Racial in example sentence

This story of a mixed-race love affair was quite a daring theme for the fifties, and, as it often did, Hollywood tried to soften the blow by casting a white actress as the supposedly non-Caucasian woman who falls in love with a white man, something that would be regarded as politically incorrect today but was quite acceptable then.. (Think, for example, of the casting of Ava Gardner in "Show Boat" or Natalie Wood in "West Side Story") The setting of the story in a British colony was also perhaps a way of exploring racial issues in a way that would cause less controversy in America.

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First, a restaurant called "Colors," that will break the racial divide in the restaurant industry by training low-wage restaurant workers to get living-wage jobs in fine dining.

There are studies that teenagers who participate in racially integrated classes and activities reduce their racial bias.

It helped Gandhi kick the Brits from India, it helped Martin Luther King win his historic racial struggle.

And that era of terrorism, of course, was followed by segregation and decades of racial subordination and apartheid.

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