Sentence examples for blackness from inspiring English sources

1. Note: In this entry, Black and Blackness are capitalized, in the same way that African American is typically capitalized.

AFTER years of having their cultures denigrated, black South Africans are celebrating blackness.

The simple song of a black poet chanting in French the beauty of the naked blackness of the woman he loved, Sartre wrote, would then appear to the ears of French people a fundamental violence against their linguistic and indeed ontological self assurance; in spite of the fact that the poem was not even meant for them, or rather because of that.

Policymakers and politicians usually embrace this "political blackness" when addressing ethnic minority communities, but it makes as little sense when it comes to predicting voting as it does in other areas of life.

At the other side of the room, Poulson had fumbled through the blackness and opened the window.

That's wonderful news for the millions of individuals of different abilities, ages and nationalities who dream of seeing their home planet from the blackness and silence of space.As an entrepreneur, I have seen many examples of technologies that are brought into existence by governments but show their true potential only when unlocked to the private sector.

Satellite photographs of North Korea at night show an expanse of blackness surrounded by the blaze of cities in China and South Korea.There is one brightly illuminated object: the Tower of Juche on the eastern bank, a monument to Kim Il Sung's philosophy of self-reliance.

Pitch-blackness shrouds yet another room whose focal point is a group of tiny crawl spaces.

This acknowledgement of blackness of black roots, black history, and black civilizations became part of the struggle against colonialism and evolved, under the tutelage of Léopold Senghor of Senegal, Aimé Césaire of Martinique, and Léon-Gontran Damas of French Guiana, into the movement that became known as Negritude.

I had no idea about 'blackness' in the intellectual sense; I didn't know how to talk about these things.

Indeed, for surface colors, there are two sets of dimensions: hue, chroma, and lightness (the Munsell system) and hue, chromaticness and whiteness/blackness (the Swedish Natural Color system, NCS).