The report - Underachievement in Education
by White Working Class Children - identifies this as a «real and persistent» problem.
Not exact matches
Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of
working -
class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections
by Democrats.
We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors
by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black,
white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or
working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.
And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are
white and middle -
class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined
by our
work.
e.g. a) Reading and writing: seen particularly
by younger Caribbean and
white working class men as a «girl thing»
The findings were reported in the Open Society Foundation's «Europe's
White Working Class Community: Manchester», with research conducted
by Amina Lone and Daniel Silver of the Social Action and Research Foundation (SARF)-- a social enterprise that produces policies to combat poverty.
Research conducted
by academics Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin shows that the average UKIP voter is
white, male, middle - aged and
working -
class.
The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written
by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older,
working -
class white voters with few educational qualifications.
members of the
white working class who had found their wages undercut and their access to housing, education, medical care, and other facilities diminished
by competition with rising numbers of immigrants;
White men from the
working class are not —
by a long stretch — ubiquitous in the elite.
Labour under Ed Miliband found this out to its detriment, despite the efforts of the so - called «Blue Labour» advisers who sought to address concerns of the
white working class — a former Labour core constituency who feel abandoned
by their old party and politicians.
Both places are filled with the
white,
working class voters where he lost to Clinton
by big margins.
Blue Labour's relationship with
working class populism: Blue Labour has the potential to gain support amongst
white working class voters who usually stay at home on election day,
by articulating populist themes.
It is, in my view, a perfectly rational reaction
by a growing proportion of the
white working class who feel marginalised
by a political elite that would rather ignore them.
Labour's Lord Ahmed accuses ministers of aiding the rise of Far Right extremists
by neglecting the
white working class and failing to control immigration - The Sunday Telegraph
Before that it's predecessor seat was represented
by Norman Tebbit who seemed to embody the
white working -
class Thatcherism that made Chingford feel much more Essex than London.
Most current vaccines
work by stimulating a
class of
white blood cells called B cells to make antibodies that circulate and control infections in the blood.
As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a
white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their
working -
class neighbors, who are portrayed
by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.
Though a child of the colonial civil servant caste, Denis is
by sentiment and inclination one of the last viable
working -
class filmmakers in the
white - collar west, and so it is only appropriate that her film should be capped off with an appearance
by Depardieu, the hulking star of Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), that bruising film of interclass love.
In Michell's hands, a relatively
working -
class set of characters becomes incongruously bourgeois through sensuous camera moves and catalogue - ready tableaux accentuated
by not only walls of Kubrickian
white, but also a decidedly «upscale» piano score.
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.
In short, in the 1990s, in
working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising
white Renault cars [used
by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.
Murray thus draws a picture of Fishtown,
working -
class America, supplemented
by ethnographic reports on the real Fishtown, that is not far short of the «underclass» that was so widely discussed 30 years ago, when it was thought that
white working -
class America was in good shape.
Though justified
by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on
white working -
class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.
Chinese pupils from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as
white working class pupils to get five good GCSEs, according to new analysis published
by the Sutton Trust today.
Several education leaders I talked to were struck
by the wave of
white working -
class voters, including many rural and rust - belt Americans without college degrees, supporting Trump.
In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the
work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black -
white education gap was not closed
by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle -
class suburb close to Cleveland.
Both the underperformance of
white working class boys in university admissions and the helping hand into the top professions provided
by a private education were issues she insisted must be addressed in the fight «to make Britain a country that
works for everyone».
Representatives of Leicester City Council told MPs that there were parts of the city where «
white working class culture is characterised
by low aspirations and negative attitudes towards education».
Sir Michael said poverty was all too often used as an excuse for failure
by white working -
class families.
By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's
white working class.
My Aunty Eleanor just got a nearly new
white Mercedes - Benz CL -
Class CL63 AMG just
by working from a home pc.
The pair became friends — both came from
working -
class Yorkshire families - and paying
by standing order, Hirst bought scores of Hoylands that fizz and seduce on Newport Street's vast
white walls.
A black painting
by Frank Stella appears with scenes of
white working class America by Charles Demuth, Elsie Driggs, Margaret Bourke - White, and Dorothea Lange because, among other reasons, Stella applied house p
white working class America
by Charles Demuth, Elsie Driggs, Margaret Bourke -
White, and Dorothea Lange because, among other reasons, Stella applied house p
White, and Dorothea Lange because, among other reasons, Stella applied house paint.
White and largely
working class, the other team «played dirty,» she said, tackling and shoving without intervention
by the referee and to the delight of the crowd.
In an effort to capture celebrities through their audiences, South African artist Candice Breitz, who is represented
by White Cube in London and Sonnabend in New York, made video portraits of Bob Marley (Legend), Madonna (Queen), and Michael Jackson (King)-- all 2005 — and of John Lennon (
Working Class Hero) in 2006.
This fragment of art
by the epitome of middle
class white suburban taste superimposed upon a foggy monochrome
by a young black woman embodies the aesthetic collisions that are so rewarding in her
work.
Pindell draws attention to the dearth of black voices in second - wave feminism; thus, her
work fits into the rubric of womanism, a corrective to
white, middle -
class feminism, that was inspired
by a 1983 essay
by Walker -LRB-
, Brussels, Belgium 10 +1, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia Šta ja radim, Magacin MKM, Belgrade, Serbia, curated
by Biljana Tomić 2011 METAmART, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria TRANSART, National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 ARTmART, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria Exhibition of Awarded
works of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, FLU Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia STEPOUT, Magacin MKM, Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Zlatno Pero, International Illustration Biennial, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia FIST, Festival of International Student Film, Faculty of Drama, Belgrade, Serbia Drawing,
class of Prof. Dejan Grba, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia Amsterdam Biennale, Mediamatic, Amsterdam Ecology, Nature and Empathy, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Pančevo, Serbia Belo (
White), Haos Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia Biennial of Small Sculpture and Drawing, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia Night of the Museums, Kuća Bore Stankovića, Site - specific installation, Vranje, Serbia 2008 Real Presence 8 — Floating Site, Castello di Rivoli — Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Italy Urban Jealousy, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey Urban Jealousy, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 37th Exhibition of Student Drawing and Sculpture, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia 2007 XIV Biennial of Student Drawing, DKSG, Belgrade, Serbia 36th Exhibition of Student Drawing and Sculpture, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia
Pindell draws attention to the dearth of black voices in second - wave feminism; thus, her
work fits into the rubric of womanism, a corrective to
white, middle -
class feminism, that was inspired
by a 1983 essay
by Walker (In Search of our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose).
By representing the American
working -
classes in this way, in a
white space, as art, Hanson raises their status, just like Millet and Courbet did 100 years earlier.
«So this is the second show [at David Zwirner London]-- and I've always been fascinated
by Britain for several reasons, for example it is one of the last «
class societies» — although I don't know how long it will still go on — but I once tackled that subject in a small show, the first
white cube show that I did called «Spelndid Isolation», and one of the portraits in that show was also based on Henry Draper [American doctor, amateur astronomer, and pioneer of astrophotography]-- these three
works in front of you [portraits: «William Robertson», 2014, «John Robison», 2014, and «John Playfair», 2014] are derived from the paintings in the professors room at University of Edinburgh.
Examples from the exhibition include: William Moore McCulloch, who
worked tirelessly for equal rights at the risk of political suicide and was recognized
by President Kennedy for his important influence in passing the Civil Rights Act; Edward Brooke, one of the first Republicans to call on President Nixon to resign in light of the Watergate scandal; Mose Wright, who in 1955 testified at the trial of the men who brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered his great nephew, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a
white woman; and Lois Jenson, a Minnesota miner who, in 1988, filed Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. and won the first
class - action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.
Findings include the following: «Women, people from
working -
class backgrounds, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) workers all face significant exclusions from an industry which is over-represented
by upper middle -
class white men.
This,
by the way, stands in direct contrast to the American term «middle
class», which in English terms would cover a broad spread of society from
working families through
white collar and some professionals.