Sentences with phrase «narrative about our blackness»

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.

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.

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Walking through the exhibit, anyone who has heard about the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's portrait of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial should be keenly aware of the significance of a show where the narrative of blackness is articulated by black artists.

Thomas says, «The exhibition starts the conversation» about how blackness is comprised of many identities and simply offers, as Essers points out, a «rewriting of some of the narratives from an African perspective.»