Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already socially and educationally stratified along racial lines. Creating a diversified teaching force will be crucial to prevent the already precarious position of women and minorities from eroding further over the next generation. Emerging demographic patterns make the imperative even more urgent. By the year 2000, the total number of minority children will have increased by more than 25 percent from what it is today while the number of white children will only increase 0.2 percent...
...cause is not racial, ethnic, religous or sexual in nature. It is digestive. Since the age of 13, I have been unable to digest milk and some diary products including cream, soft cheeses and, yes ice cream. In technical terms, my name is Josh, and I am lactose intolerant...
Agencies are rethinking their opposition to placing black children with white parents. In 1972 the National Association of Black Social Workers charged that "transracial adoption" was a kind of cultural genocide that deprived black children of their racial heritage. At least 35 states imposed regulations requiring social workers to make every attempt to place children with parents of the same race. Transracial adoptions of all kinds dropped from a high of 2,540 in 1971 to less than half that number in recent years...
...ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling "a Racial Equivalence Scale, showing the minimum number of people who had to die in airline crashes in different countries before the crash became newsworthy . . . One hundred Czechs were equal to 43 Frenchmen, and the Paraguayans were at the bottom." Such bias seems widespread. Fleet Street reporters have traditionally voiced...
...jail, racial tensions and gangs threaten innocent Jimmie. The convicts he encounters match in violence the police who frame him for drug dealing in order to conceal their mistake in busting his house...