Sentences with phrase «of racial boundaries»

How does the settlement of the nation's most successful immigrant groups shape the nature of racial boundaries, beliefs about success and achievement, and youth cultures?

She is studying how the settlement of the nation's most successful immigrant groups in privileged, previously predominantly white communities shapes the nature of racial boundaries, beliefs about success and achievement, and youth cultures.

The site does not only allow, but also promotes people to go outside of their racial boundaries, be proud of it and find that someone who will really care about them.

Not exact matches

See how changes to district boundaries could radically alter the partisan and racial makeup of the U.S. House — without a single voter moving or switching parties

In this theme of «Racial Reconciliation,» you'll find multiple types of handouts to help you and assess and improve your church's fellowship habits across ethnic boundaries.

Like Wellman, Price is very aware of the significance of the economic, social and racial boundaries that have separated Fourth Presbyterian from Cabrini - Green.

Three of the many issues facing contemporary metropolitan areas impact churches directly: a rapidly growing ethnic and religious pluralism; the ethnic, racial, physical and economic boundaries between city, suburb and country; and the changing economic realities of the postindustrial city.

In Cooper v. Harris, decided on May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, finding that two of North Carolina's congressional districts, the boundaries of which had been set following the 2010 United States Census, had been subject to an illegal racial gerrymander in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The issue of true equality, transparency of operations, and fairness in work and family life cuts across all racial and gender boundaries, so it is something that every human being should be interested in.

If you are single, looking across racial boundaries increases the number of potential partners, and interracial online websites open up a wealth of possibilities for finding love and happiness.

African men should learn to appreciate their women and treat them gently.This would make them feel more appreciated and loved.However, if the black women feel loved in the arms of the white men, the interracial relationship is always allowed.People should look for happiness wherever available even if it means breaking the racial boundaries

The basic idea which had inspired the very creation of OkInterracial.com is the equality of everyone and equal opportunities to overcome the racial boundaries and obstacles on the path to successful family and love.

When Spike Lee asked, not unreasonably, after the release of Jackie Brown if Tarantino, by liberally peppering his dialogue with racial epithets (as he had in Pulp Fiction) was trying to be an «honorary Black man,» it was Jackson who rushed to Tarantino's defense, claiming that his friend and collaborator had not transgressed any moral or artistic boundaries.

This time around, Brewer really goes for broke with a pulpy tale that isn't afraid to push a few boundaries and raise a few eyebrows, but while its strong sexual and racial themes will no doubt turn many people away, remarkable performances by the film's two leads make this one winter film that's actually worth the price of the ticket.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

Finally, most schools do not provide the anti-racist and anti-bias professional development that educators need to break through the boundaries of racial justice work.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Mr. Kayser opposed the mere notion of a study to examine the removal of attendance boundaries, despite its promise of reconciling racial enrollment inequities.

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

For example, Mr. Sinclair's building of community emphasized activities that helped students see each other as individuals with the goal of understanding across racial / ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries.

A new report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, co-written with researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), makes the case that charter schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are «directly and indirectly undermining» district efforts to redesign student assignment boundaries to break up high concentrations of racial segregation.

With an estimated 90 million dogs and 94 million cats in 85 million American households, love of pets is a shared social value that transcends geographical, racial, religious and socioeconomic boundaries.

It is a shared experience of excess that transcends racial and economic boundaries, flipping everyday problems the bird by saying: life can't be that bad if I am having this much fun.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the colors blue and black as formal elements on the one side, and associations with the colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and the specific kind of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.

His artistic production has centered around his life mission: to make experimental yet accessible art; to work in politically and emotionally charged sites for diverse audiences; and to collaborate across racial, gender, and age boundaries as a gesture of citizen - diplomacy.

Gösta Peterson broke the static mold of 1950's fashion photography as well as racial boundaries by putting the first African American woman on the cover of a fashion magazine.

Lovell's poetic combinations «transgress cultural or racial boundaries» in their exploration of identity, heritage, memory, and our collective American past.

Through the inclusion of politically and historically relevant found fabrics in his collages, Adams comments on a period when infrastructure connected the country physically but deeply entrenched systems of exclusion prevented black travelers from crossing racial boundaries.

Mobilising the physical remnants of distinct social situations, he exposes some of the contradictions and complexities apparent across socioeconomic, racial and cultural boundaries.

Like the Greek and Renaissance theaters, climate change theater stands at the nexus of two realities — an old, wasteful, violent known world, and a newly felt, and sometimes already lived, sustainable world of insight and connection between self and others across racial, national and species boundaries, a remaking of the individual as newly responsible for a living world....

Rather, it is a refusal by most members of the legal community to recognize that our practices, language, and institutional structures maintain and perpetuate racial boundaries.