Sentences with phrase «white middle class american»

Now, while the term mommy blogs does not offend me as such - I am a mom, I blog - the connotations of it being a futile hobby for white middle class American women does bother me.

For a long time, «white middle class Americans» was an expansive cohort that ran from factory workers to doctors, lawyers, and other professionals.

Today the reality is evident: white middle class Americans lack a secure economic basis.

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Walter White, the show's lead, begins the series as a middle class, law abiding American.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

Process theologians are overwhelmingly white North Atlantic middle class academicians, most of them, indeed, North Americans.

But even white, middle class North Americans can become responsive to what they hear from the poor.

When white, middle class, North American process theologians consider our social location seriously and adapt our theology to the understanding that results, North Atlantic process theology as a whole can become complementary to liberation theology.

My point is only that if one is white, North American, and middle class, as are most process theologians, then one would be hesitant to suppose that one can really think in a sustained way from the perspective of the oppressed.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

There is nothing in process categories that is inherently white, North American, or middle class.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

When Newbigin wrote this in 1941, one of the main «social facts» in the United States was that public norms were dictated by a distinctly American Protestant culture in the white middle class.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

Perhaps such music was always popularized by the white American middle - class (like Beiderbecke), but who can say, because the white kids were always there simultaneously?

Historically, however, the idea of the ministry as a middle - class, white - collar profession is more the exception than the rule for most American denominations, and in many traditions today it is still a relatively unfamiliar concept.

Thus a fortuitous irony awaits those congregations whose white, American, middle - class representatives are most likely to buy this book and employ some of its methods.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Similarly, though many would cite, Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique as having triggered the current women's movement, its primary concern was for the white, middle - class American housewife.

This is a conclusion she has every right to argue for; but then she might better have subtitled the book The Betrayal of the Working - to - Middle Class (Mostly White) American Man — which, I grant, does not make for a very good sound bite.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

It is possible for many white, middle - class Americans to distance themselves from other liberation movements.

But what you probably are, is a «white, middle class american» who has free access to democracy and clean drinking water, and you do nt have to dodge bombs from B - 52s on a semi regular basis.

If, instead, my first identity is part of the global Body of Christ, then white middle - class Americans are a tiny sliver indeed.

Looking back, many of us who stand in the tradition of process thought must recognize that quite unconsciously our work has largely expressed our position as white, middle - class, North American males.

The Jordans epitomize the blue - collar, white, middle - class, so - called «average Americans» who now find their political affiliation with the Republican fringe of the Tea Party.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

She identifies as white European American and grew up in a middle class family in the hills of southern Michigan.

Some of them are written by women, of whom some are even mothers... Most of them are even white, middle class and American!

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

Most research into this question has focused on urban, white, middle - class American children living near large universities.

It includes 1000 X-ray images of wrists of white middle - class American children, and the fully mature wrist of a 19 - year - old.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

Moreover, as many middle - class and broke white American males face sobering, if inevitable, realizations and disillusions about the future, laughing at Hill's moronic, unhinged versions as they champion outdated movie / sports star heroics atop small - town kingdoms is like homemade medicine.

Redolent with the weave of Cajun, African - American and post-bellum white money, here was a piquant and funny accommodation of the manners and mores of the traditional woman's picture to the emotional and social realities of being a white middle class paraplegic in modern Louisiana.

If you're born white, male, middle - class and American, he says, «you've really been handed everything.»

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

As a result, much of the education reform conversation stems from comparing white middle - class students to low - income, African - American and Latino students.

, which is often used to try to explain why African - American and Latino students do not perform at the level of their middle - class white peers, ignores the issues plaguing all of our nation's schools.

Limiting discussions about student performance to African - American and Latino students gives the ruling class, white middle - class families, a false sense of security.

Finding that book club enhanced teachers» experience of themselves as what researchers on white, middle - class American women call «connected knowers» (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1986) prompted us to consider the general potential of peer - led conversation in the professional development of teachers.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

Consider asthma, for example: Largely because of poorly maintained housing and environmental pollution, urban African American children have asthma at four times the rate of white middle - class children.

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