New study builds on old one to track Mexican American progress - After finding questionnaires from a 1965 survey in a UCLA basement, two professors followed up with about 700 of the participants and their children. The news is good and bad.

The UCLA professors re-interviewed about 700 of the original participants and about 800 of their children, in Los Angeles and San Antonio. Participants constituted about 60% of the original families.

Some of the findings were encouraging. For example, nearly all Mexican Americans spoke English proficiently by the second generation. And many Mexican immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — as well as the children of immigrants — showed economic and educational progress, in part because of their belief in the American dream.

But some of the conclusions — published last month in a book titled “Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race” — were disappointing. “*

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