Edward E. Telles is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has been since 1990. He is the 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for his book Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil . For the same book, he also received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section in 2006 and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section in 2005 from the same association. He was also award the best book prize from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association and the Hubert Herring Award from the Pacific Council of Latin American Studies. His forthcoming book Generations of Exclusion: Race, Assimilation and Mexican Americans is an analysis of intergenerational change in ethnic identity, language use, education and other issues among Mexican Americans, based on random sample surveys of Los Angeles and San Antonio in 1965 and 2000. In 2004-05, he was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and from 2002-2005, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on the status of Hispanics. He was Program Officer in Human Rights for the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro from 1997-2000. He has published widely in the area of immigration, race and ethnic relations, social demography and urban sociology. Some of the work focuses on the economic impacts of immigration in the United States, the effect of skin color on education and income for Mexican Americans and the demographic foundations of the Hispanic population. He is currently involved in a seven-nation study of race and ethnicity in Latin America. He has also received major grant awards from the National Institute of Child and Human Development , the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. Prior to going to graduate school and becoming an academic, he was a community organizer and English as a Second Language Instructor in Los Angeles.
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