Sentences with phrase «white neighborhoods resulted»

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).

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Even after controlling for driver age and gender; officer race; the crime rate and business density of the neighborhood; whether the stop resulted in a search, warning, citation, or arrest; and the severity of the offense (if there was one), more respectful language was used with white drivers than with black drivers, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

My family had chosen our neighborhood because of the academic record of its public schools and, as a result, I attended schools that were 92 percent or more white and only about 2 percent black.

Understanding the Geospatial Relationship of Neighborhood Characteristics and Rates of Maltreatment for Black, Hispanic, and White Children Freisthler, Bruce, & Needell Social Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, 52 (1), 2007 View Abstract Presents the results of a study examining how neighborhood characteristics are associated with rates of child maltreatment for Black, Hispanic, and White children.