Edward Telles

Formerly a professor in the sociology departments at Princeton[2] and the University of California at Los Angeles,[3] Telles is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[4] Telles is a leading figure in the study of race and ethnicity in the Americas and on immigrant integration, intergenerational change and mobility among Mexican Americans. His book Race in Another America and his work at the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro[5] were instrumental to changing discourse on race in Brazil and for producing major policy changes in Brazil, including instituting affirmative action in public universities. In the United States, Telles' research reveals how Mexican Americans have been incorporated in a largely distinct way from European Americans regarding education, socioeconomic status, language, culture, segregation and politics. By spanning the social sciences and the Americas in his research, Edward Telles has helped increase understanding of how race and inequality interact."[2]RACE IN ANOTHER AMERICA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SKIN COLOR IN BRAZIL Princeton University Press, 2004 (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese)

Focusing on race and ethnicity in Latin America, Telles' major books include Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, published in 2004 by Princeton University Press, winner of several awards, including the Distinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association,[6] and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in social demography (2005),[7] as well as the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for the Best Book from the Race and Ethnic Minorities section of the American Sociological Association (2006), the Best Book Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (2006) and the Hubert Herring Award for the Best Book in Latin American Studies from the Pacific Council for Latin American Studies (2005). Telles is also the author of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Skin Color in Latin America (with the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), an interdisciplinary, multinational team of scholars), published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.[8] Both books are published in Spanish and Portuguese and the former is available in Japanese. Pigmentocracies was based on random-sample surveys of race and ethnicity in several Latin American countries and conducted in conjunction with an international team of social scientists (PERLA), which Telles led. He has also published in this area in leading social science journals including the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Demography.nRegarding his work on Latinos in the United States, he is best known for the following. In 2008 Telles coauthored Generations of Exclusion, Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race with UCLA sociologist Vilma Ortiz, which won the Otis Dudley Duncan Award (2009)[7] and the Best Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association (2009).Rumbaut, Rubén G. (2009). "Review of Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race". Population Review. 48 (1): 135–137. SSRN 2182174. That book is based on a longitudinal and intergenerational study of more than 1000 Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio, who were interviewed in 1965-66 and who were mostly reinterviewed in 2000 (as well as interviewing a sample of the children of the original respondents). His forthcoming book is Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core from Oxford University Press, which he co-authored with Christina Sue

About Race in Another America, writing in the Journal of Social History, George Reid Andrews noted: "This is a blockbuster of a book. To a topic — Brazilian race relations — historically fraught with ambiguity, uncertainty, and disagreement, it brings clarity, logic, and lucidity, not to mention several truckloads of data. The result is the most important work on race in Brazil since Gilberto Freyre's seminal The Masters and the Slaves (1933)…The clarity and lucidity of Telles’s findings, and the wealth of data on which they are based, make this book a genuine tour de force, and the most illuminating examination of Brazilian race relations that I have ever read."[9] Reviewing the book for the American Journal of Sociology, Melissa Nobles noted, "Edward Telles's rich and important book is the latest, and most systematic, sociological study of Brazilian race relations. As its title implies, the book is also comparative, as the significance of race in Brazil is explicitly compared with its significance in the United States and in South Africa, to a lesser extent. American race relations have, and arguably continue, to serve as the paradigmatic case against which other countries are compared and from which sociological theories are derived."[10]

• RACE IN ANOTHER AMERICA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SKIN COLOR IN BRAZIL Princeton University Press, 2004 (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese)
• GENERATIONS OF EXCLUSION: MEXICAN-AMERICANS, ASSIMILATION, AND RACE, Russel Sage Foundation, 2008 (Also available in Spanish)
• JUST NEIGHBORS?: RESEARCH ON AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINO RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, Russel Sage Foundation, 2011
• PIGMENTOCRACIES: ETHNICITY, RACE, AND COLOR IN LATIN AMERICA, The University of North Carolina Press, 2014
• DURABLE ETHNICITY-- MEXICAN AMERICANS AND THE ETHNIC CORE, Oxford University Press, 2019
• PIGMENTOCRACIAS. COLOR, ETNICIDAD Y RAZA EN AMÉRICA LATINA, Fondo de Cultura Económica; 1 edition (February 18, 2020)

Telles has received a Distinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association[11] and several other awards, including the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in demography, twice, and the Distinguished Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association (2009). He was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2009, elected vice president of the American Sociological Association and served in that capacity from 2010 to 2013, In 2018, Telles was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[12]

List of Awards:

Elected and Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018

Elected to Vice President of the American Sociological Association, 2010-2013

Elected to the Sociological Research Association, 2009

Distinguished Career Award, Latino Section, American Sociological Association, 2008

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for the Best Book in Sociology from the American Sociological Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in Social Demography from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in Social Demography from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2005 (for Race in Another America)

Distinguished Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for the Best Book from the Race and Ethnic Minorities section of the American Sociological Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

Best Book Award from the Latino Section of the American Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

Best Book Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

Hubert Herring Award for the Best Book in Latin American Studies from the Pacific Council for Latin American Studies, 2005 (for Race in Another America)

“Social Science Analysis of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America” 2008-2014

           Ford Foundation, New York 2008-14

Ford Foundation, Santiago and Mexico City 2009-11.

Various grants from Princeton University, 2008–13

“Examining Key Issues Affecting Workforce Development: Immigrant Workers, Other New Entrants in the Economy, and Latino and Black Relations”Ford Foundation (with Abel Valenzuela, Michael Stoll and Manuel Pastor) 2006-2007

“Global Network and Conference on Ethnic, Race and Caste Discrimination and Legal Remedies in Brazil, Central Europe, India, South Africa and the United States.” (with James Cavallaro of the Harvard Law School), 2005.

UCLA Center for International Studies  

Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

“The Paradox of Miscegenation. Race Relations in Brazil” Ford Foundation, 2000-2002

“Training Fellowship in Latin American Sociology” (with David Lopez and Maurice Zeitlin) Mellon Foundation. 1995-2005.  

“Racial Classification in Brazil” National Science Foundation, 1997-1999.  

“Mexican American Study Project” (with Ortiz):

National Institute for Child and Human Development [1 RO1 HD33436-O1A2], 1997-2000

Russell Sage Foundation, 1996–98, 2003–06

UC-MEXUS, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03

Haynes Foundation, 1996–98

Rockefeller Foundation, 1996–98

Ford Foundation, 1993–94, 1995–96

California Policy Seminar, 1994–95

Numerous grants from UCLA including the Institute of American Cultures, Academic Senate, California Center for Population Research, Office of the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor for Research, Dean of Social Sciences and Office of Academic Development  

Various Brazil Research Grants

Rockefelller Foundation, 1989–90

UCLA Academic Senate, 1989–96

Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. Forthcoming. “Racial Intermarriage in the Americas” Sociological Science.

Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. 2018 “Varieties of Indigeneity in Latin America" Social Forces. (October)

Telles, Edward. 2018. “Race, Latinos and the U.S. Census” The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 677(1): 153 - 164

Ortiz, Vilma and Edward Telles. 2017. “Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(3). October.

Dixon, Angela and Edward Telles. 2017. “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement” Annual Review of Sociology 43(1):405–24.

Telles, Edward. 2017. “Multiple Measures of Ethnoracial Classification in Latin America” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(13): 2340-46

Telles, Edward, René D. Flores and Fernando Urrea-Giraldo, 2015. “Pigmentocracies: Skin Color, Census Ethnoracial Categories and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 39-58

Telles, Edward and Tianna Paschel. 2014. “Who is Black, White or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America” American Journal of Sociology 120(3) November: 864-907.

Pereira, Krista M. and Edward E. Telles. 2014. “The Color of Health: Color, Racial Classification and Discrimination in the Health of Latin Americans” Social Science and Medicine. 116: 241-250.

Telles, Edward and Denia Garcia. 2013. “Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 48(3): October, 130-152

Telles, Edward and Stanley Bailey. 2013. “Understanding Latin American Beliefs about Racial Inequality” American Journal of Sociology 118(6): August, 1559-1595.

Telles, Edward E. and René Flores. 2013. “Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation and Status in Latin America” Hispanic American Historical Review 93(3): March, 411-449.

Flores, René and Edward Telles. 2012. “Social Stratification in Mexico: Disentangling Color, Ethnicity and Class.” American Sociological Review 77(3): 486-494.