blackness

Example Sentences

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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal

The deep sea is Earth's “haunted basement—sinister, shrouded in blackness, spewing molten rock and poisonous gases, a den of freaky beings and hoary specters.”

From Scientific American

“I see nothing ahead of me but blackness, and sadness, and regret, and remorse, and guilt.”

From New York Times

Ms. Behar is a White woman whose experience of blackness in America included dressing up in blackface for Halloween.

From Washington Times

I thought about the idea of this tender blackness wrapping itself around these fugitive African Americans moving towards the border in order to make their passage to Canada.

From Los Angeles Times