Sentences with phrase «at issues of racism»

Thus the exhibition serves to question stereotypes, challenge traditional assumptions, and look at issues of racism and anti-Semitism in America.

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When I interviewed local community advocate Sean Sheppard last year about Game Changer, his program that uses sporting events to bring members of law enforcement and the community together to talk about racism and other thorny issues, we met at Starbucks.
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.
At the center of conversations regarding this year's Oscars is a film that takes on issues including injustice, racism, America's difficult history and even Christianity.
The incident at Betis needs to be Spain's watershed moment and the country should rally and appreciate that the issue of racism in football has to be addressed.
«At a time when racism is still a very serious and real problem in this country, it is appalling that an assistant principal would raise false charges of racism in order to distract from the serious issues his own conduct has raised,» Dinowitz said.
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.
Actor - comedian Chris Rock nailed the opening monologue at the 88th Academy Awards with a skillful mix of social commentary and humour about racism in Hollywood, an issue that has dominated debates this awards season.
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.
It operates at a blaxploitation - filtered remove from the present day, but still addresses issues of politics, racism and African - American history.
Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.
Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social...
Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring found that with regards to desegregation, «the issues of racism and intolerance born out of ignorance and isolation seem to coalesce for many parents into a perspective that considers school integration at the elementary school level an important starting point» (Smrekar and Goldring, 106).
Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: institutional racism, political corruption, and the ways that both of these issues affect not only society at large but also the inner lives of individual men and women.
In the past the Forum Team has had to deal with posts and threads which at best stand on the borderline of bad taste, and at worst charge headlong into issues of racism, immigration and xenophobia.
Instead of this staid technique, how can we look in nuanced, unprecedented ways at issues surrounding race, racism, cultural appropriation, white privilege, and multiple methods of identifying?
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.
Addressing issues of poverty and racism, the artist — who died in January at age 87 — presents a raw interpretation of life in the rural South in the ten large - scale works on view.
In fact, I did engage in a substantive analysis of the «St. Lewis» criticism of a 2008 student - commissioned report that found issues of systemic racism at the University of Ottawa».
At issue before the inquiry are the now - familiar themes of sexism, racism, and classism within our policing bodies, and how those stereotypes perpetuate violence against our sisters.
aate.org.au This sample engineer formal complaint letter template can be used to address various issues of discrimination at work place, for example, lack of promotion, cases of racism and poor rating.
As previously reported at Croakey, the concept of cultural safety reverses the gaze so that health professionals examine their own beliefs, behaviours and practices as well as issues such as institutional racism, whereas transcultural concepts like cultural awareness can promote the «other - ing» of patients and «cultural voyeurism».
There were issues of racism talked about, taking place at high school and in the local council.
An underlying question for participants was how much racism, at an institutional level and in the high levels of public support for tough approaches to asylum seekers, has to do with the treatment of children in immigration detention and if it helps in advocacy to raise racism as an issue.
Her earlier work with Belle Liang, Ph.D., at Boston College addressed issues of racism and relational health among Chinese American adolescents.
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