Sentences with phrase «racial identity which»

It will also explore the themes and questions surrounding cultural and racial identity which emerge from the exhibition, and which are so relevant to contemporary society.

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Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.
Eventually, some white supremacists tried to distinguish it further by using it to refer to a form of white supremacy that emphasizes defining a country or region by white racial identity and which seeks to promote the interests of whites exclusively, typically at the expense of people of other backgrounds.
It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).
Like many people identified as belonging to a racial group, Finns used to be defensive about their biological identity, which was disparaged by their domineering neighbors.
As a professor, Tatum taught Psychology of Racism, in which students explored the development of their own racial identities.
«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms in which students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.
«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms where students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.»
Mundy - Shephard says that LGBT youth of color generally choose not to participate in GSAs and her research will examine whether the students» reasons vary by racial group, and the extent to which these reasons are affected by internal and external perceptions of LGBT identity as being incompatible with racial minority status, i.e., whether they perceive non-heterosexuality as a form of «acting white.»
The [DOJ's] petition also cites Cecilia Primary School, which in 2012 - 13 «lost six black students as a result of the voucher program,» thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»
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.
Inevitably any book is a big box into which you put all your odd material, and the character of Pran going in this slightly quizzical way through life is very like some of my experiences of trying to come to terms with my racial identity.
At the California African American Museum, Keith conceived and executed the solo museum exhibitions for contemporary mixed media artists Hank Willis Thomas and Genevieve Gaignard, each of which examined themes of racial identity and inequality in America.
It complicates its own most obvious readings of racial and sexual identity by cutting across love, sex, lust, and longing to illustrate and embody the excruciating surfeit of words — spoken and written, etched on porcelain in notational shorthand (in Valerie Piraino's wonderfully ruminative series «Simone,» from 2010), and silk - screened ever so faintly on canvas (in Pendleton's Concrete, from 2004, which ticks off evocative phrases such as «the smell of your neck in August» and «somewhere between forgiving too easily and not giving in at all»)-- that prop up and then ruin relationships, pure verbiage as a cruel mirage.
While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.
This sentiment is echoed by Tannenbaum, «The mechanisms by which advertising and the media define identity and manipulate viewers are universal throughout the industrialized world... [Thomas] employs it to address issues that impact us all, such as diversity and tolerance within, as well as between, racial and ethnic groups, and the freedom to determine one's own fate and to construct one's own identity [3]».
With regards to representations of African American identity, there are countless mediums in which social and racial identity manifest, and are documented — yet, Thomas presents a steady loyalty to the form of the advertisement.
From compelling stories to innovative methods, Represent explores the evolving ways in which African American artists have expressed personal, political, and racial identity.
Interracial desire, same - sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Nayland Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities.
At the California African American Museum, Keith conceived and executed the solo museum exhibitions for contemporary mixed - media artists Hank Willis Thomas and Genevieve Gaignard, each of which examined themes of racial identity and inequality in America.
Interracial desire, same - sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities.
Durham focuses on the foundation of US identities, but he avoids reducing the issues and keeps us asking what the term Native American — which was only popularized as an «ethnic» or racial identity in early - 19th - century US — really means and how it can limit the imagination of non-Native American audiences.
Deborah Roberts» collages express the composite nature of racial identity in the modern world, and the degree to which gender itself is also a construct.
Marshall is the author of an important body of figurative work in which he explores the themes of identity — national, gender, and especially racial identity — in an attempt to contextualize the Afro - American experience in today's sociopolitical situation.
This gave rise to the final report to Convocation in 2016, Working Together for Change: Strategies to Address Issues of Systemic Racism in the Legal Professions, which found that forty per cent of racialized licensees identified their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to entry to practise, while 43 per cent cited their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to advancement.
[106] Such curtailment is contrary to human rights norms which require adequate recognition and protection of native title in order to safeguard the distinct identities of indigenous peoples and hence achieve substantive racial equality.
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