Zuckerman, MichaelZuckerman, Michael. "The Power of Blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution in St. Domingue." In Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain, 175-218. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993....
black power (redirected fromBlackpower) Encyclopedia Related to Blackpower:black powder,Black Power movement,Stokely Carmichael,Black Panther Party Black Power n. A movement among African Americans originating in the 1960s and emphasizing racial pride and social equality through the creation of black po...
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Darkness A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Darkness A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness...
Together, they articulated blackness as arrogance, femininity as sexual confidence, and friendship as powerfully seductive in the song "Feeling Myself" (2015). We argue that the song became a #blackgirlmagic anthem for Black girls and women because of the ways Black girls and women engaged ...
In a few short years he had broken the power of the Mafia, simply by arbitrarily arresting anyone even suspected of being a mafioso. And so also brought ruin to a great many innocent families.The Bocchicchios had been rash enough to resort to force against this unlimited power. Half of ...
Complete absence of light. The room was plunged into darkness when the power went out. 5 Shadow Make appear small by comparison; This year's debt dwarves that of last year 1 Darkness Darkness, the polar opposite of brightness, is understood as a lack of illumination or an absence of visibl...
A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall...
Hawthorne’s contemporary, Herman Melville, in his essay ‘Hawthorne and his Mosses’ (1850), famously characterized one of Hawthorne’s most powerful qualities as ‘the power of blackness’: For spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side-...
7.To cause a failure of electrical power in:Storm damage blacked out much of the region. 8.To suppress the broadcast of (an event or program) from an area:blacked out the football game on local TV stations. [Middle Englishblak, from Old Englishblæc; seebhel-inIndo-European roots....
out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oils, say, on a morning in early summer, at its perfect imperial distance-- and have you ever felt for anything ...