The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.

Further, Mitchell's romantic hero is colored: black and brown, and Rhett's symbolic dark-colored image is placed within the context of two other images: the mythic black rapist and the dark-skinned Arab Sheik, Rudolph Valentino.

The group ’ s next release, Apocalypse ' 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like " Can't Truss It ", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression ; " I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga ", a track addresses on how the urban culture uses the word nigga outside of its usual derogatory context.

Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts.

The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish / Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (" color black ").

In context, a slave who referred to himself, or another black man, as a nigger presumed the master's perceiving him as a slave who has accepted his societally sub-ordinate role as private property, thus, not ( potentially ) subversive of the authority of the master's white supremacy.

In January 1999, David Howard, a white Washington, D. C. city employee, was compelled to resign after using niggardly — in a financial context — while speaking with black colleagues, who took umbrage.

The question which then arises is whether the paradox is to be understood in the context of absolutely no background information ( as Hempel suggests ), or in the context of the background information which we actually possess regarding ravens and black objects, or with regard to all possible configurations of background information.

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that ' I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.

Zhao Ziyang, who was sympathetic to the protestors, later accused his political opponents of illegally removing him from office by using " Cultural Revolution-style " tactics, including " reversing black and white, exaggerating personal offenses, taking quotes out of context, issuing slander and lies ... innundating the newspapers with critical articles making me out to be an enemy, and casual disregard for my personal freedoms.

Movie critic Andrew O ' Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rosselini and Satyajit Ray, said, " It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977.

Pearce thinks that Larsen reworked and updated the tale into a modern American black context.

The no-hair theorem was originally formulated for black holes within the context of a four-dimensional spacetime, obeying the Einstein field equation of general relativity with zero cosmological constant, in the presence of electromagnetic fields, or optionally other fields such as scalar fields and massive vector fields ( Proca fields, spinor fields, etc.

) while the melodic ideas and unconventional ( at least, in the context of classical music ) rhythms and musical forms were born from the Ring Shouts and country blues styles of the black slaves.

" The term " spiritual song " was often used in the black and white Christian community through the 19th century ( and indeed much earlier ), and " spiritual " was used as a noun to mean, according to the context, " spiritual person " or " spiritual thing ", but not specifically with regard to song.

In addition Norman Mailer, who had been part of the press corps sent to cover the event, wrote a book, The Fight ( 1975 ), describing the events, and placing them within the context of his views of black American culture.

Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.

This fervent disagreement with notable white feminists furthered her persona as an " outsider ": " in the institutional milieu of black feminist and black lesbian feminist scholars [...] and within the context of conferences sponsored by white feminist academics, Lorde stood out as an angry, accusatory, isolated black feminist lesbian voice ".

In computing terminology, black-and-white is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white pixels ; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of gray, is referred to in this context as grayscale.

It has long-term reach and global context, including revolts, tudent movements, counter-culture, le gauchisme and its eventual transformation into legend as a way of trying to account for and symbolize developments in radical politics, popular culture, and social change in the late 1960s and beyond.

Foucault then concludes that this political process can be traced to the general context of resistances, revolts and great insurrections of conduct ( Peasants ' Revolt of 1524-1526 for example ).

Foucault concludes that these insurrections of conduct push started the transition of the pastoral of souls to the political government of men and the revolts, insurrections of conduct and resistances should be seen in this context.

In the context of the ongoing Cold War, PAIGC guerrillas received Kalashnikovs from the USSR, bazookas from Cuba and recoilless rifles from the People's Republic of China.

Set in 1897, the mystery is complicated by rising tensions between Cuba and the United States and forces the team to ask, within the context of their era, a complex ethical question, could the act of a woman murdering her own kids be looked at as her trying to gain control over her life and her world?

In Puerto Rico and Cuba coger is not considered offensive, unless used in an unambiguously sexual context.

When both the term baseline and either of label or tag are used together in the same context, label and tag usually refer to the mechanism within the tool of identifying or making the record of the snapshot, and baseline indicates the increased significance of any given label or tag.

Interestingly, the above " Sharkovskii ordering " of the positive integers also occurs in a slightly different context in connection with the logistic map: the stable cycles appear in this order in the bifurcation diagram, starting with 1 and ending with 3, as the parameter is increased.

Solon's reforms occurred in the context of democratic politics at Athens that required clearer distinctions between " free " and " slave "; as a perverse consequence, chattel slavery increased.

Hagen looked up the phone in Medellin in 1957 and found that 15 % of the surnames were Basques, of Basque origin, finding then that employers in the percentage of surnames was up to 25 %, which led it to conclude that the inheritance Basque was very important to explain the increased industrial development of Antioquia in the Colombian context.

Opposition to the Algerian War and the Vietnam War, to laws allowing or encouraging racial segregation and to laws which overtly discriminated against women and restricted access to divorce, increased use of marijuana and hallucinogens, the emergence of pop cultural styles of music and drama, including rock music and the ubiquity of stereo, television and radio helped make these changes visible in the broader cultural context.

The diagnosis may be suspected as coagulation testing reveals an increased PTT in the context of a normal PT and bleeding time.

Media literacy education began to appear in state English education curriculum frameworks by the early 1990s as a result of increased awareness in the central role of visual, electronic and digital media in the context of contemporary culture.

Within the context of the strip club, dancers sometimes give the impression that they are revealing private information, or backstage information to a customer in order to play the confidence game for increased profit.

In the context of mountain biking the term compact crankset, or micro drive, refers to smaller triple cranksets, giving a small benefit in weight at the expense of increased wear and also giving the bike better clearance over obstacles.

It has also been established that increased tonal context enables listeners to judge pitch more accurately.

Although supply-siders promised increased investment as a result of top-rate and corporate tax cuts, growth and investment suffered for now in the context of high interest rates.

The defeat of Arab armies in the Six Day War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of communism as a viable alternative with the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War has increased the appeal of Islamism and Islamic fundamentalist movements, especially in the context of popular dissatisfaction with ruling regimes in the Muslim world.

Revisionist historians have placed the background of the Pequot War within the context of European history, in which religious wars gave rise to increased violence, and Dutch and English colonization in North America, as well as the geopolitical ambitions and struggles of contending Native peoples during the first half of the seventeenth century.

During Heggessey's five years in charge, BBC One's audience share fell by 19. 9 %, to 23 %, although this was in the context of declining audience figures across all British television channels due to increased competition from multichannel digital television.

Several studies have found increased pSTS activation when subjects perceive a human action that is incongruent with the action expected from the actor ’ s context and inferred intention: for instance, a human performing a reach-to-grasp motion on empty space next to an object, versus grasping the object ; a human shifting eye gaze toward empty space next to a checkerboard target versus shifting gaze toward the target ; an unladen human turning on a light with his knee, versus turning on a light with his knee while carrying a pile of books ; and a walking human pausing as he passes behind a bookshelf, versus walking at a constant speed.

In this context, the use of French seemed to be on the decline despite the increased number of graduates of the educational system, which leads to the fact that much of French remains an important social indicator.

By the time of Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo, with the increased emphasis on Marian piety, a wider role for Mary began to appear in the context of the history of salvation.

In this context, it was of importance that fewer and fewer skilled workers continued at the engineering colleges, whereas the number of general upper secondary graduates increased significantly.

Myths play a crucial part in Iranian culture and our understanding of them is increased when we consider them within the context of Iranian history.

A comment by Ellsworth about the increased workload at the patent office, taken out of context and embellished, was apparently the source of an urban legend that a patent office official ( Charles H. Duell in some versions ) claimed that everything which could be invented had already been invented .< ref >

Within the context of a long term relationship, which is dependent on trust, similar facial features increased the attractiveness of an individual, leading one to believe that facial resemblance and trust have great effects on relationships.

Under continual distractor recall conditions, while the increased interpresentation intervals reduces the similarities between the given study contexts and test context, the relative similarities amongst items remains unchanged.

First, in the context of a mature market such as for oil in developed countries, the direct rebound effect is usually small, and so increased fuel efficiency usually reduces resource use, other conditions remaining constant.

Within the context of the strip club, dancers might sometimes give the impression that they are revealing private ( or backstage ) information to customers in order to play a confidence game for increased profit.