Survey By Teens: Racism An Issue


	Survey By Teens: Racism An Issue

RayWatkins

8-14-2007 8:29 AM

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education, pedagogy, class, race

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Major Role Seen In Schools, Media

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI | Courant Staff Writer

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<P id="story-body2"><DIV> Almost half - 48 percent - said whites are usually depicted in the news media as owning businesses. The same percentage said  African Americans are usually depicted as murderers.</DIV><BR /><DIV>More than 85 percent of those surveyed attended Hartford public schools, and nearly the same percentage were either African American or Hispanic.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The research is the result of the six-week Summer Youth Research Institute, a program that instructed Hartford youths in social research. The results were presented at the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, which ran the program.</DIV></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F7155EA3-09A5-4C10-A93E-D9D9523C5BB1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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