Sentences with phrase «as black males»

Sometimes their status as black males in a predominantly white school seems to at issue; at other times it is simply their very different life circumstances.

The analysis was inspired by a separate survey of these graduates, which found that senior black female graduates of HBS had about the same level of career satisfaction, and similar feelings about the accessibility and opportunities they have for advancement, as black male Harvard MBAs who were only at junior levels of their careers.

Of course, your credentials are impeccable, but according to stereotype threat, your achievements and abilities did not filter through the lens through which you were perceived, which was clouded by your identification as a black male.

«As a black male, I have experienced what it is to go out into society and nobody cares what you know, to go into college and it's assumed you don't know much, or to have people make stereotypical comments.

Riley evaluates these policies by combining evidence from leading social - science research with personal stories about his experiences as a black male.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.

As a black male, my decision to become a teacher was informed by my relationships with my black teachers.

Following Bertaut means keeping up with his adorable family and two kids who are always getting into something, making his journey as a black male travel blogger all that much more interesting!

Drew creates work with personal meaning, reflecting his personal history and his heritage as a black male artist.

Mohau Modisakeng uses his own experience as a black male within a post-apartheid context as his main source of inspiration.

Not exact matches

«We got that language so much that it was clear to us that, as young, black male entrepreneurs, the experience of building a company would be very different,» echoes Quarles.

And, as a black woman, Taylor doesn't look the typical Valley engineer either, which is overwhelmingly white and male.

In recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asians.

As a whole, females tended to graduate with less debt than their male counterparts, except for black females who had $ 272 more in debt than black males.

Having created the myth of the black's extraordinary sexual prowess, the white male interprets such a case as an affront to his ego, his virility and his property.

As Jesse Jackson observed in an unguarded moment, if you see five young white males coming from a Bible class on one side of the street and five young black males hanging out on the other side, you have no trouble in knowing which side of the street you want to be on.

In some neighborhoods, one in three young black males is working as a «snitch,» forced to testify against friends and family under the threat of prosecution.

A white male process theologian, for example, working (as most do) within the institutional structure of a North American college or university, simply can not become a feminist theologian or do black theology.

Miss Faludi elaborates on the plight of the male porn star in a long section focused mostly on his limited earning capacity and the disrespect with which he is treated, rather as if she were decrying workplace discrimination against blacks and women.

@M1sf1ts I spent most of my adult life as a registered nurse with many of those years as a theatre nurse and I saw that whether a person was a saint or a sinner, gay or straight, black or white and even male ot female their heartsd all looked the same, their brains all looked the same and besides their reproductive system, their bodies looked the same: Believe it or not they all bleed the same.

Three emergent theological movements — black theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.

Blacks have always had a place in the church as members — just the males were not able to hold the Priesthood until 1978.

It's fascinating to me as a 26 year old white male because it seems so clear that the old, rich, conservative white men that run our government are bucking violently at the impudent thought that a black man in the «White House» could possibly solve the problems his white predecessors so obviously caused.

Does this tempt us to picture God as either male or female, white or black, young or old?

Tiggy — I havn't read the shack but my wife has and her take was that although God is portrayed as a black women the theology still seems to be tradional evangelical and male centred.

The concept is presented in Walker's In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, and many women in church and society have appropriated it as a way of affirming themselves as black while simultaneously owning their connection with feminism and with the Afro - American community, male and female.

The black movement constantly talks as though «blacks» means black males.

But it has not yet opened itself up to the disturbing countertrends in the lower - class black community that not only conflict with bourgeois male and female stereotypes but also are alienated from middle - class values and the Christian identity as well.

When black and white women can penetrate each other's experience and recognize each other as common victims of a total structure of white male domination, this will be the moral victory that will cut the gordian knot of white male dominance.

However, this does not make black men male chauvinists in the same way as white men.

with a quadruple - double in almost 25 years, as well as the first player (male or female) from a historically black university and the fourth woman overall to complete the feat.

They saw racial politics, as Iola McGowan, a member of the old anti-Washington park board, was jeered by fellow blacks when she cast a vote favoring Kelly, who has placed white males in almost all the important posts in the park district bureaucracy.

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

Then, just as her husband used their son Dante as a prop when he spoke in December about the dangers that the police pose to young black males, McCray trotted out their daughter Chiara to be the city's poster child for recovery from depression and substance abuse.

The criminal justice reforms presented by Ms. Mark - Viverito on Wednesday were billed as a comprehensive way to ensure a fairer system that affects mostly low - income black and Latino males.

«As a mother of three children, two black males, I can tell you that the encounters and the difficulties are real,» Stewart - Cousins said.

Protesters carried banners disavowing the characterization of some black males as thugs (Photo: Will Bredderman).

She support her civil rights for marriage equality but, as mayor, would continue to infringe on the rights of the BLACK & LATINO males that get harassed via S&F.

As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg» s initiative on black and Latino males, a school now gets extra points for making significant progress with students in that group whose prior performance has put them in the lowest third academically.

The hard truth in the private (and to a lesser extent, the public) sector is that no one is going to hire you or retain you as an employee due to your merits if they can't lose sight of the fact that you are a black male — regardless of how stellar your credentials may be.

Seeing that you have hung out your own shingle as a black, male scientist might inspire more people who find themselves in a situation that is similar to the one you've described to do the same thing.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

Dr. Hamilton coined the name because the species is found in California near Folsom Prison (famous for Cash's song «Folsom Prison Blues») and because mature males are generally solid black in coloration (paying homage to Cash's distinctive style of dress where he has been referred to as the «Man in black»)(see Image 2).

«Yet today,» Fox tells me, «CVD in black women is as high as in non-Hispanic white males.

Because of existing cultural associations in the United States that link Black American males with aggression, hostility, and untrustworthiness, the researchers hypothesized that the participants might be more likely to perceive a low financial offer as unfair if it came from a Black rather than White proposer.

Males are twice as likely to be infected as females, and the prevalence in black males (8.12 %) far exceeds that in white (4.05 %) and Mexican - American males (3.4Males are twice as likely to be infected as females, and the prevalence in black males (8.12 %) far exceeds that in white (4.05 %) and Mexican - American males (3.4males (8.12 %) far exceeds that in white (4.05 %) and Mexican - American males (3.4males (3.41 %).

Hearing from black male survivors of prostate cancer may improve screening uptake as well as participation in research.

Two 20 - minute sessions with 4 - to 6 - year - old Chinese children, in which they were trained to identify black male faces as individuals, reduced implicit bias in the children for at least two months.

Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are infamous for their tainted love as they have an unsettling tendency to kill and devour their male partners.

Then, using the fMRI data, they looked for spots in the brain that mirrored those overlap patterns — for instance, places where there was a similar amount of overlap between «Black» and «Male» as in the mouse - tracking data.