Sentences with phrase «racial terms»

For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, the politics of American education was rightly interpreted in racial terms.

For example, the bad guys aren't painted in strictly racial terms.

Isn't that the bias that we fought about on racial terms, or on terms of sex, or on terms of religion, etc.?

Third, while the concept has caught fire recently in the United States, most people still tend to view «diversity» in racial terms only.

Maybe it really was a reference to «chocolatey skin,» the kind of reference that, like many other racial terms or allusions, is probably best left for self - referential use by members of the relevant groups.

To accompany their lobby day, which is expected to draw some 500 parents and students to Albany, the Alliance for Quality Education has released a hard - hitting video that casts the school funding disparity in starkly racial terms.

Other concerns for parents may be the portrayal of social drinking, the use of a derogatory racial term and Christina's pointed question about her daughter's sexual relationship with the doctor.

In the exhibition, abstract paintings and sculpture from the 1960s through the 1980s by Barbara Chase - Riboud, Martin Puryear, and others show a desire to balance cultural and artistic identities, challenging the idea that work by African Americans should be viewed in primarily racial terms.

Colormute considers one of the most confounding questions of American life: when to speak about people in racial terms.

Thus the opportunists» survival necessitates framing issues like Ferguson only in racial terms.

In modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the population.

Those swarthy Middle - Easterners are «white» according to those who use the racial terms of white, black and Asian (including the US government).

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Also, Lapchick worries about viewing such an important issue in racial terms.

The Union of South Africa had allowed social custom and law to govern the consideration of multiracial affairs and of the allocation, in racial terms, of How a young South African is buying a property a year with no money!

The Union of South Africa had allowed social custom and law to govern the consideration of multiracial affairs and of the allocation, in racial terms, of South Africa has a notably high rate of murders, assaults, rapes and other violent crimes, compared with most countries.

Pollock presents a troubling, but significant finding: Talking in racial terms can make race matter; but so too, can not speaking in racial terms.»

Pollock's new book, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, explores what happened at Columbus High School and how the events exposed one of American society's most confounding questions: when to speak about people in racial terms.

The Aryans were not a distinct ethnic group, so this was not a racial term but an assertion of pride and meant something like «noble»...

Working with paint, fabric, photographs, and found objects, Los Angeles - based Saar considers issues such as hybridity, identity, and acceptance through «depiction of persons outside the realm of what is commonly believed to be «normal» — be it defined in physical, mental, neurological, sexual, or racial terms.»

Working with paint, fabric, photographs, and found objects, Lesley Saar considers issues such as hybridity, identity, and acceptance through «depiction of persons outside the realm of what is commonly believed to be «normal» — be it defined in physical, mental, neurological, sexual, or racial terms.»

In stark, formalist, rule - bound metaphotographs from the»70s, his structural allegiance to basic black - and - white is so succinct yet capacious — depicting imagery that resonates metaphorically, often in racial terms — that it acquires an intense social dimension.