Sentences with phrase «middle class identity»

He specializes in Cultural, Political, and Visual Anthropology, with an ethnographic focus on youth, education, the war on drugs and middle class identity.

These shifts help explain why homeownership, long a source of middle class identity and economic opportunity, has started to decline.

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There's the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing economies and the middle class they supported; ethno - nationalist backlash to the forces of globalization; sprawling culture wars over «identity politics» and far more.

As long as joblessness remains a threat to their identities, however, middle - class Americans will continue to fear the possible loss of self - worth.

Second, it is trying to more thoroughly explain, and in the light of my Tocquevillian / Liberal Education sociology of middle class music / identity, why the transition from rock n» roll to Rock occurred in the first place, and why it set a certain pattern of middle - class mixtery - music that was doomed from the beginning to fall into its now - obvious mode of Perpetual Repetition.

If, instead, my first identity is part of the global Body of Christ, then white middle - class Americans are a tiny sliver indeed.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

What has happened is astonishing growth as conservatives move into the middle class in morale, efficiency, visibility, technique, group identity and expressiveness.

But it has not yet opened itself up to the disturbing countertrends in the lower - class black community that not only conflict with bourgeois male and female stereotypes but also are alienated from middle - class values and the Christian identity as well.

Harriet Hardperson is a shining example of what happens when middle - class gender identity politics becomes dominant against that of any kind of socialism or class based political analysis — it's not surprising that Liz Cuts - Kendal has backed her utterly disgraceful comments today.

They have been accused of pursuing boutique causes, of slavish adherence to group - identity politics and of courting elitists at the expense of middle - class values.

The blindness and stupidity of the identity politics - obsessed upper middle class knows no bounds.

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

BLACK - ISH (formerly UNTITLED ANTHONY ANDERSON / KENYA BARRIS; single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Kenya Barris (w, ep), Anthony Anderson (ep), Larry Wilmore (ep), Laurence Fishburne (ep), Helen Sugland (ep), Tom Russo (ep), Peter Principato (ep), Paul Young (ep), Brian Dobbins (ep), James Griffiths (d) LOGLINE: An upper - middle class black man struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

This gaze is so violent that it forces those young people whose bodies do not resemble middle class bodies to avert their eyes and walk looking down [15] or to conceal their class identity and dress up like someone else.

I did not ask any questions about class or use the actual word, but each interview participant referenced the «middle class» in relation to their own identity.

Attitudes belong to all layers of a person's identity, whether it is their role in schools as a student, teacher, paraprofessional, janitor, school board member, or bus driver; as a member of a racial or ethnic group; whether a person is an English Language Learner, is fluent in multiple languages, or is a non-English speaker; and whether a person identifies as poor, working class, low - income, middle income or high income.

The dissertation investigates how low - income youth in Rio de Janeiro have come to participate in such interventions — largely couched in neoliberal ideas of individual responsibility and carried out by public - private partnerships — and the ways in which youth subvert and redirect these interventions and middle - class social identities into new forms of personhood and political agency.

The financial freedom in migrating to more accepting locations and locating housing accepting of different lifestyles further advantages middle - and upper - class queer populations and motivates them to develop a social and political queer identity in the neighborhood.

From the exhibition text: «Growing up, Rolon bore witness to the ways households adapted to new American middle - class lifestyles with homes, walls and furniture embellished with exotic colours, textures, patterns and items, creating a sense of identity and comfort.

... the character of the jokes was significant — fifties - style, middle America, blue collar, Borscht Belt humor that confronted issues of sexual identity, class and race... By isolating them he exposed their hidden malevolence, perversity and anger.

The duty to make legal services adequately available should be given constitutional status based upon a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s. 15 «equality rights» argument that recognizes, «legal services at reasonable cost» as a constitutional right, based upon the principle that being middle class, or of «middle income,» and unable to obtain legal services at reasonable cost, is a state of one's condition that is «immutable, or changeable only at unacceptable cost to personal identity,» and to one's ability to invoke constitutional rights and freedoms, and the rule of law.

You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater diversity in a profession that remains too white, middle - class, and male to differing degrees in differing parts; you might be anxious about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed about the oversupply of graduates who never achieve legal careers; you might be concerned about preserving the unique identity of your profession (as many at the Bar are); or you might just want to ensure that new recruits in law firms have a basic grip of the fundamentals and can do something useful on day one.