Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Racial Disparity in Metropolitan Chicago examines seven quality of life measurements: income, wealth and employment, education, housing, transportation, health, the lives of children and the criminal justice system. This report, by examining these seven systems, not just one, creates a unique context for understanding both the complexity of these individual systems and the relationships between these systems.
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Persistent racial and ethnic segregation has continuing implications for the social, political, cultural, and economic vitality of Chicago region. This report demonstrates the reality of such concentrations, and analyzes why they persist. We are particularly interested in assessing the impact of housing discrimination on job and wealth opportunities for people of color. Findings and recommendations are drawn from reports on this subject written since the last series of reports commissioned by the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago in 1990.
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Fabiola Varela-Garcia, Professor of Modern Languages worked with Casa Guatemala, a community organization serving Guatemalan immigrants. The project sought to understand and advocate for Mayan speaking immigrants in Chicago.
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Peer intervention in risk-taking among youth was a project developed between the principal and the faculty of Pierce Elementary School and Dr. Elizabeth Vera who has volunteered her services at Pierce School for a number of years. As a McCormick Faculty Fellow at CURL, she and 15 graduate students in counseling psychology in the School of Education interviewed 7th and 8th graders and made recommendations for strategic interventions.
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As part of the Midwest/Northeast Voter Registration Education Program, thirty volunteers were trained by Loyola faculty and graduate students to administer a telephone survey to determine the level of Latino participation in the democratic process. The research team published their findings in Harvard's Journal of Hispanic Policy.
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