Sentences with phrase «issues surrounding race»

Feelings about birth families, or issues surrounding race and culture may come to the surface.

Can we then assume the issues surrounding race / class / gender / identity are common among all people living in America?

«We think Danielle's work in developing dialogues to investigate and question social narratives, such as issues surrounding race and gender, will bring about thoughtful and topical conversations with our students.

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video January 24 — April 23, 2014 Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation on issues surrounding race, gender and class.

Loose and disjointed narratives involving the histories and materiality of painting are found in several videos: Ragnheiour Gestsdottir's video «As If We Existed,» portrays the fictitious melodrama of a figurative painter working in Venice; Tameka Norris's «Purple Painting» incorporates makeup and food in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an art historical canon; in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with spray paint.

Using systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates dramatic sculptural installations that explore issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

Instead of this staid technique, how can we look in nuanced, unprecedented ways at issues surrounding race, racism, cultural appropriation, white privilege, and multiple methods of identifying?

By revealing the numerous emotions found within everyday objects, his works examine issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

His work is based in a historical evocation of Modernism and the early years of cinema as well as issues surrounding race and masculinity.

By revealing the numerous emotions inherent within found everyday objects, Ward's works examine issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

Ward re-contextualizes these found objects in thought - provoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings to confront social and political issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

There's been a LOT of discussion this past week or so about important issues surrounding race, class, and privilege among school reformers and reform critics.

«It also taught me a lot about relationship - building and thinking critically about issues surrounding race, class, and education.

Perhaps only one thing remains certain: issues surrounding race - conscious admissions will likely continue.

Not only is there a heartfelt love story at its core, but the movie intelligently deals with issues surrounding race, religion, family and even illness.

Current and former Starbucks workers were mixed on the company's response to the arrests, telling Business Insider that the arrests were just one symptom of systemic issues surrounding race, stigma, and discrimination.

Not exact matches

Those opposed to the majority and its agenda are making the politics and controversy surrounding Paladino a central issue in the race.

The Dolby Surround soundmix is sharp and workmanlike — like the movie that it decorates, nothing remarkable, nothing jarring — while a feature - length commentary provided by Hackford and screenwriter Thomas Rickman is difficult to sit through, not for the fact of any dead spots (there aren't any), but for the way that Hackford likes to talk about how race was an issue in the Old South as though everyone else is an idiot.

Racing Extinction (Director: Louie Psihoyos)-- Academy Award - winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a unique team to show the world never - before - seen images that expose issues surrounding endangered species and mass extinction.

I'm looking for a college that is academically challenging, very active in the surrounding community, encourages the student voice and is focused on social justice issues beyond race and feminism.

Furthermore, the report also details the numerous issues that surround race and socioeconomic status.

The forum will offer attendees the opportunity to learn about issues surrounding the horse racing industry, as well as get a sneak peek of the new Centaur Equine Specialty Hospital, expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

Para Site is pleased to present Afterwork, a major group exhibition exploring issues of class, race, labour and migration in Hong Kong and the surrounding region.

We engage a wide audience, particularly young people, in discourse and debate on issues surrounding the politics of race, class and gender.

Lucas - Going's art takes inspiration from the artist's mixed - race heritage and issues surrounding growing up in Leeds as a woman of colour.

Controversial issues surrounding citizenship, cultural consumption, discrimination, race, and poverty build the narratives that Ward articulates in rubber, string, metal, and other detritus.

Kara Walker is an African - American artist who rose to fame for her use of large paper silhouettes to explore social issues surrounding gender, race and black history.

Joyce J. Scott uses complex beadwork and sculptures to design figures that explore sociopolitical issues surrounding pop culture, and race and gender discrimination.

Para Site is pleased to present a series of public programmes comprising of guided tours, workshops, and screenings, taking place alongside Afterwork, our current major group exhibition exploring issues of class, race, labour, and migration in Hong Kong, its surrounding region, and beyond.

Each is critically engaged with content surrounding issues of identity — be it gender, sexuality, culture, race, or economic class.

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

I'm making note of this because our Pace University environmental documentary in 2014, «Green vs. Gold: Brazil's Race to Balance its Sports - Fueled Tourism Boom,» provided an early snapshot of the pollution issues (and social concerns) surrounding Brazil's big sports push, which that year included the World Cup.

Take employment law: First Nations governments often face complex employment issues arising due to jurisdictional anomalies, overlapping political and administrative functions, and complex issues surrounding traditional laws, cultural norms, race and competency.

We have almost 20 years of experience helping injured motorcyclists, cyclists, professional racers, racing organizations, track day organizations, companies and dealerships in Orange County, surrounding areas in California and all over the world with their complex legal issues.

But whereas rape trials may no more be sullied by stereotypes about victim behaviour than is the case with Saturday night GBH, race hatred, mugging, and mini-market shoplifting, the sensitive political issues surrounding the crime of rape may drive pressures for the introduction of sui generis measures aimed at removing myths from the minds of jurors.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.