Blackness

blackness English + Etymology en :af Black -ness 1 + Proper noun en suburb city/Dundee carea/City of Dundee cc/Scotland OS grid ref NO3830. en small coastal village carea/Falkirk cc/Scotland; a nearby headland is named Black Ness OS grid ref NT0580. en hamlet par/Westham dist/Wealden co/East Sussex cc/England OS grid ref TQ6104. Westham parish, Wealden en suburb town/Crowborough dist/Wealden co/East Sussex OS grid ref TQ5230. List of United Kingdom locations: Bla-Blac#Bla-Blac Noun - en blackness state of being of African descent; culture of African-Americans. en 1999 Jorge Luis Borges: Thought and Knowledge in the XXth Century Alfonso de Toro; Fernando de Toro 180 It is Blackless, hence it shares that very quality, Blacklessness, with Whiteness; and it is Whiteless, hence it shares Whitelessness with Blackness. 2000, "Ghetto fabulous" in Geneva Smitherman, Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner, Houghton Mifflin Books, 0395969190, page 145: Describes a person or thing that is authentic, the height of something, according to the authentic, natural, ‘keepin-it-real’ standards of Blackness that are believed to exist in ghetto communities. Also ghetto fab. en 2018 Affective Nationalism Elisabeth Militz It is a question of 'what we invest ourselves in' (Grosz 1995, 184) and how people live Blackness, Whiteness, Azerbaijaniness, Germanness, femaleness or maleness. en 2019 Nina Eidsheim; Katherine Meizel The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies 217 The soundingness of Blackness only achieves recognition in a sociopolitical context where the very fact of Blackness holds significant meaning. In other words, the acoustic markers of Blackness are not just about differentiating the vocal utterings and tonal inclinations of particular cultures. en Clifford Mason Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun https://books.google.com/books?id=GiPgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93][https://books.google.com/books?id=MW-CEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 New Brunswick, N.J. w:Rutgers University Press 2020 9781978809994 In one sense, the tragic mulatto heroine is baboon—babooness, if you will—since she has to deny, or at least denigrate, her Blackness in order to be tragic. 2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38: From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being. en 2021 Abbie E. Goldberg; Genny Beemyn The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies SAGE Publications, Incorporated 9781544393827 237 [S]ocial authorities generally design and disseminate selective versions of science, religion, and media that emphasize some elements of social life (e.g., cis experience, hetero- and monosexuality, upper=class experience, endosex [i.e., non-intersex] categorization and downplay or otherwise erase other aspects of social life (e.g., Blackness or other non-white racial experience, trans experience, en https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-bachelor-finale-matt-james-rachael-kirkconnell The Bachelor’s “Groundbreaking” Season Was a Representation Nightmare 2021-03-15 Kovie Biakolo Vanity Fair (magazine) Vanity Fair Like those, James’s season still gave noticeably less screen time to its Black contestants—and because of James’s Blackness, the colorism that has always plagued The Bachelor became more visible. Darker-skinned and/or monoracial-presenting Black women were sent home earlier; none even made it to the hometown dating rounds. https://web.archive.org/web/20210317071121/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-bachelor-finale-matt-james-rachael-kirkconnell en 2022-04-25 Jacqueline Rhodes; Jonathan Alexander The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric Routledge 9781000567786 In the same ways queerness and Appalachianness cannot be separated for some, Blackness and queer Appalachianness cannot be separated for others. en Ariane Resnick Media—But It's Not Exactly Harmless w:Byrdie https://www.byrdie.com/clean-girl-aesthetic-critique-6744031 w:Dotdash Meredith 3 October 2022 While there are some POC clean girl ambassadors like Selena Gomez and Zoe Kravitz, clean girls of color are few and far between. Social media has accepted that clean girls are generally white: A Twitter post entitled "'Clean Girl' aesthetic but make it black" published in May received over 90,000 likes, which exemplifies the fact that Blackness is not inherently accepted as part of the look. https://web.archive.org/web/20250901135300/https://www.byrdie.com/clean-girl-aesthetic-critique-6744031 References