Sentences with phrase «questions about racism»

She used her art to ask philosophical questions about racism, poverty and the brutalities of the war in Vietnam.

The body of work effectively raised questions about racism in Brazil, leaving them up to the viewer to resolve.

- School Library Journal «Once again, though, Anderson's detailed story creates a cinematic sense of history while raising crucial questions about racism, the ethics of war, and the hypocrisies that underlie our country's founding definitions of freedom.»

Volponi's novel of two best friends — one black, one white — who face the consequences of armed robbery shares Monster's Manhattan setting, authentic teen guy characters, and provocative questions about racism, justice, and versions of the truth.

Once again, though, Anderson's detailed story creates a cinematic sense of history while raising crucial questions about racism, the ethics of war, and the hypocrisies that underlie our country's founding definitions of freedom.

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So instead of jumping on the racism thing how about asking the obvious question??? What is it about THIS couple that sparked the congregants to speak up against it???

The only question that remains is, will you remain on the sidelines — silent about the blatant racism all around — or will you join in leading the charge to end all the prejudice, and instead prize all of God's people?

In it, four young urban professionals intertwine in a web of social, racial and gender politics, questioning both current and ingrained cultural attitudes about racism and other social dynamics.

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

Her worries about the campaign — and the unsettled question of whether its success is based on an undercurrent of racism - provide an complex and intelligent moral counterweight to the central plot.

At a launch, to which the media were invited, on 30 June 2016 for the publication of the Chakrabarti Inquiry report into allegations of antisemitism and racism in the Labour Party, Daily Telegraph journalist Kate McCann questioned Jeremy Corbyn about a «Momentum member» handing out a «leaflet» calling for the deselection of anti-Corbyn MPs.

Inevitably the first question is about Ukip and racism.

Having just about put up with Dan Aykroyd blacking up in Trading Places, the issue of Landis himself appearing as a (highly stupid) Iranian does raise questions with regard to possible racism.

After all, coming from a nation where college is free, technological wonders abound, and the all - black inhabitants live unencumbered by colonizing racism, the monarch was unequipped to chime in on questions about dodging student loan collectors, airline baggage fees, and working around bad credit.

When they do get to the topic of the movie, he has to deal with the barely concealed racism of questions about how many white people are killed in this movie about a uprising against slave owners (His response, pointing out that the anger about the depiction of killing in a movie is misguided compared to real - world killing, is spot - on).

Now, the film's star, Daniel Kaluuya, has responded to a criticism from actor Samuel L. Jackson, who recently questioned why a British man was cast in a film about American racism.

I'm thinking about what texts, historical and current, we can read and films / documentaries we can watch to support dialogue, questioning, and solutions for combatting that ugly, pervasive thread in the fabric of our country's patchwork quilt called racism.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

While not comprehensive, these resources and activities enable students to explore difficult questions about national identity, institutional racism, and the boundaries of US citizenship.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Use these activities and resources on Japanese American incarceration during World War II to introduce students to this history while exploring questions about American identity, racism, and citizenship.

Here we see Two Feathers as Rashid and the reverse — something Rashid described as a «tromp - l'oeil effect of Two Feathers without the long extensive narrative story,» presenting a rich body of work and an enticing series of questions about the same topics that haunt the Frenglish Empire — the role of influential and pejorative stereotypes, racism, capitalism, and imperialism.

The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora's movements and it's relation to feminism, sexuality, racism and the history of slavery.

It took place within a police culture that raises troubling questions about policing, mental health, systemic racism and other -LSB-...]

It didn't take long before someone questioned the Facebook CEO on his commitment, however: when Zuckerberg posted a follow - up on Sunday night about the marches in Paris and elsewhere and the value of being connected, a reader noted that Facebook had removed a comment from a user in Pakistan that questioned the limits of free expression when it is used for racism or other offensive ideologies.

Through active audience participation, Tania urged all universities to start teaching their students not just to ask about race, but to further question patients about their experience of racism.

It now asks a number of questions about people's experiences of unemployment, crowding in their house, experiences of racism and grief, relationship breakups, gambling, and so on, as well as about community activity, education and other possible protective factors.