Sentences with phrase «working class suburb»

Appelbaum found herself bidding against an unknown man from the working class suburb of Bellville.

He was deeply influenced by the working class suburb of Mexico City where he grew up in the 1960s.

«I grew up in Ilford [in Essex], and Ilford was a weird sort of town, it was a dormitory suburb but also a working class suburb of London.

He grew up in a working class suburb of Dublin.

On a recent Sunday morning, worshipers packed a Pentecostal church set up on the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of Havana.

His Musée Précaire (precious museum) in Paris housed masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre in a cardboard building out in the working class suburbs,

Speaking of race, writes Imani Perry in Race and Rioting: «Yesterday was the first time that I heard race or immigrant status mentioned on broadcast television with respect to the recent uprisings and protests occurring in poor and working class suburbs across France.

Not exact matches

The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

Black masses are celebrated in affluent suburbs — not in the areas of the working class.

He grew up in Justice, Ill., a working - class suburb on the fringe of Chicago, in a household headed by his stepfather, an ironworker, and his mother, a traditional homemaker.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

Turnout for the vote was 28 %, higher than for the referendum in May that decided to create the new post of mayor, but the number of voters coming out varied greatly between the leafy suburbs and working class areas.

They will vote on May 20 and will likely determine the next member of Congress from the heavily Democratic district, which begins in the working - class segment of northeast Philadelphia and fans out into the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.

«New York City teachers are paid less than their colleagues in the suburbs, often have larger classes, and work with children with the highest needs,» said the spokeswoman, Alison Gendar.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).

Western New York, with large black population in the cities and working - class whites in the suburbs, is a political bellwether.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

He grew up in a close - knit family in a working - class suburb of Calgary, Alberta.

It is close to midnight at the Hollywod Park Casino in Inglewood, a working - class Los Angeles suburb.

The titular working - class New Jersey suburb is the main character in this meandering yet captivating drama from director Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive).

Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working - class family in a suburb just north of London — an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night - and - day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill - tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks).

Jersey boy Smith moves this film to Pittsburgh's suburbs, where the snow seems to fall with the grime already on it, and his working - class milieu and customer - service culture remain intact.

Functioning more as a mythology - expanding spinoff than a proper sequel, this fifth installment (the first directed by longtime series writer Christopher Landon) smartly moves the setting away from airy suburbs to overcrowded working - class apartments, and introduces a winning sense of humor that almost compensates for its relentless reliance on every terror trope in the book.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward's epic chronicle of a working - class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades.

He's an outcast of sorts with no friends, living in a working class New York suburb with his mother Karen (Erin Davie) and older, teasing brother Tom (Christian Madsen).

Andrew Haigh's startlingly assured 2011 film Weekend chronicled the intense connection between two young gay men over the course of a few days in a working - class suburb of London.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

For example, in Hartford, Connecticut, a legal decision created a system of regional magnet schools that attract students of color from the impoverished city and students from the working - class towns and affluent suburbs that surround it.

I have been a teacher for many years and have noticed growing residualisation in government schools in the working - class suburb in which I live and have taught in.

In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.

Especially communities in the inner - ring suburbs of flourishing cities, which are increasingly becoming magnets for poor and working - class families priced out of gentrifying areas?

In these suburbs, black families are most likely in upper income brackets of the middle class, and thus more likely homeowners, which distinguishes them from lower - middle class blacks families who live in working class environments (Lacy, 2007).

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.

The Jenson family has recently moved to a new working - class suburb, and though dad Rex showers his kids with shiny new toys, there's something strange about his behavior.

Where the famous upscale 90210 coexists next to hippie beach towns, hipster suburbs, and working - class communities.

Pasadena is mostly a working - class suburb, and a majority of the population is Hispanic in origin.

I grew up in a lower - middle - class suburb of a big city, where my father worked in consulting for most of my childhood.

During a research trip to Israel in 2008, Los Angeles - based artist Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) discovered the lost archives of Israeli avant - garde dance composer, theoretician and artist Noa Eshkol (1924 — 2007) in Holon, a former working - class town that is now a suburb of Tel Aviv.

Arnaud believes it's a fascinating beach, surrounded by working class communities that give a nod to Estonia's communist past; an industrial port with abandoned warehouses to the east and richer suburbs and wealthy gated properties on the western side that show a more prosperous country today.

The edifice, a full - scale simulation of his childhood domicile in Detroit's working - class suburb Westland, stands as a (anti--RRB- monument to Kelley as well as to the contradictory, financially depressed city that it engages.

IT»S POURING WHEN the taxi leaves me in front of Sophie Calle's building in Malakoff, a working - class suburb 10 minutes from Paris.

By the early 1970s, following the exodus of manufacturing jobs and working - and middle - class families to the suburbs, the South Bronx was wracked by bureaucratic and landlord neglect.

We both grew up in working - class families in the suburbs and both longed for a life away from crowds.

Mercer was shaped by her upper - middle - class upbringing in the New York suburb of Yorktown Heights, where her father then worked at IBM, pulling down a comfortable salary but not enough to cover college tuition for three daughters, friends said.

It was there — at Mariner High School in Everett, Wash., a working - class suburb of Seattle — that Perkins got involved with Planned Parenthood for the first time.

And what people may not realize is that, although the population of the city of Cleveland itself may decline, the suburbs (the working class ones all the way to the super posh ones) are doing VERY well, thank you very much.