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 (March 2008) in the book, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race.

Press Release:

Decades of Assimilation
Newsweek, March 24, 2008 (PDF version)

Study: Mexican Americans still standing on the fringe
UCLA Today ONLINE, March 25, 2008 (PDF version)