Sentences with phrase «american racial divide»

Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck's six - years - in - the - making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.

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I predict millennials in particular will continue to drop out of religious life, and the ethnic divides within American Christianity, which many sought to heal with a quick - fix approach to «racial reconciliation» that bypassed repentance and justice, will only widen.

Indeed, the entire affair illustrates how powerfully two separate levels of deliberation about racial matters» that of the American polity as a whole and that of blacks by and among themselves» can interact with each other, on both sides of the political divide.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

Historically, the greatest divide in American society has been the racial divide.

The same Quinnipiac poll that found the mayor's approval at a low point earlier this month showed what The Times dubbed a «stark racial divide,» with 64 % of African - American voters saying they approve of his performance.

Stop dividing Americans up into racial, economical, and political categories.

This is a key element he explored in the film, with African characters from the fictional country of Wakanda, which has never been colonized or even had any trade relationships with western countries, and African - American characters, who reflect the stress of living in a country still confronting racial divides.

The events of the film are much more important to the African - American community, and to America as a country trying to overcome its great racial divide, but somehow Washington manages to make the film much more about the significance of the individual characters first.

But the future scholar and Civil Rights leader, who would also become the first African - American to receive a doctorate from the college, made one attempt to cross the racial divide.

These tragedies come amidst deep, longstanding racial divides and on the heels of the deaths of other African Americans at the hands of police or in police custody.

LGBT people are not necessarily as easily identified as blacks or Native Americans, and because LGBT occurs across racial divides (and because so many LGBT individuals already are professionals, artists, actors, whatever), it's more difficult for white supremacist types to make the same arguments about them.

Apart from American Indians, and later a number of nonwhite immigrants such as Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese and Japanese, United States society has been divided into two major racial castes — Negroes and whites.

Looking at the maps, visitors can see how cities were divided by racial groups and environmental risks and how these separations led to past state actions (and inactions) and present - day American problems.

In 1941, a period of extreme racial segregation, Lawrence overcame the racial divide to become the first African - American artist whose work was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, and in 1942 he became the first African - American to join a New York gallery.