Costumbres: A Digital Archive of Latino Spanish in the Los Angeles Area SPC.2023.017
Karen Clemons
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2023-09
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson, CA 90747
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archives@csudh.edu
Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Costumbres: A Digital Archive of Latino Spanish in the Los Angeles
Creator:
Dominguez, Miguel
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2023.017
Physical Description:
2.74 Gigabytes
(one PDF document; 523 pages)
Date: June 22, 2023
Language of Material:
English
, Spanish; Castilian
.
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Costumbres is a living archive or an on-going ethnography of contemporary language practices, usages, or costumes of a major U.S. ethnic
group. Its mission is to collect, organize, and make public a continual account of vernacular Spanish in the Los Angeles area
and neighboring communities.
Costumbres is only available as a digital item. For access to
Costumbres please contact the Gerth Archives and Special Collections.
Since approximately 1980, the data in this document was and continues to be collected by the director- Dr. Miguel Dominguez
Professor Emeritus of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages CSU Dominguez Hills, as a participant observer and an investigator
in the field, as well as university Spanish instructor hearing (and overhearing) conversations or chats in a variety of contexts,
and to a lesser extent, assessing the Spanish of latino students in course work and activities.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ethnography
Linguistics
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Latinx
Latino Spanish
Latinx community