Sentences with phrase «racial tensions in the states»

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Two years later it was kicked out of Malaysia because of racial tension — the city state was mainly ethnic Chinese, the peninsula dominated by Malays — and the antagonism of many senior politicians in Kuala Lumpur toward Lee, whom they considered headstrong and unpredictable.

Not because any biological inferiority results from a mixing of racial stocks, but because in the present state of society tensions are more often increased than abated by it, intermarriage is on the whole a step away from the solution of the race problem rather than toward it.

The pol said that she, Sarsour, State Senator Martin Golden and Councilman Vincent Gentile were part of the Bay Ridge Unity Task Force, which addressed racial and religious tensions in the swiftly diversifying neighborhood.

Long - simmering racial tensions exploded into the foreground Saturday morning, when Assemblyman Keith Wright accused supporters of State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Wright's leading opponent in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, of plotting to «suppress» and block African - Americans from voting in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary.

Once they had the volunteers in this compromised state of mind, they put the group (and others who were not so depleted) into a social situation with the potential for racial tension.

Nowhere in the world is this more visible than in the United States of America despite the racial tensions that exist there today.

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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.

The title has multiple meanings as this two - hour, 15 - minute saga not only focuses on Owens» life and historic feats at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, but on the racial tensions of the times, both in Germany and the United States.

The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.

To put it simply, multiculturalism has less to do with any rigorous study of other cultures than it does with ethnic, gender, racial, or other subgroup tension within the nations of the West, the United States in particular.

, 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).

Columns and reviews Associate editor Pablo Larios writes a fan letter in praise of the late Guy Davenport; Olivia Laing discussed the enduring relevance of Philip Guston's «Klan» paintings amidst recent racial tensions in the US; Krzysztof Kościuczuk observes how «necropolo,» a new genre of macabre, deadpan music in Poland, reflects current political anxieties; Ben Eastham witnesses a revival of state - of - the - nation novels in his review of Virginie Despentes's book trilogy, «Vernon Subutex»; Andrew Mellor surveys the London Sinfonietta, past and present, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary; and Elvia Wilk asks whether live - action role play can help us overcome social obstacles in the art world.

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.