Concepts of whiteness, as well as blackness, were fluid and unstable.
Observers' responses were analyzed to extract an index of spatially induced blackness.
All six opponent-hue names and their combinations were response options; blackness and whiteness in the test field could therefore be reported independently.
For scholars working on literary representations of blackness this book will be extremely useful.
A few boards, nailed at random over the felt provided the only light touch in all the blackness.
Its corollary, darkness or blackness, was also the necessary condition for the production of such demonstrations of whiteness.
Any moment now that light's going to go blink and then there's going to be total blackness.
Being therefore familiar with one of those answers (whiteness), he tries to conceptualize the second one (blackness).
