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
Business Number: 310-243-3895
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 .

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

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Scope and Contents

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.

Biographical / Historical

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