Access Without Equity: Longitudinal Analyses of Institutional Stratification by Race and Ethnicity, 1972-2004

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1074-1111

  Posselt, Julie Renee ^a   Jaquette, Ozan ^b   Bielby, Rob ^a   Bastedo, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

admissions; educational inequality; extracurricular; higher education; race; selective colleges; stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869793605     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831212439456     Document Type: Article

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