Sentences with phrase «ayocote negro»

I worked with [the young Canadian actor] Lyriq Bent on Book of Negroes.

«Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves.

You won an Emmy for Roots, and now you're starring in The Book of Negroes.

Academy Award — winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. is starring in the CBC miniseries The Book of Negroes.

The Book of Negroes, starring Louis Gossett Jr., Cuba Gooding Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis, airs Wednesday nights on CBC until Feb. 11 and on CBC.ca.

A deeply musical dancer, after a 15 - or 20 - minute sequence, is said to fall into a duende, an intensely focused, trancelike state of transcendent emotion that Federico García Lorca in 1933 described as los sonidos negros («the dark sounds») invading the performer's body.

The gay movement is the Be Nice to Negroes issue of 1993.

The wife of a northern clergyman noted in a letter home that «we were told that Negroes sitting on benches along the street weren't just sitting — they were watching to see that our office [the NCC office in Hattiesburg] and the COFO [Council of Federated Organizations] office across the street were safe.»

Negroes must be punished, capitalists must be expropriated, etc..

There are the «interesting» poor: the Negroes in the United States and in South Africa, the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, the Palestinian Arabs, the poor of Latin America.

Like the American Negroes who adopted the word «black» from the enemy and flung it back, or the feminists who accept «witch» and «bitch» as badges of honor, Dobson and Hindson are in a mood and movement that take fundamentalism back as a banner for pride and boasting and wave it in the faces of the, in their view, waning evangelicals.

So that, for example, the «American aborigines, Negroes, and Europeans differ as much from each other in mind as any three races that can be named.»

During the war itself the Churches faced a problem that accompanied them until the present day — what were they to do with the Negroes who had been so unjustly treated for almost two centuries?

Many white folks still insisted that Negroes were inferior people doomed to second - class citizenship.

Before Lincoln's emancipation act many generals had simply turned Negroes over to the Army chaplain to take care of them.

In March of 1865, Lincoln saw to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau to assist the Negroes in making the transition from the slave to the free state.

Soon the various missionary agencies of the Church heard of the Negroes» plight, and they responded by forming private agencies to care for the freedmen.

One of the greatest boons to them was the growth of Christianity among Negroes.

... Suppose today Negroes do steal; who was it that for centuries made stealing a virtue by stealing their labor?»

If we were to do that, if we were to concede the relative benignity of the railroad strike of 1877 (in which arson was a preferred method) or of the Harlan County troubles in the 1930s, we would still have to talk about expressed moral preferences, in the American past, for burning convents, burning villages and cities, and burning Negroes.

What such comparisons fail to take into consideration is the effect of the Negroes» inferior average social, economic, and educational position upon their intellectual development.

For example, white supremacists have argued that Negroes are intellectually inferior to whites, and have submitted as evidence the lower average achievement of American Negro children in intelligence tests.

In the United States many Negroes have been prevented from voting by devices, such as literacy tests, which better education would have rendered ineffective.

Thus, tragically, the very sense of local community over which (in part) the war was fought, with its attendant opportunities for friendship and communication between white people and Negroes, foundered and perished.

* Any bluegrass gospel ballad that started as a negro spiritual.

Or rather, perhaps in his celebration of the negro spiritual, he was speaking about music which rises above the «color line» in the same way that he says Shakespeare and Goethe do.

For that matter W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the distinctive sublimity of the «negro» spiritual, and he claims that only through the experience of slavery could such spiritual strivings come to the fore..

When Whites negotiate with Negroes therefore, it not only helps to solve the Negro's «Negro problem» it helps solve the white man's «Negro problem» as well; for whites begin to see Negroes in a different light — as equals, as men.7 The notion that love for fellow man is a substitute for what Silberman here calls «negotiation» is the sentimentality which needs to be exposed and eliminated.

Whites are accustomed to holding conversations with Negroes, in which they sound out the latter's views or acquaint them with decisions they have taken.

With thirteen million Negroes in the United States denied privileges in housing, employment, education, recreation, medical care, and many other basic needs, this can hardly be called a democratic country.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

Negroes and Indians were part of the great human race and should, therefore, be objects of love as much as any other being.

But Negroes insist more and more on negotiations — on discussions, as equals, designed to reach an agreement... To negotiate means to recognize the other party's power.

In 17th - century America the commonest way to make the distinction between white and black was to speak of Christians and Negroes.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

While it worked to demean and harass Negroes, Mormons, Catholics, Jews, and agnostics,... it also provided Afro - Americans with institutions of their own and bred nearly all black public leaders.

With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day, when all of God's children — black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics — will be able to join hands and sing with the Negroes in the spiritual of old.

I certainly have no formula for the church or the minister setting out to «accept» groups like Negroes.

If our neighborhood begins to deteriorate and poor whites or Negroes begin to invade it, we move our homes and churches to the suburbs. . .

At last his second in command, William Sullivan, wrote his boss a memo that opened the door: «I believe [King] stands head and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes.

«Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white...

If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

The Negroes of central Africa, and Israel's two traditional enemies, the Philistines on one side and the Syrians on the other, as human beings stood on the same footing as the «chosen people» themselves.

If a negro slave is appointed to rule over you, hear him, and obey him, though his head should be like a dried grape.

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»

To illustrate, there are millions of Negroes in America and of Africans in South Africa who are denied their rights as persons and hence are unjustly treated.

The Christianity of the United States not only spread to the Indians and to the much larger body of Negroes.

There it was the faith of the European settlers and their descendants and was accepted by the majority of the Indians and by many of the Negroes.

The emergence of leaders like George Washington Carver gave hope that some «Negroes» were educable.

A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.