Sentences with phrase «about race and class»

For the first time I was faced with imagery that dealt with the human condition, and I committed to use photography as a tool for my own personal education and to confront long - standing ideas about race and class.

What is it, then, that elevates the nominally similar work of David Hammons (b. 1943)-- a MacArthur «genius grant» winner in 1991 — so far above the pack that it seems as if he's landed from another planet, equipped with X-ray vision and telepathy, hoisting our foibles about race and class with a variety of pithy petards?

Because I personally think a lot about race and class, it's not surprising that these issues should show up in my work.

Michelle Fine (1987) in her ethnographic essay on Silencing in Public Schools, details how student discourse about race and class inequities in students» lived experiences inside and outside the school were often detoured or outright shut down by teachers who were uncomfortable in discussing how societal inequities manifested themselves in students» everyday lives.

And questions about race and class have driven much of the effort to make sense of his election and think about what comes next.

In a class on a recent Saturday, program participants discussed the incident of the boy and the Air Jordan and wondered if assumptions about race and class had played a role: «The teacher is taking an authoritarian stance,» one commented.

Another piece of garbage that makes a statement about race and class in Los Angeles, I so wish TV producers would get off the social soapbox

The tools we practice in yoga — of taking breaths or pausing to react or respond — are resources that, when talking about race and class and gender identities, can show up in the physical body.

Observers say the vitriol, tinged with allegations about race and class, does not augur well for a reconciliation anytime soon.

A testy exchange on the Senate floor between IDC member Marisol Alcantara and Deputy Minority Leader Mike Gianaris that was tinged with allegations about race and class does not augur well for a reconciliation among the chamber's Democrats anytime soon.

There's a counterargument that this difference is less about race and class and more about the demands of the groups.

Not exact matches

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

Caring in a pastoral way about these larger contexts means, in part, exploring the needs of those who are underserved and who lack access to necessary support systems because of race, economic class, gender or sexual orientation.

As people mature they come to care about those who are remote in terms of class, economic status, race, and geography.

But if you think about social capital from a broader social perspective, you would conclude that the U.S. needs nothing more than it needs connectivity across lines of class, race and gender — that is, we need more bridging social capital.

Everyone must somehow put together his convictions about such matters as knowledge, the mass media, art, manners, work, play, nature, health, sex, class, race, economics, politics, international relations, and religion into a pattern for the formation of character through the curriculum.

We may discover such places, too, in our ambivalences about the «categories» of persons with whom we share, happily or unhappily, race, nation, religion, gender, caste, sexual orientation, class, and so forth.

What form does pastoral care take in a parish bleeding from internal conflicts about life and ministry in a neighborhood undergoing rapid changes in matters of race, age, economic class and sexual orientation?

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The other implication of this way of thinking about human nature is that we must not separate groups, classes or races of men by assigning to one the image of God and to the other the effects of the fall.

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

Above all, it is possible to exhaust what the gospel has to say by talking about and working for the immediacies, assuming that there is in that gospel nothing more than an imperative for better relations among men, classes, races, and nations, with the building in the not too distant future of a society in which opportunity of fulfillment will be guaranteed to everybody.

Ours is a society sharply divided by lines of race and class, profoundly anxious about its future, and more fearful now of the threats posed by our neighbors at home than by any foreign enemy.

Something similar might again be possible in the U.S. if those who are divided by race and class begin to talk about their problems in concrete terms at the local level.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw churcAnd then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw churcand the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

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Popular ideas about fatness and health often reinforce social inequalities across class, race, gender, and ability.

We reached the floating tailgate at about 9:30, and have been watching the races — which are divided into classes depending on boat length and engine horsepower — since they kicked off at 10.

Between a mother's own perceived role in society and severe divisions of race and class, fictions about parenting pervade.

Pregnant with the Stars examines the American fascination with, and judgment of, celebrity pregnancy, and exposes how our seemingly innocent interest in «baby bumps» actually reinforces troubling standards about femininity, race, and class, while increasing the surveillance and regulation of all women in our society.

Later that day, in the school parking lot, another second - grade class mom raced up to me and complained about how her healthy Halloween spread had been hijacked by a barrel of store - bought frosted cookies («I couldn't resist.

Gov. Chris first has to win reelection, which is likely; and then the serious speculation among the chattering class about the POTUS 2016 race can begin.

* This is George Packer's New Yorker piece on the white working - class in Ohio, which Stuart mentions * There is an interesting and sceptical piece about the Bradley effect in the 1982 California race on RealClearPolitics.

«This race — I don't care who's in it — is about what the candidates have done for New York's middle class and what our vision is for New York's middle class moving forward,» she said.

On Monday, August 29th we convened a powerhouse panel to have an honest discussion about race, class and gentrification in this neighborhood.

But this would not have been enough for those bent on peddling some twisted — and commonly accepted — ideas about class, race and nationality.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

EDIE WINDSOR ENDORSEMENT OF CHRISTINE QUINN IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE THE RACE TO LEAD NYC IS «NOT» ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE — The race to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle clRACE TO LEAD NYC IS «NOT» ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE — The race to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle cABOUT GAY MARRIAGE — The race to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle clrace to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle cabout many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle class.

While unconscious race and social class biases were present in most trauma and acute - care clinicians surveyed about patient care management in a series of clinical vignettes, those biases were not associated with clinical decisions, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

With their interactions with doctors and medical professionals, about 26 percent believed that encounters may have been influenced by gender, race and / or class discrimination.

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Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

When Abel tells a wayward young black father to man up and be a steward for his baby or have his motherfucking head blown off, there's something — not something subtle, but something nonetheless — fascinating about Lakeview Terrace's willingness to be a survey of the element of the race debate (the Bill Cosby voice of black reason, for instance, or the Barack Obama message of the same) that causes the most confusion and consternation among the ruling class.

Moonlight is about the nature of masculinity, conditioned by the determinant factors of race, class — and sexuality.

As impressive as Ruffalo is, though, the real star of this coming - of - age drama might be Forbes» autobiographical script, which is as compellingly specific as it is wise and thoughtful about class, race, family and parental sacrifice.

The events of summer 2014 in a small town in Missouri are a culmination of decades of reports about race, policing, and class.

The trailer does riff on how the movie delivers difficult messages about class, race, and systemic injustice in a package that's undeniably appealing for kids, but in my opinion, that's one of Zootopia «s biggest strengths.

The idea is juicy: A U.S. senator arranges his own assassination and then decides to drop his phony, elect - me facade and reveal the unvarnished truth about race, class and economics.

«Escape From Guantanamo Bay,» on the other hand, is too busy cracking jokes about race, class, and politics (let alone juggling a romance subplot) to understand what was so funny about the original in the first place.

This movement is intersectional, with conversations across race, class, community, ability and work environment, to talk about the imbalance of power.»