Sentences with phrase «racial equality through»

In this talk, art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.

Art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin exhibition, The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.

Not exact matches

Through two seminal victories, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil - rights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remained.

«If we have a commitment to achieving racial equality, then the simple act of how we talk about race in schooling has to be thought through.

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

Through My Eyes, by Ruby Bridges, is also a true story of the fight for racial equality in the United States.

An outspoken Marxist dedicated to social reform and racial equality, Perkins saw abstraction as inherently elitist and firmly believed that through familiar forms, art could most effectively convey authentic political and social ideas.

Organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the institution's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the project took on a particular urgency as heated discussions about gender and racial equality in the U.S. roiled through this year's election season.

At JACK SHAINMAN Hank Willis Thomas's archival tour de force, titled «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» presents 100 carefully culled print ads that trace the halting progress of feminism and — by omitting nonwhite women — the even more dispiriting state of racial equality in this country (513 West 20th Street, through May 23).

Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans.

This shift in the test is important because it raises the possibility that differential treatment that has a detrimental effect on an already disadvantaged racial group might be permitted through the substantive equality door even though such treatment would not be permitted under a formal equality approach.