Essays about: "blackness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word blackness.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Archives For Black Trans Living, A Practice For Possibilities.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Levi Appleton; [2023]
    Keywords : affect; archives; because; Black feminism; capacious; care; embodiment; non-binary; praxis; trans.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates possibilities for developing an archiving praxis to help Black trans people live. Inspired by recent Black trans thinking and creativity, the research here centres conversations with five Experts working in a range of academic, artistic, and activist archiving practices. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. “Everyday racism is not something that keeps me up at night” : The second-generation Afro-Swedes experience of public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Malleel Abdullahi; [2022]
    Keywords : Afro-Swedes; intersectionality; everyday racism; public spaces; the racialization of space; inclusive; exclusive.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how the second-generation Afro-Swedes experience everyday racism in public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies. The three key dimensions of study are to recognize (1) blackness in public space, (2) experiences of everyday racism in public space, and (3) coping strategies to everyday racism. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Victoria Wendel; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse the postcolonial identity of black ‘invisibility’ in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). It conceptualizes and explains the extended metaphor over the novel, of black identity and how black people are made invisible by historical and cultural factors. READ MORE