Sentence examples for segregated world from inspiring English sources

I grew up, musically speaking, in a fairly segregated world.

The footprints leave a trail from Schenectady, N.Y., to Lexington Ky., and Adolph Rupp's segregated world of basketball.

By the 1930s, Eatonville emerged as a model of black self-sufficiency, despite its continuing struggles with poverty, illiteracy and the hostility of the segregated world around it.

Given its breadth, and the welcome disappearance of the segregated world in which it began, such a song will not be sung again.

Kirby devotes considerable energy to the ways in which Little Richard — black, anarchic, flamboyantly gay and, as the singer has said of himself, "so necessary" — stands as a living rebuke to the ruthlessly segregated world where he grew up.

The white-boy comedies of the past two decades are about the grating, strained emo charm of never growing up, while Perry's films are about the necessity of growing up in a largely segregated world.

Canedy: Well, one of the things our series showed us is that people still live in very segregated worlds.

By the war's end, more than 33,000 Japanese Americans had served in two all-Japanese units (the Armed Forces were still segregated throughout World War II): the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion.

Filmmaker Rex Miller traces her path from her early years as a South Carolina sharecropper's daughter to her elevation as queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s.

In today's gentrified and often segregated club worlds, dancing next to white-haired sextagenarians who couldn't give two shits what you looked like or what circle of the city's hierarchy you occupied wasn't just refreshing, it felt like an honor.

By segregating the world of fashion from one of serious concerns, Mr. Rushdie was showing how the years in hiding dated him.