Blackness can be contrasted with " acting white ," where black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans, with regard to fashion, dialect, taste in music, and possibly, from the perspective of a significant number of black youth, academic achievement.

Different descriptions, with important functional differences, might be implicitly assumed across various academic and commercial literature:

A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix.

Recent scholarship suggests that these scandals were grounded in more than the " puritanical prudery " of his contemporaries — as had once been assumed — and that Eakins's progressive academic principles may have protected unconscious and dubious agendas.

While reluctant to speak about his private life, it is assumed that his war experience and the war's aftermath persuaded him not to pursue his academic career, preferring to help former soldiers reintegrate into civilian life by assisting them finding employment or further their education.

He also often attacked non-religious academic thinking, a teaching tradition assumed by the Harvard faculty to be a prerequisite for high scholarship.

Non-heterosexual is used in feminist and gender studies fields as well as general academic literature to help differentiate between sexual identities chosen, prescribed and simply assumed, with varying understanding of implications of those sexual identities.

He assumed leadership of Saint Ann's beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

In 2002 the Spanish composer and musicologist Benet Casablancas assumed the academic direction of the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.

Recruitment of academic and other staff was well on course and, by September, some had assumed duties.

On July 1, 2007, the Air Force Reserve Command's ( AFRC ) 433d Airlift Wing ( 433 AW ) at Lackland AFB / Kelly Field assumed responsibility for all flying training and academic training for the C-5 aircraft for all Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard ( ANG ) aircrews, leaving the 97 AMW and Altus to concentrate on C-17 and KC-135 training for AMC, AFRC and ANG aircrews.

During the 1950s and early 1960s Abe was in communication with the well-known Buddhist scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki ( 1870 – 1966 ), e. g., at Columbia University in New York City ; Abe is said to have later assumed Suzuki's rôle as academic transmitter of Buddhism.

He also obtained authority to employ an acting chaplain to be Professor of Ethics, History, and Geography ; remodeled the functions of the academic staff ; and assumed the duties of the inspector of the institution to bar the assumption of authority claimed by Partridge as local commander.

* Marxists often assumed that Marx provided a theoretical system of what they call " the totality " ( the whole economy, or the whole of society-in academic French: la totalité, in German: die Totalität or die Gesamtheit ).

In the same year, he assumed a full time academic post at Thessaloniki School of Theology as Professor of Dogmatics.

Though it should not be assumed, virtual universities may be accredited in the same way as traditional universities and operate according to a similar set of academic standards.

Upon his father's death in 1779, John Wheelock assumed the presidency of the College, despite the fact that he was neither an academic nor a minister.

However, when he assumed the duties of a conductor, he relinquished his career as a pianist.

"; Daugherty later assumed the primary role in Harding's political career.

During the early 1950s, Arafat adopted the name Yasser, and in the early years of Arafat's guerrilla career, he assumed the nom de guerre of Abu Ammar.

When Blankers-Koen gave birth to her first child Jan Junior in 1941, Dutch media automatically assumed her career would be over.

First, there was an extensive need for qualified public school teachers, a career path assumed to be especially attractive to women.

Having spent most of his career, as he himself jokingly admitted once, saying ' No ', Paisley assumed the chairmanship of the Agriculture committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly created by the Belfast Agreement, where he was praised as an effective, coordinating chairman.

However, it is possible that he assumed a meaningful name late in life that was intended to signal a new career: compare Augustus, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Joseph Stalin.

Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums.

When oldest brother Harry began his song writing career he assumed the professional name, " Von Tilzer ", adding the honorific " Von " to his mother's maiden name.

It was widely assumed that as his father, the 13th earl, was in his seventies, Dunglass's political career was behind him, as he would soon inherit the earldom.

With Corbitt's departure from the band ( for a solo career ) in 1969, before the band recorded the Elephant Mountain album, Levinger assumed lead guitar duties and played extensively on Wurlitzer electric piano.

Abernathy began his professional career in 1950, when he was appointed Personnel Director at Alabama State University ; he later assumed the position of Dean of Men and Professor of Social Studies and Mathematics.

It may feel uncomfortable to a young male upon being referred to as a " man " before he believes he has assumed these roles, such as having a career, a partner, a household of his own, fatherhood, etc., though the addition of a jocular modifier such as " young man " or " little man " might lessen the dissonance.

It was at that time that Rex assumed the mysterious, Racer X identity, to pursue his racing career.

Throughout his historical career — at the École Normale and the Sorbonne and in his lectures delivered to the empress Eugénie — his sole aim was to ascertain the truth, and in the defence of truth his polemics against what he imagined to be the blindness and insincerity of his critics sometimes assumed a character of harshness and injustice.

Rahman later said that he had seen Maskaev earlier in his career get knocked out in the first round by former champion Oliver Mccall and he assumed he was brought in as an easy win.

In April 1974, Kevin McGinlay left to pursue a solo career, so Ure assumed vocals in addition to his guitar duties.

Although he had originally assumed Edna's debut Melbourne appearance would be a one-off, Humphries decided to revive " Olympic Hostess " for Phillip Street and its success helped to launch what became a fifty-year career for the self-proclaimed " Housewife Megastar ".

Since his first appearance in the strip, Duke has assumed many career hats, each more outlandish than the last.

It is assumed that Cassius began his career during the reign of Antonius Pius.

Many of Ferdinand von Schill's later biographers assumed that his father's example was an important influence on his subsequent career.

He continued his career in Houston, where he assumed the name " Buddy Rogers.

As his father's career progressed, John Dudley respectively assumed his father's former titles, Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick.

Under P. L. 113, 78th Congress, the Federal Government assumed responsibility for 100% of necessary State expenditures in connection with administration and the counseling and placement of the disabled, and for 50% of the necessary costs of providing clients with rehabilitation case services.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

It is assumed that the flux values increase by a factor of 2.512 per magnitude, in accordance with the opinion that the total mass flux in each unit range in magnitude is constant.

Our technical assistance to these countries should place special emphasis on inducing the central governments to assume the role of advisor and guide which at an earlier stage foreign experts assumed in dealing with the central governments.

It was assumed that the sampling procedure was purely random with respect to the personality variables under investigation.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

Communist target areas can be assumed, but there is no certainty that such assumptions coincide with Soviet intentions.

Settled phosphors, as generally used in image intensifiers, have low optical contact with the substrate surface, hence Af shall be assumed.

It is assumed that the gyros are designed with electrical torquers so that a torque can be applied about their output axes.

And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.

He contends this idea doesn't conflict with experiments on which the principle of conservation of matter and energy is based because some slight error must be assumed in such experiments.

I assumed it was one of those hour-long conversations with Dolly or Constance, she comfortable in bed.

she unquestionably assumed that the more he was entwined with Freddy, the more likely he was to reward Freddy richly upon his death.

Random error is typically assumed to be normally distributed with zero mean and a constant variance.

The Celtic King Caratacus assumed that she, along with Claudius, was the martial leader and bowed before her throne with the same homage and gratitude as he accorded the emperor.

And with Amalaric's death in 531, the Visigothic kingdom entered an extended period of unrest which lasted until Leovigild assumed the throne in 568.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

After friendly correspondence with the caliph at Baghdad, whom he acknowledged as Amir al-Mu ' minin (" Commander of the Faithful "), Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1097 assumed the title of Amir al Muslimin (" Commander of the Muslims ").

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

A runner who reaches on catcher's interference and subsequently scores with two outs scores an unearned run, but baserunners who subsequently score after the runner who has reached on catcher's interference exclusively on clean plays score earned runs ; the baserunner cannot be assumed to have been put out except for the error.