Sentences with phrase «history of social movements»

Tracing the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean, «Bloodlines» presents a series of new works by Firelei Báez, inspired by lineages of black resistance.

Bloodlines Tracing the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean, Bloodlines presents a series of new works by Firelei Báez inspired by lineages of black resistance.

I am reminded of the role of hate in the history of social movements every year during the Walk for Life.

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Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

It is therefore not wrong to interpret cosmos itself as a movement from mechanical matter through organic life to the spiritual human selfhood, and to interpret human history itself as the evolutionary or revolutionary enlargement of the human selfhood and its spiritual self - determination and its social and cosmic responsibility.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

The experiment with strategies of social change through nonviolent action is an important movement in the modern history of love.

From the history of the Pulaya conversion movement in Travancore, what emerges uppermost is the development of social consciousness of a community in the various stages and changes of society in transition.

If those of us who are evangelicals did that with an unconditional readiness to change whatever did not correspond with the scriptural revelation of God's special concern for the poor and oppressed, we would unleash a new movement of biblical social concern that would change the course of modern history.

Much of the history of the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement that led to its formation has been concerned with social and political thought.

The congregation is a distinctive social form that the worship of God has assumed in the history of the Christian movement.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

Drawing on history, theology, and the social sciences, Senn demonstrates that the working assumptions of the church growth movement and its forms of worship have their roots in European pietism and rationalism of two hundred years ago.

The phrase «community mental health movement» describes an exciting social revolution which is occurring in this period of history.

Our understandable human impatience for meaningful fulfillment has led us time and again to imagine that a particular conception of social order is the ultimate stage in history's movement.

Each of the three cities have a proud humanist history, Manchester being associated with Robert Owen, the eighteenth century social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement; Alan Turing, mathematician and founder of computer science; Professor John Harris, philosopher and bio-ethicist; and Professor Brian Cox, physicist, TV presenter and former pop - star.

Fernand said that Columbine students did not have the benefit of social media that now fuels the youthful protest movement, which Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - NY, called «the most successful protest in the history of America.»

The movement is fueled by new technologies such as mapping apps and GPS - enabled smart phones, other handheld GPS devices, Google maps and OpenStreetMap, an open - source online map with a history of involvement in social justice.

Social movements» lack of intersectionality isn't new — racism is threaded throughout history, and less than a year ago, we were having these same conversations about the Women's March.

Cultivate a strong knowledge base of history, government, and social movements — both prominent and less successful.

The answer lies in the lessons of other social movements throughout history.

Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with The City of Boston and ArtsEmerson, is excited to present a Community Conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson on Wednesday, December 9 at Emerson College from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Stevenson is one of the country's most inspired thinkers and social justice advocates, and a leader in the movement to fight mass incarceration.

A high school history teacher centers a study of social movements on the fight over the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

A Brookline native, she attended the town's public schools from kindergarten through high school and returned as a high school Social Studies teacher after earning a PhD in American Studies at Brown University and teaching Women's Studies, Science in Society, and the history of political movements at the college level.

WIHS teach Colleen Whalen explained how Facing History's curriculum works at her school «It encourages discussion on the social construct of race and history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.History's curriculum works at her school «It encourages discussion on the social construct of race and history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.history of civil rights movements and helps students draw parallels to the modern day and the Native American experience.»

If you've written fiction or a memoir, consider what aspects of your book might lend themselves to lectures: local history, politics, social movements, etc..

Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects» lives to some of the most important social movements of the era.

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The jerseys serve to bring awareness to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel and will hopefully be the driving force to bring a more profound understanding of the history of the social justice movement that characterized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

The Gallery's curated exhibition History, Painting connects three painters whose work reflects three distinct movements in American social activism over a period of three decades.

Indeed, the social histories and identity politics explored in work made during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements is being investigated by a new generation of scholars and curators, bringing attention to overlooked artists central to the era, AfriCOBRA artists in particular.

Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name at the National Academy of Design, traces the history of this movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s by examining its manifestations throughout the country — from Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism.

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

But unless we are parts of these things — such as social bodies or movements — or use those words in a historically specific way, we can not pretend that we have the authority to speak in their names, in the case of things, nor can we deny their intrinsic history, in the case of words.

Often referencing political and artistic history, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton siphons historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural and social perspectives.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

The King of Arms Art Ball is a social practice piece in which Newsome stages a vogue ball where all the categories are based on an artist's work or a particular movement within art history.

Her experience with transnational and intergenerational artists» projects with Simone Leigh and Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Wael Shawky demonstrate an early commitment that mirrors ICA's: critical dialogue, research, and spotlighting artists» imbrication of visual pleasure, social movements, and expanding cultural histories.

A contemporary artist hailing from Los Angeles, Arceneaux often finds inspiration in history, science fiction, social movements, philosophy, and architecture, for the creation of his immersive installations that artfully synthesize diverse media like video, sculpture, and painting.

In addition to an art historical overview, American history, political and social movements are also illuminated by means of video and music fragments in the exhibition space.

To contextualize our work, we will examine the emergence of Realism in the nineteenth century; survey different realist movements from art history, including naturalism and social realism; and analyze how, over time, painters have adopted realist conventions to their own ends.

Himid was one of the pioneers of the Black Art movement in the 1980's which offered a forum for black artists exploring the social and political issues surrounding black history and identity.