Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Jorge Mariscal Papers
- Dates:
- 1973-2012
- Creators:
- Mariscal, George
- Abstract:
- Dr. Jorge Mariscal is an Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Chicano/a Literature at UC San Diego. His papers document his teaching, leadership, and advocacy roles on campus across the topical areas of student and faculty diversity at the University of California, the development of the Chicano/a and Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program (CLAH), his writings and research on Latinos and military service and El Movimiento, and Spanish literature.
- Extent:
- 3.6 Linear feet (8 archives boxes and one shoebox)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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Jorge Mariscal Papers. MSS 762. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Dr. Jorge Mariscal is an Emeriti Professor of Spanish and Chicano/a Literature at UC San Diego. His papers document his teaching, leadership, and advocacy roles on campus across the topical areas of student and faculty diversity at the University of California, the development of the Chicano/a and Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program (CLAH), his writings and research on Latinos and military service and El Movimiento, and Spanish literature.
Arranged in five series: 1) UC SAN DIEGO, 2) WRITINGS, 3) RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES, 4) TEACHING, and 5) AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dr. Jorge Mariscal (b. circa 1948) is an Emeriti Professor of Spanish and Chicano/a Literature at UC San Diego. Mariscal is the grandson of Mexican immigrants, and his father was a World War II veteran. In 1966 he graduated from Millikan High School in Long Beach, California. In 1968, at the age of nineteen, he was drafted in the U.S. Army to fight the war in Vietnam.
Mariscal later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Since the 1980s, he has served as an advocate for cultural diversity and Chicano/a voices and students on UC San Diego's campus, in addition to his teaching and administrative roles. Mariscal was a founder and director of the Chicano/a and Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program (CLAH) (now Chicanx and Latinx Studies at the Institute of Arts and Humanities), and former co-Director of the Dimensions of Culture Program at Thurgood Marshall College. His research interests include the Chicano Movement, cultural studies, and Latinos in the U.S. military, and he is active in Project YANO, a counter-recruitment organization of military veterans and activists who speak to young people about the realities of military service.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 2013; small addition 2022
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-11-04 13:58:33 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/Listening copies may be available for researchers.
- Terms of access:
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Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
- Preferred citation:
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Jorge Mariscal Papers. MSS 762. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533