Sentences with phrase «black slaves experienced»
When depicting the type of daily brutality that black slaves experienced, some scenes based on historical record, some based more on hearsay, Tarantino does not deliver violence as spectacle.
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Virginia Ky of the Chinese American Planning Council compared her experience working in a restaurant to Liu's in the factory, while Brooklyn Democratic District leader Olanike Alabi, who is black, declared, «We know struggle — some as the sons and daughters of immigrants, some as descendents of slaves.»
Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»
Based on his own experience of being deemed «not black enough,» Townsend played a struggling actor who dreams of great roles, only to be offered nothing but slaves, butlers and jive - talking hoodlums.
Reading it, I experienced Cora's longing, terror, uncertainty, anger... her feelings not just as a runaway slave but as a black person in America today, still on that journey of struggle for freedom and the respect and security that comes with it, which I, as a white person, take for granted.
These themes have defined the black experience in America from the moment slaves touched shore.
In his installation, Storm at Sea, Bailey utilizes objects such as piano keys, an African sculpture, and a glitter - covered ship to suggest leitmotifs associated with the black experience of the transatlantic slave trade.
Gates's construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics ranging from politics and religion to culture, food, and art as well as a performative space for the Black Monks of Mississippi, a group of Baptist - Buddhist musicians who mix slave spirituals, monastic chants, and jazz to create a singular sonorous experience.
Night Coming Tenderly, Black Dawoud Bey at St. John's Episcopal Church For this FRONT commission, the artist has created a series of brooding photographs evoking the imagined experience of escaped slaves moving northward through the city of Cleveland and the surrounding area to Lake Erie and boats bound for Canada.