| 单词 | blackness |
| 例句 | I looked out there, and there was a blackness that came over me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His outstretched hands were inches from taking hold of her when a thunderclap shook the basement, accompanied by a brief moment of blackness. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the purest black you could imagine, Sanders said, the kind of clock-stopping black that God must’ve had in mind when he sat down to invent blackness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He pushed the door open and led them out into a long vaulted tunnel, where mighty granite pillars marched two by two into blackness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The shock of the cold water had been overwhelming, and she wasn’t sure how long she had been lost in blackness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And then, turning into the wind, suddenly they would all be in the air together, fourteen or forty at a time, with wide wings scooping the blackness and a cry of triumph in their throats. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We looked at the bright skyline on Central Park South, the honeycomb of lighted cells against the blackness, and I wished I could absorb them all. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In the blackness of the room, Amah’s face was a thin sliver above her, like the moon on its last night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The greenish glow and the light from the two wands were the only things that broke the otherwise velvety blackness, though their rays did not penetrate as far as Harry would have expected. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z LEDs were shorting out, sending portions of the ship into blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the camera from around my neck, framed the lighted windows of the restaurant right in the middle with the nights blackness all around, and snapped a picture. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For a few minutes, there's nothing but blackness and some scuffling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But now they were almost there, the blackness was turning gray; now he had stepped out joyfully into the daylight. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I shook off the blackness and went to him through the gathered people, who parted to let me through, then closed their ranks as I knelt beside him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt that if I looked carefully enough, if I held myself still enough, I would be able to see the whole wide world reflected in that shiny blackness. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Annabeth stared at the wall of blackness in front of them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They kept seeing lights appear and disappear in the blackness—green and red navigation lights, just as on Ida's boat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I see her trunk, poking out from the blackness. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The wind howled outside in the blackness and Freddie, looking like a gnome, flashed his gold teeth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Winnie peered up at it, at the blackness of the bars with the dim gold of the light between. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Now as the blackness of night returned Frodo sat, his head between his knees, his arms hanging wearily to the ground where his hands lay feebly twitching. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Coraline closed one hand around the stone with the hole in it and walked forward into blackness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z In the blackness, when it was his turn, Jack found the board with holes in it placed over a pit. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He ran out away from the last row of houses, on a slope leading down to a solid moving blackness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It spanned the opening to the port, a steel-blue pair of upper lips greeting the blackness. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He sat in the leaves at the top of the hill and looked into the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He wanted to scream and kick and spit and open up the Box and jump into the blackness below. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She stood up and sang with all her might into the deep, solid blackness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You stood in the blackness and when they came with their baying hounds they thought her demented. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Cottonwood seeds drifted down on their pale cushions, disappeared into the blackness. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked up and saw them—hundreds and hundreds of tiny flecks of light, strewn like spilled salt across the blackness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Holding her breath, Mrs. Frisby jumped blindly into the blackness, and felt the cushion of straw under her feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She seemed enormous to me, like Papa, so full of blackness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The horde of arai wailed, flapping their leathery wings and stirring up clouds of blackness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The old river kept on moving into the blackness under the bridge, taking with it whatever happened to be along for the ride. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Red circles opened out before them, receding into an endless blackness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I lay there for a long time staring at total blackness and knew that never again would I sleep in the woods with a light heart. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This silent blackness scares me more than nighttime in the city, with its noise and light. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Just as suddenly, the pressure eased, and the blackness exploded into blinding white light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He takes off the headset and moves in the total blackness toward where Volkheimer sits and grabs what he thinks is his arm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He cast one glance over his shoulder at the blackness of the cliff’s shadow and realized that he had come too far to return—either by himself or by the help of his antique robot. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I eased my foot out from under Dandy’s head so he wouldn’t be disturbed and came off the steps and stood alone in the deep blackness of the backyard, the old mountains looming over me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And then blackness went to darkness...and the whole universe appeared. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Sergio felt his heart constrict with a terrible rage, a blackness that clogged his ears, like being underwater. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She could not tell whether or not the woman was human or something else, but it didn’t seem to matter, because the woman oozed blackness and rot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z As the men left the hut and the night filled with noises of bellowed orders, horses, and stomping boots, Pinmei squeezed her head into her knees, the blackness creeping over her as she trembled. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There it is, bright red, rounded, with a dark light around it, a blackness like luminous velvet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The silver hair of his beard seemed to flow like a glowing waterfall and disappear into the folds of his robes, and his dark eyes matched the blackness of the night sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z And at this point my Professor Hunk says, “Latin America as a whole has a really complicated relationship with blackness, which is overshadowed by that whole ‘we are all mestizo’ story that they tell themselves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He gagged at the taste of blood and squinted into the blackness. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There was nothing below but yawning blackness, nothing above but moon and stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After a time, I glared into the gloom as if I could pierce it with my gaze, and felt it almost part into its constituent blacknesses, so that I could see the beetles there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A blackness came before their eyes, and it seemed to them in a moment of silence that the world stood still, but their hearts were dead and their last hope gone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The cauldron was simmering, sending its diamond sparks in all directions, so blindingly bright that it turned all else to velvety blackness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I started off into the blackness of the night while my mind wheeled and darted this way and that, like a scared rat trying to find its way out of a trap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes were big too, great golden cat’s eyes that could see down passages where a boy’s eyes saw only blackness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Far ahead through the thick velvety blackness of the corridors that reached past the illuminated circles of their flashlights, robot light twinkled. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I want to cry but the blackness comes over me the way it did with Freddie Leibowitz and I rush at him, kicking and punching. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was snowing again, soft flakes drifting down out of the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “No,” he said, quietly, as the blackness started wrapping itself around his neck. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z A pocket of blackness in the young state. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The sun rose to its zenith and poured down merciless heat; afternoon came; then the sudden night of the tropics swallowed them in blackness. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the blackness of the eternal night, all the wickedest creatures—the trolls and banshees and ogres—have driven the good creatures into hiding. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The low rumble of pursuit passed over them again, and David pulled her deeper into the blackness, down a long, twisting path that grew colder and darker. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She leaned over and looked closely into them—their blackness now contracted, slowly, to pinpoints, and a pair of astonishingly vivid blue eyes looked up instead. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel dead-ended to one side, and in the other direction disappeared into blackness. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z She looked into the empty blackness, then back to Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The exhaust clouds up around us like steam, the fuel smell piercing the predawn blackness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And his eyes shine with blackness and horror. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I seemed to be floating in pure, abstract blackness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour, a cloud of blackness would cover the planet and burning rock and other debris would be pelting down everywhere, setting much of the planet ablaze. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen—by conflagration: but how kindled? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She had never seen him lying down, and the idea of him lying sick was like a wave of blackness over her mind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z They stood out in his mind disconnectedly, like pictures with blackness all round them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I’d never seen eyes so given over to blackness; they seemed unearthly, tokens of spiritual power. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Next thing they were up in musty blackness, swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried desperately, diving below the blackness until I was limp with fatigue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes popped open, though in the blackness there was nothing to see. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I knelt in the blackness and the ice and I looked uphill, squinting against the flying ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I knew it would be torturous to go through the thick blackness of Uncle Willie’s bedroom, but it would be easier than staying around to hear the ghoulish story. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was blackness within, a blackness that spread. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He swallowed the rest greedily, then set the bottle floating in the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It flashes once—twice—and then the blackness returns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As he approaches the dark bulwark of the ramparts, a man in uniform limps toward him out of the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He made a great leap, the force of the wind making Pinmei swallow her scream, and they all plunged into the blackness of the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Shay!” she screamed as she fell into blackness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He thought before he slid into blackness, that it was shouting at him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The lights inside were bright, but they did little to alleviate the blackness of the encroaching forest. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I hunted humans down in the long woods and shadowed them with my blackness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer stifled his distaste at the thought of going back down into the blackness, but Bapi must have caught something of his expression. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a swollen blackness around his eye. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Jam cast her eyes down the street, looking into the blackness where Redemption’s house was buried. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The policeman stared uneasily at the blackness beneath the plastic seat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I pace among the severed arms and hollow feet, drinking blackness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and watched the blackness under my eyelids. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I woke that night to a horrible sound, a full-throated screaming into the blackness, screecher loud. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Not much, but enough so the witnesses could make out a thin strip of blackness. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z An inquisitive pair of bright amber eyes peeked up from the blackness. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel started when he heard a voice speaking out of the blackness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When he thought back to his father’s house, to the farm, the town, to his brother’s face, there was a blackness over all of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She felt a rushing blackness overwhelm her again, tried to throw herself upward, tried to growl back and challenge the dog. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He laid the stick beside him, and huddled himself down in the blackness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Werner tries to make out the heads across the cellar in the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The blackness of the sky began to lighten and an old peddler came out of a doorway, the creaking of his cart echoing in the silence of the upcoming dawn. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He leaned back and disappeared into the blackness. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Cole sat up and peered toward the blackness of the tree cover. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I jolted up in the blackness and looked around. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was nothing on earth that would make him enter the blackness of the water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Out of the blackness of sleep a dream formed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Feeling his will fade into blackness, Thomas braced his feet and held up his fists halfheartedly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The dog halted at the treeline beside the cat and looked back, but the commanding, summoning bark was heard again, and together the two passed out of sight and into the blackness of the night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared out my window into the blackness. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He could see himself, pinned underneath the rock in the freezing blackness. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Delighted to be out of the hopper’s blackness, Lupita followed him up the ladder, through the turret, and down the exterior steps to the ground. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As I call to him not to move, I gag on the smell of the blackness, thick, tarlike. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She could see nothing beyond them but blackness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And though they laughed, this blackness rose and fell with their breath. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackness of the room closed in on him again as Sloth disappeared. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She wandered toward the window, gazed out at the blackness and the few lights here and there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Our humble apartment—and, with it, all my worries—is replaced by blackness and silence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Lying down in the blackness of the room, I reached out to touch Janina. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He sat bolt upright, for his voice rang out above me in the blackness, loud. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Eager now, he hyperventilated a final time, huffing high in the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Wet blackness covers me while glistening air bubbles rise above me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The flame of a giant sun had given way to the soft blackness of space but external variations mean little in the business of checking the workings of experimental robots. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He saw its blackness growing, running, a creature waving monstrous, tentacled arms. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The elevator cables stretched high above her, disappearing into blackness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m powerless to stop it so I brace myself, but in the end it isn’t necessary because the blackness swallows me before it hits. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The blackness encroached around my field of vision as I pulled myself up, eighteen steps, steep as hell. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Just some faceless guy, a row of cigarettes, a gun, a bang, a searing pain, a wall of blackness. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Out of the total blackness of her clothes it blazed like a star. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It matches the blackness of my mood nicely. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Lily pulls open yet another large wooden door, and this time we slip into cool blackness and the sweet smell of burning candles, mustiness, and age. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Into the gray air that seemed darker than the Glade, full of shadows and blackness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Winnie watched the sky slide into blackness over the wood outside her window. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I go into the blackness of his eyes and find him somewhere far inside, searching through a maze of anonymous, empty avenues. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was as if the blackness was wiping out sound as well as vision. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Her face was illuminated by the lights in the dashboard, and it appeared ghostly white set against the utter blackness of country roads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was one small gray area of the sky still aglow in the west; the rest was blackness, and flashes of lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small torch, made his way to their lodging. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In a way, the black muck of the oil was no worse than the blackness above. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Just another high cobblestone wall, stretching up into the infinite blackness overhead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Breathless from the run, Lupita could only nod in the blackness. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Halfway there, I look down, into the blackness stretch- ing below, and I am paralyzed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Mom, passing as white at all those jobs, burying her blackness beneath the way she looked. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching bravely into blackness, Calder groped around for the light. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She was silent, lips pressed together, staring out at the blackness and the reflections of torches and LED beacons on the waters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t move very quickly now; there were tree roots and stumps in their way, barely visible in the near blackness. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Scarlett couldn’t see anything but a blackness that sometimes erupted in flashes inside her eyeballs, but she could hear the delight in Jack’s voice. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Each moment I expected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness; but all was dark. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There were about twelve Tombs, each with a low arched doorway that opened into absolute blackness. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I leaned out and looked down and saw only the blue crevasse walls disappearing down together into blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The inky blackness gaped up at him, like the throat of a hungry beast. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She was staring off into the blackness, as though seeing something he could not. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z By the end of the next day the pain and unease had passed, and Frodo was merry again, as merry as if he did not remember the blackness of the day before. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At each landing a rushing blackness throws off his vision. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The paint itched and drove him crazy, but he didn’t relish finding his way back out of the mazelike ducts in blind blackness, so he let his forehead itch and again surveyed his position. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We floated in the blackness, bobbing along the waves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But the cry, so raw in her throat, disappeared in the blackness like a single tear falling into the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I felt the blood drain from my face and feared blackness would overwhelm me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I cannot describe to you the depth and blackness of the sorrow that came over me when I learned of his pass- ing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He saw nothing but blackness, heard nothing but the light staccato of his own frightened feet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At length in the midst of the blackness I heard Selvam speaking and I opened my eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth, and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I swept my hands around in the blackness and whispered Otto’s name. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Everyone turned and looked out the windows at the blackness. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Thomas had to speak before he faded into blackness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If I don’t jump one way or the other I'm going to fall into bottomless blackness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Water rushes in, the blackness is fading, the white light swallows me whole. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Horatio’s words filled my veins with sorrow and touched my heart like the quickest poison, bringing blackness like the oblivion of death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Now, all of a sudden, the fear that they would pick him out in the blackness filled him with an almost paralyzing terror. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The red sparks rose in a shudder and died in the blackness overhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Jellyfish when I opened them again and stared out into the blackness. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Sharp stars pierced singly through the blackness, not sweeps of them or clusters or Milky Ways as there might have been in the South, but single, chilled points of light, as unromantic as knife blades. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When at last the blackness passed, Sam looked up and shadows were about him; but for how many minutes or hours the world had gone dragging on he could not tell. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He did not keep his promises, and the heartbreak sent her into tar-thick blackness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My pain and sadness no longer feel real or personal—no longer mine—when the blackness swallows my surroundings and me with it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The significance lay in the fact that my blackness and his concepts of what my blackness implied allowed him to expose himself in this manner. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I peer through the blackness until my eyes ache. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately the light disappeared with him, leaving Mark in the creepy blackness all alone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Afraid to go back to sleep lest I have another nightmare, I stayed awake, peering at the quivering blackness through the hole. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her black hair was like a mirror for smooth shining blackness, but from her speech one could perceive she was not of the lord’s family, but a slave, sharp voiced and bitter tongued. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I tried again, plunging into the blackness of my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackness seemed to be thicker around him, fog swirling hungrily. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were of a green glass so dark that it appeared black, and I put them on immediately, plunging into blackness and moving outside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A fallen log jutted out into the water from its end, and with one more desperate kick I surged closer and stretched out through the fear and choking cold and blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The two of them were eating a handful of pumpkin seeds, pitching the shells out the open window into the blackness. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I bend down and heave the manhole cover up, then lower myself down the ladder and into the blackness. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Malcolm looked all around the horizon and saw nothing as clear as an island or a tree or a cliff; but wasn’t that something ahead—a thicker blackness at one point? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I knew the curve was there without looking for it, and wondered at the still headlights I saw shining in the blackness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then Hermione’s voice came out of the blackness for the third time, sharp and clear from a few yards away. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She went into the woods one day, and there the blackness was real. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z No light from the moon, stars, or cars along the distant road pierced the inky blackness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Below, in the ghostly near blackness, tiny bats fluttered and squeaked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time she had reached eighty-seven, the room had begun to lighten as her eyes adjusted to the blackness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Minho lifted it to reveal a set of wooden stairs leading into blackness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He’d brought the boy around on the lee side of him when suddenly the beach before them appeared shuddering out of the blackness and vanished again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then the blackness above me is broken by a sliver of light. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If race comes up, people look to me to answer questions like I know everything there is to know about blackness. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve never seen those before,” she said with a nod to the wisps of silver-white spilled over the blackness above. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At first it’s easy to see, but as soon as we move away from our neighborhood, everything melts into inky blackness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The mud was impeding him too, because one time, when he kicked out, he slipped and fell out of view into the blackness. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see only the blackness of the space it inhabited. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant spangles hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If a black guy chooses to button up his blackness to live among white people and play lots of golf, white people will say, “Fine. I like Brian. He’s safe.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She could think of the boy without bringing the blackness on. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Go down into the utter blackness of the underground and you’d be lost instantly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Lightning struck in the sky and broke the blackness apart. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They were such a dark brown that it was difficult to tell where the color ended and the center blackness began. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It turned to blackness as the light from the fire diminished. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet he came out of the blackness clutching an idea. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When it seemed the night would last forever, the blackness finally softened into a dull gray. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The blackness of the sea suddenly overwhelmed her; it was nothing more than a vast emptiness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The sharp angles of the plum twigs, their blackness stark amid the airy white blossoms. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We tunneled into the swirling white blackness, listening to the beat of the fan working to defrost the windshield and the odd airy crinkle coming from the bag in the back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The chains of my blackness would not allow me to go on. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “She married a Puerto Rican somewhere in New York. Since she could pass, she disowned her blackness —converted to Puerto Rican because she didn’t want to be black no more.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z How had Cain learned to summon that creature—and what was that blackness from whence it had appeared? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z ‘Come back! Come back!’ he heard Sam’s voice out of the blackness above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He began to walk away as the trembling blackness threatened to crush Annabeth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z About the older man, who only wore the uniform to please his brother, there was a homespun blackness, the true, despairing dark of mourning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is married too long to that pale, skinny woman. Lose all his blackness.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The room flickers, and suddenly it goes dark, leaving me suspended in complete blackness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A kind of celebration of blackness I have never seen or experienced. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire was little more than coals and it gave no light and the wood was nearly gone and the trees were falling all about them in the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was like walking through the blackness of the sky, surrounded by thousands of stars. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He could only sit and stare out the window into the rain and blackness, pondering words like Flare and sickness and experiment and Scorch and WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She hugged her knees, shivering as she recalled the utter blackness from which the thing had come. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Time leaned forward into the dark space, felt his feet against the wall and pushed as hard as he could, flinging Benny into the blackness in front of him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Bob pointed ahead of them into the inky blackness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I see my parents, in through the window, sitting beside the kerosene lamp, and they are like a faraway picture with a frame of blackness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Pima’s mother stared through the blackness and rain toward the shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Some colored people hated me because of my blackness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see his face, just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For the first time that day, and despite the crowding blackness, Ralph sniggered. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A dozen times during the night Wilbur woke and stared into the blackness, listening to the sounds and trying to figure out what time it was. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He could think only of being taken—taken down and down into the blackness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark, with an enfolding blackness that pressed on Lyra’s eyes so heavily that she almost felt the weight of the thousands of tons of rock above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Because it called out their blackness, their primitiveness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Before twilight faded to blackness, he was already in his new favorite spot in the forest corner, curled up against the ivy, wondering if he could ever run again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But when the blackness greeted him with its indisputable presence, he wanted nothing more. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They went on in the perfect blackness, sightless as the blind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes and the blackness was lifted from them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When Gregor shone his light into it, he saw nothing but blackness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, she felt as though she were falling from a great height, plunging through air and blackness, tumbling down with nothing to catch at. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut’s perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A nightlight shone at the top of the stairs over the pool of blackness which was the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But, the monster said, turning across the blackness, she is already here. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I was the only person in this blackness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither had seen that kind of blackness, not even behind their own eyelids. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z That was when I understood the depth of the pain I had caused, the blackness of the grief I had brought onto everyone, that not even Ali’s paralyzed face could mask his sorrow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to learn the true meaning of blackness and thereby conquer the stigma; anthropology intrigued him as the study of where humankind began. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A sinking feeling like I was going right down into blackness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The whisper changed to an uncontrollable chattering of teeth as Ranofer halted beside the narrow panel of blackness he was seeking. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Soon even the few silhouettes against the sky would disappear into the blackness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon took the feet and together they flung the dead man out in the blackness of the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The blackness of the bull’s-eye beckoned, and as she exhaled, she sent the dagger flying. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The water, the sky, the air are all made of the one blackness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I was just this blackness and bewilderment and pain, but that seemed less like a suitable answer than something I'd read somewhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard disappeared into the vines and night screech of the jungle, a pale skeleton of a man fading into the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Turning, with eyes a little saddened by the recollection of Benito’s curly blackness, she saw in a corner the small thin body, the melancholy face of Bernard Marx. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I press so hard, I break stick after stick, using each one down to the very nub, so it’s like the blackness is coming out of my finger, out of me, and onto the page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The distaste must be for her, her blackness. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But my life was filled with the cultural substance of blackness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I saw out of the corner of my eye a brownish blur in the blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The llama in the sky was formed in the blackness between the stars. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I remember being on the train, but after that there is a gulf of blackness, a void. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The feel of the muscles in your arm, the scent of your breath, the blackness of your hair, the curled smile. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Hours and hours later, Harry woke quite suddenly in the pitch blackness and gave a small yelp of pain: His arm now felt full of large splinters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet grumbled from the opposite end of the hogan, covered completely in blackness. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The glass ceiling and boarded-up walls ended, and whatever lay ahead was covered in silence and blackness. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And Beau remained, frozen above the endless blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It’s this haze of blackness that settles over me, like a fog, only darker. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Endless lines of boxcars vanished into the blackness. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Agony takes over and he’s crying out in pain and I want to stop, to find a better way, but the blackness is rising above the buildings, swelling, rolling at us like a wave. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Which is to say I have to deal with all the sexist expectations, stereotypes, and assumptions that all girls face plus all the racist expectations, stereotypes, and assumptions about my blackness. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of space vehicles of every make and model were crawling through the starry blackness around me, everything from single-seater craft to giant moon-sized freighters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And it is the blackness that accounts for, that creates, the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my sympathy lamp in my mouth, shining the red light out against the pitch blackness in front of me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The beam was strong and cut a wide swath of light through the blackness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But then the rolling mussel hopped into the air and splashed into the blackness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I got down on the hot boards, blinking my eyes again and again, trying to lift the curtain of blackness. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At last some few strands broke and it was only a moment before the entire blackness was severed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was perfectly black, and in this perfect blackness they moved, stalking from room to room, until Milligan suddenly froze. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The entire Agena seemed surrounded with a golden halo that slowly faded into the blackness of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer reached out, fingers straining into the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z While I was encouraged by their militancy, I thought that their philosophy, in its concentration on blackness, was exclusionary, and represented an intermediate view that was not fully mature. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness, but she knew that the white world held even more power. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no avoiding the shock and I rolled with the agitated tide, out into the blackness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She squinted and frowned, and the blackness vanished. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And then, in a swift, brutal motion, like a monstrous snake swallowing its prey, the men swept Amah into the blackness of the night. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I lay like a still and silent effigy on a tomb in the blackness of Hamlet’s chamber while questions coursed through my brain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She bounced twice, straight up and down, then settled onto a hard surface and found herself in silence and absolute blackness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The night reached such a depth of velvety blackness that he might have been suspended in limbo between Disapparition and Apparition. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But she was not conscious of my blackness or of what her actions would have meant in the South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned completely over to reveal a dark opening with a downward flight of stairs running off into the blackness below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It’s astonishing what you hear when you’re alone in the blackness of your dying mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It blossoms, spreads, silently eating up the blackness until the entire frame is ablaze with a fire so real and intense, I imagine I feel the heat emanating from it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Even the dim sight of it, mostly lines and edges of shadow descending into blackness, brought back to Mark the memory of the flood and their mad clamber up the stairs of the skyscraper. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He felt Quirrell's arm wrenched from his grasp, knew all was lost, and fell into blackness, down ... down ... down ... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z At four a.m. in the blackness of my room, I can still see. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Even though they’re technically dim, I squint against them after the pitch blackness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Miss Love must of used some of her freckle-cover cream to fade the bruises and lighten the blackness around his eyes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The words catch fire and the whole screen burns to blackness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Shapes moved out in the darkness, swirling figures of concentrated blackness, moving in a great wave toward the castle, their faces hooded and their breath rattling.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackness was wrapping itself around Conor’s eyes now, plugging his nose and overwhelming his mouth. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Alex suddenly had a vision of himself trapped in blackness with water rising up to his chest, his neck, over his face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z You’d shake your head and blink, except you couldn’t even tell you were blinking, the blackness didn’t change. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Even with the light off, the heads assume strange power in the dark: pure white, not quite visible but not entirely invisible, embedded into Werner’s retinas, almost glowing in the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He felt the blackness again, the dark blurs in the corner of his vision. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z While Dad spoke to her in a low, sad voice, I stared up in awe at the silver handle of her suitcase, the perfection of her nails, the silky blackness of her hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A feathery rustle swished by in the blackness. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a sea of blackness surrounded by the tears that continued to fall even as I slept. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With all visual stimulus removed, the blackness feels larger than my head, as though my cranial cavity has turned inside out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My heart thumps, and I whirl, searching the tarry blackness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The moon was behind a cloud and, sitting out in the blackness of the yard, she could still smell that cheap vapor-heavy scent of local gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The blackness of the night and the chilled mist struck him and enfolded him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Beautifully colored, if this can be said, the blackness of her hair, the faint blush of her cheek, her lips. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess it made me feel like blackness needed to be hidden, toned down, and that whiteness was good, more acceptable,” Maxine says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The medicine melted the dark poison; the blackness seemed to be rinsing away and Dragon’s breathing became easier and even. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Electricity outlined the black hulks against day-bright sky; then everything disappeared into blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But they won’t stay still for me, they move, there’s a smile and it’s gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper’s burning, blackness eats them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I squinted and thought I saw a golden chariot flying into the blackness. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The tiger glowered ferociously, stalked to the edge of the well, and snarled into the blackness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z There were streaks of white in her hair, but the truly dreadful detail was that her mouth had fallen a little open, revealing nothing except a cavernous blackness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Once blackness and crime, especially drug crime, became conflated in the public consciousness, the “criminalblackman,” as termed by legal scholar Kathryn Russell, would inevitably become the primary target of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The surgeon pokes around in the wound and a blackness comes before my eyes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam sighed and waved his hand towards the heights of the Ephel Dúath, now only to be guessed as a deeper blackness against the black sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The planet looked like a giant swirling blue marble, half a marble, really, surrounded by blackness. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I peered into the enveloping blackness between my feet to see Emma pulling herself even farther down by the rungs of a ladder. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The word beneath it, black against blackness, seemed to reproach: Folly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The exhaust from it fluttered the white dress she crumpled in her plump hands, and the stars shone bright, and the car vanished out onto the desert and away into blackness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But she thought of Poppy alone in the blackness, and her legs went weak. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Straight above were the stars, but their brilliance served only to emphasize the blackness of Egypt here below. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Boromir stepped out of the circle and stared up into the blackness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From nearer in the blackness I began hearing loud expirations and groans and grunts and various wet mouth sounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Ekon kept his strides even as they ventured deeper into blackness, turning and twisting through corridors until he was sure they were lost. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the absolute blackness, his vision is webbed with a thousand traveling wisps of red and blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The smoky blur of the mountains in the East was lost in a deeper blackness that was already reaching out westwards with long arms. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Its beam slashes glaring light through the blackness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I am not saying it was only about her being a black woman, but I believe that was a part of it. You can’t erase her blackness from the story.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Malachy and I laugh but Eugene only reaches up to touch the blackness of Pa Keating’s skin, and then when Pa pretends to bite his little hand, Eugene laughs and everyone in the room laughs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Those assertions are rooted in fear—fear that her daughter will be harmed by a society that still so often fears blackness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his arm into the blackness inside the tomb, as into the mouth of some great beast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The monster’s face suddenly surged out of the blackness, inches away from Conor’s. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z When the words do come out of her mouth, for a full ten seconds, my vision blurs and blackness comes into the corners of my eyes and I waver on my feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Cautiously, he guided him across the cellar floor into the blackness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Turtle squinted into the blackness that lay within the open French doors. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the great tower that reached up, up, up into the blackness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Through fading eyes, Celaena saw a crown of stars glittering atop Elena’s head, her silver armor shining like a beacon in the blackness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was tensely eager to stay and see how it would all end, even if that end swallowed him in blackness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I heard a voice cry out “Ophelia!” at the moment that my numbed limbs released their hold and I fell into the water, blackness engulfing me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At this time of year, when the tree canopy was thick over the road, the way was in total blackness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He felt as though he would slide away into the blackness gathering at the edges of his brain if he let go of either of them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The world got darker and darker as we walked, like the blackness was leaking out of the crevasse and up through the swirling snow to fill the sky. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The gashes seemed to have burned into him like evil coals; the blackness had spread and his arm looked like a burnt tree. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z At night when he woke coughing he’d sit up with his hand pushed over his head against the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The left eye delved narrowly into the past while the right gazed wide and affrighted into a future of blackness, error, and ruin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Below the newly-discovered steps, a pair of lanterns cast pools of golden light into the inky blackness. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But he still leans against me, away from the dark sea and the blackness, as though trying to imprint himself into me so that we become one. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They passed the last streetlight on the very edge of Salinas, and blackness lay ahead of them and the road was unpaved and sticky with black ’dobe mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He whispered that the blackness would spread and that he would survive only if his leg were amputated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a period of blackness and then the cell, or room, in which he now was had gradually materialized round him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I moved slowly off, toward the darker blackness, lighting my way by these feeble torches. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A style called "chernukha," or blackness, became the vogue among many Russian filmmakers, who made dark and violent movies showing contemporary life as a bleak moral vacuum. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z Davis’s practice often investigates how “cultures code and decode representations of blackness”; this layered, site-specific installation questions the idea of the art gallery as a neutral space. Can’t get tickets to ‘Infinity Mirrors’ at Seattle Art Museum? Here are 5 other installations to visit 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z We took a brief but romantic walk around the promenade deck, and stared off into the blackness of a vast ocean, interrupted only by another cruise ship that glowed miles off in the distance. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Thanks to our enduring history of racism in public policy and social custom, there is virtually no aspect of blackness that isn't performative, and that certainly includes hair. Review: Bert Ashe ponders identity and perception in 'Dreadlock Chronicles' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Nixon sweats, steaks bleed and in one amazing scene, the eyes of Richard Helms stare at us in utter blackness – as Helms recites a Yeats doomsday poem and we slouch with him toward Bethlehem. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z The specific details and texture found within them granted him entree — and lent him gravitas as an informed eyewitness who helped to shape a deeper understanding of blackness in a global sphere. 'Selected Letters of Langston Hughes' a glimpse of enigmatic poet 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Young Coco can be seen forming early thoughts around blackness and beauty. Dear White People's biggest success? Getting to grips with colorism 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I peered out the window of the room into blackness. A Rookie’s Road Trip Through Montana, Wyoming and Idaho 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He called Mr. Marshall’s attention to blackness, at a time when it was a more radical move, “decisive and unapologetic.” Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The sky is full of dead men, drifting in the blackness like helium balloons.” Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z All those smells were in my mouth, and the images from the cells covered the blackness before my eyes. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z It's about blackness, about dust and with the gut C string it sounds like dust, it sounds like throwing something into the grave or a last breath - it's all there. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z Williams’s solution to the “invented category of blackness” is to cast it off. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z You often see just his skin or nostrils or lips, and there is often white contrasting against blackness. The Protest Art of Cuba Finds an Unlikely Champion 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Back then, as now, what constituted authentic blackness was determined by the plight of the majority, which meant the poorest . . . being of the black middle class could make you defensive. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Flight allows whiteness to function as if it were universal, a stand-in for “human,” rather than a particular racial category that relies on blackness for its expression. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In reality there is truth behind what it means to sound white, what it means to be evoking blackness. Kelela: 'I'm Pushing Back Against the White Misogynistic Heterosexual Establishment' 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z And Delaney has made his blackness his beauty, by making his body a prism of rainbow light. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “I used to drink till I went to sleep. I just wanted blackness. It was like a form of dying.” 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Whites, in short, aren’t driven to ridicule the black “Other,” but instead to contact and consume blackness and absorb this power. White people have a blackface problem 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z A movie theater can be a magical place, a portal; in the cold, quiet blackness anything is possible. Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z Except those spaces are all over the map, with some vloggers opining at length on where black men should and shouldn't live, and others going on about the right time to "show your blackness." After Ferguson: U.S. museums need to show a work by Natalie Bookchin 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z There were others who wanted to do blackness differently: Prince, for sure, as well as A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Whiteness comes across as the source of our confusion, whereas American blackness seems to know where it stands. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z You are the only person who gets to define your blackness. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z It's a surprising thing to hear from a writer whose plays are so confrontational, even pugnacious, about cultural attitudes toward blackness. Spotlight shines brighter on 'Appropriate' playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Of blackness, of activism, of manhood, just of humanity, you know? Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are filled with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z Frankly, I like the idea that the shiny blackness might be heading for storage, like stage flats being raised into the fly tower above the Gladstone space. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z But any time a black person is on trial, there’s a sinking feeling that blackness might be on trial, too. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Edelman’s film is strongest on this point, delving deep into Simpson’s early life, charting his literal escape from the burdens of blackness, while his fame skyrocketed in the NFL. ESPN’s ‘O.J.: Made in America’ is nothing short of a towering achievement 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The book opens with a small charcoal drawing of a baby wailing — the mouth a swath of blackness — and we are immediately struck by the silence of the picture. Gorgeous Picture Books That Reveal the Power of the Pencil 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith writes of her mother’s initial preoccupation with the singer: “I think the Jacksons represented the possibility that black might be beautiful, that you might be adored in your blackness — worshiped, even.” Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z I played tennis at a black tennis club, I lived for hip-hop, and I devoured Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, two books that take a deep look at blackness. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said. Late-night hosts on Moonlight's Oscar win: America reaches 'peak blackness' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Lamar has profoundly mixed his poetry with hip-hop, jazz, soul, funk and African music to create songs that tackle blackness, street life, police brutality, survival and self-worth. Associated Press’ album of the decade: Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z We slowly zoom in on a single figure on the deck, staring out into the blackness, scanning for …something. In Philip Pullman’s First Graphic Novel, a Ghost Ship Travels Through Time 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Far away, an invisible sun that has pierced through blackness lights up the spire of a church like a ghostly apparition. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z Being a Muslim actor today reminds me of being a black actor 20 years ago, when every role was defined by their blackness. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z Most of these photographs announce their blackness — and their claim to a hallowed, threatened, vital, debated, unfurling black history — by showing black faces. What Could Have Been Iconic 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z My mother hated that picture, the erasure of her blackness. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Like Hooded Justice, he uses blackness as a shield of anonymity in a world transfixed by white heroes. The Great Achievement of “Watchmen” Is in Showing How Black Americans Shape History 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The matter of the opera's cultural authenticity, its "blackness" or lack of it, was a thornier debate for decades. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z A few weeks ago, in reaction to something we had written about blackness and whiteness in recent movies, my colleague Manohla Dargis and I received a note from a reader. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “Just look at the quality of the picture: the strength, the energy, the violence, the blackness,” Mr. Turquin said in an interview on Wednesday. Art Dealer Says Painting Found in French Attic Is a Caravaggio 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Her marriage to him, he suggests, gave her the ability to reclaim her blackness while holding on to a basic image of straightness. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z “Atlanta” specializes in the properties of blackness, the adjustment of heft and levity for bizarrely emotional effect. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “Like most things,” she says, “it’s a label to describe an experience that’s already been existing — science and blackness and the African tradition — since the beginning of time.” SassyBlack says new album is trippy and so are you 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z In contrast, the characters of “Bridgerton” never seem to forget their blackness but instead understand it as one of the many facets of their identity, while still thriving in Regency society. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z "His unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor." Mat Johnson's satire of race in America, 'Loving Day,' is picked up by Showtime 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Those in the other type, Brooks said, “believe tricks should be avoided, believe that blackness, by contemporary black definition, is straightforward and substantial, clean-lined, even spare.” Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z Its commitment to blackness astutely flips the script on the racial status quo in Hollywood, where people of color are forced to the margins of the screen or rendered invisible. “Luke Cage” and the racial empathy gap: “Why do they talk about being black all the time?” 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Regardless of how it all shakes out, the nominations alone should remind us that the American record biz is still chillingly adept at using whiteness to sell blackness. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z In a statement about her curatorial project, Thomas writes, “These vastly different artists share the common aim of probing notions of self-awareness that complicate both contemporary and canonical Western stereotypes of blackness.” ‘MUSE’ offers a look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ photography — and at the artist herself 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “In middle age he learned that according to the one-drop rule of blackness, he was not white.” ‘Life of a Klansman’ Tells Ugly Truths About America, Past and Present 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z He reveals that during the time he spent awol, he was crouching in a foetal position, "staring into blackness" and self-harming with knives. Steve Mason: Out of the blackness 2010-04-06T21:00:00Z The show’s blackness is as essential as its comic sensibility. The real Issa tries to live with the fake Issa. Her ‘Insecure’ fans are watching. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z We looked down the hill, and there it was: four empty lanes plunging into blackness, flanked by gracefully decaying Haussmann slabs brambly with iron balconies. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z Now, to see blackness in that, I think it’s very inclusive. Q&A: Javicia Leslie takes on Batwoman role to empower others 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z That inability, or the difficulty with re-centering blackness . . . or just turning away from the incarnations of white supremacy as they play out in the media and how difficult it is, is allegorically rehashed. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Lost… in dense blackness of an unfriendly forest thick with brambles, treacherous undergrowth and hostile creatures of my own making. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The upheaval helped deepen the racial divide, connecting whiteness with rights and privileges, and blackness with slavery, disenfranchisement and poverty. Ashley Biden knows a presidential campaign is coming. For now, she’s talking hoodies and economic inequality. 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z It rests on top of the dark rectangle, which now might be read as the door of a tomb, opened onto blackness, oblivion. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z And, to some degree, kente cloth acknowledges the African diaspora — that blackness is global and that black struggle is not limited to the United States. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z With Bushmaster’s arrival as a new villain, he brings this facet of blackness that we didn’t see much of in Season 1: Caribbean culture. ‘Luke Cage’ Season 2: A New Villain and Respectability Politics 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z In “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes addresses the issue of respectability, the belief that promoting only the best, brightest and most palatable forms of blackness might somehow temper white bigotry. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “It didn’t end well, which had nothing to do with his blackness, but we thought: ‘How can we make this story apply to fit our show?’ Issa Rae: 'So much of the media presents blackness as fierce and flawless. I’m not' 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Such sympathetic treatment is rarely extended to invented ones, who are typically objects of ridicule or loathing in comedies of different degrees of blackness. Who would want to be an author in film? 2012-02-09T18:28:20Z Scott has said that “in my fiction I’m attempting to write about blackness in the varied and multitudinous ways that I’ve experienced it.” First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z I expected a staged, even canned collision between absolutist Germanic modernism and contemporary culture, or between whiteness and blackness; what I discovered was closer to a three-dimensional essay on various approaches to symmetry and precision. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z At the same time that black artists are coming into a sharper phase of their blackness, white Americans are coming into their whiteness, reckoning with it and embracing it. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Chew over this bit of blackness, and let it bring you closer. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “I was born on the South Side. I come from an obviously black family. . . . I put my blackness up against anybody’s blackness in this state, O.K., and Barack is a black man.” ‘Michelle Obama: A Life,’ by Peter Slevin 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The test showed that my blackness comes from Nigeria; 43% of my DNA, in fact. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z A writer from The Nation, for instance, opined, “A tendency to blackness in the flesh-shades is the principal artistic infelicity in this curious and learned work.” Art Review: A Restored ?Gross Clinic? at Philadelphia Museum 2010-07-29T21:51:00Z It requires a dual engagement with form and identity, which, in Edwards’s words, “shifts analysis away from the Black artist as subject and instead emphasizes blackness as material, method and mode.” Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z That is the point of this trenchant book, written in response to the heated debate over an appropriated image — and history — of blackness in the last Whitney Biennial. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “Culturally, Obama made blackness so present, and so appreciated; people felt seen and heard; it influenced the arts, and it absolutely influenced how I see blackness, how I appreciate it,” says the 32-year-old Rae. Issa Rae: 'So much of the media presents blackness as fierce and flawless. I’m not' 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just blackness that was being defined by the accretion of stereotypes and insults, it was whiteness. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z There's this new book out about Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan, where she explains how Hill let the mainstream come to her, and she refused to alter her blackness in any way when they did. Issa Rae is not here to compromise: The “Insecure” creator and star on why “this is our tim... 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z They viewed its celebration of blackness, simultaneously ingratiating and isolating, as neo-colonialist in its effect, calculated to keep African art from integrating internationally. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z Shot in black and white and then reversed, Earl's face glows white with an all-consuming blackness surrounding him. Essential tracks: Kacey Musgraves offers straight talk in new song 'Biscuits' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z You said in an interview, “My blackness never bothered me, it bothered other people.” A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z This is his fox's "earth", his "safe pit of blackness", and it is out of this womb-tomb that he will eventually be reborn. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z “Except, except, except . . .” I stare into the blackness. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z In her review of “Between the World and Me” for BuzzFeed, Shani O. Hilton worries that this “book about black male life is one that many readers will use to define blackness.” Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z One fear with a black man dating a white person is that they’re at risk of turning their backs on their own family and their own blackness and abandoning a piece of their identity. Jordan Peele Narrates a Scene From ‘Get Out’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The hosts asked her to respond to people questioning “the legitimacy of your blackness.” Perspective | How should we talk about white men today? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He sees his work as a form of visual activism seeking to challenge the “idea that blackness is homogeneous.” Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z So I advise that you stay black, as I am an expert on blackness. Dear Hillary and Bernie, please start a podcast: Some holiday wishes for the people and their leaders at the end of a painful year 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z “It was difficult to monetize my blackness,” she says now. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z What toll might such a decision take on those left behind in blackness? A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z "Black people must lose their blackness if America is to be transformed. But — of course — white people get to stay white." 'Democracy in Black' is a bracing a call to action for African Americans 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z No amount of fame affords her the freedom to escape blackness, or the past, nor would she want to. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Recently, on a solo holiday trip to Paris, I saw tangible beauty all over the city: in twinkling silver lights, the blackness of my coffee, the florid cemeteries hinting at a more immortal mortality. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Rachel Carter, a Gunaikurnai woman, was also told she was “too pretty to be Aboriginal” as a child; she’s now a mother of two daughters whose blackness she wants to help affirm. Don't tell me I'm 'too pretty to be Aboriginal'. It's not a compliment; it's racism | Sasha Sarago 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “My blackness was not important. What was important was that I was smart.” Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Only when the video ends, and blackness drops across each screen like a closing eyelid, do the loss and alienation really sink in. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Thomas’ declared solidarity with “his people” turns out to be rooted in an affluent upbringing that’s left him desperate to reclaim his blackness. The rhetoric of race gets a swift kick in Rogue Machine's 'Honky' 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Her maternal grandmother, Mercy, mocks and degrades her for her blackness, going so far as to shave off Díaz’s “bad” hair. Abused, Addicted, Biracial and Queer: Jaquira Díaz Is Anything but ‘Ordinary’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z A passage down which two persons could barely pass side by side, the far end enveloped in blackness. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z In this iteration, which González calls an opera, he further explores modern blackness, public housing and human-object intersections by drawing from influences as varied as the futurist Buckminster Fuller and the activist collective CHARAS. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z “George Floyd is a global figure now and he was killed in the United States because of the blackness of his skin,” he said. Artists around the world pay tribute to George Floyd 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The Huxtables were notable not simply because they were black but because there was nothing flamboyant or ideological about their blackness. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Also, one of the first things you learn as a black person in this country is that you never question another black person’s racial blackness. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “He’s like: ‘Here are all the things I’m going to do to force you to reconceptualise what blackness looks like, or what it means to be a Pacific Islander. Let’s rock! Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “Each of us carried a Swahili middle name. It’s hard to doubt your blackness with a middle name like Jabari, which means ‘the bravest.’” Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Among many whites, blackness signals a deficit of intellect, talent, and skill. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z She is also the author of several books about race and blackness in the United States, including “Sugar in the Raw.” What I See: Gloria Steinem, Shoulder to Shoulder With Women of Color 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z They’re weighted with complex issues of identity but one element is missing – his own blackness and how he might change his behavior to seem less threatening, as if he were the teddy bear himself. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z Who’s to say that Mr. Cash, staring into the final blackness, wasn’t light of heart? Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z Colorism, professional discrimination, segregation, the challenges of black ambition, microaggressions, the welfare system, negotiating predominantly white spaces, the boundaries of authentic blackness and, of course, race and the justice system: Bingo! Jodi Picoult’s New Novel Reviewed by Roxane Gay 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson’s work also includes four short videos he made in the early 2000s, sometimes humorously focused on blackness; there’s also more shea butter, sometimes crumbled on Persian rugs, sometimes carved with expressionistic faces. In ‘Fly Away,’ Rashid Johnson Keeps the Focus on Race 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The characters are complex and funny, the story lines are hilarious, and Rae is brilliant at showing so many sides of blackness, something that so many shows fail to do. One more thing we love about Issa Rae: How “Insecure” showcases black artists 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with Clooney as veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky spiraling through the blackness of space after disaster strikes their shuttle. American, British films dominate Venice festival lineup 2013-07-25T18:35:06Z "I ran forward looking for the equivalent of daylight" as the blackness descended. Cheap Trick lobbies Congress to regulate temporary stages 2011-10-03T19:51:00Z It joins a small wave of films, TV and books that are playing with and testing tired notions of race, especially blackness—"Dear White People," "Blackish," "The Sellout," to name a few. The comedy-drama 'Dope' defies 'black film' expectations 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Diveney, for her part, is too lacking in affect to lift the eerie reminiscence with which Bridget closes the play, her surrender to a devouring blackness left unilluminated. Theater Review: Pinter Revival, Short on Impact 2011-04-19T14:00:04Z In the collection, Rankine relies on second-person point of view to force her white reader to embody the precarious terrain that is blackness in America, and as such, to confront their own complicity: Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z I was also aware of the blackness of the forest that surrounded us and the threat of deer crossing our path. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z It’s about the universe of blackness appearing in all its different glorious ways. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Her blackness was a big part, obviously,” said Nelson George, the culture critic and director of “A Ballerina’s Tale.” The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z She also challenges the concept of blackness, exploring how identity is shaped beyond the shade of one’s skin. Portraits That More Than Meet the Eye 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z “Black or White” is a frank, touching and very well-acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of “blackness” and “the race card.” ‘Black or White’: Well-acted film gets into gray areas of race 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z His blackness isn’t just obvious, it’s aggressive; through Mr. Maaravi’s lens, he is the modern embodiment of generations of idealized black bodies. The Dancer Shamel Pitts on Coming Home 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The resourceful youngsters unlock it and stare, perplexed into the creepy blackness: to test its depth, they drop in some nails and wait for the clatter: silence. Film review: The Hole 2010-09-23T22:10:00Z But Pride’s record company couldn’t hide his blackness for long. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z "At this point, they are trolling us," tweeted Shelby Ivey Christie, who hosts the podcast, Girl with the Bamboo Earring, on blackness and fashion. Prada, Gucci and now Burberry: Are brands under fire for offensive designs doing it on purpose? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In the end, it’s not whiteness and blackness that Key and Peele are spoofing, but the cliches that have grown calcified around those notions: White people are stiff and soulless; black people are violent criminals. Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ uses the story of a cute cat to challenge racial stereotypes 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “In the display, her twin fetuses floated through the blackness of herself,” Kennedy says. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z I fell in love with the complexities of blackness depicted in its storytelling, and it gave me an idea of what college could be like. We’ve been over Bill Cosby: He lost his credibility with the black community long ago 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z “Even as he reckons seriously with our state of affairs, Brown brings a sense of semantic play to blackness, bouncing between different connotations of words to create a racial doublespeak.” Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson sold his stake in the team last year after a leaked email revealed his worries that the blackness of the sport kept away “white males and corporations.” “The game isn’t the NBA. It’s the American racial empire”: Let’s talk about basketball’s white-privilege problem 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The production ends with a sly concluding vision of ineffable beauty, in which slender columns of light slice through the pitch blackness. ‘Queens Row’ Review: Richard Maxwell on Life After Doomsday 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Some sections were played in pitch blackness; in others, silhouettes of Mr. Schick and the instruments flickered gently against the walls of the intimate black-box space. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “I see the blackness of my people,” sang the vocalist Victor Brown. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z But the film was a peculiar study of urban melancholy in general and of Ms. Ross’s blackness in particular. Review: In ‘The Wiz Live!’ on NBC, a Search for More in the Emerald City 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z And contrary to what Neeson initially seemed to believe, his anecdote revealed nothing about blackness or revenge, but everything about how whiteness functions. Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Monica did a lot of winking, especially under a spell of casual blackness. ‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The book’s second poem, Lucille Clifton’s “the earth is a living thing,” evokes rich, mythic images of blackness — a bear, a hawk — to convey an encompassing vision of the world. Poetry to Tap Into Women’s Spiritual Sides 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Fans cheered and relished in the wistful celebration, and then begged Aventura to unite one more time as the stage faded to blackness. Review | Aventura hits the nostalgia sweet spot on reunion tour 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z He pinpoints the pressures of being an athlete, but one can also infer that his blackness plays a part in it, too. How an Egotistic Basketball Star Grounds ‘American Vandal’ Season 2 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Race, he suggests, is an inconsequential construct, except when it isn’t—when they meet Shakespeare, the bard fetishizes her blackness by way of hitting on her. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z More successful as art project than satire, the show dares to ask after a definition of blackness. ‘Black History Museum’ Review: Learn. Laugh. Suffer. Move Along. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Raised by her and my white dad, I’d always longed for a country to attribute my blackness to, or for help answering the ubiquitous “Where are you from?” question. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z My loving family maintained a collective silence over my blackness, which in turn led to all of us living in a state of denial over my own appearance, too. ‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’ 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z “When is it going to be O.K. to not be the delicate looking ideal of what the media considers blackness to be?” Should Zoe Saldana Play Nina Simone? Some Say No 2012-09-12T19:45:18Z As well, it’s seemingly an acknowledgment by the filmmakers that racial stereotypes still shape how some people perceive the first couple, and that many divergent stripes of blackness can be collapsed into one idea. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z His unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. 'Loving Day's' examination of race is handled with candor, wit 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Eventually, Ms. Jackson made blackness an important part of her music and presence, too. Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z But then, you know, blackness is not homogeneous. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z “Black Is the Body” obscures the blackness of her body. Five Essay Collections by Women of Color 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Though this is a shadowy, violent film, Johnson wisely inserts just enough humor to create shades of gray rather than blackness. 'Looper': Hit man goes back to the future in dark, zingy thriller 2012-09-27T15:15:04Z “Survival Math” makes it clear that blackness is never a deficit. A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z A dark gutter, too messy and expensive for newspaper printing, allows an image to emerge dramatically from printed blackness. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z And so they translated that into the superiority of blackness and control and maleness and authoritarian. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The degree to which your point — “any time a black person’s on trial, there’s a sinking feeling that blackness might be on trial” — had escaped me is slightly embarrassing. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z They were great reads, but not contemporary, and couldn’t speak to the blackness and experience of a young gay man like you. Saeed Jones on "How We Fight For Our Lives" and writing with "skin in the game" 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z I’m really enjoying seeing the weird, eccentric qualities of blackness being explored. Y’lan Noel on ‘Insecure,’ ‘The First Purge’ and Black Masculinity Onscreen 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “I really thought he had turned a lot of corners,” she said, adding, “Maybe it was suddenly like he had turned so many corners that the blackness came back tenfold.” Friends Reflect on the Designer Alexander McQueen?s Death 2010-04-03T04:11:00Z The result, with backlighting piercing inky blackness, lends his work the quality of moonlight. Herman Leonard, Photographer, Dies at 87 2010-08-18T03:45:00Z She hovers and swoops as the story’s avatar of blackness, the vessel through which flows the terrible history of Africans in the New World. ‘Peacekeeping’ review: Haiti endures despite outsiders’ good (and bad) intentions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z So like a lot of people just hear the blackness of the music and then automatically associating it with, “Oh, this is period blaxploitation.” LISTEN: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and “Westworld” composers break down their shows’ signature sounds 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Awkward Black Girl, which began in 2011, was a response to “the mainstream media portrayal of what blackness is”. Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I became fascinated by the many permutations of race, especially of blackness, the identity I was assigned in America. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z But the white gaze has done its work, and Talley’s disconnect to blackness — his own and others’ — is palpable. Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Tori Sampson makes her Playwrights Horizons debut with a parable of blackness and beauty. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Late-night hosts Monday discussed the surprise best picture win for low-budget drama Moonlight, claiming America has reached “peak blackness”. Late-night hosts on Moonlight's Oscar win: America reaches 'peak blackness' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z And two large-scale collage prints by Kahlil Robert Irving, incorporating crushed street trash, are meditations on the social and visual textures of blackness, with subtleties no digital medium is likely capture. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z He’s present as his friends compare with proud bravado the blackness of their skin. The Cinematic Blues of Charles Burnett and Billy Woodberry 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Roula Allouch statements don't acknowledge the elephant in the room, and it's not the beautiful and tasteful hijab, it's the complete blackness and frightening nature of the niqab. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Maybe her apparent lack of legible blackness — of grit, stank and swagger — made a striking contrast with his abundance of it. Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Darkness and blackness are symbols of the unknown -- as if entering a dark room. Hossein Khosrojerdi's first U.S. solo show opens at Tara Gallery 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Beyond is blackness, we hear a small splash. Zvi Sahar’s 'Salt of the Earth' at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z His work speaks of blackness in proud, insistent, imaginative ways, touching repeatedly on the achievements of African-American culture and the ordeals of African-American life that are both part of the national psyche. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I don't like the representations of 'blackness' on British TV. Why black British drama is going online, not on TV 2012-07-02T19:30:01Z By the time she rips into the local school’s efforts “to pack as much blackness as possible into each ‘token black’, ” her satire has blood on its fangs, but she’s still smiling. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “I want to completely embrace my blackness / my whiteness.” Biracial composer searches for her ‘true name’ through piece for Northwest Corner Chamber Orchestra 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Closer scrutiny reveals that the blackness is layered and textured, and the hand-action is not just up and down. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Is it that he awakens in her a deeper sense of her own blackness, and feelings of being marginalized in a white-bread society, one with other intimations of false homespun values? Review | A radical new Broadway ‘Oklahoma!’ says it’s not such a beautiful mornin’ in America 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Moldy greens and funereal grays coat the screen; saucer-eyed faces float in the blackness of underground rooms and tunnels. | 'Metropia': Dystopia Animated 2010-05-11T22:29:00Z That arc is not available to blackness, there is no equilibrium to be regained. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Juggling his blackness while appealing to mainstream attitudes was what Ron called “speaking the King’s English and talking jive”. BlacKkKlansman: the grim topicality of Spike Lee's 70s-set KKK film 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z “It’s almost as if people are thinking of blackness as a crime,” Ms. Eberhardt said in a telephone interview. MacArthur Awards Go to 21 Diverse Fellows 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z K.Dot’s tell-it-like-it-is blackness sets the stakes high for the rebirth of a renaissance movement: a paradigm shift back to raw black creativity. “To Pimp a Butterfly”: Kendrick Lamar’s unapologetic black American dream 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z This cake is magnificent in its damp blackness. The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 4 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The tensions of trying to create space for everyone, to honor the multiple ways of expressing blackness, isn’t limited to the festival’s music. Has Afropunk Abandoned Its Origins? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z There’s blackness — the mere state of one’s racial self — and there’s being politically black, which amounts to the degree to which one wields or weaponizes or calls attention to one’s blackness. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Shop owner refused to sell me a bottle of water, my blackness seemed to truly upset him and he advised we needed to leave his shop. Guardian readers on their worst holidays: rats, sewage and lots of vomiting 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z "Not every black person is making work about blackness." RCA Black and the table that thinks it's a woman 2011-08-23T20:59:01Z The piece ends mournfully, with Vereen singing Williams’ legendary tune “Nobody” while removing the blackface makeup — a black man whose blackness is accepted only when it is masked by exaggeration on stage. Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The windowless galleries of Hemphill Fine Arts are sometimes plunged into near blackness, the better to showcase work meant for the shadows. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z When asked what she wants Americans to understand about “blackness,” Sherald answers directly: “Maybe just that: That we are American, too.” Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z And I liked the way he presented his blackness. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z No, the wolf swallowed the king of the gods, the snake poisoned Thor, everything was burned in a red light and drowned in blackness. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z As she recalls being questioned about her blackness by locals, she perfectly captures how traveling as a person of color is often to be both the curious and the curiosity. The 10 best travel writers you’ve never read but should 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z “What would it mean to consider Black aliveness, especially given how readily — and literally blackness is indexed to death?” Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z His blackness mattered to him and was a source of pride and power; it was a cornerstone of his identity. Modern Love: Reorienting After a Relationship?s End 2012-05-20T13:34:35Z Throughout, Pope.L draws connections between interstitial spaces and our notions of blackness. William Pope.L returns to L.A. with twin gallery shows focused on race 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z "There is this idea that somehow you are rejecting your blackness when you reject religion, that atheism is something that white people do." The number of Americans with no religious affiliation is on the rise 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Ravaged head and resolute hand float in a luxurious field of blackness. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But even Billy’s surname is an unsubtle reference to the ancient racist boxing trope of the Great White Hope, the wholesome and immensely marketable American hero who will rescue the sport from irredeemable blackness. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The diver goes into free fall, carried ever deeper away from light and into blackness. Blue hole, black hole 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A new series of sculptures and paintings represent the black body in places of elevation — an attempt to tell a story of blackness “with light and affirmation.” Datebook: Two centuries of African American women, painting California, art about 'La Bestia' 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z And then, out of the blackness, a voice: “Let me act it out!” Lily Tomlin pranks the crowd at her own tribute from Los Angeles Film Festival 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z We sit together in our blackness and wonder: Can blackness really be so fragile that even a pair of narrow jeans may threaten it? Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z White artists had been studying him, and were building up a version of rock ’n’ roll that no longer required Mr. Berry, nor his blackness. Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Growing up in Africa, there is a dignity about blackness. It’s Time for African Resistance, This Artist Says 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Early teachings extolled those who were “white and delightsome” and said God cursed unbelievers with a skin of blackness. How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He wrote that the play “hadn’t been written from within blackness.” ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The exterior of Hadid's building is "tough" but "we talk about its blackness and hardness as a metaphor." Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Ingeniously, Mr. Blumberg noticed that when he developed his film, the black line separating exposures on the contact sheet merged into the blackness of the images. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The Broadly piece, titled “In Rachel Dolezal’s Skin” is especially troubling, as it feeds into this notion that certain basic signifiers determine blackness in America. Of course Rachel Dolezal isn’t black: Her sympathetic comeback media tour proves it 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The work refers to Norsworthy’s feeling of constantly being asked to perform — to perform blackness, or queerness, or masculinity, or membership in the bourgeoisie. Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “We wanted a way to celebrate our blackness and improve the conditions of Black people around us,” Ms. Coddett said. Five Kwanzaa Celebrations Around the Country 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The blackness in her portraits is not blackness at all, in an essential, finite way. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z We shut our lights off to experience total blackness, then swept our hands to agitate fluorescent phytoplankton. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And the camera walks in front of him, the doorway recedes in the background and swallows up Don in blackness. Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z “This is also something I’m trying to share — that there are so many shades of black” and “so many shades of blackness.” The Dancer Shamel Pitts on Coming Home 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In their disorientating, echoing blackness, the Englishwoman Adela Quested believes she has been assaulted by her Indian host. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z I was struck by the sheer blackness of the soaring asymmetrical space — black walls, black floor, black catwalks overhead — and by the vibrant red auditorium building, shaped like a jagged stone. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z It's a well-acted and swiftly unfolding tale of sirens in the night, piercing the blackness, and of weary eyes gazing at the harsh morning light. 'Carancho': a well-acted, compelling drama of temporary refuge 2011-03-24T22:23:04Z Is there not something in the sheer throwaway blackness of that gag which makes 1971 seem a very long time ago? Has film really outgrown racism? 2011-08-01T10:18:35Z As the blackness crowded my brain, it seemed so easy to just let it. Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z She might be a cloistered superstar, but she’s still a black woman navigating a country toxic with hatred for blackness and womanhood. Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ turns life’s lemons into furious pop 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In this way the film explores definitions of "blackness" by boiling them down to issues of personal identity while also challenging mainstream media tendencies to assume there is a standard black experience. With 'Dear White People,' Justin Simien wants to start conversations 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “There’s an obsession with decentralizing blackness, and I think All Lives Matter is a clear opening to people’s racism.” 2015 BET Experience: Black Lives Matter takes center stage 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z But the real through line, as well, is a type of abiding darkness in these works, a critique of blackness as a signifier. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Three spotted eagle rays, as exquisitely patterned as ocelots, glide side by side toward an immanent blackness, as indifferent to Vizl, it seems, as the limestone wall is to the climber. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But they both share a desire to explore the “full spectrum of blackness,” he said, adding that they wanted “to create a platform where the black skin was shown in its full exuberance.” Shining a Light on Black and Brown Representation in Film 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Of all the mistakes I’ve made in my intimate life, looking down to see that sprawling blackness, its “lace” film lying sadly by my thigh, is definitely up there, so to speak. Vulva masks and labia serums: the marketing of women’s genital shame 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z As a show deeply informed by its diverse depictions of blackness, Queen Sugar taps into the “progress narrative” historical zeitgeist of African Americans. Queen Sugar: why it's a time travel show for black audiences 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Each miner “finds himself inside a patch of blackness,” with only the light of other men’s helmets to navigate by. Book review: ‘Deep Dark Down,’ by Héctor Tobar I know you also feel that your blackness is defined by the music you listen to. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z In Orange Is the New Black, blackness is not usually silenced without cause; it is given a platform to be explored. Orange Is the New Black stars: 'I couldn't watch. I had to turn away' 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z A treatise on spirituality, blackness, experience, and a showcase of Hill’s superlative talent, the album was released when Hill was only twenty-three, and is perhaps most striking, in retrospect, for its incredible seriousness. What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her "Miseducation" 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Black “doesn’t represent all blackness, that is impossible,” said Mr. Osajyefo. Comic Books, in Black and White 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z His host assumed that his blackness naturally bestows such talent upon Cash who, following substantial pressure, brings the house down by repeating the “N”-word over and over again in syncopated cadence. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z There is no spoken commentary, but rather moments of blackness and silence, punchy slogans, and the fire service's own filmed reconstruction of the fire, set among stacks of furniture in an abandoned factory. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z A young woman in a floral-print skirt and flip-flops sprawls in sleep on an object covered by a sheet whose snowy whiteness intensifies the near blackness of her skin. Art Review: ?New Photography 2011? Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review 2011-10-14T05:00:49Z “One of the greatest triumphs of racism has been to convince America and black people in particular that being wealthy, educated or ‘posh’ involves forfeiting your blackness,” she says. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s a celebration of blackness, and it’s been sold out for weeks. Amanda Seales was always ‘Smart Funny and Black.’ Finally, everyone else sees it. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “Black folks in Atlanta are so aware of their blackness and their history, it’s etched in their fabric, as my grandma would say,” she said. Where Books Meet Black Mecca 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It emphasizes Anastacia’s blue eyes, her blackness and her spiritual presence. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Each style is completely appealing, if perhaps too quickly discarded, much as Bubbly’s experiments with different ways of representing her blackness are dropped, one by one. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He noted a “clear difference” between how his blackness was perceived in Paris; there, his Americanness was the most conspicuous part of his identity. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The player will recognize the sound of a highway, but Rae will not; she will visualize it as an oppressive wall of blackness. In reality, Project Morpheus, Oculus Rift aren't the most exciting things at E3 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z He says neither black nor white people understand him because of his particular brand of blackness. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z They’re investigating blackness, not exclusively in terms of racism but as a matter of ontology: What is it? Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z With “Moonlight” winning Best Picture at the Oscars, America officially reaches “peak blackness.” Late-night hosts on Moonlight's Oscar win: America reaches 'peak blackness' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Beatty’s satire breaks open the private jokes and secrets of blackness in a way that feels powerful and profane but not escapist. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And winsome twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Offutt’s keen ear and eye. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The evening ends in a theater, with that doorway to blackness propped onstage. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Xavier’s bootstrapping is matched with an active rejection of surface symbols of blackness and hip-hop. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Drawn from the country’s history and folklore, as well as his experience of growing up in Miami, his works also probe the idea of having to perform blackness or any kind of identity. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Amy specifying Christian’s blackness seemed to be strategy, based on the idea that a black man would automatically be considered uniquely dangerous and a white woman uniquely credible. Perspective | ‘Karens’ try to make unequal power structures work for them 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z One night, a whole turbot was roasted on the bone until its skin neared blackness. Looks Aren’t Everything at Café Altro Paradiso 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z As opposed to the one-dimensionality that was once imposed, blackness today is being understood far more for its multiplicities.” Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z To be a black person there you had to be more intentional with your blackness. Damon Young on wooing with Wu-Tang, teaching Whiteness 101 and how survival "makes you blacker" 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z That is also femininity and strength in womanhood and her unapologetic approach to her blackness and what she represented during her time. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z My sister is articulating the story of America which positions the white gaze towards blackness. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z There comes a point, near the end of the show, when the stage plunges into inky blackness and Etheridge tells the story of the death of her 21-year-old son, Beckett, in 2020. ‘My Window’ Review: An Out-and-Proud Trailblazer Finds Her Way 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Complaining about being subjected to the "white gaze" and questioning one's blackness even as they keep their regular-black-folks relatives at arm's length rich. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “She fought for justice onstage, even with her very presence, breaking barriers with her blackness, and defying exclusion with her excellence.” Jessye Norman Honored With a Starry Met Opera Memorial 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It is a place of private labor and claustrophobic stricture—for performing idealized versions of both blackness and womanhood. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Some compared the use of “street” to the word “urban,” which is often used to imply blackness in a narrow and sometimes derogatory way. James Bond Author Called Idris Elba 'Too Street' to Play 007 and the Internet Is Not Happy 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Maybe he felt like his coach was calling his blackness into question as well. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Let sit for up to five minutes as the solution works to remove any blackness from the silver. 10 Smart Tricks to Make Cleaning Easier 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Unlike Britain, the distances between cities are so vast, and it is so dark at night, that MacKay said at times he felt like he was in "a sea of blackness". Britain's hard-working, soulful MacKay keeps films coming 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z When, in one story, color bursts forth into a previously monochrome world, Qfwfq is exuberant, but his beloved Ayl flees all this “confusion” to dwell underground in the soothing blackness. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Complete Cosmicomics,’ by Italo Calvino “Like the other half-caste children,” Gyasi writes, “he could not fully claim either half of himself, neither his father’s whiteness nor his mother’s blackness. Neither England nor the Gold Coast.” ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “Your blackness took over more than your service or any other element of your life.” What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The thing that really makes me angry is the whole rightwing focus on his blackness – his white mother is never mentioned. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z This is a battle about blackness, and yet the major players on both sides are white people. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: Quandaries 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The boys who were told that their creativity, their softness, their queerness and their beauty were incompatible with their blackness. Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z When stories eschew the white gaze and exist entirely inside of blackness, the protagonists and antagonists are all black. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z On TV, there is a similar story: with the success of TV shows such as Insecure, Queen Sugar or Chewing Gum, one would assume that representations of blackness on TV are better than ever before. Have Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time got black feminism all wrong? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z What life experience forced this reminder of his own blackness? The Other Talk 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z She portrays whiteness, not blackness, as the “other,” and refuses to see the revolution as more violent than the regime that provokes it. Review: ‘Les Blancs’ Is an Anguished Play for an Anguished Moment 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z In 2012 she founded the independent publishing company Dominica, which is "dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, reference, and marker, and audience in visual culture." At Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, Martine Syms makes her moment 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z If the play in which he appears is meant to be a black comedy, it achieves only a gummy, sticky licoricelike blackness. | 'Wild Animals You Should Know': ?Wild Animals You Should Know,? by Thomas Higgins - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:27Z In one solo, Waldean Nelson shifts between images of blackness with the intensity of a man possessed by demons. ‘Mr. TOL E. RAncE’ on Black Entertainers and Race 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Re-reading that piece, it talks about my conflicting feelings with my public blackness. 'Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl' puts Issa Rae in a cool position 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Every year in cities around the world, the music festival Afropunk draws people from the African diaspora to celebrate and champion blackness in all of its expressions. Street Style: Afropunk 2018 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The emphasis is on billboards and gas stations, but the billboards are blank and the gas stations little more than boxes floating in blackness. Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z In this statement, and in her adaptation of blackness-as-flowing-hair, Dolezal exemplifies what Alice Jones’ lawyers missed: that as a white woman performing blackness, the category of whiteness is, at no point, under interrogation. What does it mean to be white?: Dylann Roof, Rachel Dolezal and the ugly legacy of the Rhinelander case 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It negates the idea that blackness is a part of a person’s humanity, that it’s a nontransferable essence of who they are. Perspective | Blackface is white supremacy as fashion — and it’s always been in season 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Each album was constructed to highlight the profound beauty of blackness, where his people didn’t have to be extraordinary, they could just be. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Later she said, “Even though I’ve been black and proud my whole life, now I want to be draped in my culture; I want to be draped in my blackness.” Gabourey Sidibe Doesn’t Want to Talk About Her Body 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But at the same time, it has been consistently blind, indifferent and hostile to African-American culture, or at least to certain popular manifestations of blackness at the moment of their greatest impact elsewhere. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Whiteness meant that blackness meant a person was property. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z As Beauregard fumbles and forget his lines, Mr. Lee projects actual footage from “The Birth of a Nation” onto Baldwin’s face, partially obscuring it into blackness. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “My definition of personal, my sense of myself as an individual, was too tied up in notions of blackness for the others to care,” she writes. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z As Briana Younger wrote in the New Yorker last year, America’s rampant criminalization of blackness now extends to the black imagination. Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z There are entire chapters about the levels of self-consciousness I possessed about my masculinity and my blackness, and how they impacted decisions that I have made. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It is the monologue of a speaker pondering the daunting freedom of Arctic isolation and the fact that blackness—as the absence of light and the spectre of inheritance—can illuminate and enhance vision. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z She worked hard to make sure our home was a place where blackness was always celebrated. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It is a picture of a smiling black man whose black face, hat and coat nearly disappear into the background, the blackness offset by only the whites of his eyes, teeth and collar. For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z World's Greatest Dad and One Hour Photo astutely mined the blackness that always provided the engine to the hyper speed of his comedy. Why Robin Williams's true genius lay in his weird and wonderful comedy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z From there, the show progresses to a sequence of galleries that travel from whiteness to blackness. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The dancers arrive in pitch blackness, dotted with bright white bulbs that bob like fireflies, one of the evening’s less original optical effects. Review: ‘Tree of Codes,’ an Explosion of Energy in a Sea of More 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z After Ms. Madden said a tearful yes, Ms. Beresford opened her car door and found her way to Ms. Madden’s side in pitch blackness to present a ring. Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Cosby made blackness palatable to a country historically conditioned to think the worst of black people. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Director Rodrigo Cortés immediately cues a heavy-duty homage to Hitchcock with a spine-tingling title sequence that dives into blackness and a confusing interlude of dead screen time. 'Buried': An agonizing, ingenious experience from inside a box 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z She lamented that Mr. Coates’s book, which is specifically about the lives of black males, “is one that many readers will use to define blackness.” Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z You can question their cultural blackness all day and all night. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Then, over the forests of the Northwest, he leapt into the blackness of night and history. 'Skyjack': The story of the never-ending hunt for D.B. Cooper 2011-08-10T22:24:04Z Is her blackness a new style, or an accepted one? Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z I get to teach her how blackness is beautiful, in a society where blackness is not seen as beautiful, we’re just seen as entertainment. How black mothers talk to their daughters about skin tone 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And that was all she had to do, because the notion of someone voluntarily choosing to live as a black person is so inconceivable to white America that anybody who claims blackness must be black. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Internet trolls instantly made attempts to rain on Harris’s parade by attacking her blackness. I don't care "how black" Kamala Harris is and neither should you 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Now it’s like, “Who knows more about blackness than me?” Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The icons of blackness then were hyper black – this was the 1980s, it was all about Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy and Chuck D from Public Enemy. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Going to Kenya was as much about connecting with a new family of artists as it was connecting to some “long lost blackness” that for me was never lost to begin with. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z Is he going to somehow lose his blackness? Jordan Peele Narrates a Scene From ‘Get Out’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The blackness was so immense that when we turned off our flashlights and stood there, listening to the jungle sounds, we couldn’t see our hands in front of our faces. The Cool, Wild and Very Remote Andaman Islands 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z I like the blackness of it, sort of the opposite of the light of a mirror. Two Lives in Art, and a Collection Tracing Their Trajectory 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Talley is not exactly honey-colored, but choosing a euphemistic description for the color of black skin has long been a way to make blackness less black to white people. Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z A desire to “participate in ‘blackness,’ like it was a costume,” is often the culprit, the narrator muses, while they “wouldn’t want to live with the consequences of actually being black.” Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In the 80s and 90s, it often seemed that African-American family sitcoms were themselves operating with a sense of “blackness oblige”. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z So much of the media now presents blackness as being cool, or able to dance, or fierce and flawless, or just out of control; I’m not any of those things.” Issa Rae: 'So much of the media presents blackness as fierce and flawless. I’m not' 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Herb replies forlornly as the blackness consumes him, "Oh, BoJack. No. There is no other side. This is it." In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z “I’m not a representative of blackness, and I’m not a healer.” Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Each time I benefited because of my whiteness, an African American paid because of his blackness. I am a recovering racist: I was somehow taught hate as a gift of love 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Then again, white people looking for some way to not feel like they’re complicit in a morally bankrupt racial hierarchy often seem to decide that the opposite of whiteness is blackness. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The main titles begins adrift in blackness before light ignites into a horizon, becoming a single white thread that starts to fray and then snaps. Magic and mysteries woven into "The Wheel of Time" main titles 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Faux furs dyed black, then scraped away and solarized and redyed so that fabrics themselves became like layers of excavation, blackness giving way to something altogether lighter? Can Fashion Be a Form of Self-Care? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z What we learn in lockstep with them is that the black subjects — Kaneisha, Phillip and Gary — are prized by their lovers despite their blackness instead of because of it. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “We should not forget that Africa existed before that and how Africa has contributed to the globalization of blackness,” he said. Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations Welcomes Some Treasures Home 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Fading and glowing in the blackness, the past comes back to haunt the present. Fences; Trelawny of the Wells; Richard III – review 2013-03-03T00:05:30Z The unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man,” hears it one night as he dreams a troubling dream about racial identity, about “the blackness of Blackness.” Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z If whiteness is a type of privilege and power, and by comparison “blackness” has historically been a source of stigma and oppression, Asians and other non-whites have had to situate themselves between those two poles. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z If blackness is perceived as something monstrous by America’s police, then whiteness is perceived as a type of innocence, an identity that is inherently benign and harmless. A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Many years ago, in the blackness of nighttime in the country, I saw an apparition. Owls are natural-born killers. So why do we adore them so much? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Around these forms is complete blackness, evocative of crushing weight and pressure as much as the emptiness of space: outer space or oceanic abyss. Artist Jesse Higman: From rock 'n' roll merchandise to first gallery show 2011-01-06T22:26:37Z As she steps onto the platform, the lights go out, and she turns and turns in the blackness. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Cromer’s version plunges headfirst into the blackness, leaving the comedy to sink or swim. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z “And so I had to figure out how to make that happen but not diminish the fundamental blackness of the thing.” Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The enormity of Sue Ann’s blackness is downgraded to a flat shorthand for general difference. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z "I live every single night that unspeakable few seconds before you, too, are going to be cast into everlasting blackness," Suzman says. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z Each episode flows and skids among surrealistic short films, satirical sketches, animated fantasias, blurts of essayistic journalism, and blips of documentary, such that the season amounts to a confrontational art installation about blackness and negritude. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The punches are thrown while under spotlight, then in blackness, characters moving in and out of visibility and heightening the tension of the scene. The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Their performance of blackness was far from mine. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Neither can the museum provide a view of blackness, for blackness, without accounting for those who exist outside of it. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Ayana Mathis, called it “a brave foray into vast and difficult terrain” that “raises thorny questions about the cost of blackness.” New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The reality of blackness entailed a continual recoil into nameless shadows, opprobrium and silence. The N-Word: a volcano kept active by the flickering embers of racism 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The stories all deal with race, with blackness in particular, but Johnson lets her fiction question the nature of that conversation, whether it is central or peripheral to what are unquestionably excellent stories. Shining short fiction collections by Dana Johnson and Anne Raeff 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “Colored” was an exploration of blackness and its spectrum, and one of the final sections of is a section that we call “Gospel,” which kind of references black church culture. A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “The captain turned off all the lights on the ship, so there was this immense blackness around us,” says Huguette Khan, 76, from Ontario, on board with her husband, Sherry. ‘We were the luckiest people in the world’: our month on the last lockdown cruise 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z It is the negative image that, in its blackness, sometimes reveals love with a greater clarity than its positive counterpart. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z The reddish cloud of a fire rises over the horizon and merges into an arch of blackness that spans the entire landscape. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z Though Simone and Lincoln identified with a conception of blackness that transcended national borders, it was Makeba, from South Africa, who best epitomized the international dimension of black women’s performance and political engagement. Books of The Times: ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers 2014-01-15T21:27:33Z And as a group, they generate a concentrated heat, but they also raise questions about the exoticizing of racial blackness. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z My black paintings also spoke to the issues of blackness. A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z As a woman who embraces blackness as forthrightly and easily as she wears a Givenchy wedding dress and Queen Mary’s diamond tiara. Meghan Markle and the Bicultural Blackness of the Royal Wedding 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z With these gestures, Ligon creates a more nuanced portrait of the comedian who himself expanded and complicated notions of blackness in America. Glenn Ligon takes apart a Richard Pryor performance 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The message arrived early that blackness was, for some reason, something bad, something that made people hate me, something that made people angry. Obama’s Parting Gift: The Power Not to Fear White Racism 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z ‘Green depths’ … Dorset’s remoteness provides a ‘safe pit of blackness’ from which the hero of Rogue Male is eventually reborn. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z When Rue consumes them, she is overcome with a rush of the opposite of the show’s title: nothingness, a pitch blackness, a silence that is like, she hopes, being dead. “Euphoria” and the Flawed Art of Gen Z Prophesying 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Paired with the images, the text too becomes almost visual in its way, ranging from descriptive prose contextualizing what is shown in the portraits, to poetry, to statements on the social experience of blackness. Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It also symbolised the revival of a genre in which strangeness and blackness not only co-exist but are impossible to separate. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Great swirls of blurred luminescence burst through deep blackness, creating a gestural abstraction. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It was a symbolic union, a chance to wash away any ambiguity and be reborn, together, into simple, straightforward blackness. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z “Why do so many of you reflexively defend, identify w/, and antagonize on behalf of whiteness whenever blackness is involved?” he asked. 10 times Jesse Williams spoke out against racism, police brutality and injustice 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This seems to mean something like keeping things everyday, staying within herself, not being defined by her work and not letting her work be defined solely by its blackness. Review: ‘Insecure,’ or How to Negotiate Love and Commitment 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “I wanted this space to represent blackness and its vastness but I wanted it to be as inviting as any other bookstore,” she said. Where Books Meet Black Mecca 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But it’s also one to which these specific characters’ blackness is not irrelevant. black-ish Whips Up a Conversation About Spanking 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “I was surrounded by nothing but blackness and stars,” she said. He Said No. Then She Did. But Proposal No. 3 Was the Charm 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The rows of chairs stretch back into the ostensible blackness, with light beaming from the projector room. Traveling While Black: behind the eye-opening VR documentary on racism in America 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Johnson, for instance, would often select the model with the darkest skin tone to wear the boldest colors, to highlight blackness. Review | When black models walking the runway was about more than just the clothes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Can his blackness simultaneously be unimportant, and also allow him to stand out among white titans? Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “It represents a real change in the messaging to young people growing up in Britain and that idea that blackness and Britishness are mutually exclusive,” she told Reuters. Symbolic or meaningless? What do black Britons think of Meghan's... 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Evoking Brazil’s black river, the installation suggested blackness and, through the impermanence of sound, the transience of nature. Elders and the next generation convene at the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z There are eerie scenes in pitch blackness where the only lights are red streaks of rockets in the night sky. Movie Review | 'Severe Clear': In Iraq Marine Documentary, Bad Food and ?Steel Rain? 2010-03-12T00:42:00Z Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was intertwined with a racist notion of blackness as a gateway to cultural disruption and linguistic play. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Hollywood largely did this through the creation of a doubled world in which white performers engaged with blackness brazenly, subtly or through its absence. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Only in January it was announced, to remarkably little outrage, that in a forthcoming Sky project, Michael Jackson would be portrayed by that essence of American blackness, Joseph Fiennes. Hadley Freeman: why cast a lighter-skinned actor as Nina Simone? Here come the racesplainers 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Yet what does "black art" mean, if blackness itself is a mixture of cultural influences? No need for special treatment? 2010-05-25T15:44:00Z The power of the memoir, Hilton Als observed in the New Yorker, lies in Angelou’s willingness to break down an essential barrier, writing “about blackness from the inside, without apology or defense.” When Maya Angelou was reviewed by Wanda Coleman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z As an adult, I can see the complexities of blackness that Singleton slammed on a platter for the world to see. Losing John Singleton, the mentor I never met 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z One of the questions the scene implicitly raises is whether there are or should be defined categories of “whiteness” and “blackness”. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Cosby has not been part of the conversation around blackness and identity for decades, but his life means very much to those who remember feeling validated and vindicated by his presence during his heyday. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Police brutality, which has resulted in unarmed black men being killed by police at 3.49 times the rate of unarmed white men, has rendered one’s blackness a perpetual signifier of danger. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The idea of blackness, crafted by generations of white supremacy, has been paralyzing and narrow. Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Color is coded, and the way that blackness figures in our history is something that’s fascinating to me. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The transracial Martin’s insistence on a kind of existential blackness prompts a consideration of race by Kelly, a failed academic grieving over the accident that took the lives of his Chinese wife and their daughter. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Such laws created social tiers of existence tied to the rightness of whiteness and the wrongness of blackness. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Stella is hard to like: Her choice to cut herself off from blackness is a psychic suicide that leaves her empty, lacking in empathy and bigoted. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Despite a personal and aesthetic style that reveled in his blackness, Hendrix never spoke out on the pressing civil rights issues of the day either in his lyrics or in interviews. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z But, also, how do you let anybody in if you’ve had such terrible beginnings in terms of what your blackness means or what you look like? Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Ryan Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, an ordinary guy who wakes up as the film starts, after some long, long seconds of total blackness, buried alive in a wooden coffin. Film review: Buried 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z The Rhinelander case was not just an effort to “re-purify” the Rhinelander dynasty; it also served to warn others of the consequence of abandoning their designated place in the more consistently defined category of “blackness.” What does it mean to be white?: Dylann Roof, Rachel Dolezal and the ugly legacy of the Rhinelander case 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Listen to the advice of the people who love you, like your mum: she’s always fighting for you to see the beauty in your blackness. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Locke plans to spend this year’s Juneteenth at home with her husband and 13-year-old daughter, “celebrating blackness all day” with music and online video calls with family. This Is How We Juneteenth 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Obama entered the national discourse on blackness, the political third rail he’d avoided throughout much of his first term. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s a work in the vein of sketch comedy that transforms the format into a stream of cinematic consciousness, centered on the question of a black American person’s self-conception when blackness itself is effectively criminalized. “Random Acts of Flyness,” Reviewed: Terence Nance’s Kaleidoscopic Vision of Being Black in America 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “I couldn’t write a memoir full of life stories without animating all the invisible, and not-so-hidden, forces that rendered my blackness criminal, my black manhood vile, my black queerness sinful, and my black city hood.” Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The colors suggest “the blood we’ve shared, the blackness of us,” she said. Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z I get the sense, reading him, of a figure standing on the edge of a field at night, squinting into the blackness, listening, trying to reason out where he ends and it begins. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In his famous image of his middle-aged self, Rembrandt created shadows of velvety blackness, heightening by contrast the light flooding in from the open window to his right. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and Degas? at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-02-23T15:55:08Z It’s about moving past the light-skinned straight-haired blackness of the past, to embrace the dark skin and natural hair of our future. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Through her rich depictions of Kenya, her parents and their various friends, she presents a range of approaches to blackness, of different ways of being. Coming of age with Asali Solomon's 'Disgruntled' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Paggett, an L.A.-based dancer, is teaming up with Novak, a sound artist, for a daylong performance that examines issues of blackness in antiquity. Datebook: Towers of clay, the L.A. landscape reconsidered, dance at the Getty Villa 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z He would describe his life: the tent shows, the singing, his body in an atmosphere of blackness, religion, belief, humanity. A Young Black Boy Looks at a Photograph of a Young Black Boy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “Winsome twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Offutt’s keen ear and eye.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It was the tedious expunging of the blackness. The Governor Who Partied Like It’s 1884 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Finally, the colors shrink to points of light in infinite blackness: the universe of space and time. ‘Back to Eden,’ at the Museum of Biblical Art 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Little splashes emerged from the blackness as unseen fish broke the surface. In Borneo, City Pleasures and Jungle Adventure 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z |
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