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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Title: Mario T. Garcia Chicano Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MS 205
Contributing Institution:
San Diego History Center Document Collection
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
7.75 Linear feet
(12 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1956-1976
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English and Spanish.
Abstract: This collection contains papers relating to the professional and political life of Chicano scholar and historian Mario T.
Garcia during his years in San Diego in the early 1970s.
creator:
Garcia, Mario T.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Katrina White on July 10, 2012.
Collection processed as part of grant project supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous
funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Preferred Citation
Mario T. Garcia Chicano Collection, MS 205, San Diego History Center Document Collection, San Diego, CA.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into ten series:
Series I: Mario Garcia Personal Papers
Series II: SDSU Educational Papers
Series III: UCSD Educational Papers
Series IV: San Jose State College and Sacramento State College Papers
Series V: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA) Papers
Series VI: Cultural and Political Papers
Series VII: Articles and Magazines
Series VIII: Collegiate Newspapers (English)
Series IX: Community Newspapers (English)
Series X: Newspapers (Bilingual and Spanish)
Items within each series are arranged by subject, except for Series VIII-X which are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Chicano scholar Mario T. Garcia during his time in San Diego
in the early to mid-1970s. It also includes documents and ephemera related to the San Diego Chicano community, and the Chicano
and anti-war movements of the early 1970s. There are educational papers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD),
San Diego State University (SDSU), and Sacramento and San Jose State Colleges, all of which Garcia taught at during his graduate
studies. The collection also includes a vast compilation of local, state and national community newspapers and periodicals,
as well as numerous collegiate newspapers and publications from UCSD, SDSU, San Jose and Sacramento State. Documents of note
include rare original flyers and posters related to the Delano grape boycott and other United Farm Workers activities, as
well as posters and ephemera from the general Chicano movement and the Chicano anti-war movement.
Biographical / Historical Notes
Mario T. Garcia received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in History at the University of Texas, El Paso. He went on to receive
his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. While going to school for his Ph.D., Garcia was a lecturer in Chicano
Studies and History at San Diego State University. He held that position from 1970 to 1974. While teaching at SDSU, he was
involved in the campaign to establish a Center for Chicano Studies on-campus, while also working closely with the student-run
organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán). He was also active in the Open Admissions controversy at SDSU,
and the movement surrounding Third College at UCSD, as well as a member of the Young Socialist Alliance and Raza contra la
Guerra. Garcia was awarded his Ph.D. in history in 1975 based on his doctoral dissertation titled “Obreros: the Mexican workers
of El Paso, 1900-1920.” In 1975, he began working at the University of California, Santa Barbara as Acting Assistant Professor
of Chicano Studies and History, where he continues to teach today. His other teaching positions included teaching at Third
College at the University of California, San Diego and at San Jose State College. Garcia also taught at Yale briefly from
1990 to 1992, later returning to his position as a faculty member at UC Santa Barbara. Along with being a professor of Chicano
Studies, Garcia has written a variety of articles for publication and was involved in composing the anthology entitled
New Perspectives on Chicano History. Garcia currently serves as the Director of the Latino Leadership Project and the Research Liaison between the Department
of Chicano Studies and the Center for Chicano Studies at UCSB. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and Fullbright Scholar, Garcia has
received numerous book awards including the 1998 Virginia McCormick Scully Literary Award and the 1981 and 1990 Southwest
Book Awards. Some of his books include
Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (1981),
Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (1989),
Católicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History (2008) and
Blowout: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice (2011).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers 741202, 750129, 761207, 770101.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Alurista
Association of Chicano Historians.
Barrio, Raymond
Buenaventura, Enrique
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.
Camejo, Antonio
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993
Chicano Council on Higher Education.
Cortes, Carlos E.
Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984
Garcia, Mario T.
Garcia, Richard
Gonzales, Rodolpho, 1928-2005
Guzman, Ralph C.
Halstead, Fred
Jenness, Linda
Lorenz, Jim
National Caucus of Chicano Social Scientists (U.S.).
Nunez Tellez, Rene
Olivarez, Elizabeth
Ortiz, Ricardo Chavez
Palomar College.
Puente, Alberto G.
Raza Unida Party (U.S.).
Rios, Santiago, R
Rodriquez, Armando M.
Rodriquez, Olga
Ruiz, Raul
Salazar, Ruben, 1928-1970
San Diego City College.
San Diego Historical Society.
San Diego State University.
San Jose State University.
Socialist Workers Party.
Stanford University.
Thompson, Hunter S.
United Farm Workers of America.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Los Angeles.
University of California, San Diego.
University of California, Santa Barbara.
University of Colorado, Boulder.
University of Texas at El Paso.
Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.).
Anti-war demonstrations
Berkeley (Calif.)
Boulder (Colo.)
Canneries
Chicano literature
Chicano movement
El Paso (Tex.)
Fullerton (Calif.)
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Mexican Americans -- Education
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching
Sacramento (Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.)
San Jose (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Teaching
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)