Sentences with phrase «urban black experience»

Studded with Ofili's infamous balls of dung, The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars is illustrative of the artist's unique pictorial language which integrates the urban black experience with his own African heritage.

Hip - hop had a profound effect on the burgeoning multiculturalism that Ofili's work reflects, drawing the urban black experience into a cultural territory that had traditionally excluded it.

Her writing has appeared in two anthologies: Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience, and The Point: Where Teaching & Writing Intersect.

Not exact matches

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Every student experiences commonality and difference — what's shared (a student needing knowledge) and what's distinct (urban, rural, white, black, male, female).

In the National Urban League's recently published «State of Black America» Report, there were many findings that show that Black Americans are experiencing more success and higher achievement in education.

So, if your goal is to improve the educational experience for students in urban schools, many of whom are Black and Hispanic, why would you pursue an agenda that contributes to increased segregation, while damaging the public schools these children attend, and instead of spending precious resources on classroom instruction, redirecting that money towards glitzy advertising and marketing campaigns?

After a decade of intense research, Gifford presents the first full biography of Robert «Iceberg Slim» Beck (1918 — 92), diligently chronicling his brutal and redemptive experiences at the epicenter of twentieth - century urban black America and zealously establishing Beck's standing as an influential antiestablishment writer, who inspired gangsta rap, hip - hop, and street lit.

So, I went to Redfern — the Sydney neighborhood that's home to a sizable urban Aboriginal community — to experience the literal black side of Australia on this day of reflection.»

He redefined the image of humanity not in terms of «the black experience,» but black experiences — rural and urban, African, American, and Caribbean.

Interestingly, although being a black artist he does not incorporate motifs related to racial topics, rather he is eager to fully establish his artistic practice by applying purely painterly issues in relation to contemporary points of view, urban experiences and, most importantly, humor.

While addressing specific aspects of the black urban experience, the song maintains a universal significance, questioning the nature of sin, desire, and redemption.

Centered in the black urban experience, Hammons often uses sarcasm as a means of confronting cultural stereotypes and racial issues.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Inspired by his mentors» early «photo paintings» and stark black and white images, Struth developed a unique photographic perspective, creating portraits of families, architectural facades, urban experiences, and crowds.

The artist's black and white paintings, the first that brought him to prominence, were devoid of figure and instead captured the gritty, claustrophobic terror of the post-war urban experience.

KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER GALLERY: 620 Market St. Black - and - white photographs by youth involved in the Seattle - based Youth in Focus, a program that enables urban teens to experience their worlds through photography.

As a supplement to APT Validation Study II, the research aims for Validation Study III are to (1) generate master scores for video clips of youth program observations without cultural bias, (2) create more tailored and targeted online training and anchor systems, and (3) eliminate significant differences in certification passing rates between groups with different cultural vantage points (i.e., Black vs. White raters, urban vs. non-urban program experiences).