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  • Season 3 of This Week in Blackness has started with an indepth analysis of Michael Steele.

    make room on that couch in the corner. badgerbag 2010

  • The larger question that emerges from this is how and what do we define as Blackness? economic situation? educational attainment? skin tone? religious affiliation? clothing attire? racial genetic makeup? geographic region?

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

  • Not sure the author is correct, on the 5 previous Presidents with Black heritage -- But Obama only claims 50\% "Blackness" --

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Blackness occurs when the three coloring principles absorb the rays of other colors, creating an intensity that exceeds the proportion of the color.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Says the author, "Those who choose to wrap themselves in the security blanket of the supposed wonderfulness of Obama's so-called Blackness while ignoring the ongoing horrors that this person supports, are deeply complicitous in perpetrating the misery that this empire is heaping upon Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples both inside and outside of its physical borders."

    西儒 ─ The Western Confucian 2009

  • So much of the "Blackness" experts 'knowledge comes from personal experience.

    Elon James White: Another Message From the Average Black Person 2010

  • That Tiger has publicly denied his "Blackness" is a source of great disappointment and sadness for many African Americans and yet perhaps part of the very reason so many white institutions wholeheartedly embraced him as the 'face of golf.'

    Molly Secours: Illness Speaks: Healing from Cancer, Addiction and Racism in the Age of Rush Limbaugh 2010

  • In what, for example, does the continuity of "Blackness" exist?

    F. Kafka, Everyman Smith, Zadie 2008

  • College Experience In her senior thesis in 1985, Mrs. Obama wrote that her college experience "made me far more aware of my 'Blackness'" than ever before, adding, "I will always be Black first and a student second" on campus.

    Michelle Obama Solidifies 2008

  • A perfect companion course to Oxy's "Blackness" would be "Whiteness," which is offered at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and was ranked No. 7 by the foundation.

    Archive 2007-01-01 GayandRight 2007

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