Sentence examples for portrayed black from inspiring English sources

The censors decided that this swish thriller portrayed black people in far too aspirational a light.

His three novels were widely praised for the three-dimensional scope he gave to the working-class men and women he portrayed, black and white.

("White men portrayed black women as especially erotic, more driven to sexual pleasure and expressiveness than white women," the Duke history professor William H. Chafe wrote).

It compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp doctors and portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality.

JO: The media has portrayed black people in a certain way and if you think about a black person its immediately scary or one stereotype.

Do you think that African-American readers of James Baldwin are still up in arms, if ever they were, because in his fiction Baldwin vividly portrayed black prostitutes, drug addicts, and pimps?

Speaking invariably to almost all-white audiences, Mr. Trump has portrayed blacks as living lives of utter desperation.

The imagery was vital at a time when early movies portrayed blacks as heathens, cannibals tossing whites into pots for cooking.

The white government often banned books, novels and newspaper articles that portrayed blacks and their struggle in a favorable light, and reading those banned works was considered a criminal offense.

However, at the time Hollywood still portrayed Blacks negatively.

Several of Homer's paintings portray black people with extraordinary empathy and no false sentiment.