Jorge Mariscal Papers, 1973-2012 (MSS 762)

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Extent: 3.6 Linear feet (8 archives boxes and one shoebox)

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.

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.

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.

Container List

UC SAN DIEGO

Box 1 Folder 1
Proposal for the establishment of a Department of Ethnic Studies, 1989
Box 1 Folder 2
Adolfo Guzmán López. "Mixed messages: Chicano art in the border region," catalog for Victor Ochoa course on Chicano art, 1993
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Undergraduate admissions - Diversity policies, 1996-2002
Box 1 Folder 5
Coalition Against Segregation in Education (CASE) - "The crisis of diversity at UCSD", 1998
Box 1 Folder 6
K-12 outreach - CREATE Program critique, 1999
Box 1 Folder 7-9
Chicano/a and Latino/a Arts and Humanities minor (CLAH), 2000-2010
Box 1 Folder 10
International Studies Center Working Group, 2001
Box 1 Folder 11
Report card on UCSD by Chicano/Latino Concilio, 2001-2003
Box 2 Folder 1
Admissions - Comprehensive review, 2002-2003
Box 2 Folder 2
Chancellor's Diversity Ad Hoc Planning Committee, 2003-2004
Box 2 Folder 3
A report on the state of African American students, staff and faculty at UCSD by UJIMA Network; "Sourcebook for People of Color" draft, 2004-2005
Box 2 Folder 4-6
Underrepresented Faculty Task Force, 2004-2006
Box 2 Folder 7
Chicano/Latino Concilio - Task force documents, 2005-2008

Includes memo to Chancellor Fox with naming recommendations for Sixth College.

Box 3 Folder 1
Advisory Committee on Increasing Yeild of Underrepresented Students, 2006
Box 3 Folder 2
California Cultures in Comparative Perspective (CCCP), 2006-2007
Box 3 Folder 3
UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity - Work group report, 2007
Box 3 Folder 4-5
Faculty Equity Advisor program, 2008, 2010
Box 3 Folder 6
Remarks on struggle for diversity at UC, 2009
Box 3 Folder 7
Non-resident admissions and enrollment, 2009
Box 3 Folder 8
Diversity Accountability Framwork campus report, 2009
Box 3 Folder 9
"Chicano Legacy" mural installation, 2009
Box 3 Folder 10
Lumumba-Zapata College - Ephemera, ca. 1970, 2008-2009

Includes early university pamphlets describing 3rd College, and small printing entitled, "B.S.C.-M.A.Y.A. demands for the Third College, UCSD" (undated, likely early 1970s). Printed email from Arturo Madrid to Mariscal re: memories of the founding of Third College, and Chicano Studies.

Box 3 Folder 11
Committee on Admissions, 2010
Box 3 Folder 12
Black Student Union address - "State of Emergency" and response, 2010
Box 4 Folder 1
Administrative Commitments to Improve Campus Climate, 2010
Box 4 Folder 2-5
President's Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion, 2010-2012
Box 4 Folder 6
Announcement of VC for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, 2011
Box 4 Folder 7
Transfer Agreement Guarantee (TAG) Program, 2011
Box 4 Folder 8
Proposal - Institute on Global Humanities, 2015

WRITINGS

Box 4 Folder 9
Reviewers notes on drafts of Viet Nam anthology, 1996-1997
Box 4 Folder 10
The mystery of the Chicano Liberation Front (CLF), undated
Box 4 Folder 11
Cesar Chavez and the Chicano Movement, ca. 2002
Box 5 Folder 1
Osama bin Lopez, or Mexicans in the American Imaginary of Terror, ca. 2003
Box 5 Folder 2
How Latino/a/s lost in Bush's Perpetual war, 2003
Box 5 Folder 3
NACCS plenary talk on war, 2003
Box 5 Folder 4
"Tu Querida Presencia": Che Guevara and the Chicano Movement, ca. 2003
Box 5 Folder 5
"Tu Querida Presencia": Chicano/a militancy and the Cuban Revolution, ca. 2003
Box 5 Folder 6
El internacionalismo Chicano: El case de Cuba - With supporting materials on Che Guevara, 2004
Box 5 Folder 7
Panel presentation on Chicanos and American patriotism, "Mi raza sabe morir dondequiera", ca. 2004
Box 5 Folder 8
Homeland Security, perpetual war, and the future of Lations and Latinas in the United States, ca. 2005
Box 5 Folder 9
Power Point racisim, 2007

RESEARCH and SUBJECT FILES

Box 5 Folder 10
Aztlan Movement, 2002-2004
Box 5 Folder 11
Barrio Art (magazine, ed. F. Alvarez), ca. 1991
Box 5 Folder 12
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies - Papers prepared for the conference, "30 years after: The political, social, and cultural legacies of Mexico's 1968 Student-Popular Movement", 1998
Box 5 Folder 13-14
Centro Cultural de la Raza - Bylaws, meeting minutes, etc., 1999-2000
Box 6 Folder 1
Chicano Left and Chicano nationalism
Box 6 Folder 2
Chicanos in the 1940s
Box 6 Folder 3
Coalition teach-in response email, 2003
Box 6 Folder 4
Correspondence - Rudy Tovar, 2002-05
Box 6 Folder 5
Dialogue with Black Commentator re: Black and Brown communities in the US, 2003-2004
Box 6 Folder 6
Instituto de Investigacion Mexico Aztlan (IIMA) materials on the Chicano Movement
Box 6 Folder 7
Latino peace activism (incl. Fernando Suarez del Solar), 2003-04
Box 6 Folder 8
Latinos - Korean War
Box 6 Folder 9-13
Latinos and the military
Box 7 Folder 1-3
Latinos and the Viet Nam war
Box 7 Folder 4
Muñoz, Carlos, Jr. - Mindfield interview, 1997
Box 7 Folder 5
Said, Edward - Notes
Box 7 Folder 6
Tijerina, Reies López - Black/Brown relations, with material on Poor People's Campaign

TEACHING

Box 7 Folder 7
Syllabi, reading lists, bibliographies
Box 7 Folder 8-12
Literature and Español courses, 1981-1988
Box 8 Folder 1-5
Literature and Español courses, 1990-2001
Box 8 Folder 6
Spain - Baroque poetics
Box 8 Folder 7
Renassiance in Spain and Portugal
Box 8 Folder 8
Lazarillo de Tormes
Box 8 Folder 9
Francisco de Quevedo

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

Box 9 Folder 1
CALDERA-LA audiocassette, 1999 June
Box 9 Folder 2
NPR - Latino USA: Los Lobos audiocassette, undated
Box 9 Folder 3
"El Movimento Chicano" by Los Alvarados audiocassette, 1973
Box 9 Folder 4
"History of Chicano Rock" y Los Lobos audiocassette, undated
Box 9 Folder 5
Chicano Rap + UFW Songs audiocassette, undated
Box 9 Folder 6
Tijerina interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson (Pacifica Archive #155) audiocassette
Box 9 Folder 7
KPBS interview re: Aztlán and Viet Nam audiocassette, ca. 1999
Box 9 Folder 8
Santa Monica bookstore interview re: Aztlán and Viet Nam. Audiocassette recording by Radio Chicano, 1999
Box 9 Folder 9
"Vietnam Veterano" y Otras Rolas audiocassette, undated
Box 9 Folder 10
Good Neighbor Rhythms, and Lalo Guerrero: Trovador de Aztlan audiocassette, undated
Box 9 Folder 11
CD - "Chorizo Tonguefire" by Taco Shop Poets, 1999
Box 9 Folder 12
VHS - Eliezer Risco and Cecilia Serna at UC San Diego, 2003 June 2