The 8/24/2017 New York Times featured a lengthy well researched study, “Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago”
Read the article on your desktop, laptop or pad device. The many charts covering the Ivies and many other of the elite schools are a bit tough to read on your smartphone.
As a reference point here is a chart showing the current breakdown of the US population by race with future projections:
The NYTimes article provides the following overall statistics for top schools followed by the details for blacks and Hispanics:
White Affirmative Action – Martin Luther King in 1968 In recent years scholars and activists have begun to point out how white privilege is supported by many decades of government action that affirmatively transfers money and resources to whites while explicitly denying the same support to African-Americans. To my knowledge —>> read more –>>
Countering White Male Top 10% Affirmative Action The continuing advances of elite white males requires action. They live and procreate in a closed loop of social, educational, and political advantages and protections. Wealth flows to them behind the uniformed doormen of the Upper East Side and the hedges of the —>> read more –>>
At a time when the Republicans are transferring income and wealth to the rich and corporations over 40 million Americans fall below the official poverty line. —>> read more –>>
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