Sentences with phrase «white suburb as»

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But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

The little street in the Geneva suburb of Chene - Bougeries is deserted in the afternoon heat, The white one - story house stands as if enchanted in a garden beginning to run wild.

Among the agencies of nineteenth - century origin were the Société des Missionnaires de Notre Dame d'Afrique, usually known as the White Fathers, an outgrowth of the attempt to use the extension of the French Empire in North Africa as an opportunity to spread the faith; the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Belgian organization with headquarters at Scheutveld, a suburb of Brussels; the Society of the Divine Word, made up of Germans from Steyl, in Holland, not far from the German border; St. Joseph's Society of Mill Hill, with its center near London, but with predominantly Dutch personnel.

Indoor soccer not only presents itself as a «white sport,» but it's selling itself to the white suburbs, where the most disposable income is located, and to white women, who have never before been sought out by a sport.

In New York's gubernatorial elections the swing voters are almost always moderate white Catholic women living in the suburbs, upstate as well as downstate.

Lots of poor, brown skinned kids put behind bars and had their futures runined so Skelos and the TEAPbulicans could look like they were tough on drugs — a popular political position in what were then the all white suburbs that served as their political base..

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

The pair squared - off as the captains their high school cheerleading teams, one, all - black and hailing from the «hood, the other, lily - white and located in the suburbs.

It features Daniel Kaluuya — who was brilliant in Black Mirror and is just as mesmerizing here — as photographer Chris, who is nervous about heading into the suburbs to meet his white girlfriend (Girls» Allison Williams) Rose's wealthy family.

While watching this movie you realize how these communities are exactly like how the white suburbs are portrayed as well; you have the children causing havoc, the woman who is flaunting herself and cheating on her husband while he's off at work, and the weird «maybe gay» neighbour next door.

For many, Lady Bird signified something meaningful and universal for those who grew up in white middle class suburbs and longed for culture anywhere, or to find some sort of foothold as an adult — it reminded me much more of The Graduate than it did The 400 Blows.

«As he's walking through a very Halloween-esque white suburb, he goes, «Man, I feel like I'm in a hedge maze out here,»» Peele pointed out in an interview with V.F. Devoted Key and Peele fans will also recall that Peele has parodied this film before, in the sketch «Continental Breakfast.»

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

We lived in a Boston suburb, one that was about as lily - white as they come.

So, a Latino peer from a wealthy Mexican family or the African American daughter of a physician who grew up in a predominantly white suburb are not seen as contributing to the diverse learning environment.

Hispanic students for the first time outnumber their peers in other racial and ethnic groups in Montgomery County's public schools, a milestone for diversity in a suburb long regarded as largely white and affluent.

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

Former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, a patrician reformer who helped end the city's rule by a Republican political machine in the 1950s, bluntly described Philadelphia as choked by the «white noose» of the suburbs.

With these standards, minority children in urban areas will have to be taught the same thing in the same way as white children in the suburbs.

If a community such as Mt. Laurel experienced a severe case of «white flight,» some argue that the poor members of the community would be left in an even worse place — in an empty shell of a residential suburb (47).

As a Gen X-er, I was forced to attend schools in the suburbs with middle - class white kids and, in turn, forced my kids to do the same.

Although these families live in wealthy black neighborhoods themselves, the school districts as a whole are usually not as wealthy compared to white suburbs because they have a closer proximity to poorer black areas (Lacy, 2007).

Black students in white suburbs also have experiences associated with white suburban education, such as going on field trips and having project based learning experiences, which are considered optimal learning experiences in American society (Lewis, 2003).

The popular TV series «Black - ish» shows the everyday lives of the Johnsons, a modern middle class black family as they navigate their unique position in a majority white suburb.

Suburbs are studied as places that give white students access to high achieving schools while urban areas are critiqued for their failure to educate working - class minority students.

White families are aligned with wealthy, middle class suburbs and black families are examined as they exist in working class urban backgrounds.

Much of this is due to changing demographics as young families and millennials forgo the white picket fence and house in the suburbs to take advantage of downtown living, where properties are smaller but offer more conveniences, said the 112 - page report released Tuesday.

The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty - Seventh Street, the witty, poetry - loving art lover became a legend of the avant - garde, showing the work of artists such as Mark di Suvero, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, and others.Born to an American father and a Chinese mother in a Cincinnati suburb, Bellamy moved to New York and made a life for himself between the Beat orbits of Provincetown and white - glove events such as the Guggenheim's opening gala.

«The White Picket Fence» Prevails: When asked where they would prefer to live in the long haul, 59 percent of African Americans, 55 percent of Caucasians and 50 percent of Hispanic Americans would select the suburbs as the preferred location for their ideal home.

Compare that price tag to a home in one of New York's suburbs, such as White Plains which has a median home value of $ 571,100, and you can see how much prices vary in this diverse state.