Sentences with phrase «exploring race relations»

White Wash (Unrated) Hang Ten documentary, narrated by Ben Harper, exploring race relations through the eyes of black surfers in Hawaii, Jamaica, Florida and California.

It's the way this film takes itself so seriously — who'd have thought they were really exploring race relations and self empowerment?

John Ridley's new ABC series is a punishing but worthwhile effort to explore race relations via a murder mystery.

Producer, director, writer and actor Spike Lee creates provocative films that explore race relations, political issues and urban crime and violence.

Not exact matches

His goal is to raise the level of awareness and sensitivity surround race relations by exploring the question of «can we use our skill for good?»

The series establishes the context of Simpson's fame and his relationship with the African - American community while also exploring the history of race relations in Los Angeles, all of which lays the groundwork that helps recreate some of the shock and drama that fed the media circus around Simpson's murder trial.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

Your Inner Bigot They explored the virtue of powerlessness in the arena of race relations.

Like «Mad Men,» it uses its subject and setting to explore the lives of characters in that era and to reflect our own perceptions and preconceptions of sex, race, gender roles, and the complicated relations between men and women.

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

Drawing from a conceptual framework that has been mainly defined by psychologists and psychiatrists, I explore the ways queer Latino males undergo a process of resilience while investigating potential limitations in the way such framework has been defined and applied, particularly in relation to race / ethnicity and sexuality.

Featuring 160 works, the exhibition explores gender roles, race relations, and gun violence — offering a visual journey that is about more than cowboys, bandits, and barroom brawls.

Goldblatt continues to explore the consciousness of South African society today, looking at the condition of race relations after the end of apartheid while also tackling other contemporary issues, such as the influence of the AIDS epidemic.

Exploring the painful history of American race relations through large - scale silhouette installations, Walker's work transforms historical materials, literary sources and popular culture, challenging us to access buried emotions about our nation's past.

Truth: 24 frames per second brings together 24 pioneers of film and video and over six decades of work focused on pressing contemporary themes, such as race relations, political unrest, sexual identity and the media, to explore the nature of truth and reality in contemporary life.

Exploring the struggles determining power relations across race, class and gender, Alida Cervantes» work uses collaged photos of dolls to construct an alternate historical narrative.

With these works, Wilson explores the symbolic use of black in relation to race and in association with mourning.

Since 1998 Hargrave has produced a compelling, deeply personal body of work incorporating painting, drawing, sculpture and video that explore the dynamics between race, sexuality and religion in relation to his upbringing in the south and early adulthood as an African American gay male coming to terms with racial and sexual identity.

The exhibition brings together 24 pioneers of film and video and over six decades of work focused on pressing contemporary themes, such as race relations, political unrest, sexual identity, and the media, to explore the nature of truth and reality in contemporary life.

Following its run at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, curator Daniel Tucker's exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self - Determination Movements will continue to explore questions of equity, justice, and race relations with a residency at the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery at Columbia College Chicago, March 3 — April 9.

Focusing on the years from 1963 to 1984, Soul of a Nation explores how artists responded to the fundamental changes in race relations and American cultural identity during the period.

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.

explore the attitudes of mainstream youth in relation to key issues in contemporary race relations.