The Chicano Studies Research Center presents a lecture on the book Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, which features authors Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz.

The Chicano Studies Research Center is proud to host UCLA sociologists Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz, who will present and sign their new book, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race. The much-anticipated Generations of Exclusion is the most comprehensive scholarly analysis yet on the economic, educational, linguistic, social, and political status of Mexican Americans. The groundbreaking study surveys four generations of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio. The authors’ extraordinary work was prompted by the discovery of boxes of original files at UCLA from a 1965 survey of Mexican Americans titled “The Mexican American Study Project.” Most of the respondents of the 1965 study were re-interviewed, as were their children, who are now adults. Generations of Exclusion is the first major survey to systematically examine changes in long-term intra- and inter-generational socioeconomic status and ethnic identity within any ethnic group.

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) was founded in 1969 with a commitment to foster multidisciplinary research efforts as part of the land grant mission of the University of California . That mission states that University of California research needs to be in the service of the state and that it must maintain a presence in the local community.