Sentences with phrase «how racial violence»

But knowing that Whitehead is trying in this book to call our attention to the illusion of freedom and equality in America today, I think Cora also represents the current plight of black women, at the bottom of the pay scale (due to the double whammy of racism and sexism), and with so many of them also forced to make their way on their own, given how racial violence impacts on black men.

Although he was talking about the state of the planet, his words are also apt on the topic of racial justice: If you look at the data that shows how racial violence has evolved throughout history and aren't frustrated or exhausted, then you probably don't understand the full story.

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Howard Beach triggered a string of other racially - charged attacks - Mario Cuomo established a task force on bias - related violence to suggest how New York could deter racial violence while addressing its causes and effects.

This dissertation explains how, during the onslaught of racial violence and disenfranchisement in the late nineteenth - century South, black men and women used public black colleges to retain limited access to political power and to train future leaders.

I think the work I chose speaks to the current social climate and the demands of respectability politics, and how this «double - binds» African - Americans in the face of prejudices and racial violence.

How do we measure our collective complicity in both systemic violence, trauma, and the legacy of constructed racial representations?