Sentences with phrase «racial tension»

«In a moment of racial tension like the one America has been living through, Lynette's characters take on a completely different weight and presence,» he says.

, Diggs Gallery at Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC, (2016); Art + Dialogue: Responding to Racial Tension in America, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC, (2015) and High Point University, High Point, NC, (2016); Realities in Contemporary Video Art, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France, (2015); So Much to She, Flanders Gallery, Aaron Fowler and Chris Watts, Raleigh, NC, (2015).

Perhaps the message is that, despite circumstances of racial tension and social upheavals, artists found autonomy in their studios, and even worked collaboratively, across racial lines in the case of The Deluxe Show.

Mounted in the U.S. during a flurry of highly visible racial tension and the #BlackLivesMatter campaign, the photographs and statistics addressing the brutal «corrective» rapes or murders of LGBTI individuals in South Africa only increase our awareness of the enduring violence against the black body.

For the New Museum's 2015 Triennial, he had guides lead visitors away from the museum to nearby locations that resonate as sites of racial tension.

They have been constructed throughout America's history since the end of slavery by a nervous ruling class afraid of racial tension and the power that exists in alternate histories.

It was a fertile time for Mr. Hammons, with racial tension growing — and sometimes erupting — in Los Angeles and elsewhere, while, ironically, African - American athletes and stars like Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson reached a previously unseen level of icon status.

The landscape is populated by female figures of various, often ambiguous ethnicities and different body types frolicking and making art, seemingly free of male gazes or racial tension.

At a time of increasing racial tension, particularly in the US, this is a chance to consider the work of artists who championed racial empowerment over 50 years ago.

Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these artists reference subjects such as war and terror, social and racial tension, urban and environmental disaster, psychological break - down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations.

Unfortunately, the Japanese missed this subtext entirely (being a mostly homogeneous nation) but it struck a chord with US audiences, who live in a social climate of constant racial tension.

Hangar 13 have recreated everything from that time period perfectly, including the racial tension that everyone faced back then.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert digs deep into how Pokemon Go was used by a Russian - linked agency to incite racial tension.

The game even avoids the usual stereotypes that plague the fantasy genre, presenting a world that is filled with racial tension: the Elves aren't all happy and dancing, but rather they're guerilla fighters living rough in the wilderness, simply trying to survive and regain some of their races past glories.

The deep plot is equally as impressive, weaving an intricate tale full of politics, racial tension and murder without ever getting boring.

It's disturbing and somewhat surreal, dealing with complex issues like racial tension and genocide with talking lizards and cats.

In the quest to recreate a time period rife with extreme racial tension, Hanger 13 doesn't shy away from depicting some of the era's most deplorable racial crimes.

It seemed to me that in Cuba I was surrounded by people of other colors — and yet there was no racial tension at all.

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

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This deeply affecting and openly sexual story of two boys in love — Cliffy Douglas and Noah Baumgarten — plays out among the disparities of their home life and background during 1970s homophobia and racial tension.

In 1921, a rash argument over a pretty girl propels 17 - year - old Will Tillman into a hotbed of racial tension in...

There have been improvements made with the ending of slavery & segregation, but there is still racial tension and prejudice.

Racial tension runs high as friends take sides and a community is divided.

Known for her attention to character detail and striking visuals, Rees is a fantastic choice to take on Hillary Jordan's powerful story of family and racial tension in the post-WWII South.

Rural Mississippi in the 1970s was rife with racial tension, but skin color didn't matter to boyhood companions Silas Jones and Larry Ott.

Little Scarlet , his latest, is set just days after the 1965 riots in Watts, where the racial tension...

Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers.

It is possible that some of my chosen social activities, like the Sierra Club, were over-populated with people like myself, so I effectively «shielded» myself from situations where racial tension was more evident.

To meet growing public demand and to address the alarming problem of racial tension and unrest in our communities, which is rooted in the harmful effects of school segregation, we urge Congress to appropriate $ 115 million to the Magnet Schools Assistance Program in Fiscal Year 2017 as requested by President Obama.

The study also found that these students also report more positive intergroup relations and less racial tension among peers.

MCLA Hosts Racial Tension Case Study Forum WAMC Public Radio, 4/27/15 Ed.L.D.

Explain how and why the KKK caused racial tension throughout th...

Barack Obama's first defining experience was being born to a white mother and black father, a biracial baby arriving at a time when America was seething with racial tension.

«I wanted to try to do something about racial tension and racial intolerance.

Education was almost equally absent when moderator Lester Holt turned to racial tension, civil unrest, incarceration, and policing.

However, the date for considering a new four - year contract for the superintendent was delayed as the result of the intervention by the Corporation for Boston, a multi-community group dedicated to easing racial tension in the city since school...

As the macho male energy blends with gallons of alcohol, racial tension becomes even more prevalent.

Mudbound (Netflix, Nov. 17th) Director Dee Rees (Pariah) swings for the fences with this adaptation of Hillary Jordan's wartime epic novel about two families in rural Mississippi — one black, one white — contend with simmering racial tension over a span of years.

And as with the majority of Green's films and TV works, the locales of the Southern states of America are depicted as utopian idylls where white people and black people cohabit with no hint of racial tension.

Cairo has also struggled with a lot of racial tension over the years.

Gook is similar in structure and tone to Spike Lee's masterpiece Do the Right Thing, in that both films use their first two acts to give the audience a false sense of comfort, only to let racial tension slowly boil beneath the surface before exploding in tragedy at the end of the film.

Taboos of the time — racial tension, homosexuality — are handled, but they seem to exist outside of the story.

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

Its vernacular use of a «real» look at racial tension is fabulous oil for a souped - up old engine — so familiar as to be palatable, but twisted just enough to feel fresh.

Last year, racial tension was tackled in the 1960s - set drama Detroit as riots unfolded in the Michigan city, sparking a confrontation between citizens and the law during a time of great turmoil.

His dilemma is compelling — he's a black security guard in a city being torn apart by racial tension, trying to make nice with white National Guardsmen who treat him like sh*t, and trying to keep a stand - off from going south after a kid shoots a starter pistol during a party.

Though written by Russell Gewirtz, it is still Lee's joint from beginning to end, and it wouldn't be a Spike Lee film without at least a casual reference to racial tension.

It's his grounded, sympathetic nature and good humor in the face of so many maddening moments of racial tension that make him the perfect, if melancholic, everyman protagonist for the horror insanity that follows.

Very dialogue driven, in a Kevin Smith or Whit Stillman kind of way, Justin Simien's Dear White People mines the ever present racial tension in the United States for laughs.