Sentences with phrase «many white middle class»

So do you think the elites — business leaders, politicians, the media — failed to understand this white middle class rage?

«It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers...»

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

The drama is about the future of a nearly all - white establishment and a nearly all - white middle class that's having second thoughts.

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

When I was coming of age in the 1970s, drug use was already undermining the white middle class.

If both win in Iowa and New Hampshire, that's because the white middle class is in decline, both economically and culturally.

When Newbigin wrote this in 1941, one of the main «social facts» in the United States was that public norms were dictated by a distinctly American Protestant culture in the white middle class.

Today the reality is evident: white middle class Americans lack a secure economic basis.

The cultural decline of the white middle class doesn't get discussed.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

I do wish you and the media in general would stop using the term «evangelicals» when you really mean «white middle class evangelicals.»

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

The next hurdle for us is to love him back as we are very white middle class with only a few racial minorities, pray for us.

Feminists claimed that Niebuhr's thought was profoundly mysoginist: his delineation of the sin of sensuality was a rehash of the traditional denial of bodiliness, associated with the oppression of women, and the sin of pride, historically, was not a sin of women but of white middle class males; the sin of women was the lack of self - affirmation, the sin of «hiding» (in the kitchen).

Now, while the term mommy blogs does not offend me as such - I am a mom, I blog - the connotations of it being a futile hobby for white middle class American women does bother me.

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

«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.

In my view the fact that parliament is still largely comprised of white middle class men who look and sound the same is a significant part of the problem.

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?»

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

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.

Nina knows the route to ratings success is to tap into white middle class paranoia about rampant crime, and tells Lou her ideal story is «a screaming white women with her throat cut, running down the street in a good neighbourhood».

Redolent with the weave of Cajun, African - American and post-bellum white money, here was a piquant and funny accommodation of the manners and mores of the traditional woman's picture to the emotional and social realities of being a white middle class paraplegic in modern Louisiana.

For many, Lady Bird signified something meaningful and universal for those who grew up in white middle class suburbs and longed for culture anywhere, or to find some sort of foothold as an adult — it reminded me much more of The Graduate than it did The 400 Blows.

Although there has been a slight increase in the diversity of the district during the last ten years, it is primarily a white middle class area.

Contrary to the arguments of some conservative reformers, focusing on achievement gaps even helps White middle class children by improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school environments all students experience.

These new demographics have the potential to change the way parents engage with schools, as white middle class parents are more likely to be involved in parent organizations and take on leadership roles [xv].

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.

Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

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.

For example, black middle class families develop social networks with their white middle class neighbors.

In modern times, the net median household wealth for a white middle class family was $ 141,900 in 2013 compared to only $ 11,000 for a black middle class family (Reeves, 2013).

White middle class suburbs offer a number of social, cultural, and economic benefits to the Black families living there.

On one hand, there is the desire to cement their financial capability to be among white middle class families.

In the late 1970s, 69 % of black middle class families (defined by occupation) had wives that were employed compared to only 51.6 % of white middle class families (Landry, 1978).

Because of the more recent development compared to the white middle class, the black middle class is set in a position of high income and little wealth.

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

And so, black middle class families are driven to black middle class suburbs and white middle class families are not (Lacy, 2007).

These black middle class women also remained in their positions for about 20 % more of their married lives than white middle class women (Landry, 1978).

Simon Reichley, assistant to the publishers and office manager at Melville House, went further, saying in a blog post: «And just as publishers like Influx have a responsibility to protect the marginalised and to create a cultural space and voice for those most vulnerable to a revitalised nationalism, so too do more mainstream publishers have a responsibility to bring more level heads to the table, to reintegrate the alienated and fearful white middle class, and to rapidly de-escalate the culture war presently looming on the British horizon.»

It evokes a quiet style of White middle class comfort, which many Americans do not live.

We don't suddenly want all the white middle class investors.

While the»70s are historicized as a time of manufacturing collapse and white middle class flight, the 1980s are conceived as a boom era of neoliberal capitalism — a «material world,» as Madonna intoned.

This sort of thing rings of white middle class privilege, no offense to the organizers — it's just how these things tend to be and get propagated.

white middle class men is the least of the issues raised by this post.

There has long been a bias towards white middle class recruits etc, and frankly it is not going to go away.

Hence, many studies have also shown that Asian ethnic minority families who practice something similar to authoritarian parenting (a parenting style which scored poorly to mediocre in the studies of white middle class families) apparently result in children who excel both academically and socially.

The majority of this research focuses on mostly white middle class mothers and their preschool children living within traditional families in western cultures.