Mexican American Study Project

Principal Investigators: Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles (Sociology)

 

Graduate Research Assistants: Katy Pinto, Daniel Malpica, Berta Cueva, and Olivia Carvajal

 

Description: The Mexican American Study Project is a study on intra- and inter-generational change and persistence in ethnic identity and behavior as well as socio-economic mobility among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio. This study sheds light on the progress of Mexican Americans, the progeny of the largest and longest-lasting immigration to the United States. This will be the first major survey to systematically examine changes in long-term intra- and inter-generational socio-economic status and ethnic identity within any ethnic group.

 

This study has been published by Russell Sage Foundation Press in the book, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race (2008).

 

"Decades of Assimilation"

Newsweek, March 24, 2008 (PDF)