Sentences with phrase «dominant culture»

The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.

In not wanting to choose, children are being more sensible than the present dominant culture in many countries.

Encouraging new ways of being in the present and the future, Vessels of Genealogiespresents radical, fluid figures that offer alternative realities to those whose cultural identities have remained traditionally absent from dominant culture.

For this week's «Ask a...» interview I'm thrilled to introduce you to Austin Channing Brown who serves as a counselor and adviser within dominant culture Christian ministries and churches.

What Cultural Safety offered me was an insight into dominant culture, and it labelled or gave words to so many of my emotions, and words like racism.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

It seems reasonable to encourage historically dis - advantaged cultures to be recognized and valued by providing some sort of protection against dominant cultures.

Carla Edwards's current project examines how dominant culture, and artifacts shape our sense of identity and self.

This legislation enshrined the White Australia policy, embedding dominant culture worldviews and priorities into the very birth of the federation, and of course the exclusion of us from Australia's birth certificate.

Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring different peoples into closer contact, and speakers of minority tongues abandon them for the languages of more dominant cultures.

Austin serves as a counselor and adviser within dominant culture Christian ministries and churches.

The lack of an immersive experience in viewing these works and their overt objecthood suggest the distance between dominant culture and the stories they hold.

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal... will be the artist's first comprehensive survey, and explores how Thomas points to the roles that images, brands, and popular icons play in perpetuating stereotypes as well as upending dominant culture narratives.

The Family Wellbeing Program in Yarrabah grew out of consultation with Yarrabah community leaders who wanted to establish a program where they could pass on life skills and values in «overcoming adversity and maintaining a strong sense of family in the face of hostile dominant culture» [52] as a means of suicide prevention.

It includes cultural awareness, or understanding the role of cultural difference and diversity, and the capacity for self - reflection as to how the Western dominant culture impacts on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

In not wanting to choose, children are being more sensible than the present dominant culture that increasingly turns the appropriate involvement and voice of children into their being set up to be the chief witness and decision maker between parents in cases where the parents are not able to protect their children from these terrible and harmful responsibilities.

It is often subversive of existing dominant cultures.

God's people are always, it seems, in danger of being overwhelmed by the larger and dominant culture surrounding them.

School leadership should examine whether it has operated on «auto - pilot» and has not considered the possible effects that an unexamined dominant culture that can have on both learning and work environments, ranging from merely unhelpful at one end to outright hostile at the other end.

In the interior design of the hotel the attentive eye can read, through the mixture of styles, the story of the island of Ischia itself, including the different dominant cultures throughout the ages, from the Greek to the Aragonese, from the Romans to the Saracens; countless Ischian lives joined together in a unique three - dimensional novel to leaf through day after day, ever discovering new and exciting cultural facts.

Artist Statement «During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump supporter and Mexican - American Marco Gutierrez made a particularly ludicrous statement, «My culture is a very dominant culture.

I became aware of the prejudgments of skin colour which is the same as sexism in the Western masculine dominant culture.

So if you were black and drew upon your experience within an oppressive dominant culture, to make an existential statement to enrich the lives of others of any race, your experience was not valued and you were marginalized as an «African American» artist, the same way women were marginalized.

My project focuses on Lorraine O'Grady, Glenn Ligon, Alfredo Jaar, and Kerry James Marshall whose artwork challenged the ways that late twentieth - century dominant culture's portrayal of the movement obscured mid-twentieth-century civil rights activists» efforts to overturn foundational American structures, which maintain racist oppression.

Firelei Báez is a Dominican - American artist whose large - scale paintings, drawings, and textiles evoke the beauty and political implications of hairstyles, textiles, and tattoos for those whose cultural identities have remained traditionally absent from dominant culture.

He has chosen objects of dominant culture and presented them as shadows which follow behind us, which never really leave us, though they come and go depending upon the «light» in which we find ourselves.

Dara Birnbaum is a New York - based media and installation artist, whose work is among the most influential and innovative contributions to contemporary discourse on art and television, consistently exposing embedded ideologies within dominant culture.

We all have culture interwoven with our ethnicity — and the more dominant the culture is, the more invisible it seems to us.

Extreme copyright laws can intimidate new types of creators, especially those who use new media techniques to criticize dominant culture or powerful entities.

Hanukkah is a very minor Jewish holiday and commemorates a time, more than 2,000 years ago in which the Jewish people were at risk of being absorbed into a hostile dominant culture.

Fault lies with the dominant culture, with the way we were raised.

Its quintessential place in the dominant culture of the day was cemented in John Updike's 1961 short story «A&P.»

As much as equality movements have improved matters for racial minorities, women, and LGBT employees, the burden often rests on these individuals to manage their identity within the dominant culture.

For Yahoo, which counted 12,300 employees shortly after it closed the Tumblr deal, the problem has historically leaned in the opposite direction: the acquired companies were quickly swallowed by Yahoo's dominant culture.

For instance, black women who straightened their hair to fit the dominant culture in a corporation later felt constrained if they wanted to go natural.

The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

Chudacoff wants to convince us that these men produced a kind of subculture embedded within — even though slightly resented by — the dominant culture characterized by the family and the married man.

It's properly called «liberal,» not because it adopts American - style political liberalism (though it often does, because that's the dominant culture of higher education, which is the context in which most Jesuits exercise their ministry) but because it's an approach to theology dedicated to freeing us from constraints and limitations that impede our ability to draw closer to Christ.

The slaves» lives were «a radical contradiction within the dominant culture itself» (SSI 177).

Our guest today has suggested that the «principles of womanist preaching include affirming the dignity of Black women as legitimate interpreters of the Scriptures whether or not our interpretations converge with those of the dominant culture.»

By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

We rightfully protest, then, when those in the dominant culture sweepingly state, «We all look alike,» «Ferguson is looting and burning its own community,» and other erroneous statements that consign black people to a monolithic status.

Every church has a dominant culture deeply influenced by the traditions and expectations of the dominant group and leaders in the church.

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

Their subservience to the dominant culture had sapped them of moral strength.