latest record million dollar sale price acknowledges what many have recognized for decades — Marshall is one of the great painters of his generation and his approach, «Blackness in the Extreme» (as he titled his Nov. 12 lecture at the Crystal Bridges Museum), resonates narratively and aesthetically.