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1. www.byrdie.com › why-are-black-designers-calledWhy Are Black Fashion Designers Considered "Urban"? - Byrdie

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   Feb 29, 2024 · Black designers are modern, contemporary, innovative, and inspiring, only to be pigeonholed into one category—urban. Correcting the role of language should be an essential action item to dismantling systemic racism in the fashion industry.

2. www.forbes.com › sites › jemimamcevoyHere’s How ‘Urban,’ A Term Plagued By Racial Stereotypes ...

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   Jun 10, 2020 · TOPLINE. Major record labels, radio stations, and even the Grammys are now distancing themselves from the category “urban” amid calls for racial equality in the U.S., signaling the downfall of an...

3. www.lawsociety.org.uk › topics › ethnic-minorityA guide to race and ethnicity terminology and language

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   Use of the term 'BAME' has been increasingly criticised. In Black History Month, our Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division recorded a podcast on ‘Is BAME problematic?’. More recently, UK broadcasters (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) have committed to avoid using the acronym wherever possible.

4. slate.com › human-interest › 2016Why Is Colored Person Hurtful and Person of Color OK? A ...

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   Since “colored person” means the same thing, why is it wrong to say it? Some would say that black people have a right to decide what they want to be called, and that that’s all there is to it.

5. www.britannica.com › video › colour-black-wayThe science behind the color black - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   If you want to get true black, there's only one place to go-- a real black hole. Black holes absorb all the light and everything else, so maybe, actually, you shouldn't go there. Learn why the colour black appears the way it does and how researchers are creating purer versions of it.

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6. www.npr.org › 2020/06/15 › 877384808Is This The End For 'Urban' Music? - NPR

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   Jun 15, 2020 · The term "urban" has been used for decades as a catch-all term for Black music — but it is now quickly falling out of favor in the music industry in the midst of a growing new...

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   Is 'urban' a good term for black music?

   • The term "urban" has been used for decades as a catch-all term for Black music — but it is now quickly falling out of favor in the music industry in the midst of a growing new civil rights movement. Imagine this: you're a participant in a televised game show, and you've made it all the way to the final round.

   Is This The End For 'Urban' Music? - NPR

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   Why did black radio stop using the word 'urban'?

   • Over time, “urban” began to be used in reference to nearly all black artists and black radio, but despite its rapid antiquation as musicians expanded into new genres and styles, some black radio executives were reluctant to eliminate the word because it was easier to sell advertising spots to companies using the term “urban” rather than black.

   Here’s How ‘Urban,’ A Term Plagued By Racial Stereotypes ... - Forbes

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   Where did the word urban come from?

   • The original meaning of urban, from the Latin urbanas, dates back to the 1610s, referring to cities or city life and in its noun form “city dweller” It began to shift in the late 20th century, gradually acquiring a suggested reference to African Americans.

   Here’s How ‘Urban,’ A Term Plagued By Racial Stereotypes ... - Forbes

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   Why do people call music 'urban'?

   • The co-opting and shift in connotation of the term "urban" is a reflection of the way the same thing often happens to music that is produced under its banner. What was originally created by Black people to empower, is later used by white people to marginalize those same creators while profiting from their creative labor.

   Is This The End For 'Urban' Music? - NPR

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   How do we get the blackest black?

   • But to get the blackest black, we need to use nanotechnology. Researchers are using a raise of carbon nanotubes to track photons. Photons that hit the surface get trapped among the nanotubes and bounce around until they lose their energy and turn into not light-- or, as we like to call it in science, heat.

   The science behind the color black - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   Why was African-American created?

   • Black never connoted the ugly-newsreel/segregated water-fountain pain of Negro and colored, and African-American was created not because black had become especially freighted with negative associations, but because the hyphenated conception of identity had become so attractive and in vogue at the time.

   Colored person versus person of color: How does society decide which

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8. edition.cnn.com › 2014/02/19 › livingThe evolving terms used to describe black Americans | CNN

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   Feb 19, 2014 · Among black Americans, ideas about the language of self-identification have changed over time. In the early 19th century, black leaders also debated what names to give their religious and...