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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001 Recent progress in black hole research is illustrated by three examples. We discuss the observational challenges that were met to show that a supermassive black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. Stellar-size black holes have been studied in x-ray binaries and microquasars.
Brügmann, B., Ghez, A., Greiner, J.
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Forward Trajectory of a Positive Black Self
The Thinker, 2022 It is said that the future of black art is bright. The truth is the future of blackness in any context can only ever be promising. The past fails to provide a representative depository of positive black excellence.
Nolan Stevens
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Political Blackness, British Cinema, and the Queer Politics of Memory
Lateral, 2020 This essay queries “political Blackness” as a coalitional antiracist politics in England in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary debates on the relevance of political Blackness in contemporary British race politics often forget significant critiques of the ...
Ashvin Kini
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A whiter shade of pale, a blacker shade of dark: Parameters of spatially induced blackness [PDF]
, 2006 The surface-mode property of “blackness” is induced by simultaneous contrast with an adjacent, more luminant surround. As numerous studies have shown, the degree of blackness induced within an achromatic test field is a function of the relative ...
Bimler, David L. +2 more
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Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics
American Literary History, 2022 Abstract This essay-review examines Emily J. Lordi’s The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (2020), Sharrell D. Luckett’s African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity (2019), and Kimberly Mack’s Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White (2020).
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Lateral, 2021 In "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures," interdisciplinary scholar André Brock, Jr. offers a timely and powerful examination of Blackness in the digital age.
Nora Suren
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Film-Philosophy, 2023 Drawing upon the work of various critical race theorists, including Frantz Fanon, Kevin Quashie, Hortense J. Spillers, Calvin L. Warren and Sylvia Wynter, this article suggests that if Blackness has historically been, and continues to be, cast outside of
William Brown
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A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2023 This article explores the shifting perceptual scales of racial epistemology and anti-blackness in predictive policing technology. Following Paul Gilroy, I argue that the historical production of racism and anti-blackness has always been deeply entwined ...
Camille Crichlow
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In Dahomey in England: A (negative) transatlantic performance heritage [PDF]
, 2015 The first all-black American musical comedy on Broadway, In Dahomey (1902-1905), has made a name for itself in America’s theatre annals and in the history of black American performance.
Saxon, Theresa
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The Conservation of Authenticity: Political Commitment and Racial Reality [PDF]
, 2005 Discusses issues related to the conservation of racial authenticity, political commitment and racial reality in the U.S.
Monahan, Michael
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