Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (CSREP)

The aim of the Center is to explore the way in which race and ethnicity are important parts of modern societies. The Center seeks to examine race and ethnicity at the local level, at the international level, and comparatively.

In order to accomplish this the Center will support outside speakers as well as bring faculty, students, and community members in Los Angeles interested in the topic. The Center also plans to take advantage of the unique laboratory that Los Angeles provides. It will conduct a large-scale survey exploring the racial attitudes of major groups in the Los Angeles area. In particular it will examine racial attitudes developing among minority groups like African Americans, Latinos, and Asians in the U.S. The study will hope to examine what creates community, prejudice and conflict among groups as measured in the survey research context. Issues included will be jobs and labor, schools, and immigration. The Center will also archive surveys collected on racial attitudes in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.