Sentences with phrase «largely white audience»

From an emotional perspective, as a person of color in the United States, it is difficult not to take umbrage at the image of a white man, a published poet and Ivy League academic, appropriating the murdered body of a Black man for the benefit of a largely white audience that may be sympathetic but can not empathize with the deceased.

I have myself asked whether Jean - Michel Basquiat meant it when he played the outlaw for a largely white audience, but in a recent show pairing him with Jean Dubuffet, the Frenchman's primitivism looks phony by comparison.

Not exact matches

The comic book audience is largely made up of white males, so publishers have often erred on the side of caution with black characters or have created a black character simply in an attempt to market to a new audience of black readers.

Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.

The audience for the arts is largely white, educated, affluent... and growing older.

It was something the women and minorities in the largely white, male audience had probably already guessed.