The role of familism in explaining the hispanic-white college application gap

Social Problems

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 311-334

  Desmond, Matthew ^a,b   Turley, Ruth N López ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

College application; Education; Familism; Hispanics; Racial inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449167954     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2009.56.2.311     Document Type: Article

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