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Black Excellence and the Curse of Ham: Debating Race and Slavery in the Islamic Tradition
The Curse of Ham narrative claims that Ham (the son of Noah) and his progeny were cursed by God with “blackness and slavery.” While the story can be located within Islamic literature, the tradition was refuted by numerous scholars for various reasons ...
Haroon Bashir
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Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being
Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being (“Furtive Blackness”) and The Strict Scrutiny of Black and BlaQueer Life (“Strict Scrutiny”) take a fresh approach to both criminal law and constitutional law; particularly as they apply to African descended ...
Wilson, T. Anansi
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Ellison’s White Liberal Rhinehart: the Negro American Core of Book I of Three Days Before The Shooting… [PDF]
Composed over a nearly twenty-year period following Brown v. Board of Education, Book I of Three Days Before the Shooting… renders an intricate narrative of the identification with blackness, and subsequent ideological transformation, required of white ...
Benji de la Piedra
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Reading Blackness as a Rhizome with Toni Morrison’s Preface to The Black Book
This teaching note proposes the teaching of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome in conversation with the marginalization of certain communities and their liberation from oppressive narratives and structures.
Laboni Mukherjee
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Violence and Rejection: The Hegemony of White Culture and Its Influence on the Mother–Daughter Relationship in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye [PDF]
For quite a long time, mainstream academic discourse has ignored the significance of the mother–daughter relationship and excluded it from thorough scholarly analysis. However, the theme developed the interest of twentieth-century women’s literature, and
Magda Szolc
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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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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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ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa +8 more
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Impact of blackness preference and perception on product design [PDF]
This study investigates our perception of, and preference for, blackness and specifically explores the influence of different cultural backgrounds (notably nationality and gender).
Tao, Lan
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De récentes recherches féministes outre-Atlantique sur des femmes antillaises pionnières
Thanks to a recent historiographic revival resulting in feminist researchers’ work, highlighting the action of black women pioneers in the interwar period, the role of the Nardal sisters in Martinique is now better known and valued : they played an ...
Chloé Maurel
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