Sentences with phrase «effects of racism in»

Set in 1953, this novel explores a family of light - skinned African Americans who are desperately trying to pass as white, but whose dark - skinned daughter named Bird forces the characters to confront their own identities and the damaging effects of racism in the U.S.

The series that brought us Courtney Hoffman's The Good Time Girls (which led to her getting her feature debut over at Amblin) and Gabourey Sidibe's The Story of Four, a fiercely feminine and nuanced look at the effects of racism in America, now brings us a film by Kristen Stewart.

Not exact matches

The ugliest presentations of racism may have been pulled out, but it's clear that we're still dealing with the after - effects — even now, social mobility is less evident in black men who play by the rules than white men who don't.

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

I continue to be amazed at our collective blindness to the effects of racism and poverty in those days.

A major effect in the domestic scene is what racism does to public respect for the principles of democracy and of Christianity.

The Irish - Ethiopian actor gives an Oscar - worthy performance in Jeff Nichols» film about the effects of Jim Crow racism on a mixed - race couple in 1950s Virginia

There is of course no question that the savage inhumanity to which African Americans were subjected in our country for much of its history and the racism that has persisted far longer have had detrimental effects on the black community and on its families.

Again, who would read the report and believe that the drafters would accept a student who said, «Yes, racism is a part of our history, but it has declined in marvelous ways, and does not have a formative effect on students»?

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.24

The NUT will be using the good practice identified in schools via this research to develop practical tools for schools to challenge the effects of racism.»

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Wallace draws on his own youth in Philadelphia to examine the effects of racism, the question of excessive force used by police, and the value of Black lives in this country.

While the simultaneous Mandarin and English translations provide a literal underscore to Cheng's experience of foreignness, it is in pieces like The Bridge (2016), where a young black man traverses Hell Gate Bridge while repeating, «I do not turn around», that we are reminded that the maddening forces of Otherness and isolation are as much a homegrown effect of systemic racism than that which is lost in translation.

He grew up in the segregated American South and suffered the effects of ingrained racism.

In her 2014 book Citizen: An American Lyric, Rankine uses language and images to convey the effects of racism, from the casual to the extreme.

A third grouping will contain photographs that focus on the role of place in Weems's examination of the underlying causes and effects of racism, slavery, and imperialism.

He singled out the image of the figurine — originally exhibited by Wilson with twenty other photographs in a family tree — like arrangement (a lineage of racism and amnesia)-- and enlarged it to reveal a crack along the figure's neck, a symbolic and chance embodiment of the violent effects of history.

We are now able to use this information to effect real change in eradicating racism, bullying and lateral violence from the medical workforce, and to progress the implementation of a culturally safe healthcare system.

Moreover, a recent study documents the racism reported by indigenous Australians living in a major Australian city when accessing health services, and the effect of this on their reports of poor health and wellbeing [7].

The students wrote and performed the lyrics to the music video «Standing Strong» based around the issues that they feel are most pressing for the youth in Katanning including the negative effects of alcohol and drug use and racism.

Current projects investigate effects of threatening environments on underrepresented groups, self - regulation mechanisms in response to threat, perceptions of targets and allies who confront prejudice, and effects of social media and racism on stress.

Findings suggest that experiences with racism can have long lasting effects for African American youth's depressive symptoms, and highlight the detrimental effects of experiences with racism for perceptions of control in the academic domain.