Sentences with phrase «race and class struggle»

Works titled after anthems of protest, «Strange Fruit» and «Waltzing Matilda,» allude to the lynched and the drowned figure (respectively) through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare.

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.

Not exact matches

The cops I know are constantly struggling with some form of» - ism» (e.g. race, age, class, etc) given the combination of experience and an innate human tendency towards profiling.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

No woman of an oppressed class and race, therefore, can separate her female struggle from its context in the liberation of her own community.

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

Set in Mississippi, Mudbound takes us through the struggle between race, class, and two families as they learn to coexist.

The games and matches often stand in for cultural struggles around race, class, gender, and national identity — but that struggle is the subtext, and the movie brings it to the fore.

In our time together, I've struggled with how to discuss issues of race and class in our own cohort.

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half - Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, is both a narrative portrait of the struggles for equitable education in Milwaukee, and an exploration of the larger issues of race and class.

In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize — winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown - set in the backlands of Jamaica - is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

Born in poverty in Alabama, Dial has lived his entire life in the American South, and his art, informed by decades of struggle as a black working - class man, reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, such as its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 tragedy.

Exploring the struggles determining power relations across race, class and gender, Alida Cervantes» work uses collaged photos of dolls to construct an alternate historical narrative.

Activist Artifacts Signs, posters, videos, twitter feeds, images, websites, barricades, banners, fliers, costumes, diagrams, and other material rooted in the higher education struggle against bloated administrations and boards, class, gender, and race marginalization, tuition and fee hikes, militarization and surveillance of campuses, privatization, socially unconscious investment and profiteering.

@ Killian: don't know if you are open to it, but here's a perspective piece on intersectionality and how it fits in the history of social / class / race struggle.