Essays about: "White Mask"

Found 4 essays containing the words White Mask.

  1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

  3. 2. Towards Anatomically Plausible Streamline Tractography with Deep Reinforcement Learning

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Erika Bengtsdotter; [2022]
    Keywords : Deep Reinforcement Learning; Plausible; Track-To-Learn; Tractography;

    Abstract : Tractography is a tool that is often used to study structural brain connectivity from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data. Despite its ability to visualize fibers in the white brain matter, it results in a high number of invalid streamlines. READ MORE

  4. 3. Evaluation of Methods for Person Re-identification between Non-overlapping Surveillance Cameras

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Medie- och Informationsteknik; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

    Author : Henrik Nilsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Person-återidentifiering; djupinlärning; maskininlärning; bildbehandling;

    Abstract : This thesis describes a comparison of several state-of-the-art methods used for re-identification of a person between several non-overlapping views captured by surveillance cameras. Since 2014, the focus of the area of person re-identification has been heavily oriented towards approaches employing the use of neural network due to the increase in performance shown from this approach. READ MORE

  5. 4. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Aisha Mohamed; [2021]
    Keywords : Gradual Pan-Africanism; Radical Pan-Africanism; Collective-unconsciousness; Abandonment-neurotic; Black-Consciousness; Political unity; Neo-colonialism; Otherness; Mimicry; Subaltern.;

    Abstract : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. READ MORE