Sentences with phrase «by immigrant experiences»

The Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh's Sai Mado, The Distant Gaze, deals with the ways in which identity and memory are shaped by immigrant experiences.

Artist Statement As a culturally displaced artist myself, I have been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity and to social psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences and by the interaction between people and space.

I hope he sees how deeply shaped we are — as a city and as a people — by the immigrant experience.

GWAN is an incredible collection of stories inspired by the immigrant experience.

Mixing painting, drawing, and transfer printing, this Nigerian - born, Los Angeles — based artist creates multilayered domestic depictions inspired by her immigrant experience.

Not exact matches

«Foreign work experience is largely discounted by Canadian employers when the immigrant first enters the Canadian labour market, and it is a weak predictor of economic success,» the analysis said.

Unlike the marginalization experienced by earlier generations of Chinese immigrants, this new group integrates more fully into mainstream British society.

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

Everything except my immigrant church experience on Sundays and my home was dominated by the presence and influence of a fairly white America.

It is this kind of experience, suffered in milder form by many immigrant groups, that leads Harold Cruse, perhaps the most thoughtful of contemporary black intellectuals, to write:

I know nothing of Julia Young's domestic arrangements, but my experience of large U.S. cities is that the educated professional classes tend to live so far from the areas inhabited by recent immigrants that they might as well be in another continent.

The idea for the show occurred when original producer Norman Lear was first approached by a young associate who asked if he'd be interested in a Latino reinvigoration of the show with the immigrant American experience.

In these pages I argued that the real problem of «aliens» among us is represented not by immigrants but by the urban underclass and the intellectual overclass, both of whom are profoundly alienated from the rights and responsibilities of the American experience (see «The Aliens Among Us,» The Public Square, August / September 1993).

Today you can experience the great history of sauerkraut, which was brought to the United States by German immigrants (who were once called Pennsylvania Dutch), by opening a jar of Bubbies traditional naturally fermented Sauerkraut.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

As we can see, the hypothesis that UKIP vote is driven by experience of change in the local area can be rejected — in fact Pearson correlations between UKIP vote and increases in the share of each immigrant group are negative.

The panel discussion focused on a poll recently released by New American Media, which looked at the problems and experiences of the often - silent female immigrant.

The authors postulate that experiences of discrimination and racism may explain the higher rates of psychotic disorders in some immigrant groups, as indicated by previously published studies.

A few researchers are turning their attention to the sunshine vitamin as a culprit, prompted by the experience of immigrants that have moved from their equatorial country to two northern latitude locations

John Crowley's lovely drama, «Brooklyn,» invites us to feel the glow of newfound love as experienced by a wide - eyed Irish immigrant (Saoirse Ronan) seeking to make a new life for herself in America.

Brooklyn is a gorgeous illustration of an immigrant's experience in the mid-20th century, complimented by the touching romance at its core.

Sin Nombre (2009) The experience of illegal immigrants riding trains from Honduras through Mexico to the American border is portrayed with punishing realism in this drama by American director Cary Fukunaga.

For middle school and high - school students, The Colors Of Freedom: Immigrant Stories (Franklin Watts), by Janet Bode, is a wonderful introduction to the American immigrant exImmigrant Stories (Franklin Watts), by Janet Bode, is a wonderful introduction to the American immigrant eximmigrant experience.

Under the wing of principal Solomon, eighth grade English and social studies teacher Tracy Goodman and her colleagues found a way to help their students understand and appreciate the immigrant experience by becoming «immigrants» themselves.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold 09/28/2000 [Language Arts, American History Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda Dyck] Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

The project will lead the first long - term, cross-cultural study of immigrant adolescent adaptation by tracking the school and family experiences of 400 first - generation immigrants between the ages of ten and fourteen, for a period of five years.

experience has undoubtedly shaped Rodriguez — a first - generation American immigrant from Panama who was transformed by public education — inspiring him to pursue not only an education career but also his own education as a leader.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold Submitted by Brenda Dyck Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Students read newspaper articles, diaries, and histories about immigrants» experiences followed by daily work in small groups on such tasks as filling in missing words, making word associations, and playing charades.

I took that metaphor and made it literal by making her an interdimensional demon slayer because of that experience of being an immigrant daughter.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

Written by a geophysics professor, The Mathematician's Shiva is brilliantly written and infused with wry humor, quirky characters and an honest and insightful look at both the world of academia and the immigrant experience.

Rated of 5 by lani Filipino immigrant experience For fans of third world literature, you might want to dive into this novel for there seems to be a void of Filipino novels.

The House of Broken Angels should be read by anyone who wants to understand the ambiguity of the immigrant experience in general and the Mexican - American experience in particular (Dottie B).

Fay Ku's solo exhibition Asa Nisa Masa at Eight Modern in Santa Fe features delicately executed graphite, ink and watercolor works inspired by her memories, experiences and relationships as a result of her upbringing in white suburbia as the child of Chinese immigrants.

She participated in the Artist Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and earlier this month, recognized for «collaging the immigrant experience,» Akunyili Crosby was named among the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 by Foreign Policy Magazine.

Build strong content knowledge By engaging students with art and artifacts spanning thousands of years, Museum visits build on classroom units of study with themes such as Archaeological Dig, Ancient Civilizations, Remembering the Holocaust, and The Immigrant Experience.

In his work, Francisco Donoso reflects on the tension caused by overlapping identities, histories and ideologies as they relate to his own experience as an immigrant from Ecuador who grew up in Miami, Florida.

Kahraman's painting references the «migrant consciousness» and the double identity experienced by immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and struggle to adapt to new surroundings.

«The idea of Migrant arises from the convergence of several factors linked to personal experience as an immigrant and as a woman, by the societies I've met and the culture in which I grew up.»

Recent projects include free play, Trestle Gallery Brooklyn with Jason Lujan, and Chez BKLYN, an exhibition highlighting the fluidity of individual and group dynamics of collective art practices across native, non-native, and immigrant experience; conceived by artists in Brooklyn and relayed at Galerie SE Konst, Sweden.

The content of her work is informed by the experience of her youth as a queer, multiracial immigrant in American suburbia.

These variations reiterate the parallels between the process of artistic creation, and her experience as an immigrant by referencing both the notion of invisibility and «ever - becoming.»

It is inspired by my personal experience as a Cuban immigrant.

It's about her experience of being African, from Kenya, and how The United States» system of race consciousness and profiling compounds the immigrant experience by using such superficial phenotypes like hair, skin color, and dress as a basis to judge.

Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).

For example, his name appears in Celeste Dupuy - Spencer's drawing Trump Rally (And some of them I assume are good people)(2016), and Postcommodity's four - channel video installation, A Very Long Line (2016), makes palpable the experience of undocumented immigrants blocked by endless fences on the Mexican border, reminding viewers of Trump's pledge to build a wall there.3

reForm, a two - year installation and public engagement project by Pepón Osorio, takes as its starting point the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican immigrant community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in 2013.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Counterparts, A suite of new paintings by 2017 MacArthur fellow Njideka Akunyili Crosby drawing from her experience as a Nigerian immigrant.

Her work explores themes such as death, vulnerability, loss of innocence, rebirth and redemption and are informed by the experience of her youth as a queer, multiracial immigrant in American suburbia.