According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member
of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.
The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place
of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.
While the report suggests the numbers
of racial minorities in charters should be higher, it's more important for charter schools to support socioeconomic integration and for students to be exposed to other students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Not exact matches
In addition to gender, black women see obstacles to
racial equality: three - quarters
of black women workers say there are still significant hurdles holding back
minorities.
While a majority
of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and
minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to
racial equality and barriers
in the workplace.
According to Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, organizations with diversity managers, task forces, and intentional mentoring structures report improvements
in the representation
of women and
racial minorities.
Initially, much will depend on the speed
of developments
in the deliberations and actions
of three major constituencies within the church: the liberal institutionalists, the
racial and ethnic
minorities, and the conservatives.
Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for
racial and economic justice — demand a test
of vouchers with one basic criterion
in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children
of ethnic
minorities?
There has been a lot
of conversation
in recent years about the rise
of racial and ethnic
minorities in America.
If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate
in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by
racial minorities — at schools that are found
in violation
of the bill.
We all know
of instances
in which
racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position
of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.
There are some
in the churchwomen, gays and lesbians,
racial and ethnic
minorities — who have experienced what it is like to suffer at the hands
of the civic and religious establishment.
He was, it seems, acknowledging a social truth about race
in America during the 1950s, namely that
racial minorities did not matter much to the goings - on
of mainstream society.
We meet a similar, and similarly contradictory, construal
of justice
in some feminist literature, as well as
in the claim that the society should be both color - blind and have preferential quotas for
racial minorities.
One major fault
in the espoused parallel relationships between Christian Privilege and other systems
of systemic inequality that disproportionately impact
racial minorities, women and the LGBTQ + community is that religious preference is scarcely, if ever, legal to request as a means
of legitimizing documentation for state issued IDs, legal documents, marriage certificates, employment applications, etc..
That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the
racial politics
of abortion and the influence eugenics plays
in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent
of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are
in minority neighborhoods.
In part this emphasis stems from Nussbaum's repeated claim that we need literature to help us «concern ourselves with the good
of other people whose lives are distant from our own,» and the experiences
of the Guardians are likely to be quite «distant» from the poor, from
racial and ethnic
minorities, and from homosexuals.
«It's definitely true that
in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other
racial and ethnic
minorities have a lot
in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration
of the true number
of evangelical voters.
To recall the set
of propositions that opened this article, one can make justifiable judgments here: Some people were advancing causes
of racial minorities and women better than liberal Protestants or Christians
in general.
Such a concern is valid, but it's also part
of a larger concern for the denominations, While only 3 percent
of those surveyed were from
racial and ethnic
minority groups, that figure reflects the realities
in the denominations.
I student taught
in a rural area
of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the
racial diversity) so they created their own
minorities thorugh religion.
He has observed that the marginalization
of women,
racial / ethnic /
minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick,
in short the majority
of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread
of the forces
of globalization.
It can also be argued that there are class interests involved
in this: the new class staffs the welfare - state and civil - rights institutions, the major putative beneficiaries
of which are the
racial minorities of America.
A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation
of plant closures
in California showed that the numbers
of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out
of proportion to
racial percentages
in the general population.
While over half
of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism
of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and
racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites)
in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent effect.
In a chilling chapter titled «The Theater of Terror,» Taylor describes a prison system that locks up economic and racial minorities — 70 percent of those in prison are people of colo
In a chilling chapter titled «The Theater
of Terror,» Taylor describes a prison system that locks up economic and
racial minorities — 70 percent
of those
in prison are people of colo
in prison are people
of color.
Refusing to face the dark yet simultaneously potent and creative side
of our nature, we have projected it
in monstrous form onto any number
of scapegoats, especially
racial, political, and religious
minorities of various sorts (DPNE 50 - 58).
Part 1 —
Racial Awareness Exposure, which consisted
of a Friday night / Saturday plunge - encounter
in the
minority community.
This is evidenced by the fact that
in industry, schools, and many other aspects
of community life, a
racial minority will be tolerated as long as it is a very minor
minority.
In terms
of racial make - up, between one - fourth and one - third are
minority families.
He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse
in the Church
of England
in the 18th century to a foremost expression
of Christianity
in the modern world; how the mixing
of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted
in Methodism's perennial doubleness
of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted
in a bewildering variety
of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and
racial and ethnic
minorities found nourishment
in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle
of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline
in the latter half
of the 20th century.
In the US, I think that about 25 %
of the population consists
of racial minorities and if you include ethnic
minorities you get something closer to 50 %.
Black, Hispanic and «others» representing Asians, Pacific Islanders and mothers
in other
racial minorities were grouped together as non-white because
of their few numbers (Black = 4 %, Hispanic = 6 %, other
racial minorities = 5 %).
Dlamini - Zuma pledged during her campaign to tackle the
racial inequality that has persisted
in South Africa since the end
of white -
minority rule.
The «Minimalist» position is that the Holocaust (which means Total Destruction) refers to the targeted extermination
of the Jews (and perhaps the
racial minorities) and not to the Russian POWs, Gays, and Political Prisoners because Jews were uniquely singled out
in Mein Kampf and other Nazi writings.
«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against
racial equality and
minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions
of leadership
in New York State,» Diaz wrote
in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.
«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against
racial equality and
minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions
of leadership
in New York State.»
A majority -
minority district is one
in which a
racial group or groups comprise a majority
of the district's populations.
Minorities made up 11 percent
of the local construction unions
in 2012, according to a census conducted by LPCiminelli as part
of the Buffalo schools reconstruction project; that census does not provide a more detailed breakdown by
racial group.
Also on Sunday, Cuomo reiterated his proposals to award 30 percent
of state contracts to firms owned by women or
racial minorities and to have the state cover student loan payments for up to two years for SUNY and CUNY graduates who remain
in - state.
In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation
of areas where
racial minorities are concentrated.
Camara thinks Cuomo should veto the edited maps: «Even if there are negotiations, the final maps can not result
in the dilution
of ethnic or
racial minorities.
The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race
in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman
of the board
of directors
of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said
in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for
racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because
of her support
of teachers» unions.
During Mr. de Blasio's run for public advocate four years ago, Ms. McCray sat
in on focus groups
in which
minority voters talked about the strong appeal
of the family's
racial diversity — images
of which Mr. de Blasio featured prominently
in campaign brochures and mailers.
• protections for
racial and language
minority groups
in the drawing
of district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless
of what happens at the federal level; and
The principles
of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), which are increasingly facing threat
of retrogression
in the courts and Congress, are added to the state constitution, preserving the rights
of language and
racial minorities.
«Consequently, while we were interested
in identifying disparities for all U.S.
racial minority groups, we wanted to pay special attention to estimating the national prevalence
of, and disparities
in, substance use and suicidality among these understudied and historically ignored adolescents.»
The concept
of «reverse racism», whereby acts
of discrimination and prejudice perpetrated by
racial minorities, was a common theme
in articles.
In comparison, 7 percent
of racial minority heterosexual women and 7 percent
of white sexual
minority women said they had received medical fertility assistance, while 1 percent
of racial minority lesbian and bisexual women said they had.
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president
of the American Psychological Society (APS)
in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living
in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and
racial minorities, immigrants, and members
of the LGBTQ community.»