Sentences with phrase «what racial minority»

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There are some in the churchwomen, gays and lesbians, racial and ethnic minorities — who have experienced what it is like to suffer at the hands of the civic and religious establishment.

White males may not actively decide to exclude women, racial minorities or those from different cultural or class backgrounds, but they simply do what is easy and natural and surround themselves with those that look, think and relate like them.

Ironically, although the book is ostensibly about minorities, specifically racial minorities, what Brown really is getting at has more to do with ideology than race.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

• protections for racial and language minority groups in the drawing of district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless of what happens at the federal level; and

Run the words of the title together and you get a not - terribly - clever yet not - entirely - awful summary of what the film is getting at when it's not busy being a retarded high - concept buddy cop flick pairing your typical crusty old vet with an earnest rookie who happens to be an alien with a spotted pate instead of a hilarious racial minority.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Finally, what research there is on racial attitudes in young minority children actually suggests that they show considerably less prejudice.

No Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

At the crux of the debate are questions about who gets to speak on behalf of racial minorities and low - income children, and what school accountability should look like in the age of Donald Drumpf.

Recent research suggests that a utility - value intervention in which students write about the usefulness of what they are learning for achieving prosocial goals (e.g., giving back to one's community) could be particularly motivating for first - generation and underrepresented racial / ethnic minority students.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

If «industry standard» practices don't produce results but might actually be working against a firm's objective of increasing representation of racial minorities, what should be done?

What's going wrong between intention on the part of firms to be equitable and inclusive and the reality, which sees only six per cent of racial minority lawyers make partner?

I believe what lies beneath the Court's decision today are the benighted notions that one can tell when racial discrimination benefits (rather than hurts) minority groups, see Adarand, 515 U. S., at 239 (SCALIA, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment), and that racial discrimination is necessary to remedy general societal ills.