Sentences with phrase «american racism»

As James W. Loewen demonstrates in Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (Simon & Schuster, 2006), white places are almost always homogenous on purpose.

The terms, «black,» «colored,» and «negro,» according to Jackson lacked, «cultural integrity,» and were too rooted in American racism.

For painter HENRY OSSAWA TANNER the pressures of American racism and the burdens of representing his race were too great.

Green Glove Rapist, 1971, is the artist's biting satire of contemporary American racism, rendered in the most garishly cartoonish aesthetic possible.

Inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts, the works he created during and after World War II capture the savagery of Nazism, the dangers of totalitarianism, and the pathos of American racism.

The new works advance Bradford's previous explorations of homophobia and American racism.

The familiar title and bold color contrast attracts audiences, but the pleasing aesthetic and cleverly appropriated title are quickly dwarfed by the harsh realities about American racism revealed through the content of the work.

Pope.L has a knack for drawing out the scatological qualities of gestural painting, the abject potential of collage, and the rhetorical power of color to expose the psychosexual substrate of American racism.

It depicts a psychotic orgy of historical and current American racism, violence, and black resistance.

Her caricatured figures — what Robert Storr called, in this magazine, «burlesque pantomimes of American racism» — couple in positions that furiously parody the sexual violence of slavery.

In I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, a carefully constructed and researched portrait of Garner, Rolling Stone staff writer and author Matt Taibbi utilizes the tragedy to hold a mirror to the degrading, demoralizing and crippling manifestations of American racism.

Ironically, his effort to survive in New York was complicated by his having to accommodate himself to an unfamiliar form of prejudice, namely, American racism.

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) Raoul Peck's journey of author and activist James Baldwin's exploration into the history of American racism through the three men that inspired him — Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Director Peck blends Baldwin's words, documentary footage and cinematic images to create a contemporary narrative of The Otherness of Black and White America.

Now, the film's star, Daniel Kaluuya, has responded to a criticism from actor Samuel L. Jackson, who recently questioned why a British man was cast in a film about American racism.

Rounding out the Best Picture lineup for 2016 is Pablo Larraín's Jackie, David Mackenzie's Hell Or High Water, South Korea's The Handmaiden, and documentary13th, Ava DuVernay's look at the history of African - American racism in the United States.

Fortunately, Disney's true story of the recently desegregated T.C. Williams football team as it named a black head coach over a popular, white, hall of fame - bound incumbent takes on the troubling history of Virginia's role in American racism, tied up in an inspirational sports movie package.

(Tsirk) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Russian Retrospective Features 1936 Film Indicting American Racism For my money, Circus (1936) is the standout in a Russian retrospective of five films each featuring Lyubov Orlova (1902 - 1975), The First Lady of the Soviet Screen.

In the grand tradition of «Night of the Living Dead» comes a film, from writer - director Jordan Peele, that functions as both frightening horror thriller and racially conscious satire that confronts the dark underbelly of American racism in its more insidious, less obvious forms.

Denzel Washington has based his career on toying with that black - miscreant stereotype, often sexualizing it, but mainly using it to symbolize the black phantom of American racism.

Or will it be Jordan Peele, who smuggled a brutal critique of American racism and liberal pseudo-support into the mainstream by wrapping it in the audience - friendly conventions of horror.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

The deep - seated character of American racism expressed itself in the policies of the labor unions that Social Gospel thinkers supported so strongly.

Later there was a sequence of black - white dialogue which sought to soften the reaction of blacks to American racism.

Two rules, both deriving from the fundamental goal of nullifying every consequence of the legacy of American racism, control the determination of these boundaries.

The roots of black preachers» prerogative and power are in the soils of African religion and American racism.

Hitler and other Nazis envied the US, and wanted to learn how the Americans did it; it's no great surprise that they believed that what had made America great was American racism.

Not exact matches

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

But last night he reportedly interrupted his own concert several times on Thursday night to tell the crowd that he would have voted for Donald Trump and that African - Americans should «stop focusing on racism.»

Most state election officials scoffed at the idea, while Trump critics described his obsession as thinly veiled racism against Hispanic and African - American voters.

The Democrats» 2016 platform notes how «institutional racism» pervades American life and has called for criminal - justice reform.

The decision came amid a larger trend of questioning Confederate memorials across the American South, given the Confederacy's legacy of violence, racism and white supremacy.

Racism motivating delay of demolition of 100 - year - old home in Boulder, Mexican - American family says

On Monday, Mr. Trump declared, «Racism is evil,» adding that «those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.»

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Anyone who has read Richard Williams's 2014 memoir, «Black and White: The Way I See It,» knows how much resentment he felt about the racism he faced growing up in the American South and how intent he was on preparing his tennis - playing daughters to handle being outsiders in a predominantly white sport.

Following criticism, the president was more specific on Monday, saying: «Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.»

One is to blame everything on racism, to declare that the situation proves the continued existence of old - style American racial enmity, only now in a more subtle and modernized form.

Many white Americans still refuse to embrace their black neighbors as equals and so the saga of racism, prejudice and inequality will continue.

It is ok to be proud of your ethnic background, but it is not ok to cry out racism every single time a confrontation happens between an African American, and another race.

The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

I really love how white media and white people are coming up with new code words to disguise plain all American as apple pie racism.

Christians must discuss injustices like medical racism and our nation's eugenics movement, in which Puerto Rican, African, and Native American women were sterilized without consent.

And of course, slavery, then Jim Crow, remained firmly in place in the states south of the Mason - Dixon Line, but Coates demonstrates the pervasive racism and discrimination that prevented African Americans in the north from educational and professional advancement as well.

«This classic novel shows the courage, love, and faith that bind an African - American family together despite the racism and inhumanity they face.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

It seems to me that we will see Satan wearing a parka before racism is exorcised from the american soul....

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

White racism, though pernicious and potent, can not fully explain the socioeconomic position of the majority of black Americans.

They were far better than present Americans in everything except for racism.