Sentences with phrase «from racial prejudice»
Any individual who has experienced racial discrimination knows that acts of racism have real and lasting impact, and for more than 40 years the Racial Discrimination Act has been helping protect people from racial prejudice,» Mr Mohamed continued.
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In fact, if I had to pick one book from the list to send each one of you, it would be this one, as it proves the perfect primer for understanding how mass incarceration, police brutality, socioeconomic oppression, and racial prejudice affect people of color today.
Now he stood barely 100 yards from the capital of the old Confederacy, surrounded by a vast sea of racial prejudice.
Post-Exilic Judaism, therefore, far from being unanimous, presents in its theology a profound variance — monotheism, taken morally in earnest, mingled with old ideas involved in tribal deities, racial prejudices, religious bigotries, and national hatreds.
He found that «Literally - oriented religious Believers did not differ significantly from Mythologically - oriented Believers on measures of intelligence, authoritarianism, or racial prejudice.
In explaining his choice, Buc Coach John McKay hinted that racial prejudice might have kept Williams from going higher.
He found the racial prejudice of his new homeland odious: «Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next.»
I wept, and sobbed, and sniffled, and wailed through the bittersweet adventures of two immigrants - a bear from Peru in London, and an improvised sushi chef from Syria in Helsinki in Paddington 2 (truly a work of comedic wonder, which also made me cry tears of joy) and The Other Side of Hope; the dredged up pain of Folsom Prison inmates in The Work; the anger of racial injustice and prejudice exposed through James Baldwin's words in I Am Not Your Negro - and the blow of that Kendrick Lamar song that comes with the end credits; the disconnection of fathers and daughters in the corporate capitalist world who discover they can still duet by the piano in Toni Erdmann; the pangs of the teenage heart with the real girls of All this Panic.
The racial prejudice that Annie and Sarah Jane encounter throughout the film is confronting, and the amount of screen time dedicated to exploring their problems is interesting — and a deliberate attempt by Sirk to draw attention away from the more insignificant problems of his white characters.
Eighth grader Jordan, who transferred from a school where racial prejudice was a problem she ran into, says she was «shocked when I came here» to see the students working together.
Racial integration, ethnic diversity, and prejudice: empirical evidence from a study of the British National Party
When school settings include students from multiple racial groups, students become more comfortable with people of other races, which leads to a dramatic decrease in discriminatory attitudes and prejudices (McGlothlin & Killen, 2005; Rutland, Cameron, Bennett, & Ferrell, 2005).
It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»
This picture book spotlights the revolutionary surgical technician as well as the challenges he faced, from the devastation of the Great Depression to incessant racial prejudice.
Curtis deftly blends fully dimensional characters, a skillful use of sentiment, and his often hyperbolic humor into a historical novel that examines cultural and racial prejudice from many different perspectives.
Alongside this work, he also addresses racial questions, exploring concepts of blackness and whiteness and presenting the prejudices and violence that emerge from a culture of racism.
The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.
Securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the City of Philadelphia against another governmental agency from carrying out discriminatory elements of a fare plan and the denial of preliminary injunction in a civil rights suit, which was dismissed with prejudice, alleging racial discrimination in the implementation of certain regulations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.
Soros opines that exposure to the criminal justice system is potentially more detrimental to a young person than marijuana itself, that enforcing marijuana laws costs taxpayers billions while benefiting only foreign drug kingpins, and that laws against marijuana, from their inception, have been motivated by racial prejudice.
Racial discrimination can range from physical violence to subtle forms of prejudice and unconscious bias.