Sentence examples for race divide from inspiring English sources

It has created a class and race divide that didn't exist here before.

Lying is also at the heart of Robin Talley's debut, Lies We Tell Ourselves, where two girls fall in love across the race divide in 1950s America.

Though he was warning of a race divide in state schools, his audience of private headteachers clearly took a mental peek at their own playing fields.

Jay Warner, in "The Billboard Book of Singing Groups," credited the group's songwriter and manager, Buck Ram, with persuading its label, Mercury Records, to market the Platters without regard to the race divide.

It is evidence that "for the roughly 40 years between emancipation and disfranchisement, our Southern story must include considerable division and ambivalence among whites, a hundred forms of resistance among blacks, and at times coalition across the race divide".

Undercover promises to be an elegant and intelligent production – a short scene where a row of black hands hung silently through bars on death row spoke more eloquently about the US race divide than any amount of earnest speeches.

But despite all the personal history, all the community good will, race divides them as they grow up.

It is a riveting, painful account of different varieties of wealth, of privilege, of "having", ranging across class and race divides and interrogating the idea of maternal identity.

I suppose the human race divides into unquestioning obeyers of rules, who are naturally keen on sport, and people, like me, who once gave his mother £20 of real money in exchange for Bond Street in Monopoly.

In it, Mr. McCulloch answered a gigantic question in the burgeoning field of heredity at a time when the concept of "race" divided not just white and black, but white people themselves: How could Americans of supposedly the finest racial stocks — English, Saxon and Anglo-Saxon — engender a long history of pauperism and crime?

Ron Mallon (2004, 2006, 2007) provides a nice sketch of the contemporary philosophical terrain regarding the status of the concept of race, dividing it into three valid competing schools of thought regarding the ontological status of race, along with the discarded biological conception.