Sentences with phrase «on race and class»

It's a strong indication of how life is often valued based on race and class.

«Medics have been doing this for years without any adverse impact on race and class,» she said.

Right after the hurricane, the Brookings Institution issued a report on national poverty saying that, «Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans» most vulnerable residents and neighborhoods has reinvigorated the dialogue on race and class in America.»

Graceful assemblages and swirling abstractions stood as compelling counterpoints to the locally based African - American artist's piercing sociopolitical commentary on race and class relations

No question, much of Mr. Dial's paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints carry you into a darker place — «from reflections on race and class struggle in America to haunting meditations on events of contemporary global concern» was the rather sanitized view of the High Museum, when it mounted «Hard Truths,» the traveling Dial retrospective, organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2011.

Thornton Dial's highly original works provide compelling commentary on the most pervasive challenges of our time — from reflections on race and class struggle in America to haunting meditations on events of contemporary global concern.

They often focused on race and class (and were screamingly funny), for which they won acclaim, including an Emmy in 2016.

Not exact matches

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

The proposed class - action suit alleges a racist culture at Tesla, unsafe factory conditions, and failure on the part of the company, including CEO Elon Musk personally, to prevent or investigate race - based harassment and discrimination there.

At 31 years old, I'm 3 classes away from my undergraduate, have run and lost a State Senate race, can debate Hayek and Keynes with economics Professors, debate Nietzsche and Schopenhauer with philosophy professors, and talk occupy politics with working class youth, unemployed workers and homeless bums on the streets of Atlanta.

For market segmentation, you should look for people demographics (age, gender, race, household size), socioeconomic class (income, education, occupation), psychographics (values, personality, lifestyle), and based on their behavior (buying responses, usage, loyalties).

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

Finally, most institutions apply criteria to the profile of the whole student body, hoping that their student bodies will incorporate a variety of experience and perspectives based on gender, race, ethnic ties, social class and prior occupations and involvements.

Opinion polls show that these members are as liberal on economic issues as members of mainline denominations, even when social class and race are taken into account.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

For some the cause adopted was environmentalism, or anti- «globalism,» and others (who had the license to) got into angry explorations of the holy triad of race / gender / orientation (class was usually on the back - burner).

Democratic movements, on the other hand, reflect a religious spirit, when in the name of truth, equity, and universal rights the idols of race, class, economic privilege, party, and nation are tumbled down.

On the contrary, Niebuhr argued, the collective egoism of class, race, and nation is more persistent than the self - regard of the individual.

On the other hand, there were thousands of people killed that day, and they were a cross section of New York... people of all socio - economic classes, races, religions, and backgrounds.

Our congregration from our pastor on down is a wonderful mixture of races, ethnicities, and socio economic classes.

«I was looking for a way to express what was going on in this moment in terms of gender and class and race.»

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

Baptismal water was the universal solvent not only of traditional religious distinctions within Judaism but also of the foundation stones on which the ancient city rested; for the church, it was the sole initiation and was not confined to a single family, clan, race, or social class.

On the one hand, the intellectuals abandon the church because of its traditionalism or romanticism; on the other hand, disinherited classes and races protest against it as the ally of capitalist, racial or nationalist imperialisOn the one hand, the intellectuals abandon the church because of its traditionalism or romanticism; on the other hand, disinherited classes and races protest against it as the ally of capitalist, racial or nationalist imperialison the other hand, disinherited classes and races protest against it as the ally of capitalist, racial or nationalist imperialism.

As David Martin famously wrote in his account of global South churches, Pentecostalism gives the right and duty to speak to those always previously deemed unworthy on grounds of class, race and gender.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

Yet if the land is to be good and the nation is to love unity, we must emphasize, even more than we did on the first King Day, his conviction that only love can truly unite men and women of diverse cultures, religions, races and classes, for we all possess equally the dignity and respect that the God of love and power conferred upon us.

Oppression, whether based on race, class or sex; is not a fad, and problems are not going to go away simply because they are ignored.

It was in any case Europe's great pleasure capital, with a flourishing high culture» literature, theater, art» and, on the wicked end of the spectrum, an abundance of high «class brothels, gambling dens, casinos, and race tracks.

While we Christians positively eschew divisions based on caste, class, race, gender, and so on, we welcome the division that comes from radical commitment to following the Christ.

These prejudices are stumbling blocks to the fullness of God's Kingdom on earth, as inimical and counter to God's intention as any race, sex or class prejudice.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw churcAnd then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw churcand the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

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The Barn will have Christmas lunch and dinner throughout December and on Boxing Day enjoy Segway races, a falconry display and wine and chocolate master classes.

elneny — looks like the first signing to be announced asap could be good cover and surprise first team impact player like kos (cheap but top class a real wenger gem) chilwell — could well be second signing and let him stay on loan at hudders just to keep him in playing time c / f or attacking player that will give a quick boost in the title race, not sure who this could be fingers crossed maybe aubamayang, if he is available this window could be a master stroke if we get him in.

Liverpool are still very much in the title race, and Rodgers knows that victory would give him the opportunity to purchase an entirely different class of player, but by the same token he is also aware that he can not afford to make his moves based on that alone.

The Sarnses» 45 - foot Revelry is one of the busiest and winningest B class sailboats on the Great Lakes (class B winner, Port Huron - Mackinac race last year for the second time running).

We surveyed 51 members of the Denver Broncos on the subjects of class, race, religion, upbringing, politics and more

The colts, two of the finest 3 - year - olds ever to appear in the same year, were set to battle at old Washington Park, Chicago's South Side course, in what was being whooped along as the greatest match race on the planet since Seabiscuit and War Admiral ran at Pimlico on Nov. 1, 1938, the epochal clash of regions, lifestyles and social classes.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

We reached the floating tailgate at about 9:30, and have been watching the races — which are divided into classes depending on boat length and engine horsepower — since they kicked off at 10.

A four - star Ohio State commit is back on the market, and Bama's gaining a little distance in its race for a seventh straight No. 1 class.

The kit will include the Ford GT40 which won the famous endurance race outright back in 1966, and the modern homage to it, the Ford GT, which won the GTE Pro class on it's Le Mans debut in 2016.

Should he somehow go on to win an eighth premier - class title at some point over the next three seasons he'd draw level with Giacomo Agostini's record; Rossi already holds the records for most wins, most podiums, and the most race starts.

If you need more reasons why Johnson may be the favorite on Sunday, crew chief Chad Knaus is in a class of his own at calling a race and executing outside - the - box strategy when needed.

But also dipping under two minutes was 20 - year - old world junior champion Ajee Wilson of the US and 19 - year - old world junior silver medallist Judd, who ran a sensible race leaving enough to surge through a world - class field on the back straight and storm over the line in a 1:59.77 PB.