Sentences with phrase «course of race relations»

At the time, horrifying photographs of Till's mutilated face, taken as he lay in an open casket with his mother looking on, were published in Jet Magazine and are widely acknowledged to have helped change the course of race relations in America.

Others who were alive in the «50s and «60s will remember her as an outspoken social activist and intellectual who rubbed shoulders with James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and others changing the course of race relations in America.

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Of course, the movie also works as a companion piece of sorts to «Django Unchained» in the way that it deals with race relations during that period in American history, and it has some very interesting things to say on the matteOf course, the movie also works as a companion piece of sorts to «Django Unchained» in the way that it deals with race relations during that period in American history, and it has some very interesting things to say on the matteof sorts to «Django Unchained» in the way that it deals with race relations during that period in American history, and it has some very interesting things to say on the matter.

MaryAnn Johanson: Dee Rees's marvelous film is of course a terrific look at racism in the rural South in the 1940s: I particularly love how it shows how its two WWII veterans, one black and one white, are changed by their experiences of race relations in Europe and in the US Army during the war, that they discover that the way things have been in America are not automatically the way they must be, that their world could be better and fairer.

Simultaneously, while taking the notion of race relations into account, the film also departs from traditional horror tropes that utilize gory scenarios replete with seemingly immortal villains and, of course, the disposable characters that oppose them.

He has returned to these questions again and again over the course of his career, often exploring the thorny issues of identity in relation to race, sexuality, and gender.