
Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility
(with methodological and epistemic reflections)
Book Talk
Event Info
1:00 PM
February 19, 2025
McCune Room
U.S.-born Mexicans in New York City have attained impressive rates of second-generation mobility. For example, in 2020, 42 percent of second-generation U.S.-born Mexican men and 49 percent of U.S.-born Mexican women in NYC had graduated from college (compared to a 13- and 14-percent college graduation rate for second-generation Mexican men and women in other areas). In his new book, Dreams Achieved and Denied, sociologist Robert Courtney Smith draws on over twenty years of ethnographic data based on his work following 96 case study participants into established adulthood to explain how this happened, identifying the laws, policies, and individual and family practices that promoted and inhibited their social mobility.
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