Sentences with phrase «white neighborhoods»

«In white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he said.

If you live in a predominantly white neighborhood, it means intentionally making friends with the people on your block who do not look like everyone else.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Most were magnet or charter schools that required families to make an effort to apply, or conventional schools located in heavily white neighborhoods.

A new report looks at the phenomenon of rich, white neighborhoods splitting off from their local school districts.

Public charter schools are simply less likely to open in economically advantaged, mostly white neighborhoods.

The district includes the predominately white neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hells Kitchen and the Upper West Side, as well as the heavily Dominican communities of Washington Heights and Inwood and slivers of Harlem.

Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891 - 1981), was born in New Orleans and lived and worked in the first half of the 20th century in a predominately white neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest side, a few miles from the city's growing black community known as «Bronzeville.»

«It is long past time to address the disparate ways that this city is being policed,» he said, saying they have led to a police force that acts and is perceived differently in wealthy white neighborhoods and poor minority ones.

by Beryl Satter Metropolitan Books Hardcover, $ 30.00 510 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-8050-7676-9 Book Review by Kam Williams «Despite fair housing laws, prospective black home buyers are still «steered» away from white neighborhoods.

Motley was born in New Orleans, but during the first half of the 20th century he lived and worked in a predominately white neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest side, a few miles from the city's growing black community known as «Bronzeville.»

The same was true in Los Angeles, where the higher - income white neighborhoods went against charter founder Ref Rodriquez in his school board election bid.

The middle class white neighborhoods paid just $ 717 per year on average.

Black families are beginning to move in formerly white neighborhoods and tensions are rising high — Officer Lucius Boggs and his partner, Tommy Smith, must battle the KKK and corrupt officers in their city in order to achieve justice and stop the flow of moonshine and drugs into their community.

Both measures of segregation indicate that children are more racially segregated between neighborhoods than adults, with white children living in slightly more white neighborhoods than white adults.

Lenders tended to view white neighborhoods as safe for mortgage lending, while tending to discriminate against predominantly African - American neighborhoods.

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

Comparing facilities in primarily African American neighborhoods to ones in primarily White neighborhoods, the rates of practices that support or discourage breastfeeding were: limited use of supplements (13.1 % compared with 25.8 %) and rooming - in (27.7 — 39.4 %)[159]

Green says Sharpton turned on him because of a controversial flier sent out by Green supporters in white neighborhoods linking Sharpton to Ferrer.

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

- The opening of the film is partially inspired by the opening of Halloween (1978), which Jordan Peele describes as a subversion of «the perfect white neighborhood.»

Go thru an Asian or white neighborhood at 10 at night and then go through a hispanic neighborhood.

New York City claimed it did not segregate its projects, but Woodside and similar complexes in white neighborhoods accepted only a token few black tenants because Housing Authority policy was to respect «existing community patterns.»

They researched their neighborhood school, learned that it was a dropout factory and filled out D.C.'s equivalent of an open - enrollment application for a seat in another, most likely white neighborhood.

These methods to prevent blacks from living in white neighborhoods resulted in the segregation of neighborhoods that have had crippling effects for minorities in the U.S, such as increased poverty, poorer health, and higher exposure to violent crime (Bethea 2013).

Paris deals with a great deal of bigotry in her new white neighborhood and begins to wonder if she will ever fit in.

In a typical white neighborhood, home buyers can expect to spend 15.2 percent of income on mortgage payments each month, solidly below the pre-housing boom average of 18.9 percent.

The South Side of Chicago, historically black since the Great Migration sent tens of thousands of people fleeing the former Confederacy to settle there, has long been the Windy City's neglected stepchild — filled with vacant lots and tumbledown housing, hindered by discriminatory real - estate practices, and physically separated from the more affluent white neighborhoods by two highways.

If you are thinking that the price difference is because white neighborhoods in big cities tend to be wealthier than black neighborhoods in big cities, think again.

According to a study published in 2016 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blacks «are significantly more likely than other Americans to live in high - poverty neighborhoods — neighborhoods characterized by poor schools and limited access to healthcare, jobs, and beneficial social networks,» even as the poverty gap between black and white neighborhoods continues to close.

They estimate that the typical neighborhood experienced 4.5 foreclosures per 100 homes during the crisis, but the figure rises to 8.1 and 6.2 homes in predominately black and Latino areas, respectively, while white neighborhoods lost only 2.3 homes on average.

Instead, the city has focused on predominantly white neighborhoods in North and South Buffalo that report few, if any, lead poisoning cases.

These insidious, racist perceptions range from intimidation and harassment of blacks moving into white neighborhoods in the 1950s to the usage of racial covenants to ensure that neighborhoods would remain white, to the common practice of «white flight» in which white residents will flee from a neighborhood they fear is «becoming black» (Massey, p. 38).

With many suburban neighborhoods divided into racial clusters, white students from white neighborhoods are attending almost all - white schools, while...

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

They found that the number of people who lived at least 5 years after being diagnosed and treated was about 84 to 88 percent in high - income white neighborhoods, compared with 80 percent statewide.

White students, especially those previously from the schools in upper - class white neighborhoods, felt that they were being dumbed down to accommodate black students.

Ali Najmi, an attorney and activist, Bob Friedrich, a local civic leader, Sally Frank, a staffer to Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Rebecca Lynch, a former Democratic district leader, are all said to be considering campaigns for the bucolic eastern Queens district, where public transportation options are limited and a booming South Asian population is changing the make - up of the once predominately white neighborhoods.

Affluent or activist parents enroll their youngsters in three or four largely autonomous elementary schools in white neighborhoods, or move to private schools, charter schools, or the suburbs.