Sentences with phrase «american middle class neighborhood»

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It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

In the traditionally middle - class black neighborhood of Chatham, for example, the decline in high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churches.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

The artist's latest series, Revisiting the Area, currently on view at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, is an intimate look at the neighborhood where he grew up, which he refers to as occupying a uniquely - American «middle space,» situated in the middle - ground between poverty and middle class.

The goal in painting these subjects so intimately familiar to the artist is to provide the viewer with a tour of his hometown neighborhood — a place he refers to as occupying a «middle space», a uniquely American in - between of poverty and middle class.

«This used to be what we called a «walk - through only neighborhood,»» recalled artist Dale Brockman Davis, referring to the city's exclusionary zoning laws that prevented African, Asian, or Latin American families from moving into many of the more desirable middle - class neighborhoods.

This neighborhood was the premier neighborhoods for middle - class African Americans, not only in Atlanta, but the US, when it was first built.