Sentences with phrase «racial history»

We are the heirs of a distorted racial history in which sexual dynamics have been a major force.

This longstanding problem has roots in America's racial history of white supremacy, and this country will never be whole until it acts justly by reckoning with its own past.

In American Histories, a collection of 21 short stories, John Edgar Wideman draws America's present and its divisive racial history as the direct consequence of a political and economic system that depends on man's inhumanity to fellow human beings.

Most Fascinating: Mary C. Curtis at the Washington Post with «Strom Thurmond's black daughter: a symbol of America's complicated racial history»

But there's a complex racial history to the patterns of gentrification unfolding in Miami.

The movie ends with yet another» Young Americans» montage, this one set to shameful photographs of U.S. racial history: lynchings, cross burnings, Martin Luther King Jr. lying in his coffin.

Another member at the screening said he had spoken with a colleague who professed that after watching another movie dealing with America's painful racial history, «Lee Daniels» The Butler,» he had his fill.

The show also explores America's troubled racial history, the Ponca Tribe termination project, the Vietnam War and more.

That could be a lush infrared photograph by Richard Mosse (with Jack Shainman), or an operatic racial history in black and white by Kara Walker (with Sikkema - Jenkins).

In the first of two solo exhibitions with Victoria Miro, Kara Walker is presenting a new body of work inspired by the fraught racial history Atlanta, the Southern city where she spent her teenage years.

I also find it a bit distasteful that Nova Scotia is quick to celebrate its status as a popular destination on the underground railroad but too often struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable racial history that exists here, to which I would point to the naming of Viola Desmond Day 2015, but not 2016, nor 2017 nor 2018, nor.....

A young artist who uses her own family history as a lens through which to examine the larger political and racial history of the 20th century, LaToya Ruby Frazier was widely acclaimed for her affecting suite of black - and - white photographs at the 2012 Whitney Biennial that documented her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

South Africa's racial history is, to put it mildly, complicated.

122:1.2 Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.

It haunted me, and the more I learned about the racial history of both the church and our nation, I couldn't escape the implications of King's words.

The recent unfolding in #Ferguson is one example of our nation's racial history, particularly between African Americans and their white counterparts.

We're telling the truth about our racial history.

For the Brookes, support for the Republicans remained tied to their racial history as liberated African Americans.

How could he beat the formidable Clinton forces, overcome our racial history and become the first African - American president?

Africa's racial history was not necessarily its racial destiny.

A very telling story about America's racial history, but more importantly an in depth look at a complicated hero.

You might read that plot description and see the exact places where cinematic tropes plug in from similar films of racial history or domestic romance.

First of all, educators need to have a deeper understanding of America's racial history and how its policies — and therefore its schools — promote racism, both consciously and unconsciously.

The organization is also launching a racial history project that will result in recommendations about how that history should be incorporated into K — 12 curricula.

But relearning our racial history should be the first step.

It's not only that you are a citizen of your country today but your racial history has played a part in the development of that world in which you are, hopefully, a productive and respectable member.

It has been only a few months since Ta - Nehisi Coates struck the American nerve, in Between the World and Me, by pointing out that our racial history is more deeply ingrained in racism than Myrdal suggested.

Mansa deconstructs the subjects of his oil - on - canvas portraits according to familial and racial histories and their relationships to the future.

He repaid it, too, with a considered look at America's racial history.

Apparently his country still needs to set ideas free before it can leave its racial history behind.

Approaching his subject matter both musically and visually, Tangled Up takes the form of an exhibition and visual album comprised of sixteen audio tracks with accompanying videos, all written, composed and performed by Linzy, with the exception of the spiritual «Down by the Riverside,» which the artist performs, calling upon the racial histories of the United States.

«He recalls the bike he left behind in Cape Town when his family moved to Johannesburg, «writes Yelin, «and the racial history of South Africa.

These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, pop culture — as well as ethnic and racial histories.

Chasing Shadows, the first international retrospective of Santu Mofokeng, a photographer who consistently subverts the alleged certainties of cultural and racial histories, questioning photography's politics of representation and its objectivity, in works dealing with a variety of issues; photographs of religious rituals, memorials or desolate landscapes.

This mural - sized, complex silhouette makes a powerful statement about America's racial history, one that sadly continues to resonate today.

These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, popular - culture — as well as ethnic and racial histories.