Sentences with phrase «of race and class»

Along with inter-generational tension, Yanoviak's search raises delicate questions of race and class.

«Right now we have an opportunity to see climate change in a different light; to see it for what it is, a human rights issue on a dangerous collision course of race and class,» said Nia Robinson, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.

Shonibare's work explores issues of colonialism alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography, film and performance.

Luke Willis Thompson's practice explores sites and objects that embody a sense of historical, political or social consequence to trace the fault lines of race and class in his chosen context.

Rosales - Silva, who is now living in New York but will forever associate himself with Texas, aims to examine identity issues of race and class and «filter them through formal art movements.»

Yinka Shonibare's work explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and film.

The admixture of race and class, ethnicity and education, location and proximity make the turbulence apparent on the surface, all too quickly.

Against this trend, Mark Wallinger's work has, since the 1980s, consistently addressed issues of race and class in the construction of British identity; what he calls «the politics of representation and the representation of politics.»

J. Soto is a New York - based artist, generating work in performance and text, whose choreographic work investigates the queer experience through an interrogation of race and class.

Having lived his entire life in the rural American South as a black working - class man, his art reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, including its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the tragedy of 9/11.

His work shrewdly explores and confounds stereotypes of race and class, engaging with ideas around identity and authenticity as well as dislocation, multiculturalism, global food production and revolution, often addressed through playful conceits.

Works titled after anthems of protest, «Strange Fruit» and «Waltzing Matilda,» allude to the lynched and the drowned figure (respectively) through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare.

Yinka Shonibare MBE has become well known for work that explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, most recently, film.

SOHO20 is hosting an exhibition to celebrate women leaders and to provoke discussion and action about what more can be done to give young people inspirational role models, to provide fair opportunity to women regardless of race and class, and to cultivate a human race that values good ideas and strong ethics based on their quality and not gender.

J. Soto hails from New York where his choreographic works investigating the queer experience through an interigation of race and class.

Yinka Shonibare MBE explores issues of race and class through painting, sculpture, print, photography and film.

The realities of race and class that he experienced there became the foundation — the bass line — of his work, upon which he builds fantastical imagery and complex mythologies, influenced by the imaginative realms of science fiction and larger - than - life narratives in hip hop.

Shonibare's work explores these issues, alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance.

Reclaiming artifacts and iconographies to critique the museum and speak about Black cultural history and identity, he bridges the gap between «high art» and «the street» to question connotations of race and class.

It can mean the experience of race and class for William Pope.L, in Eating the Wall Street Journal.

During Mardi Gras, everyone's a king, or so the saying goes — a topsy - turvy reversal of race and class that Boyce frames as utopian.

In Chelsea, Hank Willis Thomas and the team of William Powhida and Jade Townsend have brought discussions of race and class to a gallery scene where such concerns are often absent.

The initial curatorial invocation of «personal and collective experiences of race and class» addressed by Simmons's art also flattens the work in a way that feels anathema to his recent subtler, more ambiguous tone, developed with a visible engagement with contemporary art as much as with the symbols of American race relations.

By asking the spaces that write our history to include narratives that have traditionally been left out of actual and historical records, namely the voices and works of female artists and artists who are unseen or under - represented because of race and class; these pioneering activists in guerrilla suits may have been practicing an early form of atemporality.

Geyer's eye seems drawn to the utopian energy of this milieu, and the way in which it freely crossed divisions of race and class in its melting pot of radical ideals.

Recent projects have included organizing and co-organizing Fluxus founding member Benjamin Patterson's first retrospective concert Action as Composition (2013) and Pope.L's Cage Unrequited (2013) for Performa 13, and Jonathas de Andrade's A Study of Race and Class — Bahia > < New York (2015) and Chimurenga's Library for Performa 15.

Through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance, Shonibare's work explores the previously mentioned issues, alongside those of race and class.

Underlying the composition, however, are issues of race and class as well as, perhaps, sexual tension.

Born in poverty in Alabama, Dial has lived his entire life in the American South, and his art, informed by decades of struggle as a black working - class man, reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, such as its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 tragedy.

Their explorations of race and class couldn't be more timely.

With tons of race and class combinations to choose from and a unique gameplay feeling, The Day Online is ready to bring you an exciting sci - fi fighting experience!

Skills have the two aspects of race and class, so the breadth of training has been expanded.

Numerous other policy proposals could help address the broken college financing system for future generations and cancel out some of the race and class advantages that tilt the educational playing field.

Spanning a turbulent 30 years, Lethem's expansive new novel examines issues of race and class in his native New York.

Daryl Carter, author of Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class, and Dorothy Padgett, author of Jimmy Carter: Elected President with Pocket Change and Peanuts, talk about the presidency.

Pre-Civil Rights Mississippi was a place where issues of race and class weighted down air already heavy with...

As she did with Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie creates a multigenerational tale, spanning three continents and incorporating the complicated politics of Lagos, the slippery codes of race and class, and the emotional network of family and friends.

The author of Beasts of No Nation returns with a slim novel about the differences and imbalances of race and class, centering on a black, queer child of immigrants.

Finally, there is the bliss of love and passion, the wisdom of ancient culture, the piety of true believers, the sheer beauty of life on earth to experience, regardless of race and class.

Tree Falls brings up the issues of race and class, particularly with the situation between Brianna and Matteo.

This is a beautifully written memoir of growing up in the black elite with its distinctive challenges of race and class.

This disaggregated data revealed a wide gap in student achievement across lines of race and class.

Shelton said bail reform is crucial because the current system is discriminatory on the basis of race and class.

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half - Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, is both a narrative portrait of the struggles for equitable education in Milwaukee, and an exploration of the larger issues of race and class.

They prove that, regardless of race and class, all children can learn and be successful.

In our time together, I've struggled with how to discuss issues of race and class in our own cohort.

The no - excuses alternative, in contrast, is better equipped to negotiate the tensions between uplift models and progressive commitments, and to deal with the persistence of race and class differences.

Where residential and social separation along lines of race and class is tolerated, if not encouraged, our differences tend to spawn division and hostility, based on ignorance, prejudice, and stereotype.

De-Lea works with leaders across the network to more effectively fulfill Achievement First's mission by creating inclusive work environments, increasing awareness of race and class dynamics, and making decisions with an equity and inclusiveness lens.

The Urban Institute study is the latest research measuring school choice and the travel necessary for choice programs through the lens of race and class.