A Double Disadvantage? Minority Group, Immigrant Status, and Underemployment in the United States

By G. F. Jong, A. Madamba. 2001

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Factors Influencing the Academic Achievement of First-Generation College Students (2006, background): “Obscured in this analysis are the experiences of African American males who would face a “double disadvantage” (Davies & Guppy, 1997; De Jong & Madamba, 2001) or double threat in terms of achievement.”
Bridging the Pipeline: Increasing Underrepresented Students’ Preparation for College Through a Summer Bridge Program (2011, background): “Rates can be appallingly lower for low-income students of color who may face double disadvantages, intersecting oppressions, and multiple barriers to their college entry (Collins, 2000; Crosnoe, 2005; De Jong & Madamba, 2001).”
“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “De Jong and Madamba (2001) further note that discrimination and employer bias may explain the increased likelihood of underemployment among racial minorities.”
When Race and Gender Collide: Social and Cultural Capital’s Influence on the Academic Achievement of African American and Latino Males (2010, background): “The third limitation is that previous work on social and cultural capital treats minority students as a homogenous group whose experiences and capital reservoirs are uniformly deficient and decidedly different from that of majority students (e.g., Coleman, 1988; De Jong & Madamba, 2001).”