Sentences with phrase «question about the race»

«For us, the question of immigration is a question about race, and it is also a question about real equality in this country.»

Just a nice, quiet, radically fast young man with no interest in making social statements and no clue as to why anyone — all the reporters who peppered him with questions about race after he won the gold medal, all the people roaming websites, even a writer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED — would make color an issue.

We read, research, and ask questions about race and racism.

The survey did not ask a question about the race for comptroller, which is the city's chief budget office.

They also answered questions about race and education during a discussion moderated by Lecturer Pamela A. Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the Language and Literacy Program.

This fall, the charter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the application form.

And questions about race and class have driven much of the effort to make sense of his election and think about what comes next.

Teachers were doing well in terms of cultural responsiveness and understanding culture of Native students who selected only AI / AN in response to the question about race, but not doing well for Native students who selected more than one race in response to that question.

In Everyday Antiracism leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice.

In a blog post up now on the New York Times Learning Network, Facing History and Ourselves Senior Program Associate Laura Tavares pairs an article about the recent report documenting the history of racial lynching in America with an excerpt from Harper Lee's best - selling «To Kill a Mockingbird» in order to situate the novel in its historical context and raise important questions about race, justice, and memory today.

It's a fantastic piece of narrative nonfiction journalism and asks profoundly important questions about race, policing and media bias.

«All of a sudden we found ourselves presented with the historical importance of his presidency, and at the same time questions about race in every aspect of everyday life became part of an active public conversation,» she said.

The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

Kehinde Wiley's work raises intriguing questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

Mr. Cave, 57, is best known for his «Soundsuits,» the wearable, noise - making costumes that entertain while they raise questions about race, gender and identity.

Composed of more than 50 monumental paintings and sculptures, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raises intriguing questions about race, identity, and the politics of representation.

Hammons's questions about race and his own Afro - American identity are key themes of his work.

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender,

Questions about race, gender and authenticity first erupted last November when the Whitney Museum of American Art named the 103 artists and collectives participating in the spring Biennial.

The piece raised all kinds of questions about race.

By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture.

While most interviewers know that questions about race, religion and sexual orientation are not permitted by law, they may not be aware of what else is and is not illegal.

Although employers have a legal obligation to check that applicants are eligible to work in the UK — they have no right to ask any questions about your race, religion or native language.

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After all, the question everyone is talking about now is about just why it is that having employees engage customers on race would be such a problematic thing.

Others questioned whether a line for coffee was an appropriate place for productive talks about race.

So, when I questioned him about where he did it, when he achieved his racing license, and the different competitions he may have entered, his story completely fell apart.

As an employer, you are not permitted to ask questions about a person's age, race, creed, sexual orientation or marital status.

For me, «playing in my lane» means using my position as PwC's chairman and senior partner to drive conversations about race and diversity, to drive change and ask the hard questions within PwC and the profession in which we compete, and to have the discussion with other CEOs and corporate leaders.

At a press conference on Thursday, Chicago attorneys Thomas Demetrio and Stephen Golan, and Dr. Dao's daughter Crystal Dao Pepper, answer questions about whether the incident aboard a United Airlines flight was race - related and how he is recovering.

But regardless of your race or that of the person you're speaking with, don't be afraid or too proud to look foolish to ask questions about things you don't know — especially when someone says something that needs further discussion.

After Republican Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race Tuesday, numerous media outlets are raising questions about whether hoax news played a notable role in the candidate's rise and in stoking sharp divisions among users of differing political views.

After the typical questions about a job applicant's gender and race, Goldman Sachs (gs) asks candidates to indicate their sexual orientation via a drop - down menu including the choices bisexual, gay man, gay woman, heterosexual, lesbian, other, and «prefer not to say.»

And finally, if your presentation itself isn't clear, investors will ask clarifying questions such as «What exactly did Slide Three mean when it talked about widget consumption per race track cylinder?»

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

There is another question, though, and that is about the race of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

I think these are valid and important questions if we care about community and the welfare of the human race.

Going back to the major political contests of 2009, beginning with the Governors» races in Virginia and New Jersey and to the Senate race in Massachusetts, the electorate has been asked the same question about Obama's agenda and has given the same response.

The race to grow the next «world's hottest pepper» has ignited a heated debate among chiliheads, one that raises deep questions about science, ethics, and honor.

You don't need to be a bully to win Cup Series races, but you certainly can not be timid when a situation warrants, and questions about Elliott's aggressiveness would've persisted.

(4) the Groundhog Day effect — the inability to prepare for the inevitable slump that usually comes during or following the heavy holiday schedule in December / January... whether it's injuries or Wenger's disdain for the January transfer window, which makes sense in light of his disdain for spending, his philosophy for handling this situation has failed miserably... my question, once again, is how many times can one person try the same failed strategy before making some sort of fundamental changes... just think to yourself about our recent January dealings, especially in those years where we were still in the race but in desperate need of reinforcements, then try not to throw up a little in your mouth

Overall, the paper's coverage of the case has indeed been fair and exhaustive; it has commissioned polls on race relations and has run an occasional column answering readers» questions about the Iverson case and attempting to quell rumor mongering.

Errico's conviction poses many questions about horse racing's ability — or willingness — to police itself.

The question was meant to be about Hakkinen's future, but Dennis quickly asserted that the Finn «will race a McLaren,» then added the sort of intriguingly political coda for which F / 1 is justly famous.

Force India wrapped up fourth place in the championship last time out in Mexico, raising questions about whether Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon would be free to race each other in the final grands prix.

Had the Gunners drawn the game, doubts and questions about their ability to last the distance in the title race this season would have been raised again.

Hamilton called Verstappen «a **** head» for his overly aggressive racing style and when questioned by the press again about the comment, Vettel, sat alongside him, defended his title rival.

For me, empathy is an existential question — it's about the survival of the human race.»

Talking about different cultures and customs and races and answering any questions they have teaches your child that it's okay to notice differences, and more importantly, it teaches him that it's good to talk about them.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.