Sentences with phrase «white upper class»

Additionally, its nuanced critique of embedded racism in the Obama - voting, white upper class can be unpacked for days, as can the film's take on justified - or - not black paranoia.

In her own words, Marissa grew up among «white upper class kids in shaved heads» talking about revolution.

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

In his writings, which are strongly autobiographical (and thus oriented to the white, upper - middle - class male), Keen first asks how we overcome the «dis - ease» of humankind.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

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.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

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.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

There was some diversity, though the overwhelming majority of attendees were white and appeared to be upper - middle class.

(Crack cocaine tends to be more prevalent in low - income minority communities while powder cocaine is primarily used in upper - class, white communities.)

The Democrats are acting crazy thanks to racial politics — specifically, the angry racial politics of upper - middle - class white liberals.

We are guilty of using the degrees of removal that separate an upper - class white Midwestern Christian from a Haitian mother as guilt trips or morality moments.

Even many of those who favor lower taxes (or at least oppose higher taxes) and abortion restrictions don't know the Republican Party as anything other than a vehicle for upper - class interest group politics and white identity politics.

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.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

In this system the white, upper - class male ruled supreme.

«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.

While there are a few who are vocal, like Against Equality, there is «a generation of upper - middle - class white lesbians and gays» who are «already enamored by the idea of marriage,» says Laurie Essig, a professor of sociology at Middlebury College, in the Salon article Will marriage change gay love?

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

It certainly did not have the cachet it has now for middle and upper class white women.

But when we talk about which women are able to breastfeed and why, it's important to note that there are a ton of societal issues at play — and many of them favor upper middle - class white women.

This is the bougie, upper - middle class white person's guide to questioning the status quo of marriage.

The Campaign Finance Institute found in New York City, the system multiplied the number of donors, and expanded diversity beyond the traditional white, upper middle class and wealthy who normally give money.

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

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

The WAMC event drew a stereotypical public radio crowd — upper middle class, upper middle - aged, and overwhelmingly white — but sprinkled in the former bank lobby that hosted Bharara's stage were representatives of the Business Council of New York State, several other longtime lobbyists, Albany County executive Dan McCoy and Assemblyman John McDonald, a Democrat from Cohoes.

In 2006 Pierre agreed to participate in a small world experiment with Watts and ABC News that addressed two of the criticisms of small world research: that no studies had ever been played out in real time, and that the people who had participated in the chains tended be educated, white, and middle or upper class.

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.

The bad news: Only 1.5 people are eating the «ideal» healthy diet, and, of those who are eating better generally, most are white and middle to upper class.

At the beginning, as you suggest, this higher - quality rice was at first limited to mostly the urban upper - class due to its high price, but as polishing technique improved into the Meiji period, eating white rice became more commonplace.

Jazz grew out of the Civil War in New Orleans, and by the early 1900s it was linking white middle and upper classes to black entertainers.

A white, upper - middle class man should not have been appointed to lead the Grenfell Tower inquiry, a Labour MP has said.

The general public follows in the midth century, the need to advertise for a husband or wife was still considered a «failure» and associated with deviant behavior for many judgmental straight, white, middle - to - upper class people.

There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large July 2013 One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.

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Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

Allen has never been the most acute observer of the class system in America, perhaps because almost all of his movies have centered on the neurotic contortions of white upper - middle - class New Yorkers.

Instead of dealing with the borderline perverse anxieties of upper middle - class white intellectuals, we have a story abou...

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

Meanwhile, Vicky's boring, white, upper - class fiancé Doug (Chris Messina) turns up and makes her feel even guiltier and more obsessive about her dalliance.

Worst - case scenario: The movie is little more than 90 minutes of self - congratulation, glossing over the problems with the magazine's «smug white upper - middle - class male» POV.

Ray isn't one for talking — and the show's interesting in suggesting that he, by not really trying, blends more easily into the L.A. upper crust than his class - climbing spouse — but unlike Walter White or Tony Soprano, Ray doesn't seem to have a good reason not to open up to his wife about whatever secret history he's harboring.

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.

Indeed, Daddy Day Care flirts with horror more than once, first in an «upper class panic» scene which has the Hintons recoil at the white trash alternatives to Chapman, then in a projectile poop scene appropriating Bernard Herrmann's Psycho strings yet once more (might as well put poor Bernie's casket on a mechanized spit).

«Beatriz at Dinner» also explores the cracks within the typical upper - class white narrative and conflicts.

A youthful pair of upper - class oddballs in tennis togs and white gloves seizes the Farbers» house, torturing the couple and their boy psychologically and physically.