Sentences with phrase «largely white communities»

Washington, D.C. — Good drivers living in predominantly African American ZIP codes are charged significantly higher premiums than similar drivers in largely white communities, even after accounting for population density and income levels, according to a report released today.

CFA also found that drivers living in predominantly African American communities pay substantially higher premiums than those living in largely white communities.

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).

While generally considered an affluent, largely white community, the district's demographics have shifted dramatically: today over half of San Rafael students are Latino, economically disadvantaged, and / or English learners.

Not exact matches

Barbour's effectiveness in this work of interpretation was largely due to the manner in which he balanced his commitment to both the black and white communities.

(I have to also admit that I am really weary of the storyline of the white hero who saves all the people of color, while in the meantime all the people of color working in their communities are largely ignored.

Although the American scientific community has, for many years, enjoyed fruitful international collaborations, a white male majority has largely built the establishment in which science is practiced.

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.

In the second decade after the Brown decision, debate shifted from whether a black student could enter a schoolhouse to how best to bring black and white students together in school districts, particularly in light of the largely segregated housing patterns that existed in most communities.

The graduation rate barely hit 80 percent — in a largely white, suburban community, where only 26 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Is it even a fair, and does its largely white cast owe anything to its community?

She charted her own course as an African - American woman within Washington D.C.'s largely white and male mid-20th-century artistic community.

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.