Sentences with phrase «white race relations»

Not exact matches

Corporate America is acting swiftly amid the ongoing political firestorm over race relations sparked by a white nationalist rally in Virginia last weekend that turned fatal.

On only one issue do white evangelicals think Clinton would basically do just as good a job of addressing as Trump: dealing with race relations.

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

Among white evangelical voters, 39 percent believe Trump's leadership will improve race relations, while 21 percent believe it will worsen them.

It is one thing to recognize that the gospel of Jesus demands justice in race relations and quite another to recognize that it demands that African Americans accept their blackness and reject its white distortions.

A few years ago the attitudes of white people on matters of race relations in the South could be fairly well predicted by examining a map which showed county by county the proportion of blacks to whites in the population.

The problem of race relations is no longer merely a «white man's problem,» as I could realistically characterize it 35 years ago.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

I said especially white people because as the majority there more prone to being desensitized about racial relations just due to sheer numbers.Too many people do not talk to people about race enough.

While Senate and House leaders have been wary of Trump's involvement in their midterm races, the White House and RGA continue to maintain strong relations thanks in part to RGA executive director Paul Bennecke, a longtime aide to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and former RGA executive director Nick Ayers, another former Perdue aide who's now chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.

«Last year, two thirds of black voters and about half of white and Latino voters thought race relations were only fair or poor.

At the same time, two - thirds of white residents believe race relations are good.

Critic Consensus: Dear White People's endearing excellence returns, but with an added layer of emotional maturity that enhances the show's powerful, relevant meditations on race relations in America.

This might be the only movie about race relations I've ever seen that adequately explains — with sympathy — the root causes of a complacent white American mindset.

But that's just how good Jordan Peele's directing debut is, a thoughtful satire on race relations about a young black man who discovers things aren't what they seem when he visits his white girlfriend's family in the country.

These are the sorts of probing questions peppered throughout «Dear White People,» first - time feature director Justin Simien's often hysterical look at the otherwise not - so - funny state of race relations in America.

This season's favorite to «Blind Side» the Academy Awards with a sentimentalized tale of race relations and a feisty white woman leading the charge is The Help (Touchstone), based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett and directed by her childhood buddy Tate Taylor.

Meanwhile, the two race relations films end on entirely optimistic notes, with «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» presenting an interracial couple as the wave of the future, and «In the Heat of the Night» showing a formerly racist white police chief (Rod Steiger) and a black detective (Poitier) coming to a place of mutual respect and acceptance.

This is why he invoked Spike Lee, Paddy Chayefsky, George Orwell, and Moliere in our conversation about DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, his bracing look at race relations in these United States.

White Wash (Unrated) Hang Ten documentary, narrated by Ben Harper, exploring race relations through the eyes of black surfers in Hawaii, Jamaica, Florida and California.

His feature debut, «Dear White People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns familiar stereotypes on their heads as it follows an eclectic group of African American students navigating campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white colWhite People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns familiar stereotypes on their heads as it follows an eclectic group of African American students navigating campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white colwhite college.

His feature debut, «Dear White People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns famil...

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

Instead of the movie's creative team owning their desire for a white actress to headline a Japanese property, they got cute — or convinced themselves that they were being cute — expecting moviegoers to swallow their race - based twist as a clever bit of subverted expectations; to use their public relations nightmare to prop up a resolutely dull screenplay.

MaryAnn Johanson: Dee Rees's marvelous film is of course a terrific look at racism in the rural South in the 1940s: I particularly love how it shows how its two WWII veterans, one black and one white, are changed by their experiences of race relations in Europe and in the US Army during the war, that they discover that the way things have been in America are not automatically the way they must be, that their world could be better and fairer.

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

Set on the affluent, predominantly caucasian and altogether fictional ivy league campus of WInchester University, Dear White People takes a look at the weeks leading up to a Halloween party that sparked a «race riot» of sorts and thrust Winchester's race relations into the national news cycle.

Relatively few people, black or white, who know anything about the reality of race relations in America during the 1950s would contest the revolutionary nature of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Wolters argues that wherever integration was attempted, the results were harmful to the education system, to black and white children, and to race relations.

In contrast, teachers in stable and diverse learning environments — with or without a white student majority — report more positive student relations and more support from parents and the community (with some variation according to the race of the teacher).

The state of U.S. race relations in 1968 and 2008 is seen through the eyes of two veteran Chicago newsmen, one black and one white, in this opportune novel.

This powerful debut novel about a 14 - year - old black boy who leaves the rough streets of East Cleveland for a predominantly white boarding school in Maine offers an unflinchingly honest look at race relations.

However, starting in 1865, a new phase of race relations began, and new white attitudes toward Negroes developed.

Their nutrient value is fortified — particularly in the case of the books featuring the African American sleuths Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins and Fearless Jones, both set in Los Angeles in the 1950s — by layers of insight into race relations in a time when a black detective's life was never in so much danger as when he stepped into a bar full of white people.

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

I don't think you'd be far wrong to see it as simultaneously a riff on op art (a term coined by Time magazine the same year as Greenberg's Post Painterly show), a metaphor for the fluidity of U.S. race relations and a sort of tidying up of what Brummel calls «the thick, frayed brushstrokes» of Franz Kline and the bulbous forms of Robert Motherwell, both of whom worked largely in black and white.

Race and gender differences in Black and White newlyweds» perceptions of sexual and marital relations.