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Showing 1 to 20 of 245 for “"blackness"”.
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
… framework of Afropessimism, discusses how Blackness is an ethico-political structure, in which the slave's natal alienation and social death establishes the resilient forms of Black (non)being. This project centrally argues against locating a theory of the production of Blackness in the …
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The politics of loving blackness in the UK
Can ‘loving blackness’ become a new discourse for anti-racism in the UK and the broader black diaspora? This thesis will critically assess the concept of ‘loving blackness as political resistance’ as outlined by the African American feminist bell hooks (1992). The thesis will show the ways in which …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… and Wilkie Collins rejected popular notions of blackness as a racial marker of African slavery with its implied negative qualities. Instead, their works convey a different idea about blackness as a pliable marker of cultural agency that not only constitutes a part of English culture, but is …
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Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest
This thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating …
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HAPTIC HAPPENINGS: AN EXPLORATION OF SOUND, QUIET AND BLACKNESS
This research analyzes the lives and works of Black visual artists and filmmakers as visual representations of haptic events. This thesis examines how the lives of the artists and specific works of art are entangled with sound and quiet and directly reflect and shape the complexities black …
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Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture
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Blackness, ethnicity and cultural transformations in southern Puerto Rico
"This dissertation presents a study of a set of communities of Afro-Antillean peoples of the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico. The term ""community"" is used in a dynamic sense to refer to aggregated people who share a cultural set of values and experiences. The people making up the community of …
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
The controversial subject of blackness resides at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness and devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that Dominicans deny their …
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Acting Black: An Analysis of Blackness and Criminality in Film
… will attempt to answer how films deal with blackness and crime, specifically when intersecting with the concepts of exploitation, appropriation, whiteness and the criminality of the black body. While not entirely the root of the negative perceptions of African-Americans in the United States, …
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Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness
… this magazine must have the foundation of Pro-Blackness as a driving force towards advancing Black people in the ways this platform can offer its service. <em>Vinyle</em> zine allows Black individuals to practice using writing and any art form as their medium of expression –a tool that has been …
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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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Chasing blackness: re-investing value and Mexico's changing racial economy
This dissertation explores how race is mobilized by “those on the bottom” within the confines of the current multicultural political arena dictated by the Mexican state as a means of access to national citizenship(s). This work adds an explicit cultural, social, and political element to the notion …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
This project draws from the deep well of Black science fiction, original interviews with Black science fiction authors, and popular media case studies and analysis to generate new discourses about Black people and technology. Exploring the ways Black people have taken up both science fiction and …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
… of what I call the "material imagination of blackness." That is, a poetic and ethical imagination informed by the physiopoetic properties of water that inspires both black literary creation and enactments of black social life.</p>
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A qualitative exploration of blackness among black South African university students
… aimed to explore Black students' experiences of Blackness while navigating two university campuses in the Western Cape. Drawing upon Black Consciousness and Double Consciousness as the theoretical frameworks, this study examined the experiences and perceptions of Blackness of 20 Black male and …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
This research paper explores the discourse of blackness with a focus on skin colour in Hindustani cinema. It undertakes a gendered analysis of the representation of skin colour. While this research paper maps the historical background of Colourism in Hindustani cinema which is rooted in Casteism, …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Ped-agogies in Black Education examines how Black students and their teachers in an urban charter school on the South Side of Chicago navigate the neoliberal considerations and challenges of a charter school in the wake of …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… a robust conversation about what constitutes Blackness and Black culture in response to the Rachel Dolezal story. The interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and relevant literature guided the methodological approaches and interpretation of the tweets analyzed using textual analysis and the …
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