Immigrant black students are more likely to attend selective American colleges and universities than are native black and white students, according to a new study published in the journal Sociology of Education. The study, by sociologists at the John Hopkins University and Syracuse University, expands on previous research that showed that black high-school graduates are more likely to attend college than are white high-school graduates with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, and that many of the black students who attend selective colleges are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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3 Responses to More Immigrant Black Students Than Native Blacks and Whites Attend Elite Colleges
princeton67 - August 11, 2009 at 9:48 pm
1. Our President was a black and white student. Also politely known as “mixed race”, unless, of course, the article means native black and native white students.
2. As for the second sentence: no white kid who graduates from high school is going to hear “Uncle Tom”, “Oreo”, or “Acting White”. Any black kid who has fought his culture and his peers to get a high school diploma is going to get his degree. There is simply no white “socioeconomic” equivalent to being black.
pferd - August 12, 2009 at 9:43 am
the only time race issues will disappear is when we stop this nonsense of looking at race as to why someone should be accepted or not. affirmative action is the biggest racial divide and for the very few that it might help, it hurts others more.
it is absurd that a black student gets accepted from outside the us over a black or white student from america, but it happens so often.
princeton is bragging about a student who’s parents made $100 a year and they are so proud they pay his airfare back and forth and full tuition, while an equally qualified or even better qualified black or white student was not accepted. How moronic.
I thought we give these institutions tax free status to educate our children. I have one more question for Princeton. How educated was this child, if they only mad $100 a year. our SAT’s cost us more than that. Stop the imported insanity and affirmative action non-sense.
I was at MIT last year and they had a very upsetting sign out on Admitted Students Day. The sign said: MINORITY STUDENTS ONLY. How sick is this. That is how one keeps raciscm alive and well. Good going MIT (NOT).
wftate - August 12, 2009 at 11:31 pm
@pferd. This study is focused on the educational attainment of various racical groups. The value added of the work is that it deals both with SES and breaks out sub-groups of black students. The scholarship does not deal with administrative behavior at Princeton nor is it about how a secretary or other support staff at MIT posts a sign. Affirmative action in higher education per your argument is now a root cause of keeping racism alive. The empirical support for this argument is largely your bounded experiences. While important, it would be useful to support this type of claim with evidence.