underrepresented minority

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Social medicine Any ethnic group–African American, Hispanic, Native American–whose representation among professionals in biomedical sciences is disproportionately less than their proportion in the general population. See Affirmative action, Bakke decision, Project 3000 by 2000, Reverse discrimination.

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