Another factor that has slowed the progress of Hispanic-Americans in higher education is the absence of Hispanic counterparts to historic black colleges such as Tuskegee Institute and Morehouse College.

He also noted that disparities in achievement between white and Asian students and their black and Hispanic counterparts had narrowed further.

Almost all of the national Asian-American civil rights organizations publicly support race-based affirmative action, but admit that they do not have the grass-roots support that their African-American and Hispanic counterparts do.

Black Federal employees were more than twice as likely to be dismissed as their white, Hispanic or Asian counterparts, according to a report made public today by the Office of Personnel Management.

Non-Hispanic blacks males aged 15--19 years were also more likely to report always using condoms during the previous 4 weeks than their non-Hispanic white and Hispanic counterparts (86.8% compared with 68.0% and 53.1%, respectively) (Table 7).

Asian second generation immigrants, like their Hispanic counterparts, tend to be bilingual.

But statistically, the work-force participation rate for young whites, 26.1 percent, is hardly better than the overall rate for young people, though many white teen-agers are undoubtedly under less economic pressure to work and have more educational opportunities than their black and Hispanic counterparts.

Other research suggests that length of time resided in the U.S. narrows the occupational gap between Hispanic immigrants and non-Hispanic whites and U.S.-born Hispanic counterparts.

Many politicians in the borough suggest that the 15 black districts leaders and their five Hispanic counterparts would be reluctant to lead any movement to replace the borough's first black county leader.

Though there have been large increases among most women, African-American mothers still lag behind their white and Hispanic counterparts.