Sentence examples for boundaries of black from inspiring English sources

And it clarifies Mr. Bradford's aim, which is, he has said, to "press the boundaries of black modernism".

The implication is that the violence that afflicts black America reflects a failure of lower-class black culture, a breakdown of personal responsibility, a pathological trait of a criminally inclined subgroup — not a problem with social and institutional roots that needs to be addressed through collective effort well beyond the boundaries of black communities.

Du Bois, the great scholar and social agitator; Charles Hamilton Houston, architect of the NAACP's effort to dismantle public school segregation; Paul Robeson, an American Renaissance man who pushed the boundaries of black identity and political freedom; Thurgood Marshall, the litigator of the famous 1954 Brown v. Board case and the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

She concludes: "There were darker-skinned girls who felt they were policing what it meant to be black; policing the boundaries of blackness, because they're tired of other people doing it for them".

She is the founder of the Black Youth Project and author of The Boundaries of Blackness and Democracy Remixed.

Another argument is that black Americans have penetrated the mainstream -- like the man in the White House -- blurring the traditional boundaries of the "black" story.

In other words, the boundaries of a black woman's social life are many and varied.

I take my knife and cut as close as I dare to the blurred and expanding boundaries of the black spot's territory.

The dark comedy that sustains the story is the subject of John Mullan's first column on the novel, in which he explores Mantel's use of her novel to push back the boundaries of what black humour can accomplish.

Cody Taylor, Charlie Faumuiana, TJ Perenara, Ardie Savea and Anton Lienert-Brown are not yet household names in the northern hemisphere but the New Zealand replacements drove their team onwards to an outstanding 57-22 win that, at times, went beyond even the usual boundaries of All Black excellence.

Avedon remembers bringing Baldwin home to his family's apartment on the Upper East Side: "The elevator man looked at Jimmy and said, 'You have to go up the back stairs.' " But even as Baldwin was travelling beyond the boundaries of the black community he was also trying to find his place in it.