This group functions as a 'disadvantaged' control group.
Chan grew up in what she has described as a disadvantaged family in Quincy, Massachusetts.
"[Muslims] are perceived as disloyal and as a threat rather than just as a disadvantaged minority," Khattab said.
Under the revised program, even white-owned small businesses can apply for consideration as a disadvantaged business.
As they see it, feminists should not focus exclusively on women's oppression as women or as workers or as members of a disadvantaged racial or ethnic group.
"Croft put on 122 and Brown 91, as well as a partnership of 208 runs to take Lancashire from a disadvantaged position to being in control of this game.
Or rather, who counts as being a "disadvantaged postgraduate"?
Her accomplishments rising from a disadvantaged background are every bit as impressive as Clarence Thomas's or Alberto Gonzalez's.
An ethnic minority is defined as a group of 'allochtonen' in a disadvantaged (socio-economic) position" (WRR, 1989, p. 14).
Forskolin was used as a positive control.
