Sentences with phrase «american descendents»

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All Americans except the Indians are immigrants or the descendents of immigrants, but not all immigrants have met the same reception.

* Maybe there are some descendents of the Hatfields and McCoys in West Virginia or Kentucky, but where can anyone of the overwhelming percentage of Americans who live in big cities walk out the front door and hunt to eat.

Virginia Ky of the Chinese American Planning Council compared her experience working in a restaurant to Liu's in the factory, while Brooklyn Democratic District leader Olanike Alabi, who is black, declared, «We know struggle — some as the sons and daughters of immigrants, some as descendents of slaves.»

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

«It's kind of American roots music and the music of «Inside Llewyn Davis,»» which Coen said is kind of a descendent of that.

The Catahoula Leopard dog is a descendent of the Native American dogs that the first settlers to northern Louisiana encountered in that area.

The American Pit Bull Terrier is a descendent from the English Pit Bull Terrier, a breed that goes back to the 1800s when it was used for bear and bull baiting.

The descendent of larger Spitz dogs imported from Germany in the 1800 ′ s, the American Eskimo was created by selectively breeding for a small size and a pure white coat.

- The American English coonhound is a descendent of the English foxhound and evolved from Virginia hounds.

As a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular.

The art world had no ready story to explain these startling affinities, although some critics noted that African sources had fed both modernist painting and sculpture and the sensibilities of American slaves» descendents.