Sentences with phrase «blackness made»

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.

Their blackness makes each inclusion subtly register as an exclusion.

Not exact matches

Nephi said that the flint of verse 21 made his brothers and their family members receive a curse from God which made their skin to change form from whiteness and goodness to blackness.

The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition his own condition... the liberation of the oppressed is part of the innermost nature of God himself.

Oh the insane things that pop into my head in the middle of the night and make me get up from my warm bed and leave my wife to scrawl in pencil on a blank sheet of paper in the pitch blackness the silliest images that seem to perplex and plague me just so I can hopefully bring a smile to your face and maybe occasionally make us think a little bit world without end.

It forced me to confront the blackness of my identity and to make theological sense of it.

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

And no, a white partner doesn't automatically make you less conscious, less engaged with your own blackness.

When Sam isn't hosting her show, making shorts like Rebirth of a Nation (a post-Obama repurposing of minstrelsy), or literally writing the book on how to sustain one's blackness at a white - dominated Ivy League school, she's bedding Gabe (Justin Dobies), a white TA.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

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.

In fact, one thing that makes Hav Plenty fresh is the absence of overt attention paid to the characters» blackness; the class difference between Plenty and everyone else is more of an issue than the racial or cultural background of anyone.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

«Black Panther is black, all the major characters are black, a lot of scenes are black, the car - chasing scene is black — the blackness has really made me drowsy.»

Although this isn't Hollywood's first attempt to turn a historically black superhero into the main event, headlining their own tentpole film — consider Wesley Snipes run as the vampire - hunter Blade, Halle Berry's turn as Catwoman, Will Smith's alcoholic anti-hero Hancock or even Shaquille O'Neal's turn as Steel — this feels like a first in part because of how much effort has been poured into its making and, more importantly, how readily it embraces its fundamental blackness, from its colorful African settings to its tribally - influenced makeup, hairstyle, and costumes to its predominately black cast and crew, a verifiable assemblage of talent that'll turn even the most skeptical of heads.

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

Barry Jenkins lovely observed movie portrays how a man makes peace with his sexuality, while negotiating the parameter of blackness and masculinity that society imposes on him.

His tragic backstory and honest Oakland upbringing make him empathetic, but it's his blackness that speaks volumes.

She makes the case that African - American students do not achieve to their potential because they're hindered by «society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority,» the effects of stereotype threat, and curriculum that is not meaningful to them.

In adopting this pose, Black people aren't demonstrating passive surrender to oppression, they are communicating that they can make all attempts to appear non-threatening, but the historic and contemporary vilification of blackness in America has made the real danger the perception of their blackness as inherently threatening.

The sound of water dripping from the ceiling and your own heartbeat in the pitch blackness and stillness of the cave makes you really appreciate the invention of the flashlight and a guide who can find his way out of the cave.

As twilight enfolds to darkness, man - made lights of nearby Treasure Island hotels, motels, restaurants and homes begin sparkling in the blackness.

Gramophones and other objects that make sound become lighthouses in the all - encompassing blackness.

The elements themselves are still as arbitrary as ever, perhaps even more so in the Shin Megami Tensei series since it draws its monsters from humanity's most bizarre myths and legends (or in Persona makes them all puddles of blackness).

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.

The dark line and its repetition reimagines terrain — marking and thereby making blackness unfamiliar as it accumulates into flesh to be read as racially significant or not.

Ad Reinhardt makes clear how much he needed to abandon signs in favor of that intense blackness.

However, the focus on the presence of light continues in the paintings of Soulages to be borne from the blackness as made evident in the paintings of the last two years.

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

As my ideas became more legible the use of fantasy evolved into scenes of spectacle (e.g. circuses), to make direct reference to blackness and racialisation.»

In certain sets, such as Score for Sustained Blackness Set 2, the artist moves between bold black sweeps and lighter tones, guiding her nonexistent band through attempts to make a stand, fade into the background, crescendo whenever possible, and remain mindful of the past, only to fade out.

Jeff Donaldson made paintings as both positive affirmations of blackness and as microcosmic depictions of utopian futures and dynamic black bodies.

Foregrounding Black bodies, identity, and culture through photography, filmmaking, and music, he works beyond the gallery walls to «make blackness as universal as whiteness.»

«The Black Factory does not make blackness, it performs blackness.

Paul Stephen Benjamin makes nuanced works about the color black as a way to investigate «blackness.»

Describing her practice, she explained: «I'm doing black on black on black, trying to make it as layered as possible in the deepness of the blackness to bring it out.»

«We are problems made to be fixed,» she states, echoing the so - called moral argument for slavery, which justified industrialized barbarity on the grounds that blackness was a flaw requiring white intervention.

Blackness in Abstraction by Adrienne Edwards, Art in America - January 2015 Adam Pendleton: The Making of an Art - World Star by Ellen Gamerman in Wall Street Journal - April 2015.

Referring to his blackness and maleness and to «just being a human being,» he tells Ms. Sims, «When you're facing a blank canvas, you need all these things to make it something.»

Like Adrian Piper wrote in «Passing for White, Passing for Black» (1992), excerpted as part of the first entry: I'm a black woman whose demand for respect has been confused with arrogance because «she simply does not realize that her blackness should make any difference.»

Beginning with the «Negro Art room» at the 1922 Venice Biennale up to the present — where representations of contemporary «blackness» is dealt with by artists such as Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Wangechi Mutu — «rather than an exhibition about Africa,» says curator Marco Scotini, «The White Hunter is about a construction that the West made of it.»

His most recent body of work, #InHonor, is a series of photo - based mixed media portraits made to honor Blackness as it exists in its various forms and speaks to the violence and destruction occurring across America, in the form of police brutality.

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

Both devices employ a similar design philosophy, and both come equipped with gorgeous OLED screens that make colors pop and really bring out the inky blackness of dark areas.