Sentences with phrase «black populations because»

Using a sample comprised of capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, counties with relatively large black populations because they were termini of the underground railroad, Professor Walker investigates the «limits of freedom» for Ontario's African Canadians.

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Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

Mormons make up less than 2 % of the population of the US and even if they all were conservative (which they are not) it wouldn't make up for the blacks that will vote for Obama ONLY because he is black.

I imagine because of the racism he experienced from many of the white population in Alabama, he identifies with being black.

First, because black and Hispanic mothers were underrepresented in the study population, our results may not be applicable to the entire US population.

The campaign should continue to have a special focus on the black and American Indian / Alaskan Native populations because of the higher incidence of SIDS and other sleep - related infant deaths in these groups.

This reinforces the scenario that the supermassive black hole and dense hub of the galaxy grew simultaneously, but the galaxy's stellar population stopped growing and expanding because it was starved of outside material.

«We may observe more black swan events in animal populations in the future because of these climate extremes,» he says.

Troy is the son of the Dean of Students (Dennis Haysbert), and is dating the white daughter of the school President, whose son Kurt (Kyle Gallner) is one of those sorts of people who think the black population is no longer oppressed because Affirmative Action exists.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

The effects of charter schools in urban populations are of special interest because any gains in this context might help reduce the black - white achievement gap.

Other approaches to examining school segregation in prior research rely on absolute numbers (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 90 % black), or characterize a school's enrollment as imbalanced relative to the demographics of the district or region (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 85 % black whereas the district's school age population is only 75 % black).

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

But I am intentionally — and unapologetically — focusing on black male teachers because black male students continue to be one of the most underserved populations in schools.

Because charters can only open in Connecticut's lowest - performing districts, and we serve a student population that is over 85 percent Black or Hispanic, and nearly 75 percent low - income, charters have the potential to be transformative.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

The only BASIS school in this report that enrolled significantly more students of color than the surrounding district was BASIS Chandler, and in this case it was because the majority of students were Asian; there were very few Black and Hispanic students in that population.

The civil rights movement was necessary because of the belief of a significant percentage of the population that black people were less «civilized», less intelligent, and less deserving than white people.

«There is a tendency to see the black cats as less exciting which we think is because they are much more common among the cat population,» says Cats Protection's Social Media Manager Gemma Croker.

They are particularly vulnerable because they nest in the same cliffs and grottoes that house the black rat population.

According to the Post story, back in the spring, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz sent back a pool of 70 prospective jurors because the racial composition of the group — 61 whites, eight blacks and one Asian — didn't align with the racial and economic population within the District.