Mexican American Study Project

2003-2008

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).

Media Coverage:

“Decades of Assimilation”

Newsweek, March 24, 2008 (PDF)

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

Reports & Briefs:

Mexican American Culture and Language

Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz

Latino Policy and Issues Brief No. 21, July 2008

Mexican Americans and Integration and Segregation

Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz

Latino Policy and Issues Brief No. 20, June 2008