Racial Stratification There are several levels of racial stratification in post secondary education. One level is the heirarchy in these institutions of differing prestige that has been augmented by the collapse of affirmative action. America’s top universities and colleges have utilized race-sensitive admission policies to increase the number of black, Hispanic, Chicano, Native American and other minority races for over three decades. From the inception of affirmative action, conservative politicians and writers attacked this …showed first 75 words of 2334 total…

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