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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Black Aesthetics"”.
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Black aesthetics in children's literature
… many are important in that they preserve the Black dialect and encourage child activism and social change. Black aesthetics are most beneficial in that they educate children about not just race but about the African American oral tradition of Black dialect. They also provide children with a …
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Critical black aesthetics: Curriculum for social justice
… (MD5) sjm VanAnthoney Critical Black aesthetics Format Accepted_skd%20Sept 20 2010[2].doc: 503808 bytes, checksum: 7d4cfb8c061be1f90555544d530cc0d1 (MD5)
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Melenas Malcriadas: The Black aesthetics of hair and Dominicanidad
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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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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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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African Americans and mobile video: exploring Black cultural practice on Vine
This study explores Black cultural practice on the mobile video platform Vine, a six-second micro-video editing mobile application. The purpose of this research is to critically examine how African Americans embraced social video through Vine and how Black cultural practice is enacted within the …
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
… Wilson’s short story collection The Leaving); black aesthetics (Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying); cultural studies (M. E. Kerr’s Night Kites); and the application of several theories to Katherine Patterson’s Jacob Have I Loved. The concluding chapter sets the voices of theorists and …
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Mediating the Marginal: A Computational Analysis of Representational Hierarchies, Aesthetic Tourism, and Queer Imagination on Instagram
… and bolstered visual hegemony, expanding Black and queer representation and visibility through a new vanguard of empowered visual creators, while also facilitating old traditions of oppression and co-option with an unprecedented precision, surveillance, and opacity. This project leverages …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… toward the American truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project resolves around the question, How can the …
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Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971
… this period, this dissertation proposes that the black pulp novels of Chester Himes, Robert Deane Pharr, Clarence Cooper Jr., and Iceberg Slim perform a queer critique of and offer modes of resistance to the Cold War era ideology of racial liberalism and racial capitalism: the two key formulations …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
<p>This dissertation undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and interdisciplinary in scope, I illuminate the ways in which black literature …