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  2. Black-and-white dualism - Wikipedia

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    White often represents purity or innocence in Western culture, [2] particularly as white clothing or objects, can be stained easily. In most Western countries white is the color worn by brides at weddings. Angels are typically depicted as clothed in white robes. In many Hollywood Westerns, bad cowboys wear black hats while the good ones wear white.

  3. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - Wikipedia

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    The black-and-white silent film is of very poor quality, and the camera is shaky, but nonetheless, he is engrossed. Soon the young man starts to get upset. Soon the young man starts to get upset. He yells things at the screen, trying to influence the outcome of his parents' courtship and the other people in the audience begin to think he is crazy.

  4. List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in fiction who, by means of special insight or powers often of a supernatural or quasi-mystical nature, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble.

  5. Does anyone really dream in black and white? - AOL

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    Some people dream in black and white, and it might have to do with...TVs? Join us as we explore why some people's dreams still look like vintage cartoons. Does anyone really dream in black and white?

  6. Magical Negro - Wikipedia

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    The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock character who comes to the aid of the (usually white) protagonists in a film. [1]

  7. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.

  8. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started. [ 4 ] In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma". [ 5 ]

  9. Black–white binary - Wikipedia

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    In critical race theory, the black–white binary is a paradigm through which racial history is presented as a linear story between White and Black Americans. [1] This binary has largely defined how civil rights legislation is approached in the United States, as African Americans led most of the major racial justice movements that informed civil rights era reformation. [2]