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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Black Aesthetic"”.
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(re)presenting ourselves: creating an "oppositional black aesthetic" at a predominantly white institution: a photovoice project
Black female students that attend predominantly white institutions face many challenges both academically and personally. While there is a growing body of literature related to the different factors that impact the success of Black female students at PWIs, there is a need for in-depth qualitative …
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Black Analogue: Practices in US and UK Experimental Filmmaking as Methodological Approaches for a New Black Aesthetic
Black Aesthetic filmmaking is best realised through the use of 16mm film. I investigate the veracity of this proposition- that 16mm film is a medium that US and UK Black experimental filmmakers gravitate towards because of the aesthetic qualities and production processes it necessitates. I show …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… The title of this thesis, “To make a poet Black then bid him sing,” comes from the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s, “Yet do I Marvel,” a poem that questions God’s intentions in placing a curse on a man, then requiring him to sing. This to me was a dichotomy that seemed to underpin …
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Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
<underline> Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary </underline> engages in an investigation of the performative relationship between race and color. It offers a review of the genesis of race as a political invention, to articulate the intersubjective relationship between Black Power ideology and …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
Scholars of black/white social relations often cite Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition.
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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The rhetoric of African fiction
… for commitment, to the search for an African or Black aesthetic, these discussions have not considered in any detail the formal elements of the literature. For this reason, this dissertation focuses on the aesthetic aspects and examines critically the rhetoric of West African fiction from both …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… uneven distribution of power between and of the black/white female dichotomy and, while using them as a strategic tool within the visual work, questions the implications of skin colour in constructions of femininity within visual representations. Historically as a marker of skin colour, white …
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… York avant-garde, as ‘an exotic other,’ a token Black artist in the world of American modern art; a perception which forced him to examine and seek to define his sense of identity within art and within society. Drawing upon what he described as his ‘cultural memory,’ Basquiat deftly mixed …
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Critical approaches to Soweto poetry : dilemmas in an emergent literature
… presupposes a coherent shift in the nature of Black Consciousness poetry in the 1970's, which is shown to be vague and problematic, especially when they attempt to categorize Soweto poetry into "consistently thematic" divisions. In the third chapter, it is argued that ideological approaches to …
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Down to the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of the Psychological Impacts of Messages Black Women Receive Regarding their Hair
… ANAYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF MESSAGES BLACK WOMEN RECIEVE REGARDING THEIR HAIR MAJOR PROFESSOR: Kathleen Chwalisz, Ph.D. Typical Black features such as thick lips, dark skin, and kinky hair have historically been the subject of scrutiny, exploitation, and devaluation in America. Hair is …
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The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories
Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
… of the civil rights movement is an analysis of black-owned private businesses, also giving shape to the African American community. Black Business as Activism will highlight the contributions that Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) made for the African American community within the mass media in …