Sentences with phrase «american racial issues»

The film is part of a curious new trend of British works on American racial issues, following last year's British - directed 12 Years a Slave.

Not exact matches

Eight days after the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the arrests of two African - American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing when they opted not to order anything has catapulted the issue of racial bias into the national spotlight.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

But ignoring color will not solve the race issues in America, nor will it enable the racial reconciliation that is needed in the American Church.

When Lehrer asked him whether Schulkin evinced racial prejudice given that he singled out African - American, Latino and Asian neighborhoods, de Blasio said he would not weigh in on «what's going on in his soul,» calling his professional role the main issue.

(You might recall that it was McCall who insisted there wouldn't be a racial issue if Cuomo primaried the state's first black governor, David Paterson, even as Rangel and other African American leaders were warning the AG not to go there).

Widely - known for unearthing the region's African - American History, her work transcended racial issues, broadening awareness on the experience and impact of many overlooked groups.

A recent joint statement issued by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association concluded that further research into racial and ethnic differences and improved cardiovascular risk - prediction methods in people with type 1 diabetes is needed.

Whereas the manifest of racial issues is about the black Americans and the Whites, currently, interracial dating and related marriages are not only legally acceptable but also culturally encouraged.

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

While an audience watched Edgerton and Ruth Negga's portrayal of Richard and Mildred Loving, the biracial couple whose landmark civil rights case saw the U.S. Supreme Court end all racial restrictions on marriage in 1967, a legal fight is being waged between the U.S. federal government and the state of North Carolina over equal rights for transgender Americans, and gay marriage continues to be a divisive issue.

In her new book, Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School, Associate Professor Mica Pollock compiles essays written by scholars who have studied teachers struggling with race issues and about the various racial dilemmas facing the American teacher.

The dissertation examined the perspectives of African American and white faculty mentors of African - American undergraduate students through a comparative analysis of the factors that influence the faculty members» mentorship of students, the role of formative experiences in faculty's philosophy and approach to mentorship around issues of race, and the advising and counseling strategies employed by faculty when assisting African American undergraduate students negotiate their perceived experiences of racial conflict.

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For example, administrators may think of discipline disparities as an issue that mainly affects boys, not realizing until they examine the data that African American girls are often disciplined more often than white or Asian boys and far more often than girls of any other racial background.

Income and racial gaps in school readiness closed significantly between 1998 and 2010, according to studies in a special issue of AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»

She also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California where she concentrated on a range of social and racial justice issues including advancing education equity, LGBTQ issues, immigrant rights, and advocacy for the homeless.

Recent racial issues in the United States have stirred heated controversy over whether, how much and in what way to remember those who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

In addition to racial tensions and immigration, one very important issue is American democracy in the age of humbuggery.

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Since the 1960s, David Hammons has confronted American cultural stereotypes and racial issues through wittily incisive sculptures, installations, performances, and body prints.

Investigating the hybridization of Mexican - American identity and the culture of consumerism, Mondini - Ruiz» sculptural installation will further focus on issues surrounding border politics, racial and class interactions, and cultural tourism.

By contrast, Walker and Marcopoulos's massive reproduction of the mountain stresses the size of the related historical issues, as well as the scale of racial conflict still evident in American society today.

Michel's style exists in the same space as a number of high - profile African - American artists — writer Paul Beatty, artist Kara Walker, even rapper Kendrick Lamar — who use racial assumptions and issues of identity in open - ended, ambiguous, and non-preachy ways.

Subjects of Sauls works are racial conflicts and social discrepancies between poverty and wealth and to this day Saul's painting deals with contemporary American issues

Durham focuses on the foundation of US identities, but he avoids reducing the issues and keeps us asking what the term Native American — which was only popularized as an «ethnic» or racial identity in early - 19th - century US — really means and how it can limit the imagination of non-Native American audiences.

Many were first published in Life magazine upon the release of Ralph Ellison's award winning novel, which explored racial and social issues facing African Americans in the 20th century.

A show organized by the Rubell Family Collection of Miami, «30 Americans» is described as focusing «on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture.»

According to the Washington Post, Facebook ads paid for by Russians as part of a covert influence campaign appear aimed at sowing divisions among American voters by exploiting racial and religious issues.

MomsRising has shared their new Birth & Maternal Health Resource Book addressing the issue of maternal death (death associated with pregnancy) and maternal mortality (physical or mental illness or disability related to pregnancy and childbirth), including racial disparities among African American women.

Forthcoming in the June print issue of the American Sociological Review and recently published online, the paper, «Neighborhood Foreclosures, Racial / Ethnic Transitions, and Residential Segregation,» noted that the crisis spurred one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, changes that could alter the complexion of American cities for a generation or more.