Sentences with phrase «ghetto youths»

But also important is the fact that the wider culture and its institutions are perceived, quite accurately at times, as unreceptive and unyielding to the efforts of ghetto youths.»

Will Smith's unjustly ridiculed After Earth already addressed these issues, but Killmonger specifically personifies the street - fighter fury admired by emotionally damaged ghetto youths — the film's primary market.

Inspired by Malcolm X — and recognizing the colleges» recruiting needs — I wrote an admissions essay entitled «Autobiography of a Ghetto Youth.»

He was reflecting on the toll of racism and the police department's wall of silence on ghetto youth.

Not exact matches

these gang youths» understanding of the problem [of the ghetto] went deeper than their reaction to unjust social conditions.

Some youth (and adults) use drugs to deaden terrible psychological pain or to opt out of grim external reality — ghettoes, war, pollution, overpopulation.

Without this understanding it will remain impossible to devise social change programs (e.g., youth job training, head start) that ghetto families can use fully, in conjunction with family systems therapy, to interrupt the vicious, mutual reinforcement of family and community problems.

The famous study of Harlem entitled Youth in the Ghetto has a significant subtitle: «A Study in the Consequences of Powerlessness» (published by Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, 2092 7th Ave., N. Y., N. Y., $ 4.50 donation).

Her son had brought a friend, and this friend had made a joke about the Youth Group being in a ghetto.

To be black in the ghetto of Coates's youth «was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease.»

I also can remember how, as an undergrad, set «free» into the wilds of a Southern California «youth ghetto» some 10 years after the radical and violent protest years, there was still enough of a certain ambience to infect me.