Sentences with phrase «american cultural history»

Looking back, the 1960s was a watershed period in American cultural history.

She «is critical of African American cultural history and the representation of black bodies, and her portraits are satirical manifestations of identities shaped by political, social, economic, and cultural influences.»

Jonathan Berger's project seeks to act as an investigative portrait of an unclassifiable figure of American cultural history.

Schapiro's photographs have been widely reproduced in magazines and books related to American cultural history from the 1960s, civil rights, and motion pictures.

David Hammons, Untitled (Speakers)(1986), (acoustic speakers, bottle caps, wire): The sculpture and installation art of David Hammons speaks in poetic and provocative ways to aspects of African American cultural history and contemporary black experience.

These categories give the show some structural support, and help one navigate a sea of images, each of which offers a compelling glimpse into American cultural history.

The research program of the museum seeks to address these questions by encouraging interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on important issues relating to the biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, geology, paleontology and Native American cultural history of the Santa Barbara Region.

Best - case scenario: An important piece of American cultural history is exposed to a wider audience.

This powerful Western brings together many of the myths and strands of American cultural history.

An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

Not exact matches

For example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York City.

It's the longest running sitcom in American history, a cultural phenomenon that made it OK for adults to watch cartoons.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

«The endeavor «to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices» might in another year lead to historical re-enactments of anti-Semitic or racist ceremonies familiar from Western history or parodies that trivialize Native American heritage or other revivals of cultural and religious insult.»

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

But few interpretations in political or cultural history, and almost none in social history, have implied such a favorable view of the American past.

The Fifties seemed to be the one clear example in modern American history of social, cultural, and moral renewal.

In the annals of American history, we've garnered precious little main text; we're the cultural equivalent of a buried footnote.

Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car — functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.

Bloom, rather loosely, calls the American religion «gnosticism,» the belief that each individual possesses a divine spark and salvation consists in the liberation of that divine spark from the body and from the particularities of its constraints in history and cultural space.

Although there is an unmistakable tendency toward denominationalism in all American religious communities, and although denominations have dominated the cultural history of America, I feel it is not quite correct to call the denomination the American church form.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

Hence the «Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association» include such works as Studies in Chinese Thought (Memoir No. 75), Studies in Islamic Cultural History (Memoir No. 76), Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition (Memoir No. 81), and Village India (Memoir No. 83).

The African - American Cultural Festival Sept 5 - 6 in downtown Raleigh celebrates African - American culture and history with an art gallery walk, vendors, kids» activities, food and more.

2 p.m. New York Times bestselling author and distinguished scholar Carole Boston Weatherford discusses how American history and cultural evolution is shaped by slavery, segregation and social justice.

includes more than 20 Chicago - area museums, from the scientific (Adler Planetarium) to the cultural (Swedish American Museum, National Hellenic Museum), from the artistic (Smart Museum) to the historical (DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago History Museum).

Judt criticizes American foreign policy, free markets, fellow academics, Israel, journalists, and trends within the academic study of history (e.g., cultural studies are «jejune and callow»).

At 3:30 p.m., state Sen. Jesse Hamilton announces legislation recognizing 400 years of African - American history and hosts a roundtable on diversity and inclusion in cultural institutions, Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave., Brooklyn.

Also at 6 p.m., Sen. ose Peralta and the NAACP Corona - East Elmhurst branch will celebrate African - American History and Heritage Month, honoring NYCPublic Advocate Tish James and community leaders and activists, Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, 100 - 01 Northern Blvd., Corona, Queens.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions aCultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions acultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

«Thirty years ago, the National Park Service was at the forefront of research on the cultural history — American, French, Spanish, and Native American — of our country,» Plog wrote to Science in an e-mail message.

As Swarthmore College psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote in a 2000 article in American Psychologist, «I think it is only a slight exaggeration to say that for the first time in human history, in the contemporary United States large numbers of people can live exactly the kind of lives they want, unconstrained by material, economic, or cultural limitations.»

Philadelphia singles are lucky enough to live in a city steeped in American history, so take advantage and impress your date with a visit to a cultural institution.

The dating site boasts the largest community of African - American daters in the US, so it won't be hard to start a casual convo with date prospects whose cultural histories and backgrounds extend far beyond the ranch lands.

Walter White is no longer just a staple of the methamphetamine business, but a cultural icon in American history.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

2008's Oscar - winning documentary «Man on Wire» beautifully showcased the incredible French artist Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, defined cultural American history by walking on a wire hung between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City.

But while it may have lacked for viewers and cultural dominance, the 2016 remake of Roots stayed true to the intent of the original: to keep this dark chapter of American history fresh in our minds.

For millions of people, Nancy Kerrigan being attacked in January 1994 was a defining cultural moment and one of the most high - profile scandals in the history of American sports.

With all this in mind, I recently asked my Latin American History students to debate whether we should celebrate a national holiday in honor of Christopher Columbus — the man most responsible for starting the trans - Atlantic slave trade, an indigenous holocaust, and a legacy of cultural destruction.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

Embracing authentic text, providing context to the events that have shaped American history, and allowing a critical eye to fall on events that are regularly taken for granted supports students in growing their cultural identity and their place in the world around them.

Normal Park's partners include the Creative Discovery Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, the Chattanooga History Center, the Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center, the Tennessee Aquarium, and the Chattanooga Zoo.

Two years, including one year of world history, cultural geography and one year of U.S. history, or one - half year of U.S. history and one - half year of American government or civics.

Examples of project themes range from a comparison of French and American schools to a discussion of an environmental issue facing your region or the state; from sharing cultural information (e.g. tourism, history, visual and performing arts) to comparing geography and related industries in Maine and the Pays de la Loire; from sharing information about students» families and / or friends to creating stories or plays together in French and English.