The cementing of non-racist narratives in the majority culture offers a clear indicator of what is expected of
minority cultures when they operate in the mainstream.
Not exact matches
More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent
minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding
culture, lagged behind.
The dominance of religious television by this one
minority expression of American religious
culture assumes more serious implications
when it is considered with the factors that have influenced it, which is the substance of our next chapter.
Leaders of Protestant denominations and congregations will be able to exercise more faithful ministry
when they acknowledge the
minority status of all Christians in American
culture.
But «Southside With You» is also winningly sweet and earnest, and refreshingly frank about the problems that
minorities face
when they try to get ahead in a
culture dominated by white males.
But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and
cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and
minority kids) that plagues American public education even
when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.