Sentences with phrase «white youth»

In 2015, 67 percent of youth in county detention were black, compared to just 10 percent of white youth.

High school graduation rates have been consistently lower for black and Hispanic youth than for white youth.

White youth accounted for more than half — 54 percent — of all juvenile arrests, followed by black youth at 45 percent in 2014.

«The incidence of type 1 diabetes in non-Hispanic white youth in the U.S. is one of the highest in the world,» researchers concluded in a 2009 study.

«These differences could also be attributed to the higher socioeconomic status found in the non-Hispanic white youth because higher socioeconomic status has been related to lower risk of obesity.»

Hispanic male and female youths scored lower than African American or white youths on the other screened areas, with the exception of somatic complains where African American females scored lower than other female detainees.

However, when they dug deeper into this finding, they found that while wealth buffers debt among white youth, this is not the case for black youth.

But that would be to underestimate the crucial importance of religion in the black community, to shake off black religion and black theology, and to disregard the portent of antireligious black youth and proreligious white youth.

Listen to a fourteen - year - old, the first white youth to speak to a black youth in one of Atlanta's desegregated schools:

Turn around again and you're the coach of a gold - medal - winning Southern white youth who chooses the look and style of a black youth as he sprints right through what's left of the barriers because he never even sees any barriers.

«Historically, type l diabetes has been considered a disease that affects primarily white youth; however, our findings highlight the increasing burden of type l diabetes experienced by youth of minority racial / ethnic groups as well,» the authors write.

He's joined by a group of other white youths in trainers and tracksuits, the Eastern boys of the title, from Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of the former USSR.

In another finding, expected by some to fuel the controversy that surrounds the issue of standardized testing, the test results showed that non-military white youths scored almost twice as high as black civilian youths, with Hispanic civilians scoring in between the levels of the other two groups.

At the time, he recalls, «There was a lot of concern and upset around the death of Stephen Lawrence [the black teenager who was murdered by white youths in London] and what all that meant.

Stephen Lawrence was murdered on 22 April 1993 by a gang of white youths in an unprovoked knife attack in Eltham, south - east London.

«This paradox may be accounted for by the fact that non-Hispanic white youth may spend more time in activities not captured well by accelerometry, such as swimming or bicycling,» said Donna Spruijt - Metz, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine and senior author.

This study examines whether group - level variability in the utility of parent social capital can help explain the recent finding that parent income and education confer greater benefits among White youth, relative to similar Hispanic youth, when it comes to 4 - year college enrollment.

Thus, white youth in the juvenile justice system may, on average, be more dysfunctional (have greater psychiatric morbidity) than minority youth.

And perhaps most notably there was Howard Beach, which spawned angry protests by the city's black residents - three black men whose car had broken down in the all - white area were attacked by a gang of white youths.

For example, Asian and multiethnic youth reported more physical health problems than white youth.

Findings also show that when youth are using alcohol and marijuana at the same level, nonwhite youth tend to experience poorer functioning than white youth.

Among those using alcohol and marijuana at the same level, Asian, black and Hispanic youth reported being less prepared academically than white youth and Hispanic and multiethnic youth reported lower academic performance than white youth.

During the 12 years after detention, non-Hispanic white youths had 30 times the odds of cocaine use disorder compared with African Americans.

Although white youth appear to experience less negative effects from alcohol and marijuana use, the survey responses indicate that white youth are at a higher risk for alcohol and marijuana use during middle school and high school.

As the title suggests, his film wants to explore the relations between blacks and whites, namely the influence of hip - hop culture on white youths — this issue in addition to telling a crime story as a hook.

Moreover, a larger percentage of youth of color report same - sex behavior or GLB identity than the percentage of white youth (31 percent vs. 26 percent).

Pairing landscape with portraiture, this series of works subtly unearthed the inner wrangling of white youth.

Using the intersectionality framework (simultaneously inhabiting multiple social identities), this study compares the social adjustment of male and female biracial / ethnic adolescents (e.g., Black / White youth) with that of corresponding monoracial / ethnic youth (e.g., Black youth and White youth).