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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Jorge Mariscal Papers
Creator:
Mariscal, George
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0762
Physical Description:
3.6 Linear feet
(8 archives boxes and one shoebox)
Date (inclusive): 1973-2012
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.
Languages:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
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.
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.
Jorge Mariscal Papers. MSS 762. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 2013; small addition 2022
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/Listening copies may be available for researchers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chicano movement -- History
Minority college students
Discrimination in education -- California
Armed Forces -- Minorities
Racism in higher education
United States -- Armed Forces -- Hispanic Americans
Mariscal, George
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty -- Archives