Sentences with phrase «of race riot»

Related to Gates» ongoing series In the Event of a Race Riot, one example of which is held in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the present work takes its place within the artist's wider fascination with the Civil Rights movement, extending the legacy of race riot depictions by Andy Warhol and Kelley Walker.

Elsewhere, Theaster Gates's In Case of Race Riot II (2011), a fireman's hose coiled and framed in a wooden box, evokes the high - pressure water guns historically used to suppress civil rights protests; Kara Walker's deceptively playful cutouts tell narratives of the cruel racial dynamics and oppressive stereotypes of the antebellum South; and Titus Kaphar's chilling duo of paintings in The Jerome Project (My Loss)(2014) show the monumental, detailed face of a black man disappearing behind a rising glut of thick black paint.

His installations and sculptures mostly incorporate found materials, often from the neighbourhoods where he is engaged, and have historical and iconic significance, such as «In Event of a Race Riot» (2011 onward) in which lengths of decommissioned fire hoses are carefully folded, rolled or stacked and emphatically presented inside gilt box frames.

In the Event of Race Riot, XXVIII, 2011, wood, hoses and glass, 86 x 67 x 18 cm.

Ryman has an unsimple rap going with Theaster Gates's In the Event of Race Riot VII (2011)-- which my eye keeps coming back to.

Long takes of the wild ones throwing switchblades at one another, of Dafoe smoking a cigarette, and of a sex scene comprised almost entirely of televised scenes of a race riot betray the influence of the French New Wave.

The pain of the race riots of the mid 1960s probably shaped some of the education policies to foster racial inclusion and tolerance, and those memories are likely at the root of some of the current emphasis of the curriculum on the development of cross-cultural competence and global citizenship.

Mildred, the first generation, escapes her memories of the race riots by going to the cinema; her daughter, Angela, builds on her mother's love of film to run away to Hollywood and have bit parts in the blaxplotiation films of the 1970s.

Faith Ringgold's «American People Series # 20: Die,» an imaginative depiction of the race riots that engulfed the United States in the 1960s, is currently on view at MoMA in «From the Collection: 1960 — 1969» through March 12, 2017.

If Andy Warhol approached the theme of race riots with emotional distance and the serial process of silkscreening media imagery in his 1964 Race Riot series, Bradford pursues an approach that is as expressive, as it is abstract.

Not exact matches

Johnson was heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915, a reign that included his knockout in 1910 of the so - called Great White Hope, former champion James J. Jeffries, which prompted race riots in dozens of U.S. cities.

Yet Najib will struggle to live up to the ideal of racial harmony and the legacy of his father, who brought Malaysians together after race riots in 1969 nearly tore the nation apart.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

It was in 1969, the era of George Wallace and the Black Panther Party and campus race riots and the Richard Nixon «Southern Strategy.»

While we were deliberating on how to head off a bloody race riot a group of youngsters burst in on us and announced: «The State Police are shooting our people.»

(Saul Bernstein: Alternatives to Violence: Alienated Youth and Riots, Race and Poverty (New York: Association Press, 1967) On the basis of his analysis, he proposes solutions that are quite as inadequate as those that France proposed to the National Liberation Front in 1957.

Politics, sports, race riots, crime and labor disputes all belong to this level of conflict.

Earlier this year, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilRace Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilRiot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilrace riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilriot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were killed.

He revealed that after the race riots in Charlottesville, he convened with a group of pastors to discuss what can be done to foster greater unity in the Church.

Cone first gained attention in 1969 with the release of «Black Theology and Black Power,» a book he wrote after urban race riots and King's assassination.

We have also had other evils — among them, the long, disgraceful history of segregation and Jim Crow, of lynch mob and race riot.

Lord Scarman had warned that the race riots of 1981 showed that «urgent action» needed to be taken to stop racial discrimination becoming an «ineradicable disease».

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

It is a fictionalized account of the historic Tulsa Race Riot in 1921.

By the time the riots ended in Watts — and Detroit, and Newark, and dozens of other cities — Americans understood that race was a much bigger problem than they had ever thought before.

There is no need to elaborate here the various features of the human scene, such as war, race - riots, family friction, crime, drugs and all the rest, which make it eminently clear that the world of men as a whole stands in need of renewal.

What I was making attempts toward elaborating upon is the ways in which socialisms are being held in check by televised séances of a conjuring manner wherein many noted hierarchies of socialist dissertations might just inflame their followers toward mass riots... this said, I can submit and admit that socialized justifications for warranted civilities become immorally the bargaining assets of the cultured races hiring ways... Maybe I am but a fruitcake...

I look back on my time in high school during the enforced busing and race riots of the early 70's and not one student stabbed another with a butter knife in my district.

In the 10 months since, the Prime Minister has repeatedly been forced to distance herself from Trump - the man who was supposed to be her best buddy on the global stage - be it over his withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, his criticism of Sadiq Khan after the London terror attacks or his response to the Charlottesville race riot.

Some will complain that we should not have to wait until race riots take place to challenge this type of piece.

There was also a high vote for British National Party leader Nick Griffin in Oldham, in the wake of recent race riots in the town.

The message from UKIP is that Corbyn Labour is unpatriotic, an enemy of the armed services and supportive of «uncontrolled mass immigration» — this in a town with a large Muslim population where bitter race riots took place in 2001.

There are repeated references to the many race riots and protests that took place across Britain in the eighties - with a sense of impending momentum as we approach «the march».

The recent debate over Muslim women wearing full face veils could see a return of riots as seen in Barnsley and Oldham in 2001, Britain's race watchdog chief has warned.

Under the «progressive» failures DeBlasio Dinkins we had 1990 anti-Asian anti-Korean Boycotts, the 1991 anti-Jewish riots in Brooklyn (which Gov Cuomos Girgenti report called the worst in NYC history, directed at Jews), the 1992 riots that tore apart Washington heights, and the crazy mugging and murder rates in the inner city brought on by the ivory tower left wing progressives who inflict criminals on all of us law abiding citizens of all races.

However, almost half of those asked, said they expected there to be race riots «in the near future» if current levels of immigration are maintained.

[32] Critics accused him, among other things, of «inflaming racial tensions» in an area that has already known race riots.

All are more than competently demonstrated in Rampage, a big - budget action movie about the Rock's race to stop three giant, mutant animals running riot on the streets of Chicago.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

But her reasons for taking on the biographical drama of the 1967 Detroit race riots were always clear, allowing her to persist while wading through emotionally difficult terrain.

There's something crucially cathartic in a movie where Channing Tatum and Adam Driver play simple brothers fucked over by The Man who decide to rip off a NASCAR race, where Daniel Craig slums it as a charmingly ghoulish explosives expert and Dwight Yoakam's corrupt warden can't articulate the intricacies of the «Game of Thrones» publishing schedule to rioting inmates.

Recalling harrowing incidents of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Detroit, the film is a stomach - turner, to be sure.

Yet once the sequence has come and gone, all that's left is tears and vigils; the responses to Grant's death — the protests and riots, as well as the serious discussions of race it provoked — are left out entirely.

THE TAP (originally set up at USA in 2014) Not going forward STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions TEAM: Andrew Lenchewski (w, ep), Aaron Tracy (w, co-ep), Rob Reiner (ep), Alan Greisman (ep), Charlie Ebersol (ep), Simon Cellan Jones (d) LOGLINE: Set at Yale University circa 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution — a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and the arrival of its first female students.

Kathryn Bigelow's incendiary recreation of the 1967 Detroit race riots.

Opening with an incendiary recreation of the Detroit race riots that took place in July 1967, this third collaboration between screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow, after The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, ensures viewers are lacerated by every shattered window, burnt by every Molotov cocktail.

, Charles and Diana, the Falklands war, Rubik's Cubes, aerobics videos, Yuppies and race riots - and these images are brilliantly edited to the sound of Toots and the Maytals»

«I'm not sure rave reviews or buzzing awards talk are enough to express the amplitude of what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal achieve in «Detroit,» a film about race riots from half a century ago.

Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.

Stripped of its ambiguities, the plot plays like boomer magnetic poetry: a little race riots here, an anti-war bombing there, a dash of sexual liberation and voilà!