Sentences with phrase «class prejudice»

To resist them effectively, we need to challenge all that divides us, including class prejudice and racism.

This ingrained bias was perpetuated by class prejudice against the waves of poor immigrants — first the Irish, Italian, German, Polish, Hungarian, and Mexican, and later the Filipino, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Vietnamese, Haitian, and Central American poor who came to the U.S. in search of a better life.

Nonetheless, educators who are true to their democratic mission must take deliberate means to counteract social class pressures and must learn to be self - critical in order that their own unconscious class prejudices may be brought to light and as far as possible eliminated.

Pineapple, for example, may be deprived of the capability for cognitive and physical development and of the identity needed to become a pediatrician even if no immediate barriers of racial or class prejudice impede her education.

He said: «This Prime Minister seeks to paint the millions of trade unionists and their families as «the enemy within», with a Tory party drunk on class prejudice, intent on destroying this movement as a force in British life.»

In the wake of Gate-gate, the question has to be asked: is class prejudice somehow at work here?

But the script is weak, and there's something distasteful and dispiriting about the way class prejudices are blithely accepted and even embraced.

Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice.

The Changeover, highly praised in New Zealand, is a formulaic supernatural teen romance imbued with definite class prejudices.

In 1992, the African - American artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954) curated an exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore that revealed the racial and class prejudices reflected by the museum's holdings.

For Higgins, an elocution teacher who traded in British class prejudice by offering to improve clients» social standing through posh talk, the education of a woman was essentially a troublesome Alternative Business Structure (ABS)-- he could work with the moving parts but the brain remained a mystery....

«The issues of race and class prejudice (as well as possible innocence) are more than enough reason to oppose the death penalty as it exists today in America, whether or not one opposes it on a fundamental level,» Ross said.

Declaring herself a person of the left, she none theless has a sympathetic appreciation of black intellectuals and opinion makers who now call themselves conservative, although they still wage war against an older conservatism driven by racial and class prejudices.

These prejudices are stumbling blocks to the fullness of God's Kingdom on earth, as inimical and counter to God's intention as any race, sex or class prejudice.

The first half is more interesting and less familiar, as it lays the groundwork for Harding as a relatable sort of martyr, a victim of figure skating's snobbery and class prejudice.

The class prejudice against Harding continued in the courtroom.

Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James, Downton Abbey) has mastered martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the target of upper - class prejudice.

Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry, and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Reilly) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper - class prejudice.

His later films, like the 1988 non-musical «Hairspray» (the 2007 musical was shot in Canada), incorporated sweet, clean - cut kids and clear - eyed commentary on racial and class prejudices.

Taking lush domestic struggles with soap opera potential and making them into stunning films was Sirk's specialty, and this is one of his best, chock full of alcoholic husbands, love triangles, nymphomaniacs, and class prejudice, but with a heart and sense of tragedy that turns «melodrama» into a compliment.

«In Behind the Beautiful Forevers... Katherine Boo sketches characters with Dickensian vividness against the black machinations of communal enmities, caste and ethnic politics, class prejudice, sexism, and corruption.»

Race and class prejudice are often implicit in art - critical categorizations, but so is the level of success achieved by the artist, and Taylor's inclusion in this year's Whitney Biennial is likely to affect the vocabulary used in describing his work: from now on his manner might be more often dubbed «direct» rather than «self - taught,» and «fresh» rather than «naïve.»»

His background would have denied him employment at many firms at the time because anti-semitism and class prejudice were rife.