Sentences with phrase «racial conflict in»

His imaginary heroes — the «Baseball sluggers» — are figures embodied of symbols that reflect the cultural and racial conflict in the modern Western Society, and his confusion between the concepts of race and culture in America.

As FBI director James Comey said in his February 12 speech, we can ignore the realities of racial conflict in our society, or «we can choose to have an open and honest discussion about [what] our relationship [could be] if we took time to better understand one another.»

School desegregation provoked racial conflict in Birmingham, Montgomery, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, and other cities across the country, often for years at a time.

Based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel, Dee Rees» «Mudbound» addresses racial conflict in World War II - era Mississippi and speaks to viewers with its bold visual language.

The murders of these innocent black men stands as one of the most despicable incidents in the long, ugly history of racial conflict in America.

Educators said learning about Reconstruction can help children understand the current racial conflicts in this country.

Not exact matches

Adding further detail to the situation discussed in Vaughn's lawsuit, Tesla referred to a number of «conflicting accusations and counter-accusations between several African - American and Hispanic individuals, alleging use of racial language, including the «n - word» and «w - word,» as well as the threat of violence towards one another.»

For example, in the racial conflict, how idle it is to talk about «integration of hearts» so long as millions of blacks are not integrated into economic life.

For the surging tides of opposition, national and racial ambitions ages old, are meeting in ultimate conflict at the Oder and tide - rips and cross-currents will sweep across our world for generations to come.10

Reducing the struggles of the past to conflict between «the Christians» and «the culture» disregards the fact that slavery, Jim Crow, Native American removal, and all sorts of racial and gender inequalities have all flourished in a supposedly Christian culture.

Here they must not indulge in racial, denominational, national, and creedal conflicts.

«There is genocide again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one debases the term to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question remains and festers [Undoubtedly true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»

Political entrepreneurs are beginning to exploit the rise of ethnic consciousness in the U.S. Political ethnicity and conflict are certain to grow when government validates or legitimates racial, religious or nationality quotas, proportional representation, community control, communalism or sectionalism.

In two of the most troubled areas of the earth, South Africa and the Middle East, racial conflict and tension are at an all - time high, with no hope of any immediate abatement.

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

«Our research also illustrates how racial conflict can have wide - ranging effects that resonate across generations in ways that today's voters might not easily or directly recognize.»

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

Like her previous films, it gave specific focus to cultural displacement and racial conflict, themes that would be further explored in J'ai Pas Sommeil (I Can't Sleep, 1994).

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

The attempt seems to be to update the Western genre by respecting the traditions while emphasizing, in a modern way, the hardships and the racial conflicts.

Such a change would also allow selective colleges to phase out racial preferences in admission, which have long been a flashpoint for racial conflict.

The dissertation examined the perspectives of African American and white faculty mentors of African - American undergraduate students through a comparative analysis of the factors that influence the faculty members» mentorship of students, the role of formative experiences in faculty's philosophy and approach to mentorship around issues of race, and the advising and counseling strategies employed by faculty when assisting African American undergraduate students negotiate their perceived experiences of racial conflict.

-- On the other hand however, we saw great accomplishments in education, the development of the mind, and a deep desire for peace, made poignant by two world wars and many cultural religious and racial conflicts.

Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.

She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

The study's findings will help explicate the tensions that arise for countries with entrenched histories of racial conflict, as they navigate post - / neo-colonial relations, re-invent their educational missions in response to new mandates, and carve out their place in an increasingly competitive, globalized marketplace for higher education.

Oates is equally unflinching in her inquiry into class and racial conflicts, and in her imaginative and intrepid variations on actual circumstances and crimes, from the limited choices of disadvantaged women in her Detroit - set National Book Award — winning them (1969) to Marilyn Monroe's disastrous celebrity in Blonde (2000) to a tale of the opposite lives of two college students in Black Girl / White Girl (2006) to the JonBenet Ramsey case and the horrors of the tabloid press in My Sister, My Love (2008) to the festering wound of a long - ago New Jersey lynching in The Accursed (2013).

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The result, eventually, was A Strange and Bitter Fruit, a novel in which Barry faced down the deep legacy of racial conflict and violence that shadowed the world he grew up in.

By contrast, Walker and Marcopoulos's massive reproduction of the mountain stresses the size of the related historical issues, as well as the scale of racial conflict still evident in American society today.

Deriving its title from Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man explores the conflicted question of racial identity and its theatrical enactment in U.S. history.

Integrating the pictorial vocabularies of times past, Walker presents conflicting realities and role reversals that evoke parallels to the racial power struggles inherent in American society today.

Made with technology at the Eastman Kodak factory, the installation will put Kodak advertisements in dialogue with racial and political conflicts from the 1960s, and will involve collaborations with mental - health patients.

Addressing pop culture and racial conflicts, Nina Chanel Abney paints scenes rooted in autobiography, current events, and traditional storytelling.

Canada has it's own history in racial rhetoric during conflict.

Includes articles about family relatedness; family conflict and well - being; impact of interparental conflict and parental factors on child adjustment; discipline responses; parenting practices and adolescent depressive symptoms; adolescent self - esteem; achievement and self - perceptions; and racial preferences in media and peer choices.

In unresolved marriages, the couple does not yet know how to manage the differences and may either ignore or experience conflict about them.39 Although it appears that the unresolved couples may experience the most challenges with regard to racial, ethnic, or religious differences, each of these four relationship styles can benefit from learning strategies to manage their differences, belief systems, and conflict and stress.