Sentence examples for history privilege from inspiring English sources

Now, it appears that the Supreme Court will try once again to resolve the hard questions of race, history, privilege and merit raised by affirmative action.

This book, a collaboration between two scholars and an activist, fills a major void in LGBT, Latino/a, and activist histories, privileging the first-person recollections of Latino and Latina leaders in LGBT movements in the United States.

His talk of meritocracy and reform obviously sit ill with his own history of privilege and undemocratic promotion.

Apart from his perception that the change could diminish blacks' influence, Mr. Gelobter, a 38-year-old professor of environmental policy at Rutgers University, said that claiming a multiracial identity would link him to a bitter, freighted history of privilege for blacks who could cite some white lineage.

"I do the talking, you don't say a word," she remarks to her white male partner as they go to meet a cartel representative; in the incredulous look he gives her lies a whole unspoken history of privilege and assumptions of how law enforcement should work.

And while the likes of Steve McQueen and Ava DuVernay (at whom Tarantino took a catty swipe in Ellis's piece) have recently made films about African-American history, that privilege has historically been reserved for white artists with institutional, studio backing in films like The Color Purple, Glory, and Lincoln.

"Code" describes how women engineers, including Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, were influential in the early years of computer science, but have become footnotes in an official history that privileges the work of male engineers.

There is a long history of privileging free play in early childhood education settings in Australia.

Our biology is always part of our lives, but so are social inequality and privilege, history, diet, stress, popular culture, activity patterns, familial pressures, etc. Natural selection, one of the main drivers in evolutionary change, works on the whole body and behavior complex, not on single genes or even the genome itself.

That variance from history is the privilege of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of an artistic work.

It's a history of wealth, privilege, racism, elitism, and classism.