Social Sciences Projects

In partnership with community colleges and community-based organizations across California, youth researchers have surveyed young adults to learn more about their aspirations, responsibilities, and experiences.

Through a participatory action research model, CFS guides students in examining youths' multilayered concerns and conducting broad-based, nonpartisan civic action in their communities.

This initiative works with emerging and mid-career scholars to advance cutting-edge research on the cultural, social, and economic contours of Latina life in the US.

An analysis of the Smithsonian Institution’s progress toward implementing the ten recommendations from its 1994 report Willful Neglect pertaining to Latino representation within the workforce.

The study will examine the experiences of women in Lideres Campesinas, a statewide organization that works with women farm workers in California.

The Hate Speech in the Media Project is a pilot study on hate speech on commercial talk radio.

The study will look in particular at how race, class, gender, and immigration status intersect in the context of public higher education.

The overall objective of this study is to examine the sociocultural basis of caregiving provided by Mexican-origin families to relatives with schizophrenia.

This research project explores the historical roots of the panic and anxiety surrounding undocumented Mexican immigration in the late twentieth-century.