Sentences with phrase «as a minority character»

Lulled by the voice of Karen Carpenter singing «Yesterday Once More» on the station - wagon radio, she accidentally drives off and leaves her kids at a diner, and I'm reminded that it was the female characters in «Boardwalk Empire» (Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder Thompson; Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody), as well as the minority characters (Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White), who gave that show an accessibility and emotional depth it wouldn't have had if it were populated only with its endless parade white male mobsters.

The character quickly gained attention and popularity — along with some criticism — as a minority character taking on one of pop culture's most iconic superhero identities.

Not exact matches

It was not surprising for the Minority to refer to him [Bawumia] as a comical character and a liar because the lies are too much.»

Mr. Gianforte's behavior, at his campaign headquarters Wednesday night, was either «outrageous,» as Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House minority leader, put it, or «totally out of character» — the tempered assessment from Representative Steve Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

It's through her character, radicalised by the human attacks on mutants, that Singer explores his theme of mutants as a metaphor for minorities.

Just as a thought - experiment, I wonder what would have happened, if the developer includes a female - LBGTQ - nonwhite protagonist or long line of strong supporting characters of the such (historical or fictional) minorities.

It injects some contemporary identity politics that will grate as unnecessary by some and cause palpitations for the small minded (male) minority offended by such things, but it's an effective, empathetic character and a welcome addition.

I'm not entirely sure why Peter Stormare was in attendance here — his role seemed fairly innocuous, particular compared to his character work in more mainstream films such as Minority Report and Constantine.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

It's momentarily difficult in situations where Nick Moorcoft and Meg Leonard's writing lapses by using minority characters as a punchline for its jokes.

In case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELL.

When racial minorities do feature in such films, it's either as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the film).

The problems include how to close literacy gaps between Achievement First students, who are mostly poor minorities, and their statewide peers; and how to help kids build «habits of success,» also known as «character development» or «non-cognitive» skills.

From the beginning, Ezra cast minority children as his central characters.

While the characters and the comic are both fictional, in real - life, as is in the book, female writers are in the minority.

The writing of female, LGBTQ and minority characters is still kinda cringemaking as they're still mainly penned by straight white guys... but... but... now there's Kickstarter.

This lecture will discuss characters from the protagonist and antagonist point of view as it pertains to blacks and minorities in present - day games.

Developers, publishers and platform holders have pro-actively made a real effort to improve the visibility of women and minorities in game development, as well as promote a diverse range of characters in the games themselves.

For the time, and given how progressive racists treated most minority characters in Hollywood then (like how progressives treat minority voters today, as useful props), Tonto was a rare exception.

A report last week by Color of Change, a racial justice organization, found that over 90 percent of showrunners are white, leading to more roles for minorities as ««cardboard» characters, and at worst, unfair, inaccurate, and dehumanizing portrayals.»

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He is Past President of the Society for Community Research and Action / Division of Community Psychology (27) of APA and has received the SCRA Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring Awards, as well as APA's National Psychological Consultants to Management Award, the Joseph E. Zins Memorial Senior Scholar Award for Social - Emotional Learning from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the John P. McGovern Medal from the American School Health Association, and the Sanford McDonnell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education.