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Mexican American Collections
Campesino (oil on canvas),
Daniel DeSiga, 1976
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The Stanford University Libraries hold the country's largest research
collection of primary sources on the Mexican American experience
in the United States with more than 10,000 linear feet. Housed primarily
in the Department
of Special Collections, it includes the
personal papers of writers like Arturo Islas, Luis Leal and Cherrie
Moraga.
Also represented in the collection are extensive works of visual
artists like Barbara Carrasco, Laura Aguilar, Harry Gamboa and the
papers of Ester Hernandez and Lourdes Portillo. Archives of organizations,
such as those of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense Fund), the California Rural
Legal Assistance and the National Council of La Raza, are also part
of the Mexican American collections held at Stanford.
Contacts
If you need assistance in your research please contact the curator:
Adán
Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American
& Iberian Collections
adan.griego@stanford.edu
Tel:(650) 723-3150
Fax:(650)725-1068 or 723-9383
Or the Curator's Assistant:
Ever Rodriguez,
ever.rodriguez@stanford.edu
Tel: (650)723-9143
Last modified:
April 26, 2007
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