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What is Whiteness in North Africa?
Lateral, 2021 This entry sketches a matrix for conceptualizing race in/ and North Africa that takes Arabness, indigeneity, Islam, the Sahara, and slavery as orienting keywords.
Leila Tayeb
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Perception of blackness. [PDF]
, 1986 We sought to measure the mechanisms underlying the perception of blackness in the following way. A central spot (45') of fixed luminance was surrounded by a dark ring (7.5'), and surrounding all was an annular zone (30') of light.
Cicerone, Carol M +3 more
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Thaumaturgic, Cartoon Blackface
Lateral, 2021 This essay explores how a particular medium—the comic—exposes the limitations of conventional narratives about sīyāh bāzī (Persian blackface) and hājī fīrūz (a famous blackface figure).
Parisa Vaziri
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“Incommensurate Ontologies”? Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria
Lateral, 2021 In recent years, scholars and activists in France and the United States have questioned whether discrimination against Muslims constitutes a form of racism.
Muriam Haleh Davis
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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness [PDF]
, 2021 Speculative fiction has a nasty habit of composing futures in which Black and mad people are nonexistent. These imagined futures are miraculously devoid of such “problematic” people. But what if we read or imagined otherwise?
Miranda, Dana Francisco
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“Nay ’tis in grain, I warrant it hold colour”: The Materiality of Black in Middleton’s Black Book
E-REA, 2015 Starting with the satirical Microcynicon and flourishing in the self-referential Black Book, Thomas Middleton’s obsession with black, the colour of ink and atrabile, pervades his non-dramatic texts but also his plays, both tragic and comic. From the dyes
Chantal SCHÜTZ
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The criminalisation of blackness
, 2020 This chapter aims to explore intergenerational and transgenerational trauma in the criminal justice system. It discusses how the negative internalisation of blackness leads to an individual feeling guilt, which can bind with a cycle of criminality and ...
Maxine Dennis, Dennis, Maxine
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Beyond anti-blackness? Engaging Black Theology and the entanglement of metaphysical brutality
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis article explores the role of Black Theology within the context of sustained anti-blackness. It argues that anti-blackness is not only a political failure but the ontological ground of modern life.
Fabian A. Oliver
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ACTING "WHITE": THE UNSPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD HIERARCHY OF BLACKNESS
, 2023 This thesis will examine how a variety of extenuating factors serve to complicate a black person's self-identity, as well as determine acceptance or exclusion from the black community in the United States.
Bishop, Courtnee Nicole +1 more
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Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness Down, Out, and Under
International Journal of Communication, 2021 Blackness is its own salient racial identity within Australian discourse, in part due to colonial legacies, pan-African activism, global media, and the ongoing influence of the 1970s’ American Black Power movement. In this article, I examine Australian
Khadijah Costley White
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