Sentences with phrase «from white middle class»

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

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.

Not exact matches

What's more, a white paper out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

As a straight, white, middle - class, Christian male sitting in the seat of privilege, I've had to swallow quite a few sugarcoated critiques from my brothers and sisters from different ethnic and socio - economic classes.

Nevertheless, this theology is liberation theology because it witnesses to the power of Jesus Christ to liberate me from my white middle - class world, from the university, and to place me beside the marginals, the oppressed, in hope and promise of their liberation.

But even white, middle class North Americans can become responsive to what they hear from the poor.

My point is only that if one is white, North American, and middle class, as are most process theologians, then one would be hesitant to suppose that one can really think in a sustained way from the perspective of the oppressed.

For a long time, «white middle class Americans» was an expansive cohort that ran from factory workers to doctors, lawyers, and other professionals.

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

that now many «others» do theology in ways very different, even conflictually other, from my own white, male, middle - class and academic reflections on a hermeneutics of dialogue and a praxis of solidarity.

Because most of us are also, in some continuing way, «of» that white, middle - class, Protestant milieu, we know (from the inside) its questions, its anxieties, its frustrations, as well as its answers, consolations, and dreams.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Thus when criticizing feminism as a white, middle - class movement, one must keep the limitations of that critique carefully in mind and analyze one's own motives in voicing it: Am I trying to protect my own world from disruption or to trivialize the movement's ideas to avoid facing the threat?

It is possible for many white, middle - class Americans to distance themselves from other liberation movements.

But what you probably are, is a «white, middle class american» who has free access to democracy and clean drinking water, and you do nt have to dodge bombs from B - 52s on a semi regular basis.

Naturally, they preferred easy - to - control children from white middle - or working - class backgrounds.

Activists usually are from the middle class; in the United States they tend to be white, from the northeast or from large cities in the west and midwest; women, college students and «modernist» Protestant clergy have been conspicuously represented.

Rarely can Christians from white middle - class North America claim the same sort of relationship with the spiritual life of the corporate body.

Now, granted, all of these stories come from white, middle - class people, most with higher education.

From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations about what is good for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility for less privileged families.

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.

When I met my husband, white and middle - class and from one of those Cleaver - like happy families, I knew I'd have to start keeping my Scrooge side in check.

The respondents were almost uniformly white children from middle - class families, so the results don't tell us much about the longevity of other groups.

(I've always suffered from white middle - class guilt.)

It is obvious from these posts that homebirth with an incompetent midwife is not a problem exclusive to reasonably educated middle class white women.

Participants were identified from a nationally representative consumer panel of more than 500,000 households in the United States.16 Compared with a nationally representative sample, participants in the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II were more likely to be white, middle class, and employed women.

They have come from a narrow social brand — all male, all white, all from England, all middle class.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Opponents warn that it will drive poorer families from city centres, with some suggesting it would turn London into Paris, where the centre of the city is populated predominantly by white, middle - class families.

So what are these supposedly forward - thinking people saying - that a woman's place in politics is just to be SEEN to be there - presumably to detract attention from the fact that it's white middle class blokes running the show?»

The WAMC event drew a stereotypical public radio crowd — upper middle class, upper middle - aged, and overwhelmingly white — but sprinkled in the former bank lobby that hosted Bharara's stage were representatives of the Business Council of New York State, several other longtime lobbyists, Albany County executive Dan McCoy and Assemblyman John McDonald, a Democrat from Cohoes.

The growth chart weights were derived from a study by Frank Hadlock and his colleagues, who compiled ultrasound measurements of 139 pregnancies of predominantly middle - class white women during the 1980s.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.

The researchers found that 37.5 percent of white students are from middle - class families, compared to 15.7 percent of blacks.

An Indiana University study found that white flight from one suburban neighborhood to another occurs when white residents move away from «ethnoburbs,» suburban neighborhoods that attract a growing number of middle - class minority residents.

She was on the way from her prospective adopters, a white middle - class couple who already...

Drowning Mona could be looked at as study on how things happen in a small all - white middle - class town, but even then, the messages you would get from it would be limited.

They're three ineffectual, middle class (in the worst, most spat - from - the - mouth - of - a-clove-smoking-bohemian sense of the word), pale white, useless men.

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

Plot: Rose Armitage (Alison Williams) comes from a well - to - do, white, middle class family and goes upstate to visit her parent's for the weekend with her black boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya).

Additionally, White imbues his film with an added layer of surrealness with occasional cutaways to fantasy sequences; and while the use of voiceover narration is arguably on - the - nose, it does nudge the film closer into earnest territory and further away from conceited, navel - gazing white middle - class fWhite imbues his film with an added layer of surrealness with occasional cutaways to fantasy sequences; and while the use of voiceover narration is arguably on - the - nose, it does nudge the film closer into earnest territory and further away from conceited, navel - gazing white middle - class fwhite middle - class folly.

The most creative and innovative and daring proposals of South America usually come from Brazil, such as Lúcia Murat's Praça Paris (Lúcia Murat, 2017), which really grants a voice to Afro - Brazilians through a young black woman from the favela (Rio's slums), trapped between the endless violence of her environment and the progressive flirting with disaster of her middle class white psychotherapist.

I'm white, I came from a middle - class family, I went to a public school.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

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.

The fact that both middle - class black and white males — kids from college - educated homes that should have strong moral values and be exposed to good parenting — are struggling in reading and other aspects of academics should give personable responsibility myth believers pause.