Sentences with phrase «understanding white communities»

Minority students — particularly black and Latino / a students who live and learn in homogeneous neighborhoods — may need assistance understanding white communities and how to navigate them.

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-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

The truth is there is hatred, fear and ignorance when it comes to white men that live in white community's and there understanding of black men.

To understand the friction between these Pakistani communities and their white neighbours, we have to look at the effects of these enduring ties.

He also spoke eloquently on how the image of the tragic black hero, or the flawless black hero, reflects the culture's problem with processing a marginal community as just a group of human beings, and why he didn't want the characters, white and black, in his film to be easily categorized or glibly understood.

The findings suggest a need to understand parents» experiences and engagement within and across both school and community contexts, particularly for parents of color in predominantly White settings in which schools may mirror or compound the microaggressions they may experience in nonschool settings.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

If the power of solidarity is going to reclaim our schools, more affluent, predominantly white activists will need to develop an anti-racist understanding of the movement against standardized testing and the barriers that communities of color face to joining — including the very real fear from parents of color that their children's schools will be shut down if they don't encourage them to score well on the tests.

For some white preservice teachers, this lack of understanding is linked to a belief that they will teach in communities with similar demographics to those in which they grew up and that they, therefore, have little need for exposure to teaching in diverse settings (Yeo, 1999).

As a female artist I understand that there is a gap between the representation in our community but it is really fair to to label this article «The Not So Great White North»?

The continuing hurt, vulnerability, anger and rage expressed in Native American tribes and African American communities in the United States against the majority white population can be understood as both cry for justice in the present, and a echo of generational trauma that was endured for nearly 300 years on our nation's shores.

Firstly, because these are challenging issues to understand and to communicate about and, secondly, as a white female living in NSW, I live with a certain privilege which means I can never truly appreciate the impact that a death like this, and the subsequent media reporting, can have on individuals, families and communities.

On the second day, the panel of accomplished and wise Aboriginal women (led by senior federal advisor Kerrie Tim, with Eileen Cummings, June Oscar AO, and Karen Nangala Woodley) was also a standout because it reminded us how important it is that we acknowledge that our research is taking place in a context of a colonised white Australia, and that white research has long been used to entrench racism and sexism in Aboriginal communities, rather than to enhance understanding and bring about transformative social change.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»

Both theories are used to understand the experiences of black women growing up in predominantly white communities.