Sentences with phrase «among white working»

But the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has researched poverty, rejected the idea of low parental aspirations, but instead blamed a lack of self - belief among white working - class families.

They are exploiting alienation from Westminster politics, particularly among the white working class.

He said: «They're talking tough on the issue of immigration because the Labour vote among the white working class has dropped, and not all of them but some are turning to the BNP.»

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

Not exact matches

Uber's strategy, like many major players in Silicon Valley's white - hot sharing economy (Airbnb among them), has been to work quickly to establish itself in as many markets as possible and deal with legal pitfalls and red tape later.

Kelly was among several Cabinet secretaries and senior White House staff members who attended a working lunch with the president at the Trump National Golf Club.

One of the biggest miscalculations among Democrats has to do with the level of suffering among disaffected working class and middle white folks.

And given Clinton's weakness in polls among non-college educated, white, working - class voters, that's entirely possible.

The use of computers and e-mail is ubiquitous among all white collar workers, but a recent study suggests that there's a generational gap between how younger and older employees use the Internet at work.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

Among working moms, 65 % of those who are white say it is difficult for them to balance the responsibilities of their job with the responsibilities of their family; about half (52 %) of non-white working mothers say the same.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home.

What happened in America's big cities between say 1890 and 1950 that no democratic socialist movement gained nationwide traction, and that the industrial working class, in the northern cities, came to depend on the Democratic party, which had totally different origins among southern white farmers, and which contained a strong segregationist instinct?

The White House is certainly acting like they believe it's a real trend: they're sending surrogates and working to boost turnout among complacent Democrats (naturally, the DSCC's also going nuts on the email fundraising side).

The White House is certainly acting like they believe it's a real trend: they're sending surrogates and working to boost turnout among complacent Democrats...

Their German counterparts, by contrast, scattered their work among many projects and tended to prize engineering virtue above practicality, yielding tanks like the Tiger that may have been individually superior in battle but were few in number and often «white elephants» that broke down in the field.

Other digital ads could dampen the Trump - mentum among working - class white men.

White is hopeful the Invention Ambassadors program can continue to nurture a sense of community among innovators and provide an environment that encourages ambassadors to work together.

Among other examples, he notes, programs exporting yellow maize to Africa have not worked as well as expected, since the local dietary preference in many places is white maize.

However, the improvement was more prominent among white and Asian women and those in urban areas, suggesting more work is needed to reach women in other racial and ethnic groups and those living in rural areas, Harvey said.

A Southampton astronomer is among a team of international researchers whose work has revealed a surprising similarity between the way in which astronomical objects grow including black holes, white dwarfs and young stars.

Gender differences in work - home interplay and symptom perception among Swedish white - collar employees

The program targets specifically two White House initiatives, My Brother's Keeper which is working to address the education needs of young men of color, and a second effort to promote interest in science among girls.

From his first great success in «MASH» to the wonderful «Cookie's Fortune» (1999), there are a lot of interlocking characters in his stories, and almost alone among white American directors he never forgets that a lot of black people live and work in town.

Lee Daniels» The Butler is loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a man who worked as a butler in the White House for eight different presidents, among them John F. Kennedy (James Marsden, every bit as affable as the likable leader), Lyndon Johnson (Liev Schreiber, who captures the profane and over-the-top character of LBJ), Richard Nixon (John Cusack, the least effective), and Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman, who surprised me with this excellent performance).

German «spent over a decade working for the FBI, often going undercover among white supremacist militias and in one case successfully foiling a plot to attack a black church,» according to Slash Film.

Among the hilariously eccentric pieces of Baltimore white trash featured: a sweets - obsessed young girl named Little Chrissy (Lauren Hulsey), who guzzles Jolt cola and eats sugar straight from the sack; her mother Joyce (Mary Kay Place), a thrift - shop owner who enjoys offering her fashion «expertise» to the homeless; Chrissy's older sister Tina (Martha Plimpton), who works at a gay male strip bar known for «teabagging» (don't ask); and Chrissy's grandmother Memama (Jean Schertler), whose sacred statue of the Virgin Mary not - so - miraculously «speaks» (she makes the voice herself).

Attainment in UK schools among disadvantaged pupils varies dramatically between different ethnicities, with white working class boys achieving the lowest GCSE grades, according to new analysis.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

Indeed, variants on acting white have been spotted by ethnographers among the Buraku outcasts of Japan, Italian immigrants in Boston's West End, the Maori of New Zealand, and the British working class, among others.

Often, the blacks were professionals who already spent most of their working lives among whites, had white friends, and participated in mixed - race church and social groups.

Among KIPP teachers, it says, there are «young parents who leave at 5 p.m. to pick up their children from daycare, part - time teachers who job share, and teachers who continue to work past 5 p.m.» It says 53 percent of KIPP teachers are white and 47 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American.

Grab a copy of a style guide (I like Strunk and White's, but Chicago Manual of Style is popular among fiction authors, and the Associated Press style guide is popular for non-fiction work).

I do not feel his vision was utopian; it was a workable vision of community, not unlike many that have worked for white people throughout history, from the Puritans on... It also echoes some communal efforts of the abolition movement among others, and the Civil Rights movement, with Valentine, and Landers, in their speeches echoing Martin Luther King Jr. and the same debate over «gradual» or immediate progress.

Among the topics covered in the ALLi white paper: How blockchain works for authors, particularly when it comes to licensing and rights management, and micropayments.

Below are some concepts created by Artur Sadlos who's also worked on games across a wide variety of genres such as nail'd, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Shaun White Skateboarding and the Call of Juarez franchise, among others.

Among the pieces displayed were plywood slats — angled pieces of wood that pointed, like split arrows, up to the ceiling; tin alphabet letters that appeared to have been hurled randomly at the wall but were actually carefully arranged (recently purchased by MoMA); cloth octagons in dyed pastels and white paper octagons glued to the wall; «string pieces,» or drawings dancing across the floor; and wire works.

His work been shown in exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, White Columns in New York, the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and the Tang Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, among others.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection Gallery, London (2012); Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds (2012); Remap, Athens (2011); White Columns, New York (2011); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (2010); and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2010), among many others.

The white and black marble offers densely unforgiving and pure works, both majestic and domestic in scale, that sit among wooden wall relief works.

NEWS On Aug. 4, Art Everywhere, a collaborations between five U.S. museums and the billboard industry, begins displaying 58 works of art across America (chosen by the public among 100 suggestions from the museums), including four by Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley and Charles White.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum; The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn; White Columns, NYC; among other venues.

Description: Selected from a group of nearly 1,000 applicants, Dyani White Hawk's works will be among 40 artists featured in this year's Midwest publication of New American Paintings: Juried Exhibitions in Print.

Presenting one - of - a-kind works including commissions by Elizabeth Catlett (a sculpture representing the Cosby family) and Faith Ringgold (a birthday quilt from Camille to Bill), the exhibition features important examples by African American aritsts Robert S. Duncanson, Joshua Johnston, Richmond Barthe, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Henry O. Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motley, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Charles White, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Robert Colescott (above), Whitfield Lovell, Kehinde Wiley, Lorna Simpson and Kori Newkirk, among others.

At Home at the White House Nov. 1: Architectural Digest magazine releases its December issue with a cover story exploring the selection of 20th and 21st century art displayed on the walls of the Obama private White House residence, including works by African American artists Alma Thomas, Glenn Ligon, and William H. Johnson, as well as Susan Rothenberg, Sam Francis, Hans Hofmann, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Mangold, Sean Scully, among others.

Among the most stunning works in the critically lauded Frank Stella retrospective at the Whitney Museum this fall are four wall sculptures — three - dimensional paintings, if you prefer — that revel in nautical themes inspired by Melville's White Whale.

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at NICC, Brussels (2017), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2015), The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2010), and Art in General, New York (2009), and in group exhibitions at Göteborg Konsthall, Sweden (2017), White Cube Bermondsey, London (2017), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014), ICA London (2012), Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2011), P.S. 1, New York (2010), and Oakville Galleries, Toronto (2010), among many others.

Among other successful sales of the evening was a gray - scale work by Cy Twombly, a Donald Judd installation, a signature white painting by Robert Ryman and several works by Yves Kline, including a blue sponge sculpture and works on paper.

Hammond has had over 40 solo exhibitions and her work has been shown internationally in venues such as: the New Museum, the National Academy Museum, the Downtown Whitney Museum, and White Columns in NYC; the Brooklyn Museum and Smack Mellon Studios in Brooklyn; the Bronx Museum; P.S. 1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens; the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C.; the Tucson Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Phoenix Art Museum; Site Santa Fe, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the American Center, in Paris; the Neue Galerie, in Graz, Germany; the Gementemuseum Den Hague in The Hague, among others.

With its dazzling display of luxurious textures, this stunning likeness of the Massachusetts matriarch, Rebecca White Pickering (1754 - 1828), numbers among his finest work.