Sentences with phrase «as issues of racism»

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Social media attacks on her led Kensington Palace (Harry's residence, as well as that of his brother William) to issue a statement last year decrying the «outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.»

This reminds me of the way the church deals with critical issues today such as women's rights, racism, sexual abuse, sexuality and gender, same - sex marriage, corruption among its leaders, and so on.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

I think people really want to know how to think about these big issues of the day, whether it's racism and white supremacy — as you see things like Charlottesville unfold — people want to know how to think about this from a Christian perspective.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

On one side of the coin the new trend for artists to talk about issues such as faith as well as mental health, police brutality, racism, body image and fatherlessness is a refreshing shift from the materialistic, consumerdriven rhymes which hip - hop has become notorious for.

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

Issues such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, handicapism, anthropocentrism, and whatever other «isms» we have devised toward the ill - being of peoples require more than an analysis of individual sin to account for the pervasiveness and depth of the problem.

It is a commonplace among scholars of the Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.

As Goldstein shows, he was not sure that this issue posed the same kind of clear moral choice that racism and segregation did.

the issue is that you and your ilk want to blame him as if all of this suddenly happened when he was elected... as if racism and these police killings suddenly started under Trump....

She has also had various media and public appearances speaking on a wide range of issues from multiculturalism, Islamophobia and racism to social issues such as sexual abuse, generation conflicts, domestic violence and gender.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

Ms. Timoner, who lives in Park Slope with her wife and two sons, is eager to attack what she sees as the pressing issues of the day — poverty, racism, violence, deep inequality — with a kind of communitarian approach to Judaism.

The court was concerned not with racism, but with misrepresentation such as that illustrated here, and it is not a simple matter since the policing of it also raises issues of freedom of speech -LSB-...]

Appointed a leader to the party machine — ultimately in charge of dealing with first - level disciplinary issues — who had previously been in controversy over remarks that many perceived as downplaying racism;

«It's really important that we have robust systems in place, so that when somebody highlights, makes a complaint, raises issues, or queries, around racism and anti-semitism and sexism and all of the «isms», that it's taken seriously, and it's acted upon as swiftly as possible.

Racist so shouldn't comment on Labour issues, is it cimvicted racists, that shouldn't comment, as everyone from David Blunkett, Roy Hattersley, Ken livingstone too Trevor Philips have been accused of racism.

As with Wonder Woman last year, Black Panther is not only is a kick - ass superhero film, it uses the platform to address deeper issues, in this case racism, still - lingering colonial attitudes towards Africa, the role of science and technology in improving the lives of the disadvantaged, and what it means to be a leader.

Having just about put up with Dan Aykroyd blacking up in Trading Places, the issue of Landis himself appearing as a (highly stupid) Iranian does raise questions with regard to possible racism.

Detroit makes clear that as the riot degenerates into uncontrollable violence, the issues of racism and civil rights fade into the darkness as the city is destroying itself in a war, both sides fighting for their lives.

Frequently, race - issue films act as if black victims of racism don't matter at all; Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987), about South African leader Stephen Biko, is focused almost entirely on Kevin Kline's fleeing journalist.

Admirably, the film manages to look at issues such as racism and cultural diversity without ever becoming overly - serious or weighty, and every member of the cast plays their part tremendously.

And it deals with the issue of racism that also helps to explain why Tarantino chose it as a template (that, and he just likes to mash things up).

This year the movies moved to a much edgier beat, tackling such tough issues as racism («Get Out»), revenge («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), fear of outsiders («The Shape of Water»), poverty («The Florida Project») amongst others.

The effect one white American Olympic participant had on another may not be as substantial a story to take up the 24 - hour news cycle as the issue of systemic racism highlighted by the Rodney King beating and the O.J. Simpson trial, which happened before and after the main events of this film, but it works to sell one of the film's notable points.

But the film's true power comes from Rees» vision of this world, as her wide angle shots frame the full scale of prejudice and injustice and reframe the larger issue of systemic racism that is as deeply rooted in this country as the McAllan's cotton crop.

As Stern Strom explains, after so many years, «we've been able to demonstrate what we said we were doing, in a full way,» in part because there's a much better understanding of the complex issues Facing History explores with students and teachers — issues like racism, prejudice, hatred, difference, and anti-Semitism.

«While it is a sad indictment on society as a whole that we are still required to discuss and organise around issues of racism, the NUT Black Teachers Conference has been instrumental in helping members challenge and achieve change within their schools and colleges.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Systemic and / or historic issues such as individual and institutionalized racism and classism; language barriers; gender bias; cultural blinders and a variety of prejudices represent profound challenges and obstacles to positive parent - teacher relationships.

Racism in America can take the form of so much more than the «N» word, and here Oluo astutely dismantles issues such as police brutality, cultural appropriation and microaggressions, and the pervasive, poisonous power of racism and white suprRacism in America can take the form of so much more than the «N» word, and here Oluo astutely dismantles issues such as police brutality, cultural appropriation and microaggressions, and the pervasive, poisonous power of racism and white suprracism and white supremacy.

With the approach of difficult issues such as rape, murder, or racism, they shouldn't be handled with kid's gloves.

Developer Sledgehammer Games will also tackle issues such as racism, sexism, and religious persecution in the game, and how these issues play in a world of war.

Some Fire Emblem games tackle some very complex and adult issues compared to other Nintendo games, such as racism, and the cruelties of war.

Issues of colonialism and racism encroach upon the formal qualities of The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1998 — 2000), a set of maps on which the artist has charted the attacks on supply lines in the battle for the remote village in North Vietnam that served as the final battle stage in the French War in Vietnam.

The participating artists address themes such as memory and self - reflection, social and political issues such as discrimination, racism, the failure of the modern utopia, urban violence and exploitation of the Amazon rain forest.

Those pieces — respectively by Alison Jackson, who's British, and Touba Alipour, who was born in Iran in lives in New York — are just a couple of the 80 works by contemporary artists ages 18 to 80 from around the world whose creative juices were inspired by such hot - button issues as racism, sexism and discrimination.

In February 2017, the Barnes Foundation will present Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, an exhibition featuring the work of 50 U.S. and international artists who have taken to the street throughout the post-war period to speak to issues as diverse as gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

In «Passing for White, Passing for Black», you write: «I've learned that there is no «right» way of managing the issue of my racial identity, no way that will not offend or alienate someone, because my designated racial identity itself exposes the very concept of racial classification as the offensive and irrational instrument of racism it is.»

Issues of civil rights and government doctrine brought issues such as racism, feminism and the legitimacy of institutions into queIssues of civil rights and government doctrine brought issues such as racism, feminism and the legitimacy of institutions into queissues such as racism, feminism and the legitimacy of institutions into question.

Also on view Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial — on view at NOMAfrom Feb 24 to May 20 — highlights Dial's significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how the artist's work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time - including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues such as racism and homelessness.

The artist was praised by the judges for her «uncompromising tackling of issues including colonial history and how racism persists today» as well as her «expansive and exuberant approach to painting, which combines satire and a sense of theatre».

Pope.L is included in The Barnes Foundation's exhibition, Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

Large - scale works encompass the issues that he was most interested in, such as the Rosenberg trial (Les roses sont belles [The Roses are Beautiful]-RRB- in 1951; torture in Algeria (La question Djamila [The Djamila Question]-RRB- in 1957; the execution of Julian Grimau (Les puissances du désordre [The Powers of Disorder]-RRB- in 1963; and the Vietnam war (Burn, Baby Burn) and racism in Alabama between 1965 and 1966.

The End of Innocence explored these difficult and lingering early life memories, fantasies, and nightmares in works that address issues such as loneliness, bullying, racism, poverty, violence, and war.

This summer, as we finally acknowledge marriage equality in the US, Muholi's exhibition brings much - needed visibility to deeper issues of racism, misogyny, and erasure, reminding us that this is just the beginning.

As a whole, the exhibition evidentiates historical and social issues around racial stigmatization, the violation of human rights and racism.

Some of these issues include (but are not limited to) environmental justice, sexual violence, student poverty and housing, combating racism, as well as decolonizing the curriculum.