Sentences with phrase «with racial identity»

Inevitably any book is a big box into which you put all your odd material, and the character of Pran going in this slightly quizzical way through life is very like some of my experiences of trying to come to terms with my racial identity.

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Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

Fourth, religion is understood as a key aspect of racial / ethnic identity, particularly among those teens who identified with a religion other than Christianity.

But what makes Nixon even more purely populist than Sanders is that she combines these class - based positions with the outright appeals to ethnic, gender, and racial identity politics favored by grassroots Democratic Party activists.

Contributions include discussions on racial disparities in special education placements, the intersection of disability with other identity variables such as gender and sexuality; the exploitation of disabled bodies to generate resources for humanitarian projects; and suggestions for how a human rights framework can promote inclusivity and better health outcomes.

They adjusted the samples to reflect the U.S. population, a common practice for large, national surveys and the result was 66 - 71 percent white and 15 - 22 percent black, with 7 - 19 percent reporting another racial identity.

But in addition to that, Asante's Dido contends with issues of racial and societal identity as she feels like she neither fits with the family who has raised her or the servants to tend to them.

March 21: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, will discuss her innovative leadership and her research on racial identity development and the role of race in the classroom.

«One of our key hypotheses is that early in high school, when students are developmentally younger, we might see more peer socialization as the driving force behind adolescents» ethnic - racial identity development, but then as students get older, we may see more selection processes, with students being more likely to befriend those who are more similar to them with respect to their sense of ethnic - racial identity,» said Umaña - Taylor.

Consistent with the positive racial stereotype concerning their superior quantitative skills, Asian American women performed better on a math test when their Asian identity was primed compared to a control condition where no social identity was primed.

She has more than 25 years of research experience with topics including racial identity development, multicultural counseling competency, disability policy issues, education & workforce diversity, and mentoring.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

There are a lot of panels highlighting the experiences of people of color with disabilities, people of color in the queer community, intersectional identities across different racial groups and gender identity groups.

Being able to talk about race across racial identities is crucial — but to get there, white people often first need space to discuss race with each other, to begin to ask questions that are uncomfortable or scary.

Mundy - Shephard says that LGBT youth of color generally choose not to participate in GSAs and her research will examine whether the students» reasons vary by racial group, and the extent to which these reasons are affected by internal and external perceptions of LGBT identity as being incompatible with racial minority status, i.e., whether they perceive non-heterosexuality as a form of «acting white.»

Based on Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family — School Partnerships, a publication of the American Institutes for Research's Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, this session will help you to build and enhance the capacity of school staff and teachers use equity to engage all families, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, educational background, gender, disability, or socioeconomic status.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

The racial identity I shared with my students made me even more sensitive to their struggles, particularly when few other teachers at my school had this same connection.

We were taught to have a positive racial identity with a focus on racial pride, self - discipline, self - control, political thought and activism, and intellectual and physical rigor.

Please join NEP and the Black Teacher Project as we partner to explore the crucial work of building relationship and understanding among and across race identity groups, with a focus on using racial affinity group structures in sustained collaborative work contexts.

In order to do so, however, we must push for educators to see the necessity of their own personal growth - coupled with explicit conversations that bring about further awareness of identity and racial equity.

Start With Us shows the need for systems to combat racial bias, promote positive school climates, racial identity development, and listen more closely to students.

Ford, Harris, and Schuerger (1993) maintained that racial identity must also be explored with gifted minority students.

In this riveting collection of personal essays about racial identity, blacks and whites, young and old, talk with candor and passion about both the privilege and the prejudice, and how they are negotiated, challenged, or ignored.

Serious topics about racial identity, racism, mental illness, and friendship are balanced with a lighthearted, preteen sensibility.

With unforgettable characters stumbling through love and motherhood and dashed hopes, it's a tale about displacement and racial identity with universal appeal — the perfect inaugural book club pick for ALA's Book Club CentWith unforgettable characters stumbling through love and motherhood and dashed hopes, it's a tale about displacement and racial identity with universal appeal — the perfect inaugural book club pick for ALA's Book Club Centwith universal appeal — the perfect inaugural book club pick for ALA's Book Club Central.

With major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Festival of Books presents «Our Histories of Race and Ethnicity,» a rich and challenging track of sessions examining the ways in which our ethnic and racial identities shape us as individuals and as members of community.

Professor of Art History Anne Higonnet, who was instrumental in connecting Ojih Odutola with Orzeck earlier this year, commented, «Toyin has a unique, timely perspective on racial identity and we're excited to dive more deeply into her inspiration.

While low - slung pants are associated with urban black youth, Alekhuogie complicates our perception by not revealing the racial identity of the person wearing the clothes.»

Whereas in her previous works the racial or ethnic identities of the characters remained largely ambiguous, these figures are more clearly associated with specific groups.

She continues: «I stage specific scenes of social ascent, and racial descent that chart the psychology and performance of identity with a particular attention to notions of social exclusion and assimilation.

In her reimagined renderings, the artist replaces the European subjects with powerful and glamorous African American women, inviting questions about conventional beauty, racial identity, and the traditional art historical narrative.

In an effort to identify truth, reality, and meaning, each of the artists in the exhibition confronts these questions by inventing, criticizing, or retelling reality — simultaneously grappling with issues of racial identity, sexuality, violence, protest, globalism, and ethics.

However her aesthetic strategy differs from her predecessor in its autobiographical dimension and focus on the issue of racial identity, while at the same time suggesting a more formal reading with respect to materials, processes, and altered states.

The group show, titled after the song «To be Young, Gifted, and Black» by Nina Simone with lyrics from Weldon Irvine and written in the memory of Simone's late friend Lorraine Hansberry author of Raisin in the Sun, surrounded ideas and issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture since 2010.

With regards to representations of African American identity, there are countless mediums in which social and racial identity manifest, and are documented — yet, Thomas presents a steady loyalty to the form of the advertisement.

Individually, Thomas's videos are more involved with images of womanhood, working class identity and celebrity culture, whilst Kudakwashe turns to Afrofuturism in a scrambling of racial identity and hyper - masculinity.

Archibald Motley relished the ambiguities of racial identity in America and imbued his paintings with both modernist refinement and pop - culture exuberance.

Just as Häussler's protagonists hint at alternative ways of understanding history, other artists concern themselves with redressing the record or telling the stories that fall through the cracks, especially when racial identity plays a part.

As the history of art in the twentieth century unfolded, with the world - making intersection of the ethnographic and modernity, the representational strategies of colonial identities were bound up in extreme depictions of racial exoticism.

The selected pieces that comprise the titular show range from 1993 to the present day; a new work «Polvo» investigates racial identity in a series of self - portraits, while other, more haunting, works featuring depictions of flesh intersecting with beautiful Portuguese tile, as in «Folds 2.»

Interracial desire, same - sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Nayland Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities.

For this sculpture, Nayland Blake, a multi-disciplinary artist whose works address themes of sexual and racial identity, collaborated with Costello Tagliapietra, a husband - husband fashion design team known for their lumberjack style of plaid flannel shirts, suspenders, and bushy beards.

In 1950s Leukerbad (a place with no racial diversity) African identity is kept at a distance, evidenced not only by a bigotry for outsiders, but also paternalistic donations and missionary work in Africa's European colonies.

Since 1998 Hargrave has produced a compelling, deeply personal body of work incorporating painting, drawing, sculpture and video that explore the dynamics between race, sexuality and religion in relation to his upbringing in the south and early adulthood as an African American gay male coming to terms with racial and sexual identity.

Included in the USA Today exhibition is Adrian Piper's video installation, Cornered, a work that draws the viewer in with Piper's calmly - delivered monologue on her own racial identity and leaves the viewer with the potent question, «what are you going to do with this information?»

As Basquiat's career evolved, he turned to the creation of multi-panel canvases, paintings with exposed stretcher supports, while continuing to explore issues of racial identity.

The artist, a strong supporter of individual freedoms and a devout Socialist (he was a close friend of Leon Trotsky), was deeply concerned with the plight of the Pueblo Indians and what he viewed as their centuries - long oppression intended to eradicate their racial and cultural identities.

Interracial desire, same - sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities.