Sentence examples for world of negro from inspiring English sources

Instead, she made a career of exploring the margins: furtive trips to evangelical tent meetings when she was a teen-ager, a stint as a Communist at the University of Kentucky, a mariage blanc to a gay man in New York, forays into the world of Negro jazz music, and marriage to a manic-depressive poet.

In other words the "being-in-the-world of the Negro" as Sartre defined Négritude using Heideggerian language is "subjective" while class is "objective": the notion of race is concrete and particular, Sartre writes, while that of class is universal and abstract; in the terminology of Karl Jaspers the first resorts to "comprehension" while the latter resorts to "intellection" (1976, 59).

"Farther out in the world other Negro youths sneaked out of their homes and schoolrooms to sit stoically at the Woolworth's while whites poured catsup on them".

The three women were all wearing gloves on that warm day; theirs may have been the last generation of Negro women to go about the world in such a way.

"The Cool World", based on Warren Miller's novel, is about the life of Negro teenagers in Harlem.

Thus, shortly after World War II, Harry Haywood advocated black political self-determination on the ground that the only way to solve "the issue of Negro equality" was through their "full development as a nation" (1948: 143).

(She won an Obie for her direction of last year's revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's dense work "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead").

The failure to make things different is at the heart of Suzan-Lori Parks's 1990 work "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead" (at the Pershing Square Signature Center).

But you ain't that kind of Negro.

He saw him as a kind of Negro.

So, too, is the mistaken view of Negro inferiority".