Within the context of graduate education, for instance, it means going beyond focusing exclusively on the number of students belonging to particular populations and moving toward creating a culture in which students from historically marginalized backgrounds feel that they are truly part of the fabric of the institution.
I enjoy watching Glenn on The Walking Dead, because he's useful in the war against the zombies and not marginalized for his background.
But while Mr. Fowler makes documentaries about artists and eccentrics marginalized by society, his background in music and his fluency in the history of underground film inspire him to take dizzying liberties with the documentary form.
After the field armies took over Zhejiang province, local cadres with guerrilla backgrounds were marginalized in politics and thus were compelled to mitigate the vulnerability to potential attacks through garnering support of grassroots cadres and the masses.
Now, as then, those who challenge the prevailing narrative, no matter how strong their case and no matter how solid their background, are being marginalized.
On the other hand, I found that teachers with a non-Chinese major background were largely marginalized in the faculty because senior scholars deemed our knowledge of Chinese as "problematic and less solid" than Chinese major graduates.
Sacred imagery was shown in a didactic and moralistic manner, with religious figures becoming marginalized and relegated to the background.
The majority of students from less wealthy backgrounds – 67% – reported feeling marginalized because of their economic status.
On the other hand, if planners don't actively pursue speakers of varied backgrounds, students from historically marginalized groups are likely to attend weekly seminars for years and not see any speakers that they feel they can personally identify with.
"The proper response to such attacks on the freedoms we hold dear is not to vilify any faith, but instead to marginalize extremists of all backgrounds who seek to stifle freedom and to create or widen societal divisions".
