Sentences with phrase «racial history in»

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).

Not exact matches

If you can counter those jaded ideas with irrefutable arguments based in history and fact, that could go a long way in helping to further a more sensible dialogue and finding solutions to racial disparities that remain deeply entrenched.

Milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S., with a history of racial discrimination that links back to Great Migration.

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.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

Sotomayor wrote that the prosecutor «tapped a deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice that has run through the history of criminal justice in our nation,» and that he had attempted to «substitute racial stereotype for evidence.»

Take in the rich cultures of South Africa, and take a deep dive into the history of its racial struggles.

«Millennials are the most diverse generation in U.S. history — not only in racial diversity, but also political opinion.

What will establish Madiba's giant stature in history was not only his prolonged fight for social justice and racial equality, but his determination, following the end of the apartheid regime, that there would be reconciliation, not revenge.

In Alabama, how else were we to feel the intense history of racial unrest than to think of To Kill a Mockingbird?

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.»

Indeed, a quick study of history shows the origins of Liberty University and the Religious Right lie not in their opposition to abortion (that came later), but rather in their opposition to racial integration.

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.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

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.

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

He supported racial equality and civil rights and marched in Montgomery with Martin Luther King Jr., a former auditor in his courses in church history.

Without any question it is the racial minorities — Indians, blacks, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans — who have known defeat most deeply, most bitterly, and most continuously in American history.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

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].»

If before the Exile the temple was holy, it was thrice holy and exclusive afterward, and all the national, racial, and religious differences that law and ritual could create and enforce were, more than ever before in Hebrew history, meticulously respected.

Anyone who laments the racial injustice that has played a prominent role in our history, must read this book.

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.

Dr. Tony Evans writes an op - ed for RELEVANT about Black History Month and why racial reconciliation and unity in the church matter.

He more explicitly takes up the arguments of liberals within the mainline church who suggest that conservative histrionics over the inclusion of homosexuals are no different from the resistance to racial or gender inclusiveness or to revision to the Book of Common Prayer (indeed, conservatives on the issue of homosexuality are in some regrettable company in recent history).

Hayes said that it directly contradicted the Hawks» new commitment to racial diversity following so many incidents in the Hawks» recent history (like Bruce Levenson's racist emails and Danny Ferry's comments).

Read more >> Celebrating Mothers of Memphis during Black History Month African Americans have the lowest rates of breastfeeding among all racial / ethnic groups in the United States.

The evening concluded with a sobering message about the unfortunate endurance of racial fissures in American politics: that advocates for maintaining the unequal status quo are at an advantage given the history of how the federal process was designed.

First, the underrepresentation of women and non-whites in parliaments is the result of a history of gender and racial domination and exclusion.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

I don't fully understand the present dynamic, and I don't think we will find the answer to our current problems by solely looking at the history of racial injustice in this country.

I believe that if it had not happened there, folks who don't fundamentally understand the history of racial oppression and police brutality in this country would have been more inclined to withhold judgment.

It is a crowing and unabashed assertion of English superiority, unreconstructed from the Imperial era, deeply reliant on fraudulent history and denialism, and involving the ritualistic reproduction and invocation of racial stereotypes about «foreigners» (both in Britain and outside it).

We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.

Two days after becoming the newest symbol of «tea party» politics, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky thrust himself, his party and the movement into an uncomfortable conversation about the federal government's role in prohibiting racial discrimination and about a period of history that most politicians consider beyond debate.

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

Some topics covered in the courses include: theoretical frameworks for understanding the concepts of race and ethnicity; issues affecting recruitment and retention; issues associated with international, cross-cultural research; practical skills for securing informed consent and working with interpreters; and analysis of justice questions relating to the history of the treatment of racial and ethnic minority research subjects.

«Our results suggest that hospitals and policy makers should limit in - hospital formula introduction and consider family history and demographics to reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» said Madeleine Shalowitz, MD, a Director at NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute and co - investigator on the study.

Another article that straddles both camps is Jeff Wheelwright's story about the medical importance of understanding genetic variation (awe and wonder) in the midst of a long history of racial wariness (gloom).

The study looked to see if ethnic and racial disparities in breastfeeding could be explained by differences in the use of formula in hospitals, family history of breastfeeding, mother's belief that «breast is best»; and demographic measures including poverty, education and relationship status.

The book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, contends that human races are a biological reality and that recent human evolution has led to racial differences in economic and social behavior.

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.

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

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 excavatioIn 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 excavatioin 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.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.