Frank, a traumatised black veteran of the Korean war, is angrily adrift in an America that remains as brutally racist as ever.
Glass takes a period in Mahatma Gandhi's life that is often overlooked – the time he spent in South Africa in the early 20th century leading a nonviolent revolt by Indian immigrants against brutally racist repression.
In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world.
An unrelenting activist against the brutally racist South African apartheid regime, Mandela was convicted on four counts of sabotage in the trial and sent to jail on a life sentence.
As Trump's candidacy went from long shot to reality, he found his most fervent supporters in the alt-right, a growing niche of brutally misogynistic, racist, and transphobic internet trolls who are also openly anti-Semitic in a way that only actual Nazis are.
When Zimbabwe achieved independence from white minority rule in 1980 in what had been Rhodesia, its newly elected leader, Robert Mugabe, held out the promise of transforming a state that was not only racist but brutally authoritarian.
At the end of a week when nine men and women were brutally assassinated by a racist young man in Charleston, South Carolina, and the possibility of two hundred thousand Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent being expelled from the Dominican Republic suddenly became very real, I longed to be in the presence of Lawrence's migrants and survivors.
At the end of a week when nine men and women were brutally assassinated by a racist young man in Charleston, South Carolina, and the possibility of two hundred thousand Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent being expelled from the Dominican Republic suddenly became very real, I longed to be in the presence of Lawrence's migrants and survivors.
In 1993, Duwayne Brooks was waiting at a bus stop in Eltham with his friend Stephen Lawrence, when they were attacked by a racist gang, and Stephen was brutally stabbed to death.
She's also Japanese, which lies at the heart of Henry's subsequent struggles — with his Chinese nationalist father; his racist, bullying classmates; and, finally, his brutally suspicious country.
Pictures of nonviolent demonstrators being brutally repressed, attacked with police dogs, or facing racist violence are reprinted often in textbooks.
