Valerie Martinez-Ebers (’80, ’83 M.P.A.), professor of political science, co-wrote the book Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior and Policy Preferences (Cambridge University Press), a comprehensive profile of Latinos that compares conventional wisdom regarding their attitudes and efforts to assimilate with the most recent empirical evidence.
Martinez-Ebers and her four co-writers raised $1.3 million through grants from various foundations to ask Latinos more than 160 questions regarding their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations.
Chapters she wrote or cowrote for the book cover topics such as demographics, gender role attitudes, and media and technology usage. The book is a follow-up to 2010’s Latino Lives in America: Making it Home. The third book in the series is expected to come out next year.