Sentence examples for racial backdrop from inspiring English sources
The racial backdrop to Mr. Cobb's accomplishments went largely unmentioned by the people he did business with, but he seemed never to forget it.
Page A10 National FOR PERRY, TEXAS ROOTS INCLUDE RACIAL BACKDROP Gov. Rick Perry, whose advocacy of states' rights sounds to some like a yearning for the Old South, has now been forced to show that he has overcome his early surroundings.
The leadership struggle follows a campaign in which Democrats, led by President-elect Barack Obama, made geographical and demographic inroads, despite eight years in which President Bush and a previous party chairman, Ken Mehlman, tried to expand the ethnic and racial backdrop of the party.
The final battle between the First Order and the Rebellion has such a strong parallel to the American Confederate War that it seems obvious the film was created as part of a larger racial backdrop.
Bob is a self-educated historian and expert on the American Civil War, with a focus on both the battles as well as the racial and political backdrop of the war itself.
A trial in Los Angeles in the racially charged backdrop of the Rodney King beating, the L.A. riots, and pulsating racial tensions in the mid-1990s would have been risky business.
In apartheid South Africa every dish was served against a backdrop of racial oppression.
"Slaughterhouse-Five", published in 1969 against the backdrop of racial unrest and the Vietnam war, propelled him from science-fiction writer (a label he abhorred) to literary icon.
Like "Remember the Titans," whose box-office success it will probably duplicate, this film tells a story of racial reconciliation against a backdrop of square-jawed masculine striving.
Levine's tale takes place at a junior high school in the same district one year later, against a backdrop of racial tension and the continuing battle over school integration.
Written by hard-boiled crime writer James Ellroy and directed by Ron Shelton, the film follows the fortunes of two cops (one black, one white) investigating a racial murder against a backdrop of the 1992 LA riots.
