Sentences with phrase «racial attitudes»

Finally, what research there is on racial attitudes in young minority children actually suggests that they show considerably less prejudice.
She will also explore how racial attitudes develop in both the youth culture and broader culture of the communities.
Many of the graduates had more positive racial attitudes than their parents.
Data suggest that racial attitudes of ordinary Americans shape both how they feel about the health care overhaul and how intense those feelings are.
«A high level of colorblind racial attitudes tells me that police don't understand the racism that exists in society today,» said study co-author Michael Schlosser, the director of theU.
They also found that conservative racial attitudes among voters in the 1992 election strongly predicted Republican voting, but only in counties where the KKK was organized in the 1960s.
An important study in Nature on the neuroscience of racial attitudes also observed that changing the context for interracial interactions was critical to changing the brain's responses.
In so doing, Two Centuries of Black American Art provided further evidence of the evolution of the role of African Americans as subjects and makers of art as racial attitudes changed over the course of the twentieth century.
The history of museum exhibitions of art created by or depicting African Americans reflects the greater evolution of racial attitudes during the civil rights movement.
What it's about: The type of comedy that would never get made today, «Blazing Saddles» shows Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder at the height of their talents, with a scathing satire on racial attitudes in America.
In 2002 researchers measured a group of white students» explicit and implicit racial attitudes, using a questionnaire and a reaction time task.
Hughes said she is hopeful that new training approaches will begin to address the disconnect between police racial attitudes and the day - to - day experiences of many racial minorities.
«People who hold colorblind racial attitudes tend to think that racism is no longer a meaningful factor in people's lives and that everyone has equal access to jobs and other resources across all walks of life,» Hughes said.
Yep this film doesn't beat around the bush with racial attitudes towards suburban inner city schools in the US.
The result is a fascinating and under - reported chapter in the never - ending struggle for justice on behalf of black men and women worldwide, as well as a scalding appraisal of Reagan - era racial attitudes at home and abroad.
The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.
As racial attitudes gradually softened and housing barriers crumbled, my parents figured in 1953 that it was time to venture beyond the neighborhood we had known since 1941.
In addition to being an indicator of adult racial attitudes, out - of - school suspensions are likely to lead to students falling behind in their studies and prematurely ending their educations: dropping out.
How much do unspoken racial attitudes play in these decisions?
Racial attitudes among white people were moderating.
A 2004 study, for example, found that therapists who reported colorblind racial attitudes also had less empathy and were more likely to think that black, but not white, clients were responsible for the solutions to their problems.
Other research has associated colorblind racial attitudes in whites with fear of racial minorities and greater levels of racial and gender intolerance, the researchers said.
Thinking more broadly, if desegregation and integration were really such a disaster in terms of American race relations, how is one to explain the plethora of statistical and anecdotal evidence suggesting a dramatic liberalization in racial attitudes during the past four decades?
In just two or three generations, there has been a radical reversal of racial attitudes, something we see with especial clarity in one of the most intimate modes of social commerce — marriage.
Like Tocqueville, he was disturbed by Americans» racial attitudes, materialism, indifference to the majesty of nature, and disregard for the «sanctity of death.»
Our modern racial etiquette softens the punch of Dick's novel, which used the distorting mirror of Axis racism to cast new light on the racial attitudes and hierarchies of the real America.
This saved me from imbibing the racial attitudes so central to the culture of Georgia, which was their home.
Lamont compared the racial attitudes of the government to Nazi Germany, and his vociferousness became so bothersome that a group of prominent white businessmen asked the Vatican to remove him.
Who, the thinking goes, can judge from afar the racial attitudes of adolescents or the contentious breakup of a couple?
Also, even among Wallace voters who may have joined the GOP because those positions appealed to their racial attitudes, those attitudes may have mellowed over the years, and some of those voters may have died out.
While we continue that discussion in chat, you still haven't answered the question I asked about your question: are you only interested in the correlation between views of individual Republican voters and their racial attitudes, or are you also interested in whether the views espoused by the Republican Party itself were formed by race?
Note that saying that a lot of the positions that Republican voters hold are ultimately due to reasons related to racial attitudes is not the same as saying they're due to those voters» own racial attitudes.
So even if there were a historical correlation in the 1960's between the views of some members of the GOP and their racial attitudes, that correlation may have dissipated over the ensuing decades.
A series of emails exchanged between the two men from early 2014 to this summer shed more light on the racial attitudes of one of New York's most politically connected financiers and prolific donors to both Democratic and Republican candidates and causes.
«In addition to the possibility that new government laws and policies implemented by the federal government during the recession — including the 2008 Wall Street bailout, the 2009 stimulus package, and the 2010 Affordable Care Act — caused the decrease in support, we also considered explanations focusing on racial attitudes and beliefs about individualism and markets,» Brooks said.
«A lack of diversity could have a significant effect on the development of their racial attitudes and future education and employment.»
For as much as I hate the racial attitudes of the 1930s and 1940s, I more often find myself relating better to the characters of the movies made back then than many of the male characters of today's movies.
Passionate performances pierce through the staginess of Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's hit play — an intense domestic drama coloured by the racial attitudes of the era.
Exorcist: The Beginning is a throwback in its racial attitudes, its enthusiastic and poisonous misogyny, and its fascination with all the shiny details of every little atrocity.
March 20, 2012 • Data suggest that the racial attitudes of ordinary Americans have shaped both how they feel about Obama's health care overhaul and how intense those feelings are.
The attempt at creating an alternate history where these creatures exist and how the socio - economic, and racial attitudes have evolved due to it, is an incredibly interesting idea.
After looking over the pages, which featured small photos of the principal cast members, participants were asked a series of questions about their movie - going habits, racial attitudes and desire to see each movie, either in a theater or at home.
Research has convincingly shown that disciplinary actions by school - level staff, such as out - of - school suspensions, are much more dependent on the racial attitudes of teachers and school administrators than on the activities of students.
Another factor restricting educational opportunities for Black students in Virginia is the racial attitudes of some school staff.
The researchers assert that the differing impacts of background knowledge show that our racial attitudes are absorbed differently according to race.
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