Sentences with phrase «into racial stereotypes»

Imagine one that fed into racial stereotypes.

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Carter was most concerned to free black intellectuals from the box labelled «politically correct»» i.e., the assumption on the part of both blacks and whites that, since racial affirmative action exists to bring a «black perspective» into universities and other institutions, an «authentic» black will conform to a political stereotype.

That type of hateful attack demeans low income New Yorkers, makes poverty a crime, and plays into harmful racial stereotypes.

These kinds of questions only perpetuate racial stereotypes (regardless of whether they're «positive» or not) and turn the idea of interracial dating into a kind of experiment or phase.

Its digs at racial stereotypes and dedication to honouring the images and conceits of black cinema from the Seventies are dead on - target for the most part, while its attempts to marry it all into some sort of spy plot are subject to the same extended dull spots suffered by any dinosaur Bond flick.

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

A Ballerina's Tale pays tribute to the talent and tenacity of Misty Copeland, the African American ballerina who defied racial stereotyping to grand jete from corps de ballet into principal roles.

The story, by Patricia Cohen, was not about righting the racial wrongs of our attitudes toward poverty; it fell instead into the same racial stereotyping traps that we tried so hard to avoid in our Children of Poverty story in Life.

The racial differences were similar when researchers merely asked students to fill out a pretest demographic questionnaire that inquired into their race, a minor manipulation of the stereotype threat.

Generally made with pen and ink on graph paper, Pope.L's Skin Set works from the late 1990s and into the 2010s offer sharp, sometimes witty critiques of the absurdity of racial stereotypes and references to skin color (i.e «Black People are the Window and the Breaking of the Window,» «Blue People Can not Conceive of Themselves,» «White People Are Angles on Fire»).

These early collages in which Kruger used the techniques she had perfected as a graphic designer, were the artist's initiation into the world of ongoing political, social, and feminist provocations and commentaries on religion, sex, racial stereotypes, consumerism, corporate greed, and power.

It does in the fierce hilarity of a short 1971 film called «Colored Spade» by Betye Saar that flashes racial stereotypes at us like rapid - fire bullets, and in a funky 1973 assemblage called «The Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail,» by the same artist, which turns a California wine jug with a «mammy» image on one side and a Black Power fist on another, into a homemade bomb.

In France, Benjamin Millepied is actively trying to push back against racial stereotyping in the ballet; meanwhile, in the United States, the recent rise of Misty Copeland as the first black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre has thrust this decades - old debate into the spotlight.

Through personal contact with Indigenous people who had been taken from their families, many non-Indigenous Australians in the 12 months since the release of Bringing Them Home began to gain a better understanding of the discrimination experienced by Indigenous people, and an insight into damage done by policies based on racial stereotypes which reinforced and perpetuated the very stereotypes underpinning these policies.