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Title: How Public Colleges Reinforce White Racial Privilege and Marginalize Black and Latino Students

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This should be the golden age of college for Black and Latino students;1 the share of Blacks and Latinos enrolled in college2 has finally aligned with their share of the college-age population. Since 1980, the Black college-going rate has nearly doubled, while the Latino college-going rate has more than doubled.3 As a result, the Black and Latino share of public college enrollment has grown from 15 percent in 1980 to 35 percent in 2015. However, those impressive college-going gains are not being matched by gains in college completion. Going to college isn’t enough. Getting a credential with labor market value is. Today, even with their elevated college-going rates, Black and Latino students are only about half as likely as Whites to attain a bachelor’s degree or higher. In fact, over the past 35 years, as Black and Latino college-going rates have climbed, the deficit in bachelor’s degree attainment between Whites and Blacks and Latinos has actually increased from 15 percentage points to 21 percentage points.4 A reason for the widening deficit: while White students inordinately attend selective four-year public colleges to pursue bachelor’s degrees, Black and Latino students in disproportionate numbers . . .

Url: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1052636/SAUStates_FR.pdf?sequence=1

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Authors: Carnevale, Anthony P; Werf, Martin Van Der; Quinn, Michael C; Strohl, Jeff; Repnikov, Dmitri

Publisher: Georgetown University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity

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