Sentences with phrase «where white peers»

But Barry begs to differ; its drama springs from the character's identity crisis — his difficulty in assimilating into either Ivy League academia, where white peers insist he «get over» slavery and campus cops harass him, or New York's black community.

Not exact matches

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I mean, for all the lip service the picture plays to a more liberal worldview, what with its woman doctors, massaging of the nobility of the «Third World,» and punishing jerks with fifteen - hundred dollar raincoats, there's a disturbing moment where, preparing to run from a tidal wave, the main white hero Sam grabs his white love interest (Emmy Rossum), the white hero's romantic subplot's white rival grabs a black peer, and the black homeless comic relief grabs his dog.

An article from The Atlantic related a study where white college students were surveyed about their perceptions of their non-white peers.

Though not all scholars define acting white in precisely the same way, most definitions include a reference to situations where some minority adolescents ridicule their minority peers for engaging in behaviors perceived to be characteristic of whites.

• In what is known as the «peer effect,» poor students [and minority students] do better in schools where the student body is more middle class [white].

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

This is at odds with GCSE results, where Asian pupils get similar if not higher grades than their white peers.

Though whites make up just over half of the nation's enrollment, the typical white student attends a school where three - quarters of their peers are white.

Bryan has been the subject of investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights where Black students are almost four times as likely to be suspended or referred to a disciplinary school as their white peers.

We are passing Chimurenga Street where we've already harvested every guava tree, maybe like two — three weeks ago when we see white curtains part and a face peer from a window of the cream home with the marble statue of the urinating naked boy with wings.

Tworkov's first prints were a series of five black and white lithographs printed in 1965 at Hollander Workshop on Tenth Street in New York (where many of his peers, including Willem de Kooning, Esteban Vicente and Philip Guston had produced notable prints).