Sentence examples for racial theme from inspiring English sources

The racial theme continues in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Early in the book, Cohen quotes Ellington's longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn objecting to a movie project about Ellington that Strayhorn was told would have a racial theme.

"A Raisin in the Sun" instead made a novel case for a certain kind of conformity that transcends its racial theme.

Possibly his best-known film on a racial theme was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.

Its racial theme resonated with other novels and plays of the era, like Carl Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven," Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones and Paul Greenn's "In Abraham's Bosom".

The book that most fits that case was Lewis's 1947 best seller "Kingsblood Royal," an admittedly melodramatic story with a racial theme that was mauled and quickly forgotten partly because critics were unable to accept a multicultural novel published in the age of Jim Crow.

"Restaurant" allows its racial themes to emerge slowly.

The painter, who is seventy-one, first showed his hilariously scathing parodies on racial themes in New York in the seventies.

Als appears to be the only major critic who reacted to the play's racial themes so viscerally.

Racial themes ran through much of his work then, but his sense of comic absurdity and "slippage" kept it open, shifting, and nondidactic.

D.J. Opperman continued the experimentation with the Afrikaans language in his poetry, and he introduced decisively South African racial themes into his work.