Sentences with phrase «of racial categories»

The failure to find exact definitions and demarcations of racial categories was one of the main reasons for the decline of scientific racism.8, 20 Blood group research was the most commonly mentioned Indigenous health research topic in the MJA before 1950, discussed in 16 of 113 articles.7

@JamesK Hispanic used to be one of the racial categories.

Not exact matches

Amazon lists a number of items it restricts from its website, and there is a category for «offensive products,» which the company describes partially as «products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.»

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.

The controversy is simply people who don't like Fox News trying to claim one of their news anchors is a stupid racist — when it is the people criticizing her who are stupid (or, at least, misinformed about racial categories) and / or racist (if they deny that Jesus was white).

Being clearly outside the ethnic and racial category of a Venetian or European Christian leaves open the possibility — the suspicion — that he may be dangerously close to a particular category of «Other»: the Turks.

Although race was not a major category for Wesley, in a society that defined people's place along racial lines, he might well have agreed that those races who were oppressed had better access to the true meaning of scripture that those that oppressed them.

Adjust the categories of racial / ethnic group according to this knowledge if necessary.

What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).

All categories of crime, including violent crimes, could be reduced, and, critically, so could racial disparities in jailing rates.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

What to expect in the future: Elimination of all ethnic and racial categories in favor of individual genotyping for disease risk.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

Scientists and clinicians have increasingly tried to move away from simplistic racial and ethnic categories in disease research, the authors say, and — with the rise of precision medicine — in clinical diagnosis and treatment as well.

The last category of struggle women foresee would be that her inter racial children may encounter problems in this world.

The study concludes that «Although our findings indicate that biracial individuals are more likely to seek potential partners outside of their same racial / ethnic identity, their dating preferences also reflect a distinct racial hierarchy that may account for why some racial / ethnic categories are more desirable than others».

HUFFINGTON POST - June 8 - According to a survey of racial exclusion patterns in Internet dating, the most excluded categories are Asian men and black women.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial themes.

But Get Out's instance of category fraud has more people upset, with many, including Peele himself, worried that Universal's move is undercutting the racial commentary of the film.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, rather than drama, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial issues.

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.»

But as the Academy looks to reverse the tide of racial myopia, there remain plenty of other diverse options, from Mira Nair's lovely Queen of Katwe, a surprise runner - up for TIFF's People's Choice prize, to Denzel Washington's Fences, which will at the very least be a showcase piece for the actor - director, and especially for Viola Davis, who will be a top Best Actress contender (assuming they don't relegate her to the Supporting category, which is always possible as studios piece together the likeliest winning strategy).

[12] The guidance does not explicitly prohibit aggregation of data across racial and ethnic subgroups in cases in which data for those disaggregated categories would be impossible to report due to sample sizes falling below the state's specified n - size.

[17][18] States must collect and review district - level data on how rates of identification — overall, by educational setting and disability category — vary across racial and ethnic groups with no adjustments for variables that correlate with need for services.

old racial categories were based on externally visible traits, primarily skin color, features of the face, and the shape and size of the head and body, and the underlying skeleton.

But new categories and a variety of racial and ethnic choices will give students 63 ways to describe their heritage — or allow them to choose none at all.

One of the benefits of this new category is that proposals can now be brought forward with the explicit intention of creating more integrated schools in areas where existing schools are often divided on racial lines.

So many students had been lifted out of the basement that the racial achievement gap essentially had been eliminated in that one category at that one grade level, Schools of Hope leaders said at the time.

By law, failure to make adequate progress in test scores for even one historically low - performing group — a single racial - ethnic category, low - income students, those in special education, or those with limited English proficiency — triggers a series of increasingly aggressive corrective actions.

Students who identified with two or more of the other racial / ethnic groups (e.g., White and Black) would have been classified as «other» and reported as part of the «unclassified» category prior to 2011, but from 2011 on were classified as «Two or More Races.»

This year, only five states earned a grade of «A.» Likewise, grades in the category «Life Chances for Students» are lower than they would have been a decade ago, due to rising proportions of students living in poverty and increased racial isolation in schools.

Beginning in 2011, all of the students participating in NAEP were identified by school reports as one of the seven racial / ethnic categories listed below:

As in New York, this catch - all category of minor offenses accounted for a significant percentage of all student suspensions in California and some of the largest racial disparities in discipline.

When one looks at the high levels of illiteracy among young men — which account for most of the high levels of illiteracy in each racial and income category — it is clear that far too many young men and women are not getting the instruction and curricula they need to succeed in school and in life.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

* Subgroups include specific categories of students such as students with disabilities, students from major racial and ethnic groups, and English Language Learners.

And the rate of suspension for boys is roughly double the rate for girls in all racial and ethnic categories.

Report the progress of achievement in schools and districts by categories of student — e.g., grade level, racial and ethnic group, socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency, special education.

Statewide, «Willful defiance accounts for 43 % of suspensions issued to California students, and is the suspension offense category with the most significant racial disparities» (ACLU, 2015).

The racial demographics were available for the 2013 - 2014 school year and they provided the numbers and percentages of students attending the schools from the following racial / ethnic categories: American Native / Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander, Filipino, Hispanic, Black, and White.

Threats of (or actual) physical violence, racial slurs, or aggressive and obscene language would generally fall into this category.

Using more than one hundred categories of racial intermixing, the casta system classified a broad spectrum of combinations of white, black, Indian and mixed - race heritage.

Racism, which sociologist Howard Winant defines as «that which creates or reproduces hierarchical social structures based on essentialized racial categories,» has fueled unthinkable violations of human life.

Such rankings of peoples have historically been constructed around fabricated racial and ethnic categories, which were invoked to justify Europe's colonization of Africa, the Americas, Australia, and much of Asia.

You begin by learning about the history of the creation of race, what racial categories actually are, where they came from, what they mean.

Known as «disparate impact» discrimination, the problem is that blanket policies may disproportionately exclude protected classes (based on racial groups, gender, or one of several other categories) from employment because the reason for exclusion is more common in a certain group.

Two categories of non-discriminatory differentiation protected within a human rights framework are the right to express one's cultural identity, referred to variously as minority rights or cultural rights [109], and the provision of measures by governments to facilitate the advancement of members of certain racial groups who historically have been disadvantaged by discriminatory policies.

Effect of Medicaid eligibility category on racial disparities in the use of psychotropic medications among youths

The sample was selected to ensure representation of respondents across each of the racial / ethnic categories who had and had not met the diagnostic criteria for specific disorders.

Participants indicated their racial / ethnic category as European American (65.5 %), African American (16.2 %), Hispanic (8.6 %), Multiracial (5.1 %), Asian / South Pacific Islander (2.5 %), Indigenous Peoples (2 %), and 60.4 % were in a romantic relationship at the time of the study.