Sentences with phrase «of racial inequality»

And I think we've done a very poor job at diagnosing the social health of this country when it comes to our history of racial inequality.

Rather, players just wanted to stand up for people suffering oppression and living under the burden of racial inequality.

Why do some authors in your book deny the validity of racial categories, while others claim that to deny the existence of racial inequality is foolish?

By the age of nine, he had developed a keen awareness of racial inequality, as well as a desire to be an artist.

The effects of racial inequality are real, not imagined, and we do the public no favour by refusing to acknowledge them.

Explore the creative achievements of African American artists and examine the expression of personal and collective identities in a nation marked by a history of racial inequality.

Since racial division is the most important cleavage in American politics, overlaying and deepening the ideological and Republican - Democrat partisan dichotomy, we can expect much more action around the persistence of racial inequality in America.

For example, Pollock argues that, by neglecting to identify racial achievement patterns, both district administrators and school staff avoided discussing how ongoing school improvement efforts could address key issues of racial inequality.

April 29: Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality with New York University Associate Professor Patrick Sharkey; Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein, University of California - Berkeley School of Law; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson, director of Harvard Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

«Connecticut has not solved all the problems of racial inequality in education or other aspects of opportunity but it is unique in the Northeast of working creatively on the challenge and making some real, measurable progress.

Artists who have also entered the list this year are Kara Walker at 56, who explores the origins of racial inequality, but also the vast social and economic inequalities that persist in America, and Kerry James Marshall at 68, who had a major retrospective touring the US this year.

Well, I've just come to recognize that we have a huge problem in America and we have never honestly confronted the legacy of racial inequality.

That's not surprising after the ESPN article characterized most of the owners» concerns as squarely on business, ratings, and sponsorships, and seemed to show the group as dismissive of the concerns of racial inequality that prompted protests in the first place.

This concept of racial inequality which inadvertently benefits whites often is referred to as «White Privilege».

THE MOVIE The city of 1967 Detroit, Michigan is gripped in a wave of violent protest, fed destructive flames by decades of racial inequality and prejudice among the police department.

Grounded in heavy research into the lives of women who have been the victims of sexual exploitation, «Hold Me Down» shines a spotlight on overlooked individuals and the legacy of centuries of racial inequality.

Harvard professor Roland Fryer, an economist who has done pioneering work on the sources and magnitude of racial inequality, won the John Bates Clark medal, which is given to the most promising American economist under 40 years old.

He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.

A just - released Center of American Progress report sheds new light on the lingering vestiges of racial inequality in our schools, specifically on inequity in spending on students of color.

Although his art was not usually explicitly political, titles such as Jail Jungle (1968 - 1974) and Dark as I Am (1971 - 1972) allude to the realities of racial inequality in the United States.

The series aimed to counter negative imagery of African Americans in the media through the communicative power of photography and offer a meaningful, alternative view of that community in the hopes of confronting the root causes of racial inequality.

Developing its collection of contemporary art that addresses politically charged issues, the museum has also acquired a large work on paper by Kara Walker, who is celebrated for her artistic explorations of racial inequality, and a photograph by Shirin Neshat that explores gender within post-revolutionary Iran.

The son of Eastern European immigrants, documentary photographer Goldblatt came of age under apartheid and observed the increasing entrenchment of racial inequality in his country.

Growing up in a neighborhood with very few African - American families, he quickly became aware of the racial inequalities that plagued the present - day political and social landscape of America.

«You have to understand, I spend 90 % of my day on Starbucks's business — I'm not spending my entire life on the issue of racial inequality, I have a company to run here,» he says.

She invites the public to explore the origins of racial inequality, but also the vast social and economic inequalities that persist in America.

At the Askwith Forum, «Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality in America.

Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African - American.

Schultz said that Starbucks hadn't paid enough attention to the issue of racial inequality; the board agreed, but differed over how best to approach the topic more broadly.

American Honey, starring Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough, along with Ava DuVernay's documentary The 13th — which examines the history of racial inequality in the US, will be the special presentations.

This is especially necessary for white students, for whom teaching about this history of racial inequality is more difficult at times because racial inequality is not interwoven into their lived experience.

The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America's history of racial inequality.

We are committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment, challenging cruel conditions of confinement, and confronting America's long history of racial inequality and injustice.