Sentences with phrase «only black student»

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

He was the only black student delegate to be chosen from Missouri to attend the conference that met on a college campus in Iowa.

In an article published last year in Next Wave, «Anne Tyler» (not her real name) wrote about the loneliness and undue burden of being the only black student in her graduate department.

As the only black student in the materials science department, I felt lonely and lost.

Accused of molesting an altar boy, the school's only black student, Flynn goes on the offensive, feigning a show of transparency by daring the nun to call the pastor from his last parish.

The school's first and only black student has been successfully attending and enjoying his position as an altar boy.

Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams Directed by John Patrick Shanley Rated PG - 13 for thematic material Appropriate for ages 13 + In 1964, Sister Aloysius (Streep), the head of an all - boys school, accuses Father Flynn (Hoffman) of having an inappropriate relationship with the school's only black student.

He was asked to comment on civil rights in a history class in which he's the only black student.

Relentless practice and his 6 - foot -4-inch frame turned him into a basketball star, and the game opened the door to a full scholarship to Carroll College in nearby Waukesha, as the only black student.

I imagine that this could be challenging or uncomfortable for you as the only black student in our class.

At Williamson Prep, a private school 45 minutes away, where Starr is one of the only black students, she adopts a carefully cultivated diction that is higher pitched and more aloof.

It was her now - famous large - scale painting from her M.F.A. thesis show at Parsons titled Class of 2007, which depicted her fellow classmates, who were all white, as black inmates, while Nina, the only black student in her class, painted herself as a gun - toting white prison guard with flowing blonde locks.

Then he arrived at The Cooper Union in New York City, where he was the only black student in a classroom full of whites.

CULTURE TYPE: Was that to be provocative in general or was that to explore the dynamics and perceptions of race because you were the only black student during your two years there?

We had a critique much later after the show, and that's when I had some people ask me if I was angry about being the only black student.

I took everyone's photograph and then I painted them as African Americans and then I decided to paint myself white because, at the time, I was the only black student in my class.

She burst onto the art scene a decade ago with her painting Class of 2007 (2007), which depicted her graduating MFA class, in which she was the only black student.