Sentences with phrase «majority white communities»
In February, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office published an analysis concluding that drivers living in the state's predominantly minority communities are charged higher auto insurance premiums than similar drivers living in majority white communities.
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Rah adds: «Contrary to popular opinion, the church is not dying in America; its is alive and well, but it is alive and well among the immigrant and ethnic minority communities and not among the majority white churches in the United States.»
«White America,» which you identify with the Nixonian term «Silent Majority,» is no more one community than it worships a single god (I pray only at the altar of Rock And Roll, for instance).
«There are black communities within majority [white] communities where women are developing leadership, where black women are building coalitions and finding common cause and are stepping up in their leadership, so I anticipate continued growth in that regard,» she continued.
About 49 percent of Hispanic girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities initiated vaccination, whereas approximately 68 percent of Hispanic girls living in majority Hispanic or mixed race communities initiated vaccination.
The highest HPV vaccine initiation rate was among girls living in communities where the majority of the population was Hispanic (69 percent), and the lowest rates were among girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities (50 percent) and non-Hispanic black communities (54 percent).
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.
The vast majority of the recipients are black students who left schools with student populations that were disproportionally black relative to the broader community and moved to private schools that had more white students.
A member of the African American Teachers Association named Les Campbell made the argument «if the white majority of this faculty decides who will represent the black teachers in the midst of this struggle for community control and self - determination... 271 will be taking a huge step backwards in the fight for social justice.»
Hundreds of our communities across the «Black Belt» of the South still have never addressed the type of segregation that occurs when white families flock to private schools in majority - black small towns and rural communities.
In contrast, teachers in stable and diverse learning environments — with or without a white student majority — report more positive student relations and more support from parents and the community (with some variation according to the race of the teacher).
As she reveals throughout the book, integration was not only a threat to the culture of the white majority, but established a legitimate fear held by African Americans and people of color of «whitewashing» their culture and local communities.
Gary D. White, Jr., was born in Topeka, Kansas, and has lived the majority of his life in the Topeka community.
The continuing hurt, vulnerability, anger and rage expressed in Native American tribes and African American communities in the United States against the majority white population can be understood as both cry for justice in the present, and a echo of generational trauma that was endured for nearly 300 years on our nation's shores.