Sentences with phrase «about cultural identity»

The Aboriginal version of My Life Story Book supports Aboriginal children in out - of home care in understanding more about their cultural identity and in developing a sense of connectedness to family, kinship groups and the community.

Even as she was just getting her clinical practice off the ground, she ran a program at New York's 92nd Street Y about cultural identity, with a special focus on helping couples in mixed marriages handle racial, religious, and cultural differences.

In previous work the artist engaged questions about cultural identity.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

When placed alongside Chow Chun Fai's paintings of famous Chinese movie scenes, they ask questions about cultural identity and film histories iconic to the city.

, talks about cultural identity, authorial obligation, and the courage it takes to follow your dreams.

Today we continually hear discussions about cultural identity, cultural autonomy and cultural diversity.

They raise questions about cultural identity: Who do they think we are?

Not exact matches

Through the ages, the Church hasn't been shy about praising the deeply human necessity of cultural identity, but she has also consistently expressed a solicitude for migrants and refugees that springs not just from natural law but from the universal scope of her concern.

Sifton rightly concludes that everything her father wrote about American politics took for granted that there is little point in writing if one had no concept of America's spiritual and cultural identity.

Finally the assembly agreed on a number of guidelines for a new information order, including: the elimination of the imbalances and inequities brought on by media monopolies; a «better balanced dissemination of information and ideas»; freedom of the press and of information; and respect for each people's cultural identity and its right to inform the world about its «interests, aspirations and social and cultural values.

On the other hand, if they want to maintain separate cultural identity within the predominantly Anglo congregation, we can create opportunities for them to discuss this project with other members and teach the congregation about the values of their distinctive heritage.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Such a cultural setting tends to generate a deep hunger for certainty about one's worldview in its competition with other worldviews, about one's identity in the face of social rootlessness and anonymity, and about one's unsubstitutable significance as a person in the face of specialization that reduces one's personhood to a single socially useful role.

These statistics alarmed Jewish liberals and secularists who fear that an American Jewish identity revolving around secular philanthropy, liberal politics, and cultural modernization is about to be engulfed by an insular, antiquated, homophobic, and misogynistic religion.

Generally speaking, however, the new spiritual enthusiasts — Pentecostals and the like — are so individualistic and world - escaping that they avoid cultural analysis and encounter; and many of us of mainline persuasion, seeming to have lost all clarity about our spiritual identity, are captive to the academic principalities.

It was about cultural and racial identity.

Copa90 is all about the strong cultural identity of being a football fan in the modern age.

There are doubts about the breadth of Corbyn's appeal given his cultural identity as a left - wing metropolitan liberal representing the constituency of Islington North, allegedly «a world away» from the concerns of most uncommitted Labour voters.

But the comments revealed a lot more about Smith's campaign and the cultural identity crisis within British social democracy.

Our social institutions, public policy and the way we think about our society and national identity has to catch up with this massive cultural shift.»

But for the society and its more than 6000 active members, or SACNISTAS, as members and affiliates call themselves, it's about more than just the numbers; it's about affirming a sense of cultural identity and community.

In a paper, published in Antiquity, researchers have provided new understandings about the formation of emergent cultural identities in the Caribbean that challenge historic accounts of indigenous extinction.

Sweet also examined cultural explanations to determine how traditional gender assumptions about the unique skills of women and men might lead to identity differences, including those that relate to the importance of a career to one's identity.

What people say they believe about global warming is not a measure of how much they know, or even how worried they are about it; it is an expression of their cultural identities.»

A bracing and powerful drama about cultural roots and the nature of identity from director Pawel Pawlikowski.

These three world premieres stood out among several stories about Native identities and cultural positionings at TIFF, even as some perennial attendees griped that this year's more streamlined festival had disproportionately sidelined independent filmmakers and outsider perspectives.

«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 kids.

And instead of offering solutions, Akin can be seen to raise questions about identity formation and cultural stereotype.

Together they undertake a journey filled with discovery about their personal and cultural identities.

This could eventually translate into the classroom and influence how a child may feel about peers and teachers, especially regarding cultural and temperamental differences in identity development and how children learn.

With the incredible cultural and religious interactions now occurring, now more than ever we can not make assumptions about a patient's background or needs, just because we have been told the person's religious or cultural identity.

For example, in my level 3 French classes, we do an in - depth study of Francophone Canada in the Spring, and some of of our driving questions are: «What do French - speaking Canadians believe about their own distinct cultural identity within Canada?

They were also asked about their own cultural identity and what it means to be a Pakuranga College student.

This includes learning about the origins and development of Australia's national identity and the forging of its cultural heritage.

Chapter Two, Mom's Sex Book, dissects the challenges of writing about sex while raising kids, and Chapter Three, Shifting Identity, examines our changing cultural landscape around the LGBTQ community.

Here, we asked Hari about inspiration, identity and the cultural legacy of the British Empire.

Glenn O'Brien, the writer, editor, and aesthete - about - town who shaped the cultural identity of 1980s New York, has died.

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.

The vacant hypostasis of all available products in Xu Zhen's installation conveys a sad realization about the voidance and eradication of history and socio - cultural identity.

The so - called contemporary zeitgeist artist joins Whitechapel Gallery curator Omar Kholeif for conversation about language, cultural identity and living in the thick of constant media and technology.

Seen as a whole, his practice raises fundamental and evergreen questions about the value of images and art, the nature and possibilities of painting and film, the intertwined relation of our subjectivity to cultural identity, and the ways we address what we experience in life in parallel to the mediated world of images.

His paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation and contemplation, they reveal a charged space that connects to the artist's personal experiences and whose underlying ideas raise questions about issues from politics to environmentalism to cultural identity.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

Whether addressing issues of race, gender, sexuality, politics, or history - or seemingly remaining silent about them - the works featured offer powerful interpretations of cultural identity and artistic legacy.

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 Sept. 11.

He considers himself «truly bi-cultural» and strives to open up debate about the social, cultural and political issues that shape our histories and construct identity.

She uses them to speak meaningfully about cultural heritage, gender, beauty standards, race, and identity while transforming hair accoutrements into sculptural objects.

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

Reclaiming artifacts and iconographies to critique the museum and speak about Black cultural history and identity, he bridges the gap between «high art» and «the street» to question connotations of race and class.