Sentences with phrase «jiving black»

Anyone who has read my writing and / or knows me personally or professionally knows that I am far from a docile, status quo, socially unawakened, shucking - and - jiving Black woman when it comes to co-signing to mainstream White American ideologies about anything, least of all education.

At her new high school, the socially - awkward 17 year - old proves to be pretty popular, and finds herself being courted by classmates representing a variety of familiar teensploitation archetypes, from the handsome hunk (Michael Welch) to the nerdy Asian (Justin Chon) to the jive black guy (Gregory Tyree Boyce).

Not exact matches

She is currently hard at work churning out more novels in the Lizzie Hart Mysteries series and in the Java Jive Mysteries series, which includes That Old Black Magic (released on February 4, 2015).

I only thought I had a copper jean button at the time I sewed these which didn't jive with my sense of matchy matchy, so I went with the black plastic shank button you see in these photos.

The many pleasures of the first film included Jack Black's buzzing nonstop jive as Po and the way his blubbery loser gradually became a Dragon Warrior.

Here, he's to be commended for again serving up a thought - provoking slice of African - Americana sans the shucking and jiving which Hollywood typically attaches to black - oriented fare.

Landon is «down» with a token hip - hop - bumping black friend who quite insultingly speaks in jive and does elaborate soul handshakes with his whitebread homey.

As a result, much of the film's action comes off as hopelessly incoherent - a problem that's exacerbated by the complete lack of actual characters (we instead are presented with tired stereotypes, including the jittery rookie, the jaded veteran, and the jive - talking black guy).

Based on his own experience of being deemed «not black enough,» Townsend played a struggling actor who dreams of great roles, only to be offered nothing but slaves, butlers and jive - talking hoodlums.

Whether it's exploring Medieval Britain through tapestry, fusing the idea of black holes and spacetime with contemporary dance and movement, or expressing memoirs of World War II through cabaret and jive, the links are endless.

Each character resembles a familiar archetype (the loner, the hero, the tough gal, the jive talkin» black man, etc.), however the game plays off and warps the very stereotypes its franchise created, which helps to create a emotional connection due to their ability to surprise you with their actions.

The old black hardware just didn't jive with the navy, so I got all new knobs, pulls, and hinges from D. Lawless Hardware.