Blackness

== English == === Proper noun === Blackness A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3830). A small coastal village in Falkirk council area, Scotland; a nearby headland is named Black Ness (OS grid ref NT0580). A hamlet in Westham parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6104). A suburb of Crowborough, Wealden district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ5230). === Noun === Blackness (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of blackness (“state of being of African descent; culture of African-Americans”). 2000, "Ghetto fabulous" in Geneva Smitherman, Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 145: Describes a person or thing that is authentic, the height of something, according to the authentic, natural, ‘keepin-it-real’ standards of Blackness that are believed to exist in ghetto communities. Also ghetto fab. 2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38: From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being. === References ===