anti-blackness
We need to have a conversation about what blackness means in America now.
For decades, Blackness has been a crucial political and cultural category.
This work is an ambitious effort to rethink the meaning of blackness in Latin America.
She traces the concept of Blackness from ancient Greco-Roman times onwards.

Examples from literature

All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream. 
Both Keenan and Frank started, and peered through the blackness. 
In the blackness a faint streak of light showed the location of the crack in the wall. 
Paul's spirits rose with the blackness of the night and the wildness of the rain. 
The darkness is thinning, and the blackness turning grey. 

blackness | American Dictionary

blackness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈblæk·nəs/
the quality of being very dark:
In such complete blackness, we couldn’t see a thing.

Examples of blackness

blackness
Concepts of whiteness, as well as blackness, were fluid and unstable.
Observers' responses were analyzed to extract an index of spatially induced blackness.
All six opponent-hue names and their combinations were response options; blackness and whiteness in the test field could therefore be reported independently.
For scholars working on literary representations of blackness this book will be extremely useful.
A few boards, nailed at random over the felt provided the only light touch in all the blackness.
Its corollary, darkness or blackness, was also the necessary condition for the production of such demonstrations of whiteness.
Any moment now that light's going to go blink and then there's going to be total blackness.
Being therefore familiar with one of those answers (whiteness), he tries to conceptualize the second one (blackness).
A murmur passes through the entourage; eerie blackness falls on the court.
In a section of the perspectively foreshortened lunar surface lies a deep crater, its dark blackness establishing a sharp contrast.
Such a law would connect the universals of ravenhood and blackness, for instance.
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