Sentences with phrase «white suburbs»

The education and employment of low - income black youth in white suburbs.
Mostly, I saw myself living in the predominantly white suburbs I grew up in and in a bubble.
Jones, 38, grew up in an affluent white suburb of Austin, but her parents grew up in rural Mississippi.
in the predominantly white suburbs of Fairfield County, Connecticut, the dating pool.
When the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools sought to implement a plan last year to address racial isolation, many parents objected, and some local officials, primarily from white suburbs, threatened to open competing charters if the plan went through.
Because Muktoyuk grew up in a predominately white suburb in Portland, Oregon, these experiences gave him a much needed connection to his culture.
«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.»
This would mean busing poor, black students to schools in affluent, mostly white suburbs like Edina.
Then a child's education would not depend on whether she was born in the poorest white rural section of southern Ohio or the richest white suburb of New England.
Unfortunately «in my area» didn't mean in the Twin Cities proper, which is where I live; it meant in a rich, white suburb about 35 minutes away, not accounting for rush hour traffic.
Clark isn't your typical kid — and in the lily - white suburbs where his biracial academic parents have resettled for a job, his soft - spoken love of Afrobeat and»90s hip - hop sticks out like his luxurious head of hair.
This meant that in the North and Midwest especially, exclusive white suburbs were exempted from desegregation, even if their zoning and other housing policies had contributed to segregation in the region.
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.
The dual district, with approximately 21,000 students, serves one city that is largely Latino with a substantial low - income population; the second city is moving from a middle - class white suburb to a more diverse community.
The committee is the front line of a legislative push, led by statehouse Republicans, to dismantle North Carolina's big countywide school districts by allowing rich, often white suburbs to secede.
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).
Indeed, all but a handful of parents we interviewed articulated how and why they value more racially and ethnically diverse classrooms, with many citing the fact they were rearing children in New York City and not a lily - white suburb as evidence of their openness to living and educating their children in more diverse contexts, even as they were enrolling their children in racially / ethnically segregated schools.
He grew up in Santa Monica in the 1970s, which he describes as an «all - white suburb on the coast» where the police were always there to serve you.
From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses.
The specific fair housing violations included instances where white buyers who specifically requested to live within the city of Allentown were shown properties in the more white suburbs, whereas minority buyers, who requested to live outside of the city were shown properties in minority - dominated downtown Allentown.
Consider that in states like Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, resistance to the accountability system has come predominantly from affluent white suburbs.
At the beginning of the great new movie «Get Out,» a young black man (Lakeith Stanfield) nervously walks through a place that, for people like him, could result in a potential and random death sentence: the sidewalks of predominantly white suburbs.
Many ghettos are now so geographically isolated from white suburbs that voluntary choice, magnet schools, or fiddling with school attendance zones can no longer enable many low - income black children to attend predominantly middle - class schools.
During the rally — which was held in a predominately white suburb — Trump asked what black voters have to lose by voting for him.
In one scene, a character played by Lakeith Stanfield makes a slick reference to The Shining: «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 points out.
There are other metropolitan areas in Connecticut that look just like Hartford, with a mostly minority city population surrounded by mostly white suburbs.
Jay grew up Indian American in the lily - white suburbs of Chicago, and he had an outsider's perspective from the beginning.
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.
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..
«I think he's pandering to fear in the white suburbs and that fear is not so much racial as it is class.
Gina Wingood, a black Catholic woman raised in a white suburb, found love and her calling in San Francisco's ghettos talking condoms, sex, and ethnic pride.
Rather than safely becoming middle - class melting pots, however, the once majority - white suburbs in Kye's study appeared especially sensitive to the growth and emergence of non-white populations.
In spite of its «modern» aspects (extended families, separated and remarried parents, step - fathers and half - siblings, the father's progressive politics, the mother's struggles), it's a time capsule of an America that is no more: white suburbs, established rites of passage, unquestioned gender and ethnic identities, a national territory unchallenged by the rest of the world, no real vanishing point.
We, the audience, however, have seen an opening sequence in which another young African - American, walking in a white suburb, is felled by a masked man dressed like many a cinematic slasher.
In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about black lesbians living in the «burbs, directed by Dee Rees.
Inspired by events in Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1959 — when a well - to - do African - American family were violently harassed by white supremacists shortly after moving to the all - white suburb — George Clooney's latest directorial outing could hardly feel more apt.
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.
All the while, metropolitan areas were changing rapidly, with middle - income whites leaving cities in droves and moving to all - white suburbs, which often excluded minority residents through a host of devices intentionally designed to promote housing segregation.
«KIPP beat Bethlehem Middle School and Shaker Junior High (both in Albany's affluent white suburbs), which is North Colonie's middle school, in 7th grade English and math last year.
This ethnographic study examined the community experiences and family — school relationships of Black parents in a predominantly White suburb.
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.
Another form of passive resistance was white flight, either to private schools, or out of cities with large black populations to outlying, mostly - white suburbs.
In addition, a school serving low - income students of color is overseen by a nonelected board whose president lives not in Milwaukee but in an affluent white suburb, and who does not have an educational background but is head of the chamber of commerce.
These heavy - handed tactics require a suspension of democracy that would not be tolerated in a white suburb, but can be done to powerless urban districts where the children are black and Hispanic.»
Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.
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