Sentences with phrase «racial history as»

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.

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

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Twitter users called out H&M for serious oversight at best and overt racism at worst in styling a black child in the «monkey» hoodie, considering the long history of the term as a racial slur.

(He does seem to recognize Islam, with its history of racial slavery and its missionary drive, as a particular problem, around which he stumbles and fumbles a bit.)

Wood rightly devotes much attention to nineteenth - century speculation about racial origins, which rested on the Scottish Enlightenment's «conjectural history»; yet Henry Home, Lord Kames, a key figure in the tradition on which Wood focuses, and hardly an obscure one, appears here as «Lord Henry Homer Kames» and «Lord Henry Holmer Kames.»

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

There is not a little religious exclusiveness in the history of the Hebrews as it is recorded in the Old Testament, and this gave rise to a Jewish particularism which the greater prophets had to condemn as they stressed the love of God for all men.4 Yet the doctrine of creation that is the common heritage of Jewish and Christian faith asserts unequivocally the unity of mankind and leaves no standing ground for racial exclusiveness.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

Some doctrines of racial supremacy as classically taught in Euro / American institutions The history of checkers goes back to the dawn of civilization.

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.

In some of the most striking passages in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavation.

«There was always a focus on the civil - rights movement and it was as if black history stopped once Dr. King died,» said Raquel Willis, a writer and racial - justice activist in Atlanta.

For this reason, Dr. Scot Brown concludes that Kwanzaa as important because it «insists on celebrating our Africaness,» while Ms. Angelou tells future generations, «You owe no racial debt to history.»

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Black History Month was always about racial justice and educational opportunity, he says, and the month can stand today «as an example of what it means for practitioners to be empowered and collectively committed to making education purposeful in the lives of students...

Says Givens, Woodson saw the week as an opportunity to bring about «an epistemic shift in schools» — for teachers to illuminate the way racial power operated in America, and for students to reimagine the ways knowledge and history were constructed.

Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.

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.

«Michael Brown,» a Facing History blog post written by Los Angeles Associate Program Director Mary Hendra, is featured on the list as an excellent resource for teaching about racial profiling and / or police violence.

The imaginary subterranean railroad here works the same way as it did in history: We never escape the uncertainties, discomforts, dangers and terrors of the quest for sanctuary from racial violence, for either the passengers or the agents.

I think the authors of these books recognize the importance of reminding and educating readers about the issues surrounding slavery and racial prejudice that have been as important as any other factors in shaping the history of this country.

With major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Festival of Books presents «Our Histories of Race and Ethnicity,» a rich and challenging track of sessions examining the ways in which our ethnic and racial identities shape us as individuals and as members of community.

We return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.

Booker Dewitt is a self - confessed violent killer with a history of mental instability and a military background, plus some mild racial problems as hinted at several times.

Jo Kreiter, choreographer and 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow: Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration Megan Metcalf, Art History PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

Other highlights of the exhibition include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

The artist, who currently lives and works in Chicago, is known for chronicling the African American experience, confronting racial stereotypes, and questioning history through comic book - style drawings, paintings, and installations, as well as collage, video, and photography.

This fully illustrated book examines this cultural phenomenon as a key moment in twentieth - century art history which transcended regional and racial boundaries.

Works such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery of disaster porn, planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate, in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective modes, the racial politics, colonial histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions of progress that underpin its entire existence.

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.

Just as Häussler's protagonists hint at alternative ways of understanding history, other artists concern themselves with redressing the record or telling the stories that fall through the cracks, especially when racial identity plays a part.

As the history of art in the twentieth century unfolded, with the world - making intersection of the ethnographic and modernity, the representational strategies of colonial identities were bound up in extreme depictions of racial exoticism.

But more than just dinner talk, these conversations have addressed topics such as police violence, the 2016 Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces; black female and male subjectivity; and racial subjugation in Latin American history.

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.

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

The dissolution of cultural, racial, and temporal borders is matched, in some of these exhibitions employing Big Art History, by both a wider acceptance into the fold of media not traditionally viewed as art, and a focus on cross-pollination between different mediums.

In his work in various mediums, as Tom Williams wrote in A.i.A. in 2011, «he gives form to a complex exchange between art and racial politics, which the respective histories of these fields so often ignore.»

Other highlights of the exhibition at Bluecoat include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

The Whitney Biennial has a history with issues of racial appropriation and unchecked privilege, as seen most recently during the 2014 edition of the exhibition, when controversy surrounded a piece by Joe Scanlan.

During the current climate of violence, injustice, racial conflict, and economic and political instability, these works could be read as history paintings for our times.

This artist regularly investigates grim themes such as birth and death, stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, using it to critique contemporary ideas of racial, sexual and social identity deeply rooted in the history of all of us.

Your way, it seems to me, gives undue deference to credentialed authors — science has an unhappy history of scholars getting it wrong, as you acknowledge, from the importance of head bumps to the fine points of racial hygiene.

Certainly human history is at least as riddled with abuse of religions as it is with abuse of racial groups.

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.....

The home study social worker will discuss such things as child development, attachment, initial child transition into a family, life - long adoption matters, trans - racial and trans - cultural adoption issues, separation and loss, the impact of institutional care on a child's medical and developmental needs, open adoption relationships with birth parents, undiagnosed conditions, limited social / medical / genetic history, etc..

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

Dugas hopes to expand programming — including for - credit courses on cultural heritage, history and literature — to as many elementary, middle and high schools as possible to give girls safe places to bond, develop positive racial identity and become more engaged at school.

As shown by Fischer and Shaw (1999), African American youth who receive negative racial socialization messages or messages that devalue or overlook the positive characteristics related to being African American (e.g., «learning about Black history is not that important») are more prone to evidence poorer psychological adjustment and academic outcomes.