Sentences with phrase «of nonwhite»

For example, consistent with the falling numbers of loan applications from blacks and Hispanics, 55 % of nonwhite renters say that one major reason they are currently renting is that they don't think they can qualify for a loan, compared with 25 % of whites who say the same.

Of the nonwhite buyers, 15 percent were Hispanic; 11 percent, Asian; and 4 percent, black.

Quiz Ref IDMost children were male (62 %), and 29 % were of nonwhite race and / or Hispanic ethnicity (compared with 24 % and 36 % in Massachusetts and the United States, respectively).39 Participants were primarily mothers (96 %) and married (70 %), with a median age of 34 years.

She was a co-curator of the 1993 Whitney Biennial, a landmark show, hotly debated at the time, that showcased overtly political art made by a significant percentage of nonwhite nonmales.

He redresses the absence of nonwhite faces in museum masterpieces, «using the power of images to remedy the historical invisibility of black men and women,» as Eugenie Tsai, the curator of the Brooklyn Museum show, observes in the accompanying catalog.

In the exhibition catalogue, Tsai describes the artist's program of righting the absence of nonwhite faces in art - historical masterpieces as «using the power of images to remedy the historical invisibility of black men and women.»

Apart from American Indians, and later a number of nonwhite immigrants such as Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese and Japanese, United States society has been divided into two major racial castes — Negroes and whites.

The authors find that the percentage of nonwhite students has continued to increase, while the percentage of diverse teachers has remained stagnant or has fallen.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

This index ranks states on the percentage - point difference between the percentages of nonwhite teachers and nonwhite students.

To obtain that figure, we subtracted the percentage of nonwhite teachers — 20 percent — from the percentage of nonwhite students — 57 percent — in the state.

From 1999 to 2010, the percentage of teachers in the state who were not white or Asian grew by 50 percent, increasing from 16 percent to 24 percent.118 In addition, the average SAT score of nonwhite, non-Asian teachers in the state increased significantly more than the SAT scores of white and Asian teachers.119

Other states with large percentages of nonwhite students also fare poorly in the analysis.

However, as their student populations diversified, some states saw stagnation or decreases in their percentages of nonwhite teachers.

And among states that did post increases in their percentages of nonwhite teachers, only a couple rose more than a few percentage points.

Growth in the Hispanic population is expected to propel the trend of a rising share of nonwhite students through the next decade.

«The racial imbalance act requires the school committee of every municipality annually to submit statistics showing the percentage of nonwhite pupils in all public schools and in each school.

The racial breakdown of this nonwhite group is approximately 23.8 percent Asian - American, 23.1 percent African - American, 10.3 percent Latino, and 2.8 percent Native - American.

New York City has a disproportionate share of nonwhite students (86 percent versus 55 percent statewide), ELL students (14 percent versus 8 percent), and disadvantaged students (73 percent versus 54 percent).

As Meredith recounts with both humor and horror, some of the nonwhite families in the school responded to the lunchroom volunteer proposal with, «How do we know who is coming into the school?

During the past two decades, the percentage of nonwhite students has more than doubled, from roughly 20 percent in 1980 to slightly more than 50 percent in 2002.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

Largely because of broken families, he wrote, 56 percent of nonwhite children received means - tested public assistance at some time in their lives under the nation's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, which mainly assisted female - headed families.

Research into «stereotype anxiety,» which some scholars posit may hinder the academic performance of some nonwhite students.

Better still, though I'm not sure if the numbers bear this out, 2017 felt like a year in which strides were made in the representation of nonwhite and non-male characters.

Assemblyman Carl Heastie, an African - American who chairs the Bronx Democratic Committee, said the lack of a nonwhite campaign staffer was «trumped» by King's position, and is confident the platform would «evolve.»

Compared with those included in the analysis, mothers of excluded participants were less educated, had lower annual household income, were more likely to be of nonwhite race / ethnicity, and breastfed for a shorter duration.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

But this is a goal of which the postmodern system of punitive policing and imprisoning of large segments of the nonwhite population seems to have despaired.

His «modern world» is a white, male, technocratic world, and the global phenomenon of nonwhite Pentecostalism had barely begun when Bultmann was writing.

Opinion polls indicate that the share of the nonwhite population holding (moderately) center - right policy views is significantly larger than the share that voted for Romney.

And there are hundreds of millions of nonwhite English speakers around the world, many of them in Africa.

But some listeners can't forget that America wasn't always all about freedom for some people and talking about the past in a way that ignores those experiences comes across like cluelessness at best or nostalgia for the political marginalization of nonwhites at worst.

Meanwhile, the growing numbers of nonwhites have moved to the center of the Democratic coalition, joined, at least for the moment, by the expanding secular population.

White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.

Angering unions and activist groups closely aligned with the mayor, Uber has also run television ads highlighting the number of nonwhites the company employs as drivers.

If a racially diverse school is farther away, 57 % say they'd prefer to send their child to a closer but less diverse school; 61 % of whites say so, as do 52 % of nonwhites.

In the same poll mentioned above, 43 % of whites admitted to being jittery about public speaking versus 34 % of nonwhites.

The Obamas» choices come at a time when figurative painting and portraiture are growing in popularity among young painters interested in exploring race, gender and identity or in simply correcting the historic lack of nonwhites in Western painting.

There were no differences in the age, education, or marital status of those women who chose to enroll vs those who declined, except that 80 % of the whites agreed to participate vs 96 % of the nonwhites (almost all African - Americans).

Not exact matches

Some 32 % of Asian and nonwhite employees said they were discriminated against, versus 22 % of white employees.

«I felt like I had to tolerate it because this is the cost of being a nonwhite female founder,» said Ms. Meyer, who is Asian - American.

Among nonwhite Christians and white evangelicals, 40 % and 38 % said yes, respectively; 29 % of Catholics and 19 % of white mainline Protestants also responded that God plays a role.

Racial discrimination does not seem to keep many nonwhites out of all employment unless they are thoroughly incompetent.

When murderers target and kill religious minorities simply because they are nonwhite or non-Christian, something of each of these traditions dies.

Klan ideology, at its core, is centered on the idea that white Americans are threatened by nonwhite minorities and that most of these threats are arranged or encouraged by a sinister Jewish conspiracy.

When the victim of rape is nonwhite — as in the trial of Joan Little for the murder of her rapist — it takes the rousing of national support to get justice done.

Managers and workers, men and women, straights and gays, whites and nonwhites, «normal» people and «deviants»: all the oppressors need a means of understanding emotionally the grievances of the oppressed, and the oppressed groups can benefit, themselves, from a means of understanding the points of view of their oppressors.

One is the world - wide revolutionary situation, in which subject peoples of Asia and Africa are rising to claim their independence and their right to a fair share in the opportunities of life, and in which nonwhite peoples are challenging the exclusive privilege and world dominance of the white man.