Sentences with phrase «same underclass»

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

Not exact matches

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

This seems at one and the same time to exclude truly revolutionary praxis, the action of the underclass, and to demand that the impulse to the betterment of the world be placed in the hands of the cognoscenti.

That's meant literally, since the film is adapted from a megahit ballad of roughly the same name: Legāio Urbana's nine - minute barn - burner of calamity, bloodshed, love, and redemption spoke to something in the Brazilian psyche in 1987, charting João de Santo Christo's fatal misadventures with the corrupt forces that kept a boot on the underclass.

Today, failing public schools are part of the process of tracking millions of young people into the same permanent underclass, a world of unemployment and underemployment, that the civil rights movement fought against.