Sentences with phrase «about black identity»

The Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street) hosts «Drawing Lines: The Black American Experience,» a series of talks about black identity, on May 11,12 & 13.

«I am interested in using what's available to me,» she tells me, and in «building portraits of the landscape that are also telling stories about Black identity.»

At a time when America is grappling with deep - rooted, seemingly intractable racial issues, it's time for a frank conversation about black identity.

Hank Willis Thomas, Zero Hour An acclaimed young artist, Hank Willis Thomas often appropriates mass media images and texts, which he manipulates to explore tacit assumptions and attitudes about black identity.

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What my grandmother and her compatriots showed was anything but love... and when we say we love the gay or lesbian but yet we think that there is something sinful about their identity... well, it's kinda like that «love» my mimi showed those black visitors.

A second weakness is that despite West's identity as a progressive black Baptist, this volume has little to say about religion.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

I have not seen her in almost 20 years but I love her still for how she treated me - with love and dignity during a time when I was unsure about the meaning of my black identity.)

What is most dismaying about the employment of a composite girlfriend in Dreams, is not the employment itself (which perhaps can be justified as fairly common, as hinted - at up - front, and as protecting others» privacy), but the using of it to gain black - identity creds with its story about his conflict with her about a play:

I couldn't be positive about the present identity of what had been our Freedom Center: a three - room house stuffed with library books, sports equipment, telephone (the only one in the black section) and mimeograph machine and a thousand posters and handbills.

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At its heart, Marvel's Black Panther is a movie about pride and identity.

Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.

II) angelina jolie (alexander) angelina jolie (bone collector) angelina jolie (tomb raider) angelina jolie (sky captain) tommy lee jones (men in black 2) milla jovovich (he got game) milla jovovich (the messenger) ashley judd (high crimes) ashley judd (de-lovely) glen keane (tarzan animator) diane keaton (something's got ta give) christine keener (being john malkovich) david kelly (waking ned devine) nicole kidman (bewitched) nicole kidman (the hours) nicole kidman (the human stain) nicole kidman (moulin rouge) nicole kidman (stepford wives) ben kingsley (sexy beast) kevin kline (road to el dorado) kevin kline (de-lovely) ashton kutcher (butterfly effect) diane lane (under the tuscan sun) anthony lapaglia (the guys) heath ledger (the patriot) heath ledger (a knight's tale) spike lee (bamboozled) tea leoni (jurassic park 3) ray liotta (identity) jennifer lopez (the cell) jennifer lopez (maid in manhattan) justin long (jeepers creepers) jennifer love hewitt (the tuxedo) jon lovitz (rat race) baz luhrmann (moulin rouge) catherine maccormack (dancing at lughnasa) william h. macy (pleasantville) william h. macy (mystery men) madonna (the next best thing) tobey maguire (pleasantville) tobey maguire (seabiscuit) tobey maguire (spider - man) tobey maguire (spider - man 2) john malkovich (being john malkovich) david mamet (the winslow boy) julianna margulies (what's cooking) julianna margulies (ghost ship / evelyn) garry marshall (director, the runaway bride) steve martin (novocaine) matthew mcconaughey (u-571) ian mckellen (lord of the rings) kel mitchell (mystery men) ming - na (final fantasy) julianne moore (far from heaven) mandy moore (how to deal) viggo mortensen (Hidalgo) carrie - anne moss (the matrix reloaded) frankie muniz (agent cody banks) sam neill (jurassic park 3) thandie newton (besieged, MI: 2) jack nicholson (about schmidt) jack nicholson (something's got ta give) nick nolte (the good thief) nick nolte (the hulk) edward norton (keeping the faith) edward norton (red dragon) frances o'connor (a.i. artificial intelligence) chris o'donnell (vertical limit) haley joel osment (a.i. artificial intelligence) peter o'toole (troy) gwyneth paltrow (bounce)

And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

The teaser for Black Panther, a substantially better representation of the project than the poster, features vivid imagery, an intriguing tribal - versus - modern setting plus just enough information about a conflict that can affect more than T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman, «42») world and identity.

The Happy Sad (Unrated) Bifurcated Brooklyn drama about two young couples, one, black and gay (Leroy McClain and Charlie Barnett), the other, white and heterosexual (Cameron Scoggins and Sorel Carradine), whose lives serendipitously intertwine as they explore their sexual identity.

«Birdman» looks to be nothing if not unique, a sort of dark comedy version of «Black Swan» about celebritydom and crisis of identity that features an excellent cast, including the rather brilliant casting of Michael Keaton in the lead role.

ohn Trengove's South African coming - of - age drama, The Wound is a visceral and powerfully done film about queer Black identity and its intersections with Ukwaluka, the rite of passage for male Xhosa teens — a rural tribe in the country.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

Sharon (Michon), whose many different hairpieces are a hoot, is outgoing and outspoken, engaged to Lars Hagerbakke (Gary Anthony Williams), who is a bit confused about his identity, in part because he is a black man adopted by a white Swedish family.

At the other end of the artistic spectrum, Jenkins does the impossible: He informs the viewer about the impoverished black experience in America whilst representing the broader experience of the adolescent trying to become secure in his or her identity.

Named one of «25 New Faces of Independent Film» by Filmmaker Magazine for 2017, she tells stories about black girls and women who find themselves between worlds and identities.

«Little Boxes» is a comedy about racial identity from director Rob Meyer; Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis and Armani Jackson star in the story of a biracial grade - schooler who tries to learn to act «more black» to be accepted in his new school.

Dee Rees made a huge impact on the 2011 Sundance Film Festival where she premiered her first feature «Pariah,» a drama about a black teen struggling with her sexual identity.

Talking about whiteness, and asking every student in the room to think about his or her race, could mitigate the feeling many students of color often have in these conversations of, «Okay, now I feel like I have to represent what it means to be black, or Latino, etc.» Find ways to have conversations about what it means to be all different racial identities.

How do black parents communicate information to their children about their personal and group identities as it relates to race, intergroup relationships, and their place in the racial hierarchy?

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

In a narrative showcasing her signature black humor and spot - on observations about life, Chast, an only child, also looks back on her family's history, exploring the identities of her volatile, strong - willed mother, Elizabeth, and her needy, anxious father, George.

In this riveting collection of personal essays about racial identity, blacks and whites, young and old, talk with candor and passion about both the privilege and the prejudice, and how they are negotiated, challenged, or ignored.

Hari Kunzru discusses his first novel, The Impressionist, a black comedy about race and identity, that partially developed from his own experience as a child of an Indian father and English mother.

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A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men who span generations and backgrounds about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant to their experiences such as race, identity, faith, family and fatherhood — .

However, because of my involvement with public art projects and queer identity in early, 90s, I decided to return to paintings with work that looked at the social ideas about the origins of one's sexual identity, often with black humor, of course.

I do this so that the person viewing the piece doesn't get confused that the piece may be about black life, or cultural identity, but instead that the piece is about others» perception of the Other, and how that might obviously have a negative impact on a community and on the individual that is being portrayed in the stereotype.

Although he's recently moved away from photography and towards installation and sculpture, he still thinks about framing and perspective when composing his pieces (which deliver a subtle but searing critique of popular depictions of black identity).

Freestyle was a turning point in a lot of people's minds about contemporary black art, and one that catalyzed a kind of new vocabulary for both identity and interpretation.

«That was an important moment for me in understanding the transcendence of Black American culture and the power of art in aiding critical dialogues about the constructs of identity and race,» says Christovale of the trip.

She is a member of Black Salt Collective, whose members are all Black, brown, and indigenous women, creating work about ancestry and identity in a contemporary context.

On Being Black is an excellent multilayered and highly nuanced remix of an ongoing conversation in contemporary art about identity, power and transformation.

«and her reflection that «How people describe your work is important as it is how they see the work, if you are introduced as a Black Asian artist, people expect your work to be about identity.»

Broadly interviews artist - friends Precious Okoyomon and Phoebe Collings - James about their experiences as immigrant black women and how their identities inform their respective works.

«Ofili's Union Black asks questions about British identity, the colonial legacy and the meaning of national allegiance which remain as relevant today as they were when the work was created 14 years ago,» said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, in a press statement.

Today, when you eat Thai curry (Rirkrit Tiravanija) or walk through a garden of black flowers (Jenny Holzer), you understand that the identity of artists has become inseparable from questioning their practice; ontological Conceptualism has become so totally invasive that it is no longer possible to speak about it in terms of influence.

As much as Rauschenberg's work of the early 1950s had been championed for its elimination of painterly conventions — no subject, no image, no taste, no object, no beauty, no message — Untitled [glossy black painting] makes the case that Rauschenberg was equally radical for what he was willing to let in — chance, duration, changing context, accidents, a life in the present.18 Historians tell us about the Rauschenberg who pursued a mode of creativity that had «a life beyond its initial conception,» but it is not always possible to observe the process of accretion.19 In 1986, Untitled [glossy black painting] would appear on the cover of Arts Magazine, its identity photographically stilled.20 That was part of the history of this single canvas.

He typically gravitates toward cultural theorists, poets and critics — Stuart Hall's posthumous memoir, «Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands,» about growing up in Jamaica in the 1930s; Fred Moten's «In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition,» on the connections between jazz, sexual identity and radical black politics; Judith Butler's «Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,» a look at the vulnerability and aggression that followed SeptBlack Radical Tradition,» on the connections between jazz, sexual identity and radical black politics; Judith Butler's «Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,» a look at the vulnerability and aggression that followed Septblack politics; Judith Butler's «Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,» a look at the vulnerability and aggression that followed Sept. 11.

Colescott, a black artist, depicts the scene as the media and public saw it, rather than portraying the actual white culprit, and in doing so underscores the problematic association between crime and the black community in America, while sparking conversations about race and identity that remain prescient and necessary in our current world.