Sentences with phrase «british white working class»

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

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Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

«White van man» is a long - used symbol of the working class British man: the craftsmen, tradesman, plumbers, builders, electricians and countless other vital workers who keep our houses, offices and factories in good order.

Writer - director Ken Loach has been making movies about the British working class since the mid-60s, and this masterful dramatic feature proves that even after all these years he can still work himself up into righteous, white - hot rage.

The story of an adopted, professional black British woman (Marianne Jean - Baptiste) who tracks down her white, working - class birth mother (Brenda Blethyn) came with its own themes and ideas.

Indeed, variants on acting white have been spotted by ethnographers among the Buraku outcasts of Japan, Italian immigrants in Boston's West End, the Maori of New Zealand, and the British working class, among others.