Sentences with phrase «inspired by the racism»

He created installations that referenced popular culture, and his abstract paintings were inspired by the racism he witnessed.

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Disrespect for fallen soldiers, casual sexism or racism in a society overwhelmingly plagued by those forces and a wanton disregard for animal welfare rightly inspire anger.

Denzel Washington stars in and directs this inspiring drama about a college professor who challenges the entrenched racism and prejudice of the 1930's by assembling and training a first - class African - American debate team, a talented group that makes its way to a national championship against Harvard University.

Tarantino's frequent use of the N - word will no doubt inspire both challenges and defenses — I'd argue that, as it was in «Django Unchained,» the term allows modern audiences to experience period racism that much more vividly — and there's also the matter of Jennifer Jason Leigh, who spends much of the movie getting punched in the face by various characters.

This week, I took a seat in the U.C.L.A. lecture hall where Professor Tananarive Due teaches «The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,» a course inspired by Peele's zeitgeist - capturing best - picture nominee, Get Out.

Mel Casas (cool - looking painting titled Anatomy of a White Dog, likely inspired by Romain Gary's book about US racism, White Dog)

This piece was inspired in part by a performance she staged at Yale, Run Bambi (2016), in which Brown describes finding her way through obstacles including racism and sexism.

Contemporary artists aged 18 to 80 from around the world have created these artworks that were inspired by such issues as racism, sexism, discrimination, health care, climate change, transgender rights, white supremacy, gender equality, and gun control, among others.

Those pieces — respectively by Alison Jackson, who's British, and Touba Alipour, who was born in Iran in lives in New York — are just a couple of the 80 works by contemporary artists ages 18 to 80 from around the world whose creative juices were inspired by such hot - button issues as racism, sexism and discrimination.

Partly inspired by Gordon Parks» idea of using the camera as a «weapon» of choice against racism, intolerance and poverty, Frazier's pictures counter the continued omission of African - American life and histories in both Braddock and the United States.

Inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts, the works he created during and after World War II capture the savagery of Nazism, the dangers of totalitarianism, and the pathos of American racism.

Repossession will present monumental collages and drawings inspired by the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, and Mark Twain, exposing and illustrating the power of the written word to both confront and perpetuate racism and difference.

Inspired by Afro - Cuban Modern, Folkloric and Popular Cuban dance, the group is known for tackling difficult issues such as slavery, racism, and cancer.

Though «impressed and inspired by the strength of spirit and commitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to develop innovative measures to support their own communities», Tauli - Corpuz detailed a «deeply disturbing» prevalence of racism — «ranging from public stereotyped portrayals of them as violent criminals, welfare profiteers and poor parents, (to) discrimination in the health sector and the administration of justice».