Sentences with phrase «as racial boundaries»

Gösta Peterson broke the static mold of 1950's fashion photography as well as racial boundaries by putting the first African American woman on the cover of a fashion magazine.

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My point is we are taught these racial boundaries and for what reason as a species do we separate?

They are not the first to criticize the proposed lines along racial grounds, but the caucus» criticism lends political heft as state officials negotiate the final boundaries for state legislative districts.

When Spike Lee asked, not unreasonably, after the release of Jackie Brown if Tarantino, by liberally peppering his dialogue with racial epithets (as he had in Pulp Fiction) was trying to be an «honorary Black man,» it was Jackson who rushed to Tarantino's defense, claiming that his friend and collaborator had not transgressed any moral or artistic boundaries.

The stars described their onscreen partnership as unnerving, while pushing racial boundaries on campus, but all either want is a friend.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

In an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawn.

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

For example, Mr. Sinclair's building of community emphasized activities that helped students see each other as individuals with the goal of understanding across racial / ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries.

This fully illustrated book examines this cultural phenomenon as a key moment in twentieth - century art history which transcended regional and racial boundaries.

The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the colors blue and black as formal elements on the one side, and associations with the colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and the specific kind of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.

His artistic production has centered around his life mission: to make experimental yet accessible art; to work in politically and emotionally charged sites for diverse audiences; and to collaborate across racial, gender, and age boundaries as a gesture of citizen - diplomacy.

As Roberta Smith noted, his works cross «racial, cultural and geographic boundaries, mixing old and new, high and low, East and West», and in doing so, produce a novel visual language (Roberta Smith, «ART REVIEW: The New, Irreverent Approach to Mounting Exhibitions», New York Times, January 6, 1995, p. C25).

Like the Greek and Renaissance theaters, climate change theater stands at the nexus of two realities — an old, wasteful, violent known world, and a newly felt, and sometimes already lived, sustainable world of insight and connection between self and others across racial, national and species boundaries, a remaking of the individual as newly responsible for a living world....