Seeking NYC Latinos for Columbia University study

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Posted - 11/04/2004 : 1:23:32 PM
Study of Intergenerational Class Transmission among New York City Latinos
Call for Study Participants

Columbia University is currently recruiting participants for a study that examines how middle-class Latinos are successfully remaining middle class across generations. This question has important implications for the continuing socioeconomic progress of the Latino population in the United States, and there currently is no research available on it. New York City is the pilot city for this study, which will later be conducted on a nationwide scale.

We are currently recruiting individuals who meet the following criteria:

• Middle class Latina/o adults ages 50 to 65, who are long-term New York City residents and have grown children ages 25 to 35.
• Latina/o adults ages 25 to 35, who have grown up mostly in New York City and are the children of middle class parents.

Interested individuals will be given a five minute pre-screening to determine if they are eligible for the study. Those eligible will then be contacted to set up an interview, at a time and place convenient to the study participant.

If you meet the criteria described above and are interested in participating in this study, please contact Julia Busch at jlb2106@columbia.edu.


Further Information about the Study

This study examines the various family, school, work, and neighborhood processes by which middle-class Latino parents transmit their class status to their adult children. We are using an open-ended interview method for our research. We are interested in whether or not the adult children of middle-class Latino parents also have achieved middle-class status, and what specific practices of both parents and children allowed this to occur (or not).

The principal investigators for this study are Nicole P. Marwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Columbia; and Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Professor of Political Science at Columbia, and Vice-President of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Columbia University.

Nicole P. Marwell
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Latino Studies
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027


Reply:
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 10:44:59 AM
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Why is this study necessary?

Are you making or have you done a study of White middle classes to see how they retain their middle class status through various generations with the intention of applying whatever "secrets" you determine and then use that knowledge to help the White underclasses in Appalachia and Columbia's neighbors the Black underclasses of Harlem?

Do you realize that the Hispanic and Latino middle classes are racially the same as the non-Hispanic Whites and with the same European and Western cultural heritage?

Are you aware that the Latino underclasses, also neighbors of Columbia University, are mostly people of color who tend to be unskilled laborers, mostly under-educated and substantial numbers are even illiterate for the same reason as Blacks in Harlem and Native American in the reservations?

Do you realize that the Hispanic criollos in New York City hardly identify or even deal with the Latino mulato and mestizo underclasses except as superiors to inferiors, masters to servants, employers to employees?

I think I have given you the answers to your study!

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Roland Martell