Sentences with phrase «american xenophobia»
For those who might question the relevance of such a show in their lives, Times art critic Christopher Knight delivered an opening line of his review that read: «Given deplorable declarations of American xenophobia now splashed across newspaper front pages, clogging social media outlets and upending television news shows, there could be no more impeccable a moment for a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.»
http://www.latimes.com/ Not exact matches
If «The Other Side of Hope» packed fresh urgency in an era of heightened xenophobia worldwide, then Frederick Wiseman's «Ex Libris — The New York Public Library,» a masterful study of an invaluable American institution, felt like nothing short of an attack on the anti-intellectualism of the Trump administration.
(I suspect the problem isn't so much xenophobia as habit; most Americans have never seen a subtitled movie and probably regard the prospect of seeing one as work.)
As she's grown, she's become a part of this world: the lack of Asian American history and issues both in classrooms and the Western consciousness; police brutality and Black Lives Matter; deportation and xenophobia; the fact that we live on indigenous land; that there is a racist and sexist in the highest office in this country.
«Bray illuminates the dark side of the American Dream in her long - awaited sequel to The Diviners (2012), weaving xenophobia, industrial progress, Jazz Age debauchery, government secrets, religious fervor, and supernatural horror into a sprawling and always entertaining narrative.»
If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.
With its vast population of immigrants, undocumented workers, and people of Mexican and Latin American descent, Southern California is particularly sensitive to issues of xenophobia and border violence.
In this current moment, one that finds the United States in the midst of a racial crisis following numerous police shootings of African - American men and Britain in a state of confusion as to what separating from the European Union (a vote that was arguably fuelled by increasing xenophobia) would mean, this work seems all the more instructive.
For example, John Hunter, a recent president of the B.C. law society, wrote in a message to his members, with just a slight touch of xenophobia, «Civility and mutual respect are aspects of professionalism that need emphasis in these days of the portrayal of aggressive and preening lawyers on American television.»
1 See Kimberly A Moore, «Xenophobia in American Courts»; Kimberly A Moore, «Populism and Patents,» but compare Paul M Janicke & LiLan Ren, «Who Wins Patent Infringement Cases?»
In the social media statement, Green argued that because of the «clear racism, sexism and xenophobia» in the American election, Zabel's display could «underscore the distrust many Canadians feel» towards the justice system.
«The venom that's been spouted by Trump, the xenophobia, and the dehumanizing of different races and classes have been painful to watch,» she says, adding that several of her Middle Eastern clients have expressed anxiety about how Americans now treat them.