Sentences with phrase «upon black africans»

When Othello was first performed in 1603 or 1604, it was rare for slavery to be seen as an institution exclusively imposed by Europeans and Arabs upon black Africans, but this would soon change.

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The film, directed by Barry Jenkins and based upon the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, follows Chiron, a young African - American boy coming of age in Miami, navigating his family, both found and biological, and his sexuality.

Accordingly, in Roots of a Black Future: Family and Church, Roberts draws heavily upon traditional African resources to develop his vision of the black church as an extended family, and in Black Theology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation theoBlack Future: Family and Church, Roberts draws heavily upon traditional African resources to develop his vision of the black church as an extended family, and in Black Theology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation theoblack church as an extended family, and in Black Theology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation theoBlack Theology in Dialogue he dialogues with South Korean Minjung theology and with Jewish liberation theology.

I first learned about Dr. Walker - Barnes when Christena Cleveland wrote a stirring response to her first book, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength, which examines the impact that the icon of the StrongBlackWoman has upon the health and well - being of African American women.

«Black History Month gives us an opportunity to learn about and reflect upon the many achievements African Americans have made in a diverse array of important fields, including science and technology, arts and culture and politics and government» Borough President Katz said.

Becoming king also bestows upon the king the powers of the Black Panther, though his threats aren't physical so much as political, having to deal with not only external forces who want to use Wakanda's stash of the worlds hardest and most powerful metal, vibranium, to their advantage, but also within Wakanda, among those who feel that they have a responsibility to share their advancement with the world to help those who desperately need its harnessed powers to heal, or, more extreme, to use their secretive wealth in resources and weapons technology to right centuries of wrongs for people of African descent around the world through a revolution.

We are supposed to look upon this silliness as having a profound import for the simple reason that Black Panther is the first Marvel film, as was the comic series in its time, starring a superhero of African descent.

«Black Panther» opens on a short re-telling of the history of the fictional country of Wakanda, an African nation that sealed itself off from the world upon discovering its technological advantages and was left undisturbed as the rest of the world was colonized by Western European powers.

Excerpted from the Foreword (page viii) One of the challenges of raising a child for African - American parents is that most history books are written from a Eurocentric perspective, and there isn't enough time during Black History Month to undo the damage inflicted upon impressionable young minds the rest of the year.

The university's cornucopia of African - American culture, music, activism, revelry and historical scholarship had a profound effect upon his sense of self and nurtured his lifelong commitment to the progress of the black community.

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

Her lush oil paintings conflate the conventions of historical European portraiture with imagined characters, almost always black, that draw upon political and autobiographical traits from her own West African heritage.

Some of the artists felt it incumbent upon them to use their artwork to directly address civil rights and civil justice issues related to African American experience through representation of Black people and Black lives.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

So if you were black and drew upon your experience within an oppressive dominant culture, to make an existential statement to enrich the lives of others of any race, your experience was not valued and you were marginalized as an «African American» artist, the same way women were marginalized.

With the objective of freeing the art of British artists of African, Asian, and Caribbean descent, known as «black British artists,» from its historically racialized silo, Leon Wainwright's new book, Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art, sets out the author's ambitious project: to bring the philosophy of phenomenology to bear upon these artwblack British artists,» from its historically racialized silo, Leon Wainwright's new book, Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art, sets out the author's ambitious project: to bring the philosophy of phenomenology to bear upon these artwBlack British Art, sets out the author's ambitious project: to bring the philosophy of phenomenology to bear upon these artworks.

As an artist critically aware of her role in the art world as an African - American woman, Jones calls upon her training and her identity to construct a revisionist history, one which acknowledges abstract work by black artists left out of art history's Modernist canon.