Sentences with phrase «of other racial groups»

For example, if 12 % of all Americans are black, turnout among blacks would have to be proportionately greater than that of other racial groups for their share of the electorate to exceed 12 %.

Not exact matches

As a result, other racial groups — especially the swiftly growing number of Hispanics in the US — are now crucial for beer companies.

Maybe it really was a reference to «chocolatey skin,» the kind of reference that, like many other racial terms or allusions, is probably best left for self - referential use by members of the relevant groups.

Just over a third of young whites want to see the law repealed, making them more likely than those of other racial and ethnic groups to say so.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

People from other racial groups have converted to Judaism, so not all Jews today are Caucasian, but the Jewish people of 2,000 years ago were definitely Caucasian.

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

-LCB- a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc.: a bigoted person; especially: a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)-RCB-

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

There are also the «well - adjusted» folk in comfortable circumstances who have not even begun to learn the meaning of Christian love in racial and other group relations.

So, when a crime is committed, we want to know about the guilt or innocence of the individual, not someone's racial group, religion, or other characteristic.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

The UM Book of Discipline's homophobia is highly offensive, and other slurs against people with disabilities, or of racial and ethnic groups (all of these communities overlap and intersect / contain LGBT persons) wouldn't be allowed, so why is this?

Other groups developed, activistic strenuous movements, such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Pushed out of the argument because it is so impossibly incorrect is The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argued that IQ and other factors crucial to social success are genetically determined and are unequally distributed among racial groups.

The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).

He made generalizations about the English that, if he had made them about practically any other group, would have landed him in court on a charge of incitement to racial hatred, while he berated the Welsh for their insufficiently militant nationalism, supinely preferring their own individual material advancement and comfort to the cause.

On the other hand, young people are more apt than their elders to break through the patterns of racial discrimination if there are democratic and Christian influences upon their thinking and friendly group contacts are possible with those of another race.

Paradoxically, labor unions have gone further than any other group in America, not excepting the churches, to witness against racial injustice and try to secure equality of treatment.

In the church, it seems to me that Black women - more than any other racial / gender group - are taught that strain and suffering are indicative of holiness.

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 %).

context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.

It will be the duty of the Commission to foster mutual respect and understanding among racial, religious, nationality and other groups in Dutchess County.

The fact that 11 % of likely voters this year are black indicates that turnout among blacks may be slightly less than among other racial groups.

Poloncarz said he was troubled to see that whites make far more use of Medicaid benefits than all other racial groups.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

But disturbingly, a good two thirds of the book's contents are relevant today, including Gardner's discussions of homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, iridiagnosis (reading the iris of the eye to deter - mine bodily malfunctions), food faddists, cancer cures and other forms of medical quackery, Edgar Cayce, the Great Pyramid's alleged mystical powers, handwriting analysis, ESP and PK (psychokinesis), reincarnation, dowsing rods, eccentric sexual theories, and theories of group racial differences.

For example, we know that there are wide racial and geographical variations in the distribution of the ABO blood groups, and we need to be sure that this effect is significant in other groups.

In addition to groups that come together because of racial, ethnic background, and gender connections, affinity groups also bring together individuals based on country of origin, religion, physical disabilities, military service, age, sexual orientation, and many other commonalities.

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

Approximately 15 percent of the participants were Caucasian, just over 70 percent were Hispanic and nearly 10 percent were African - American, with less than 5 percent a combination of other racial or ethnic groups.

Once they had the volunteers in this compromised state of mind, they put the group (and others who were not so depleted) into a social situation with the potential for racial tension.

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

• 75.5 percent of members of a congregation's largest racial group report having a strong sense of belonging, as compared to 70.6 percent of congregants of other races.

• 69 percent of those in the largest racial group report having close friends in these congregations, compared to 57.9 percent from other racial groups.

The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, early in their careers.

Compared with non-Hispanic whites, women of all other racial and ethnic groups were more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced stages of breast cancer, the researchers found.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

Other groups that saw significant increases included: older adults; racial / ethnic minorities; and Americans with lower levels of education and income.

The risk was higher among blacks than among people of other racial and ethnic groups, according to the study.

The average age of all participants in this ethnically diverse sample (52.6 % Caucasian, 36.8 % African American, 5.3 % Asian and 5.3 % other ethnic / racial group) was approximately 44 years of age.

Neither of you should see the other as a chief ambassador or racial educator for your group.

The truth of the matter: African Americans give 8.6 % of their discretionary income to charity — more than any other racial group in America.»

At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

Logline: At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

This film contains depictions of racially motivated conflicts and riots (with portrayals of injured characters and a corpse) along with derogatory comments about other racial groups.

The stereotype can also be used to pit Asian Americans against other racial minorities, leading to verbal and physical harassment by non-Asian American peers or a distorted portrait of other ethnic groups as lazy or disruptive.