Papers of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, writer and professor of Spanish literature. Blanco Aguinaga was one of the founders of UC San Diego's Literature Department, Third College (Thurgood Marshall College), and the Third World Studies Program. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, some teaching and program planning materials, and many manuscript drafts of his writings.
Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Papers, 1946-2010 (MSS 647)
Extent: 20.4 Linear feet (51 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Carlos Blanco Aguinaga was born November 9, 1926 in Irún, in the Basque Country of Spain. He and his family were exiled during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, eventually moving to Mexico. After receiving a scholarship to Harvard University, where he majored in philosophy, Blanco Aguinaga returned to Mexico where he received his doctorate in Spanish Literature at the College of Mexico in 1953. His first published book, Unamuno, teórica del lenguaje, was based on his doctoral thesis.
Blanco Aguinaga was recruited by UC San Diego in 1964 to head the Spanish Section of the new Department of Literature. While at UC San Diego, he was also involved in the founding of Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) and the Third World Studies Program, and served as faculty advisor for the Mexican American Youth Association (now known as MEChA). He also taught at the University of the Basque Country, and lectured on Spanish literature at many institutions around the world. He published literary criticism and fiction in both Spanish and English, particularly on the themes of the Spanish Exile of 1939 and the Generations of 1898 and 1927. Carlos Blanco Aguinaga died on September 12, 2013.
Papers of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, writer and professor of Spanish literature. Blanco Aguinaga was one of the founders of UC San Diego's Literature Department, Third College (Thurgood Marshall College), the Third World Studies Program, and the Chicano Studies Program. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, some teaching and program planning materials relating to the founding of programs at UC San Diego, and many manuscript drafts of his writings. The bulk of the collection is in Spanish, though some materials are in English.
Arranged in four series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) UC SAN DIEGO, and 4) WRITINGS.