African Immigrants the Nation's Most Highly Educated Group

[M.McCoy]

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African Immigrants to the U.S.
Are the Nation's Most Highly Educated Group

According to an analysis of Census Bureau data by The Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education, African immigrants to the United States are
more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group. African
immigrants to the U.S. are also more highly educated than any other
native-born ethnic group including white Americans.

Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This
is slightly more than the percentage of Asian immigrants to the U.S.,
nearly double the rate for native-born white Americans, and nearly four
times the rate for native-born African Americans.

In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States
held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult whites and 3.8
percent of adult blacks in the United States.

The high percentage of African immigrants who hold college and graduate
degrees appears to drive another nail in the coffin of the scientific
racists who consistently hold the position that blacks are intellectually
inferior to whites.

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