December 2009
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“Since the 1960s, marriages between black men and white women have been steadily increasing—14 percent of all black men are now married outside the race. Yet only 4 percent of black women do the same. Why? Black women, for better or worse, have always seemed to maintain a loyalty to the ideal of the black family unit. That’s understandable, even noble, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of...
http://files.onset.freedom.com/ocregister/news/2009... →
Is this linked to low expectations that many teachers of low-income/minority students have?
From the WSJ:
With so few black dolls on toy-store shelves, many black parents had high hopes when toy powerhouse Mattel Inc. released So in Style, its first line of black dolls with wider noses, fuller lips, sharper cheekbones and a variety of skin shades.
Now, despite the company’s efforts to solicit input from a group of high-profile black women, including Cookie Johnson, wife of...
