Sentences with phrase «class white communities»

They don't have contract schools, they don't have charter schools in middle class White communities.

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The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

(Crack cocaine tends to be more prevalent in low - income minority communities while powder cocaine is primarily used in upper - class, white communities.)

Feministas hispanas have been consistently marginalized in the white, Anglo feminist community because of our critique of its ethnic and racial prejudice and lack of class analysis.

We both hail from white, working class communities.

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

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.

I watched in Birmingham 40 years ago the full horror of the then «Immigration Debate» as it impacted on the Asian community in Birmingham where I lived and the impact on the white working class in the trade unions where I was active.

Basically the concern is that there are too many white middle class graduates who don't represent the community as a whole.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

The class schedule is as follows: Saturday, April 17th, 9 AM — 4 PM: Community Board 12, Wakefield, 4101 White Plains Road, Bronx Saturday, April 24th, 9 AM - 4 PM: Tuckahoe Community Center, 71 Columbus Avenue, Tuckahoe Saturday, May 1st, 9:30 AM — 4:30 PM: Allerton Avenue Library, 2740 Barnes Avenue, Bronx Saturday, May 8th, 9 AM — 4 PM: Riverdale Neighborhood House, 5521 Mosholu Avenue, Bronx Saturday, May 15th, 9:30 AM — 4:30 PM: Eastchester Library, 11 Oakridge Place, Eastchester To register for a course, participants must call (718)-279-7288 or (914)-286-4355 and mention they're constituents of Senator Jeff Klein.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

In the 2000s and ever since, prescription opioids and backyard - cooked methamphetamine's are devastating lives and families amongst rural, white, working and middle class communities.

I am a white woman in south - central Seattle, a yoga instructor, and someone who loves having all kinds of people come to my open, community classes.

Tranposing Porter's all - white story to a middle - class black community in the Alabama of the 1950s (Celeste Holm is the only white costar) isn't nearly as self - conscious or gimmicky as it seems on paper.

With a simple eloquence that never gets preachy, it makes the point that the gay marriage movement was driven by the white middle class, while the marginalized transgender community remains largely unrepresented.

«Harnessing that same will to learn that we see in many ethnic minority groups in white working class communities should be a part of the solution to the low attainment of many boys and girls.

Today's research tells us two new things: that underrepresentation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

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But the best examples may come from the recent conflicts between reform advocates and critics in which race and class have been explicit topics of the debate - when Newark's Cami Anderson is under attack for being a white interloper in a black community, or when Chicago's Rahm Emanuel is accused of being a racist murderer by the head of the Chicago Teachers Union.

That's far from conclusive, precisely because few choice programs have been designed for — or located in — the kinds of white working - class communities that Charles Murray dubbed «Fishtown.»

In the specific context of hiring decisions, it is common for people who are middle class, White, and formally educated to make decisions about who will teacher lower - income Brown and Black children without the feedback, solicited or otherwise, of parents and children in that same community.

Opt - out fever tends to afflict white and upper class suburban communities.

Let's be honest: this is a movement led primarily by white middle - class and wealthy individuals, yet primarily serving low - income communities of color.

Wilkinsburg, which lies just east of Pittsburgh, was once a predominantly white, middle - class community with well - regarded public schools.

In the early to mid 80's Atlanta experienced what some cities call white flight; when masses of white citizens / upper class citizens relocate from a particular community.

Essentially the school community placed greater value on the predominately white, middle class parent as provider over the minority parent, who commonly acted as a protector.

We want the choice of world class, sustainable neighborhood schools to anchor our communities, just as white brothers and sisters enjoy.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

The other solution to integrating our schools is much more difficult, in that the backlash from white middle class communities could end political careers within and beyond our school system.

«Today's research tells us two new things: that under - representation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

White flight was also a proxy for the middle class abandoning urban communities, and in the 30 years between 1980 and 2010, the percentages of people who live in housing tracts dominated by their own income levels has risen nationwide.

«These now affect the white working class more than any other community.»

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four, serving more than 10,000 students.

District D serves a predominantly white, working - class community of approximately 7,000 students.

Because public school teaching, leadership, and governance tend to reflect white middle - class norms, educators may not be aware of the variety of child - rearing practices that exist in their school communities.

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four participating districts, serving more than 10,000 students.

Black middle class families that live in mostly white environments must also put a large emphasis on the ability to code switch and be familiar with the cultures associated with both largely black and largely white communities (Lacy, 2007).

As a movement, we need to begin to engage communities that are outside of the white, sub / urban, owning classes that most of us inhabit.

This luxury vacation rental is part of the Sperone community, originally developed as a glamorous getaway for the jet set in the 1960s and today an oasis of white - sand beaches, turquoise waters and a world - class golf course.

This sprawling luxury vacation rental is part of the Sperone community, which was first developed in the 1960s to attract the jet set to Corsica and today is a favorite for its white - sand beaches and world - class golf course.

I am referring here to a section of London's contemporary arts community comprising largely, but not exclusively, white middle - or upper - middle - class artists; a section unburdened by histories of oppression, suffused with privilege and the necessary leisure time available for seekership.

Throughout Keystone XL's tortuous, seven - year slog at the White House, the pipeline — this pipeline — was a symbol, a foil the administration used to help keep the professional activist class activated and the world climate community applauding.

It has been suggested that cultural ideals for thinness that exist in White middle and upper - middle class communities are in direct conflict with the normal increases in body fat that occur during puberty.