Access Denied: Race, Ethnicity, and the Scientific Enterprise

by George Campbell, Ronni Denes, Catherine Morrison

Since the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s, minority groups have seen a tremendous amount of progress, but African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians still remain severely underrepresented in science, engineering, and mathematics. And although government, industry, and private philanthropies have supported more than 200 pre-college and college-level initiatives to increase the access and retention of minority students, the outcomes of these programs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195107748
• ISBN13: 9780195107746
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"