Sentences with word «classism»

While oppression most often takes the form of classism in Latin America, it is evident that racism is most rampant in the United States.

And there's a weird undercurrent of classism in the movie's architecture: The suburban family is cutely perfect, the country relatives are Cro - Magnon.

The whole movement is incredibly racially charged, and drips of classism as well.

A blockbuster action flick, a thriller, a pulp plot, a winking noir, a commentary on classism in an increasingly urbanized society — the movie is all of these things, down to the marrow of its very existence.

The game deals with classism in a way that's not often tackled in video games, and tries to tell the tale of someone who started with nothing only to become a big shot.

So while the government would not themselves throw people in jail for loving the wrong people, that same government would actually go out of its way to enforce the old law through classism and the free market.

While a YA book, it tackles classism, sexism and all kinds of heavy issues.

With wit and grace, Ackley Bridge tackles very real issues like classism, racism, and family dynamics, all while maintaining a grand sense of humor and sensibility.

The sexism, racism, and classism within the movement are a great failure on our part.

Both agree that racism, sexism and classism pervaded their young lives to varying degrees, and they have no desire to whitewash that era or return to it.

For almost 15 years, Hispanic women in the U.S. who struggle against ethnic prejudice, sexism, and in many cases classism have been at a loss as to what to call ourselves.

Readers of this book can no doubt propose cogent reasons for the breakdown, not least the remnants of racism and classism even in Trinity, a church splendidly accomplished in its quest for human solidarity.

on the spectrum of shitty classism, this seems pretty tame, but it nonetheless has that ring of «poor people are less than, so let's use their realities to denigrate other people»

Reader and friend Anthony wondered about the inherent paternalism and classism behind the policy:

but isn't there also some paternalistic classism going on as well?

Breastfeeding and natural parenting is deeply set in white social classism.

There's what McDonald referred to as his «Irish temper,» and how his unique mixture of stubbornness and classism severely hurt him in this primary, even if it ends up being key to his chances in a general election, if it comes to that.

Tragically, microbial classism is still alive.

After all, Beatriz's small town in Mexico was destroyed by a real estate developer (who may or may not have been Strutt himself), and while the laid - back Beatriz tries to keep her mouth shut, the piggish classism on display pushes her to speak out time and again, as Cathy attempts to keep the peace.

Take a trifecta of movies about affluent Connecticut: Ang Lee's The Ice Storm looks back at how a souring of American innocence in the 1970s found its way into affluent suburbia, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows explores the small town classism of the 1950s as it was happening, and Todd Haynes» Far From Heaven casts its eyes on the same period to illustrate the obstacles minorities and the LGBT community faced.

The filmmaker was a last minute edition at the 2015 edition of the Sundance film festival with her debut film (we called it «too convenient, and ultimately, not very provocative, Little Accidents feels like a dysthymic version of classical tragedy, with a bright streak of classism threaded throughout.»

«Beast» sounds like a straightforward erotic mystery thriller, but that atmosphere is at times overshadowed by Pearce's exploration of British classism, bullying and bigotry (a Portuguese laborer is also caught up in the murder investigation).

This is rank classism posing as scholarship.

The ashes of interesting commentary about the inherent classism in the professional ice skating world, as well as the cult of the true crime celebrity in the 1980s, point to the darkness that lies at the centre of the story.

While we've seen romcom plots use classism, disapproving mothers (a perfectly cast Jessica Walter) and social awkwardness to create conflict and laughter, it feels fresh when portrayed through the eyes of persons dealing with autism.

Really deserved to win for: The Remains of the Day In the years since Merchant - Ivory - Jhabvala adapted Kazuo Ishiguro's quietly tragic novel about a reserved British butler, the movie's keen depiction of classism wreaking havoc across the 20th century has seemed more and more pertinent.

Teach about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.

Racism and classism exist.

This means that understanding how classism, racism, adultism, and the oppression of young people, to name a few, work to separate and divide us from one another is crucial to thinking about how to create optimum environments for learning.

It's utter classism to look down one's nose at working a trade, as though an electrician with an associate's degree who makes $ 40,000 a year is any less accomplished than an educator with a bachelor's degree who makes the same.

This strict classism served to identify exactly what role each character would play in a party, and players felt naturally more at ease with players who shared at least one of their three traits than those who had nothing in common with them, whose strange abilities and spells make them seem threatening in a game with no friendly fire.

Audre Lorde considers racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, elitism and classism together as an apparatus of «isms» that produces superiority and the normative right to govern anything lesser.

David Maljkovic's Out of Projection, a five - year project that brought Peugot's factory workers into the French auto maker's research department — where they had not been welcome before — lost its impact outside the context of French classism.

And I started doing a show called Abstract Classism of those four artists who had something very, very different and new to say.

The devil is in the details and there are layers here to disassemble: the renaming reveals an ugly European classism wherein cleaning ladies are somehow on the bottom and art historians on the top; more pointedly it demonstrates Selz's marked narcissism and an era that tolerated it: any contemporary man who asked a woman for her hand — and, by the way, I'm going to rename you — would be shown the door.

Image credit: Sami Grover Protesters Attack Luxury Green Apartments Recently fly posters have been appearing around my town - «Greenbridge: Classism Applied Liberally»; «Greenbridge is Racist», and my personal favorite «Greenbridge Only Cares About One

This is a distressing situation, not least of all because it reflects deep classism.

One of the leading factors for why historically - marginalized people leave firms is that everyday sexism, everyday racism, everyday classism.

Most of us don't have time in our fast - paced lives to tolerate classism, lectures or judgment.

Here, nonfundamentalists must be cautious, for our hostility to fundamentalistic thought may be tinged with classism.

To explore issues like classism and racism without ever being sanctimonious or preachy, to show the story through the eyes of a child without ever getting cutesy or patronizing, to weave together all those separate little storylines without ever letting them feel sloppy or disjointed — it's a rare author who can manage even one of those, and Harper Lee makes them all look effortless.