Sentences with phrase «passing as a white man»

Citing the intriguing life story of former New York Times book editor Anatole Broyard, an African - American who spent much of his adult life passing as a white man to achieve career success and broader opportunities, and research on gender stereotypes and math skills and race stereotypes and I.Q. tests, Steele offered three recommendations for making classrooms places where students feel a sense of belonging:

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A paramount example is mother - daughter advice: Black mothers have passed on wisdom for survival — in the white world, in the black community, and with men — for as long as anyone can remember.

Ostensibly a spin on Western films of all stripes, the most obvious being The Magnificent Seven, Ridiculous 6 follows Tommy Stockburn (Sandler), a white man raised among Apaches as the warrior White Knife, as he goes on a mission to rescue his newly - discovered biological father Frank (Nick Nolte, his voice sounding more like passing air through a gravel truck with each passing year) who's been captured by stock baddie Cicero (Danny Trwhite man raised among Apaches as the warrior White Knife, as he goes on a mission to rescue his newly - discovered biological father Frank (Nick Nolte, his voice sounding more like passing air through a gravel truck with each passing year) who's been captured by stock baddie Cicero (Danny TrWhite Knife, as he goes on a mission to rescue his newly - discovered biological father Frank (Nick Nolte, his voice sounding more like passing air through a gravel truck with each passing year) who's been captured by stock baddie Cicero (Danny Trejo).

What makes this story so compelling is that in the late 1800's there was no comprehensible reason for a prominent white man of King's stature to want to «pass» as a black man.

As I raise my lens towards the yellow - orange paintwork of the neoclassical Courts of Justice, a passing local laughingly says «the white man always snap snap».

The ranks of those young law - students who fail to get paid work articling will disproportionately be comprised of members of marginalized communities, while young hetero (or passing), able - bodied (or passing) white men (such as myself) will be disproportionately represented amongst articling students.