Sentences with phrase «with blackness»

He understands his work in relation to a longer tradition of black artists — referencing the Black Arts Movement, for instance — that sought to provide a corrective to the negativity associated with blackness in American life.

Her reverence for black women, and the legacies of black feminism (the privileging of self - definition, the articulation of a visual beauty that is inherently coupled with blackness, the assertion of a powerful femininity), are apparent in the number of women she draws and her decision to situate them equally within the context of Audre Lorde and the Bible.

Though critically overlooked, the result is mesmeric: the ground of the canvas is both exposed and infused with blackness.

His solo exhibitions include Awesome things you can do with blackness at Kenny Schachter Rove in London, Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, and the eRacism touring retrospective.

As the artist himself said at one of his interview: «I'm obsessed with Blackness, for sure.»

Parks sets testimony aside to compose with blackness, like the father's face pressed to the window.

Eyes and stars merge with blackness.

Rodney McMillian: The Black Show, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (February 3 — August 14, 2016), brings together a tightly focused selection of new and recent paintings, sculptures, and videos that deal with blackness as subject, form, process, emotion, and politics.

Blackness on the level of the line simply fills the terrain of the body with blackness.

You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world that was 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.

December 4, 2015 • NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says NBC's production of The Wiz was «fully and fearlessly filled with blackness.»

Malcolm X taught black ministers and scholars that the identity of African - Americans as a people was inextricably linked with blackness.

The son had no dialect that could be associated with blackness.

Not exact matches

Many people were covered with a dark grease, perhaps as a way of emulating the blackness of the Virgin.

It was a small, southern community, with a long history, deep roots and consistent Christian morality The only visible difference was our whiteness or our blackness.

To that end, Dr. Maulana «Ron» Karenga sought to buttress blackness with a clear set of values.

He misses the point: White listeners can not snag some community with the «overwhelming blackness» of Butterfly.

Without this transcendent religious perspective, To Pimp a Butterfly becomes the difficulty that Clover Hope of Jezebel struggles with — an «overwhelming» and «suffocating» experience of a «blackness» that remains «way too vast.»

Sometimes these stories contain vivid portrayals of heaven and hell, where those who come forward can enjoy eternal bliss with God, while those who do not will suffer eternal torment in the flames and blackness of hell.

The creators of black theology disagreed with both Martin and Malcolm and insisted on the importance of bringing blackness and Christianity together.

I knew that most of my former professors at Garrett and Northwestern would have trouble with what I was saying about liberation and Christianity, blackness and the gospel.

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.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

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.

What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).

A simple experiment revealed that parts of the brain associated with visual awareness briefly shut off during a blink and fail to detect the blackness behind closed eyes.

Instead, past deep - sea expeditions have found «dumbo» octopuses flapping through the inky blackness with ear - like fins.

Usually I would wear a large statement necklace with this kind of neckline since it is so plain with all the blackness.

The blouse is darker and when paired with complete blackness below the waist, it brought the whole outfit down (in a depressing, I listened to heavy metal screaming on the way over, kind of way).

The perfect choice is sunglasses with «lace» details on the sides to add some fun to all blackness.

Interestingly enough, I never fit into the «code of blackness» during childhood / adolescence and I was still well - liked enough by most of the black people at my schools, with the exception of a few black girls.

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

They strip with enthusiasm, walk towards her, and into inky blackness.

While Wakanda represents a fulfillment of that longing, Killmonger's royal bloodline remains at odds with his American Blackness.

A gift too opulent to not be at least partially corrupted, Black Panther contains multiple films in one: the one we get to see and, underneath the CGI afrofuturistic frenzy and celebration of diasporic blackness, what I'll call the «forbidden film,» the one that has been snatched away brutally, the one in which Killmonger succeeds in supplying the Black world with vibranium.

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?

We watch Chiron's experiences with his sexuality, his Blackness, and his family life.

The son questions why anyone bothers with cave diving, and, with these shadowy recesses leading to blackness and constricted tunnels that seem to go on forever, we can only ask how anyone can have the gastrointestinal fortitude to do it.

From the old — Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog, The Last King of Scotland, Rogue One)-- to the new — breakout star and Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)-- Black Panther celebrates its blackness by filling every nook and cranny of the film with African symbolism, mythology, and memorabilia, in addition to its host of talent with their multitude of African roots.

, with sets shot in portrait from a distance and rooms surrounded by blackness to highlight the cramped quarters of the war council.

As an outsider to Wakanda and a black character getting acclimated to a new world filled with other black people from a different culture, Queen Divine Justice could offer an amazing perspective on various aspects of the African diaspora, proving further illustration that blackness is not a monolith.

While the story essentially has the basic frame of an underdog sports film - more specifically, a Rocky film that we've seen before - it fills the cracks with these snippets of black culture and images of blackness.

Featuring emotional interviews with Ford's mother and sister, it's an intimate meditation of how a family's personal tragedy is situated in an institutionalized fear of blackness and how a loved one's unexplainable death has impact decades later.

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.

«Buried» opens with about a minute of total blackness and no audio.

Featuring emotional interviews with Ford's mother and sister, it's an intimate meditation of how a family's personal tragedy is situated in an institutionalized fear of blackness and how a loved one's unexplainable death has enduring impact decades later.

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.

En route to a surprising resolution, director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines («Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.»)

Though everyone goes out of his or her way to show Chris that they're not prejudiced, blackness seems to come up everywhere, especially at an unexpected party filled with privileged white guests.

After three years of deconstructing blackness with my students, the process is not always the same.