Why does the book focus so heavily on African Americans? Aren Hispanics and other minority groups important in the debate over race-sensitive admissions?
Hispanics and Native Americans are extremely important in the debate over race-sensitive admissions, and other groups, including Asian Americans are also affected by it. The Shape of the River includes some data about all of these groups and some discussion of interactions among students across such racial and ethnic lines, as well as across boundaries of other kinds, including those related to wealth and socioeconomic status, political outlook, and country/region. However, the data available to the authors, and the statistical design of the study, led them to focus primarily on African Americans and whites. Analyzing information about other ethnic and racial groups will require additional levels of fine-grained analysis. The Mellon Foundation is already engaged in discussions with scholars about additional studies designed to take fuller advantage of the data related to other groups, especially Hispanics.
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