Sentences with phrase «troubled racial history»

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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.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Twitty explores southern cuisine through the lens of the nation's troubled racial past while uncovering his own family history.

One of the best moments is an onslaught of sculpture by three artists made from found objects: Terry Adkins's combinations of musical instruments shine, and Melvin Edwards's small clenched welded - steel wall sculptures, made from bits of chain and tools, dominate, raising the troubling history of racial violence despite their beauty.