Staggered inequalities in access to higher education by gender, race, and ethnicity

Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-100

  Zambrana, Ruth Enid ^a   Macdonald, Victoria María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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