Word: socio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women bikers from across the great spectrum of race, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status...
...short opinion pieces written by concerned intellectuals are the beginning of a considered response to The Bell Curve. These articles have pointed out the basic difficulty of disentangling the effects of intelligence and environment in determining academic and socio-economic success. Can Johnnie not read because he's dumb or because he lives in one of the most God-awful ghettos in America, and his average class has 40 people (half with guns) and one teacher...
Secondly, some of these groups tend to be just a little too political. Response, for instance, features grabbers with heavy socio-political overtones such as "Do I call it racism or sexual harassment?" Is this counseling or merely advice on which charge to bring the male-chauvinist-oppressor next door before the Ad Board...
This is happening again with Asians and Latinos. A vast majority of Asian and Latino-American families now live among whites. Both groups are fast assimilating into the socio-economic mainstream. According to the Census Bureau, now almost a quarter of all Asian-Americans' marriages are marriages with whites (the rate is 65 percent for Japanese-Americans). In California, already half of all Mexican-Americans choose non-Hispanic spouses (the rate is 13 percent for Latinos as a whole). The Black intermarriage rate, by contrast, stands at only 2.2 percent...
...African-Americans, by contrast, the socio-economic legacy of slavery and segregation continues to be passed generationally and manifests itself today in disproportionately high levels of Black inner-city poverty, crime, and illegitimate motherhood...