Recent Research
Taking California's Temperature
Despite making grand promises to improve California during his recent “State of the State” address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plans are doomed to fail unless he is able to build a statewide consensus on clear reform priorities, according to an analysis by Cal State Northridge’s Center for Southern California Studies.
Latino Scorecard: 2006
Center researchers collaborate on United Way sponsored Latino Scorecard.
2005 Mayoral Election Map
A mapping project developed by researchers in Cal State Northridge’s Center for Southern California Studies shows that support for Los Angeles’ new mayor came from nearly every corner of the city.
CSUN Ecomonic Impact Study
Read the CSUN Social and Economic Impact Study, performed by Center researchers.
Center's Report on Public Safety
Latino Scorecard 2003: Grading the American Dream
Report released 10/2003
ARCHIVED WORKING PAPERS
Paper #1: Employment Patterns in the San Fernando Valley, 1990-1994 (1998) James Allen and Eugene Turner, CSUN Geography
Changing employment patterns in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley is traced in this exploratory study. The spatial distribution of thirteen significant industries is examined in addition to the shifts in employee numbers over time.
Paper #2: The Changing Face of AIDS in Los Angeles and the Nation (1999) Stella Z. Theodoulou, CSUN Political Science and Sheila Onnen, UC Santa Barbara
The authors explore the changing face of AIDS with insight into the relationship between demographics, policy, and perception of the disease.
Paper #3: Race, Class, and the Formation of Enclave Consciousness: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Secession Movements in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Seattle (1998) Thomas J. Hogen-Esch, CSUN Political Science
The theme of "discontented" communities in America's cities and the movement to secede into independent entities lies at the heart of this 32-page narrative. Arguing that clear trends in these actions are demonstrated in four major urban areas, Dr. Hogen-Esch opens discussion centering on the heart and re-distribution of political power in the late 20th century.
Paper #4: Undocumented Mexicans in California: Disenfranchising Some of our Best and Brightest 21st Century Citizens (2002)
Fred Krissman, UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Base on a decade of fieldwork, this 47-page work explores the consequences of popular and public policy anti-immigrant initiatives that have reduced undocumented California residents to the status of disenfranchised criminals. Using two rural enclaves in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California, the author weaves a compelling story of segregation and pluralism set within a changing California culture.
Paper #5: Neighborhood Council and Minority Communities in Los Angeles: Will the history of racism in planning negate the promise of the program? (2002) David R. Diaz, CSUN Urban Studies and Planning and Chicana/o Studies Departments.
By characterizing Los Angeles' environmental, secession, and growth control movements as a struggle between pro-growth development interests and the city's upper and middle-income homeowners-a struggle that has excluded the city's minority communities-Dr. Diaz weaves a powerful framework from which to evaluate the potential of Los Angeles' new Neighborhood Councils as vehicles for democratic empowerment.