Sentences with phrase «colored by racism»

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Formal slavery was quickly replaced by a Jim Crow system that was slavery in all but name, and many of its vestiges (mass incarceration of people of color, voter disenfranchisement, and all manner of systemic racism) remain alive and well today.

Some gardens are colored by destructive factors — family violence, racism, heterosexism or classism — which women struggle to acknowledge and understand.

And if we take into account American history — 500 years marred by attempts to eradicate and assimilate people of color — policies like the one at Boston University come close to institutionalized racism.

What we now know from Unnatural Causes: «When the Bough Breaks» is that the stress hormones in pregnant women of color caused by the stress of daily engagements with racism may contribute to more complicated pregnancies and births, including prematurity and increased mortality and morbidity.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

«This research shows that prejudice has far - reaching consequences that span beyond targeted groups: White women may be harmed by racism and men of color harmed by sexism,» explains psychological scientist Diana Sanchez of Rutgers University.

Thurst is developed by queer black folk and queer people of color, so unlike other dating platforms, don't tolerate racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, shaming, or harassment.

He and Byrne emphasize the additional challenges faced by LGBT students of color who often deal with issues of racism and who may not feel safe enough or ready to come out until there is a «critical mass of kids of color» in their schools.

(For an in - depth look at color - blind racism, I recommend Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla - Sracism, I recommend Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla - SRacism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla - Silva.)

I should note that by «racism,» we don't mean the willful harming of people of color by white people — this is how the law has often framed it.

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their children.

Connecticut children of color, already hurt by poverty and racism, however, suffer the most.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

I was immediately struck by the use of color as a means of defining prejudice, in this case prejudice against those who commit crimes, much as its been a means of defining racism for centuries

The familiar title and bold color contrast attracts audiences, but the pleasing aesthetic and cleverly appropriated title are quickly dwarfed by the harsh realities about American racism revealed through the content of the work.

Meaning «Hail the Dark Lioness» in Zulu, she confronts racism by photographing herself while on the road, highlighting various aspects of her identity which speak to her skin color, ethnicity and the cultural perceptions and stereotypes of femininity and African culture.

The first was the establishment of the Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), a collective of over one hundred women of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.»

We will work together to ensure working class communities and communities of color lead the fight for climate justice by working on relationship building and training on structural racism and creating a definition for climate justice.

«I can not think about climate change without thinking about Charlottesville, about the long legacy of racism, xenophobia, and fascism in this country, and how the communities most affected by Trump's environmental rollbacks will be poor communities of color.»

The commissioner of the proposed league, Don «Moose» Lewis, denied that racism was the motivating factor behind the restrictions on player nationality and ethnicity, claiming instead that a subset of basketball fans are interested in seeing «fundamental basketball,» rather than the» «street - ball» played by «people of color.»»

There is also quite a lot of racism in this school and I've seen a couple of black students get antagonized by others over their skin color.