Sentences with phrase «american social elite»

Tina Barney, best known for her portraits of the American social elite, returned to landscape photography during the summer of 2017 after having experimented with it in the late 1980s.

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Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

Gelernter is interested in the social formation of American elites.

Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite — one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.»

In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.

Internationally acclaimed American artist Tina Barney burst on the scene in the early 1980s with her provocative yet intimate photographs capturing the domestic lives and social rituals of the elite.

The narratives he exposes — the social and psychological consequences of economic inequality, the racism endemic to America's political elites and institutions, and the failed promise of American freedom and prosperity for all of its citizens — once seemed marginal to white, American society.