Word: second-class
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...tipping point, many whites go on the defensive. A generation ago, the color bar was rigid and well defined: no blacks allowed. Now it has become a shifting barrier that can suddenly materialize, curtly reminding blacks that no matter how successful they may be, they remain in some ways second-class citizens. As black psychiatrist James P. Comer wrote in his family memoir, Maggie's American Dream, "Being black in America is often like playing your home games on the opponent's court...
Though their incomes, education and life-styles rival those of their white counterparts, middle-class blacks remain in some ways second-class citizens. Even with the passage of civil rights laws, a color barrier still exists where blacks live and work. Nor has their own affluence resolved ambiguous feelings about the plight of the underclass. -- For black managers the toughest challenge is learning to be the boss. See LIVING...
Harvard, then, does not appear to be fulfilling the terms of its 1977 agreement with Radcliffe College, described in the Handbook for Students as "to insure that women undergraduates enjoy the same opportunities here as men." Women have indeed been regulated to the status of second-class citizens...
They are the nation's second-class citizens. Between 1788 and 1900, their numbers dropped from 300,000 to 93,000. Since then, the Aboriginal population has grown back to 230,000, or 1.3% of Australia's 16 million people. About 11% have never gone to school (vs. 1% of Australian whites), and 30% are unemployed (vs. 7% of whites). The life expectancy of Aborigines is 18 years less than that of whites. Significantly, Aborigines gained the right to vote only 21 years...
...familiar with the terrifying back roads of Neshoba County, in the backseat of the station wagon he was actually driving -- relegate blacks to the background of the drama of which they were the real-life heroes. One gets no sense of their courageous struggle against violent white supremacy and second-class citizenship...