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Cecilia Garabay did research on latino non-museum attenders and leisure time use in general among latinos which is very useful. I suspect you can find at least a summary by googling around. Also the Exploratorium did some research on non-attenders that ended up being revealing about ethnic differences in attitudes toward museum visits. There is some good info on the same subject, though not so much about non-museum attenders, in John Falk's newish book about identity.
I taught a seminar last year at NYU Museum Studies grad program along with Preeti Gupta called Museums Community and Identity. The issue of ethnicity, age, and museum attendance or non-attendance was front and center among the seminar participants, several of whom were people of color and all of whom were 20-somethings. Lots of fruitful anecdotal discussion about the students and their circle of friends, but Cecilia's research and the Explo research I mentioned above were among the few analytical pieces we found.
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On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Javier Rivera wrote:
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> I am very interested in the same subject but may I add that I am mostly
> interested in finding out why Latinos don't visit our museum.
> Again, has anyone ever done an extensive survey?
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> Javier Rivera
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> Hi everyone,
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> I would love to talk to people who don't visit our centre and find out
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> they aren't visiting. Has anyone done this before? What questions did
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> I'm contemplating online surveys and standing outside local shopping
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