Sentences with phrase «on white working class»

I watched in Birmingham 40 years ago the full horror of the then «Immigration Debate» as it impacted on the Asian community in Birmingham where I lived and the impact on the white working class in the trade unions where I was active.

Not exact matches

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

So fans (who were not yet a «fan base») bought a newspaper on the way in as anti-splinter protection, the working - class folks sitting on a News - Post and the white - collar types on an Evening Sun.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

I would be Alf Tupper from The Tough of the Track - he is a working class hero who ate fi sh and chips on the way to the White City where he took on and beat the world.

What happened in America's big cities between say 1890 and 1950 that no democratic socialist movement gained nationwide traction, and that the industrial working class, in the northern cities, came to depend on the Democratic party, which had totally different origins among southern white farmers, and which contained a strong segregationist instinct?

For an excellent discussion of this factor, see the article on the white working - class in the latest issue of the New Yorker.

* This is George Packer's New Yorker piece on the white working - class in Ohio, which Stuart mentions * There is an interesting and sceptical piece about the Bradley effect in the 1982 California race on RealClearPolitics.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

He has a good record on immigration and you don't get the sense he's likely to emulate Ukip on it in a bid to bandage the flow of white working class voters to the party.

'' [White working class people] would like the Labour leader and me to be cheering on the England rugby team... with a flag with a shirt and shorts drinking a beer like they're doing.

He said: «They're talking tough on the issue of immigration because the Labour vote among the white working class has dropped, and not all of them but some are turning to the BNP.»

Speaking on Tuesday evening, Mann argued that Labour would be «out of office for a long generation» if it did not work out how to win back the white working classes.

This was at a time when Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper were on our screens - characters that, in 2006, a survey found that 70 % of TV industry professionals believed were an accurate reflection of white working class young people.

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Trumpism, in other words, is probably here to stay, and only the left can make a real counter-pitch to the white working class the ideology feeds on.

The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.

Blue Labour's relationship with working class populism: Blue Labour has the potential to gain support amongst white working class voters who usually stay at home on election day, by articulating populist themes.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

MISSOULA Fliers citing the American Nazi Party have appeared on some Missoula doorsteps, touting the white working class and disparaging Jews.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

Indeed, variants on acting white have been spotted by ethnographers among the Buraku outcasts of Japan, Italian immigrants in Boston's West End, the Maori of New Zealand, and the British working class, among others.

Nobody who followed Richard Rothstein's columns in the New York Times or his earlier work on education will be surprised that his new book ascribes most of the black - white achievement gap to social class and economics.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

On Top of the News Republican hopefuls agree: The key to the White House is working - class whites The Washington Post 1/13/15

Murray thus draws a picture of Fishtown, working - class America, supplemented by ethnographic reports on the real Fishtown, that is not far short of the «underclass» that was so widely discussed 30 years ago, when it was thought that white working - class America was in good shape.

Use the data to calculate how many pages the student still has to read to finish the book A great resource to calculate totals, averages, median, ordering and percentages Works really well too, as a whole class exercise displayed on the white board with students using a calculator Use the data to make up your own questions

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

Report from King's College London examines why so few white working class boys go on to higher education and how this can be addressed.

The issues it highlighted included the labelling of «working class boys», as the DfE does not collect information on pupils» socio - economic status and the statistics quoted were actually about white make students who were eligible for free school meals in year 11.

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Placing positive value on parental activities that provide visibility as well as work that occurs from a «collective orientation» compounds the advantage of parents that participate in the PTO, and thus disproportionately benefits the white, middle class parent.

The government's pupil premium scheme, which gives more money to schools for each child on free school meals, should also be more focused on aiding white working class children, he added.

Mr Twigg said that white working class pupils on free school meals were the worst performers, with fewer than 30 % achieving five good GCSEs, including English and maths.

Mrs. Koh grows frustrated that the focus of the reports about the shooting are mostly on Robbie and how such a nice, white, middle - class kid could do something so senseless, instead of remembering or honoring her working - class, Korean husband.

Prominent historian Painter — whose works, such as The History of White People, have explored race, gender and class in America — offers a more personal take on those themes as she reflects on enrolling in the Rhode Island School of Design as a 64 - year - old black woman and what it means to continue growing and discovering joy as we age.

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«We Wanted a Revolution» focuses on the work of black women artists during the emergence of second - wave feminism — a primarily white, middle - class movement (Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party might ring a bell).

My work is rooted in a critique of white supremacy and the systemic oppression of people of color in the United States, and it is reactive to the violent, vicious, genocidal, and unapologetic way in which we differentiate between each other based on race, gender, and class.

The pair became friends — both came from working - class Yorkshire families - and paying by standing order, Hirst bought scores of Hoylands that fizz and seduce on Newport Street's vast white walls.

We Wanted a Revolution shines a light on the artist - activists of color working outside of the dominant white, middle - class feminist narrative.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Superstar, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Forever Young: A Retrospective, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida 2015 Wanted Dead or Alive, 212 Gallery, Aspen, Colorado 2015 Jackie O, Tagliatella Gallery, New York 2015 Rock n» Roll Works on Paper, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2015 Young, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf and Galerie Hafenrichter, Nurnberg, Germany 2014 SUPERSTAR, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2014 Spring Show 2014, Mead Carney Fine Art, London 2014 Wild at Heart, Imitate Modern, London 2013 Dreamland, Bankrobber, London 2013 The Fight of the Paso Del Mar, Bankrobber, London 2013 Kate Moss, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2013 Suicide, Bankrobber, London; Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna and Vertes Modern Art, Zurich 2012 Russell Young, Vertes Modern Art, Zurich, Switzerland 2012 Entertainment for Men, the Playboy Club, London 2012 Private Show, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 A Working Class Hero is Something To Be, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2012 A Retrospective, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 Only Anarchists Are Pretty, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 The Queen is Dead, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2012 The Last Picture Show, Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna and Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2011 The Last Picture Show, Guy Hepner, Bal Harbour, Florida and Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2011 American Envy III, Long - Sharp / Curis Modern + Contemporary 2011 American Envy I, Scream Gallery, London 2011 Diamond Dust, Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna 2011 Icons, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal 2010 Russell Young, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2010 Icons & Iconoclasts, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2010 Pig Portraits, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2010 Russell Young, Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke - Zoute, Belgium 2010 Diamond Dust, Russeck Gallery, San Francisco, California 2010 New Paintings, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2010 Dirty Pretty Things, Collectors Contemporary Singapore; Scream Gallery, London and Tagliatella Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 2010 Selected Works, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2010 Fame + Shame, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2010 Russell Young, Doyle Devere, London 2009 Dirty Pretty Things, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California; Valentino, New York; Russeck Gallery, San Francisco and Nikolai Rukaj Gallery, Toronto 2009 The Last Picture Show, Sims Reed Gallery, London 2008 Russell Young, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2008 Rebel Rebel, Art of Elysium at Milk Gallery, New York 2008 Russell Young, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2008 Punk + Graffiti, Milk Gallery, New York 2007 Russell Young, Altermann Modern, San Francisco, California 2007 Horsepower, Milk Gallery, New York 2007 Works on Paper, Sims Reed Gallery, New York 2007 Storm, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York 2007 Fame + Shame, Bankrobber, London 2007 Los Angeles, Galerie Adler, Paris 2006 White Rabbit, The Art of Elysium, Beverly Hills, California 2006 Russell Young, Sims Reed Gallery, London 2005 Fame + Shame, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York and The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles 2003 Pig Portraits, SP Gallery, London, and The Art Of Elysium at Don O'Melveney Gallery, Los Angeles, California