Sentence examples for backstage racism from inspiring English sources
This is called backstage racism.
Research reveals that white Americans often engage in backstage racism, using offensive racist language behind the scenes and out of earshot of the public.
What Cooper did was bring that backstage racism to the front stage -- something that millions of white Americans are terrified of doing for fear of being called a racist.
Playing next door at the Ustinov is the 1950s backstage drama about racism, Trouble in Mind.
Written by Alice Childress, this 1955 backstage comedy centers on an African-American actress rehearsing a play about racism.
Hammerstein repeatedly rewrote the Act II backstage scene where Emile, Nellie and Cable confront the question of the Americans' racism.
While some may view such overt expressions of racism a thing of the past, overtly racist comments often occur - even today - in the "backstage" (white-only space), as research by Leslie Pouts-Hicca and Joe Feagin demonstrates.
