Sentences with phrase «of racial oppression»

I strive to increase my awareness of racial oppression and to fight for racial equality.

Born out of decades of the artist's own struggle as a working - class black man, Dial's work also explores the history of racial oppression in America, from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and into the post-modern era.

There is no substitute for the lived experience of racial oppression in America.»

Written with the austere clarity that has made Coetzee the winner of two Booker Prizes and the Nobel Prize, Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes the plight of a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of racial oppression.

The «good old days» so often longed for were also times of racial oppression, gender discrimination, and theological confusion.

But his path crosses with Killmonger, who hopes to use Wakanda's power and technological prowess to spark a revolution of oppressed peoples around the world, exporting weapons and assistance to those who suffer under the boot of racial oppression.

Indeed, it is past time for white Americans to hold accountability for and stand up to the injustices of racial oppression.

[iv] Named after a practice that used the tortured bodies of individuals as emblematic in order to terrorize an entire community and maintain a system of white supremacy, the Lynch Fragments works thus invoke and invite associations to systems of racial oppression worldwide, and they call attention to the physical force that maintains those systems of power — the use of physical pain and psychic trauma to terrorize, subjugate, humiliate, and degrade.

The goal of Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America is to foster curiosity and deeper investigation into the history of racial oppression through the lens of the black experience in the twentieth - and twenty - first - century United States using art, film, and literature to encourage dialogue, critical thinking, and empathy.

In addition, it hopes to bring into focus how we come to a comprehensive, yet specific, understanding about the ways in which the legacy of racism, experiences pertaining to institutionalized racism, and day - to - day embodiments of racial oppression and racial privilege, shape the narrative of each person in the family and couple and in turn impact their interactions within their family.

They characterize every question raised about the cost effectiveness or appropriateness of a welfare program as evidence of a lack of concern about the black poor; they identify every affirmative action effort, whether aimed at attaining skills training for the ghetto poor or securing a fat municipal procurement contract for a black millionaire, as necessary and just recompense in light of the history of racial oppression.

However, our focus will be specifically on the schooling of urban African American children, because of their unique experience of racial oppression and the distinct cultural adaptations that occur in inner - city environments.

Written with the austere clarity that has made J. M. Coetzee the winner of two Booker Prizes, Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes, with unforgettable, at times almost unbearable, vividness the plight of a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of racial oppression.

Players roleplay as investigative journalists, solve puzzles, and use social media to spread awareness of racial oppression.

I believe that if it had not happened there, folks who don't fundamentally understand the history of racial oppression and police brutality in this country would have been more inclined to withhold judgment.