Sentences with phrase «about nonwhite»

How important is it for you to tell stories about nonwhite characters that capture their complexity and truths?

Although much of the development of student rights originally emerged from concern about nonwhite students in urban areas, educators in those settings had only a 41 percent probability of contact with a legal challenge.

Years and years ago, this blog had a post about nonwhite wedding dresses that stuck in my head for some reason, and all I knew going into my dress search was that I didn't want all - white and that I * knew * it was possible.

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«When I was in film school, no one ever talked about lighting nonwhite people,» Berkofsky said in this essential piece from Mic.

But some listeners can't forget that America wasn't always all about freedom for some people and talking about the past in a way that ignores those experiences comes across like cluelessness at best or nostalgia for the political marginalization of nonwhites at worst.

The media - strategy component is that many nonwhite and younger voters, based on their media consumption patterns, never even hear about when they do agree with conservatives.

I am a little more optimistic about Republican chances to make gains among nonwhites.

The Democratic Party's elites have thoroughly abandoned their mid-1990s skepticism about increasing future low - skill immigration, and have tried to present support for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration as a referendum on whether Hispanic Americans (and nonwhites generally) are to be accepted as full American citizens.

The first thing was the alleged coming of the «emerging Democratic majority,» which was supposed to be brought about by demographic change and a larger nonwhite share of the electorate.

And forget that much of the Senate Democratic conference represents the largely low - income, nonwhite people Smith and Alcantara purport to care about.

Portman's point about the white / nonwhite binary is particularly timely given the way that Garland went about making the film.

Racial tensions are heightened as a result of a president who continually makes reprehensible remarks about immigrants from nonwhite countries.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

In the same poll mentioned above, 43 % of whites admitted to being jittery about public speaking versus 34 % of nonwhites.

Polling shows that nonwhites in the U.S. are more concerned about climate change than whites and more likely to say they feel its impacts.

The losses were heaviest for poor, nonwhite households, but still only about.3 % of wealth.

COUNTRY OVERVIEW President: Eduardo Duhalde (since January 2002) Independence: July 9, 1816 (from Spain) Population (2002E): 37.8 million Location / Size: Southern South America / 2.8 million square kilometers (1.1 million square miles), about four times the size of Texas Major Cities: Buenos Aires (capital), Córdoba, La Plata, Mendoza, Rosario, Santa Fe Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French Ethnic Groups: white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97 %, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3 % Religion: nominally Roman Catholic 92 % (less than 20 % practicing), Protestant 2 %, Jewish 2 %, other 4 % Defense (8/98): Army (41,000), Navy (20,000), Air Force (12,000), Reservists (375,000), Paramilitary Forces (31,240)

Fact: The hypothesized per se «absence» of the father correlation was not found for «nonwhite» children, indicating that it's not about father - presence or absence.

About 20 percent of home buyers nationwide are nonwhite, which makes a place like CityCenter a model for new diverse urban communities.