Teach
about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.
Not exact matches
As I think
about whom my children will befriend and one day perhaps marry, I am confronted with my racism and my
classism and countless other — isms that I don't want to believe are true
about myself.
Trends toward increasing homogeneity in the membership of congregations are troubling indicators of lack of concern
about racism, sexism, and
classism in the church.
The sign of Jonah has repeatedly appeared in the church with all its talk
about love and openness, in contrast to its racism,
classism, and private club mentality.
You had no compunction
about injecting your «people say nasty things
about white males» views into the discussion Claude and I had with Shard
about mocking accents and
classism.
Reader and friend Anthony wondered
about the inherent paternalism and
classism behind the policy:
Drawing explicit parallels to «Carmilla,» the 1872 gothic novella
about female vampirism published 25 years before Stoker's book, it offers the chance to express the vampire myth in wholly feminine terms and assert a
classism absent from the Twilight series.
Take a trifecta of movies
about affluent Connecticut: Ang Lee's The Ice Storm looks back at how a souring of American innocence in the 1970s found its way into affluent suburbia, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows explores the small town
classism of the 1950s as it was happening, and Todd Haynes» Far From Heaven casts its eyes on the same period to illustrate the obstacles minorities and the LGBT community faced.
In some respect, it's a political allegory
about racism and
classism in recent French history.
The ashes of interesting commentary
about the inherent
classism in the professional ice skating world, as well as the cult of the true crime celebrity in the 1980s, point to the darkness that lies at the centre of the story.
Along the way, the series has touched on sexual identity, racism, homophobia,
classism — all of which one might think of as «usual suspects,» but nothing is «usual»
about «American Crime.»
This means that understanding how
classism, racism, adultism, and the oppression of young people, to name a few, work to separate and divide us from one another is crucial to thinking
about how to create optimum environments for learning.
Image credit: Sami Grover Protesters Attack Luxury Green Apartments Recently fly posters have been appearing around my town - «Greenbridge:
Classism Applied Liberally»; «Greenbridge is Racist», and my personal favorite «Greenbridge Only Cares
About One