americans exclusion generations significance

books:

Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

1 review
Edward E. Telles

Princeton University Press, 2006

okay
There's a lot of quantative data in this book, but not a lot of analysis, real commentary, or much qualitative information. So with respect to solid data one might refer to in a report or debate, its great, but not always the most interesting reading.

Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race

2 reviews
Edward E. Telles, Vilma Ortiz

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2008

Social science at its objective best
UCLA sociologists Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz write: "Despite sixty years of political and legal battles to improve the education of Mexican Americans, they continue to have the lowest average education levels and the highest high school dropout rates among major ethnic and racial groups in the United States. ... However, leading analysts, apparently believing in the universality of ...