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News release: Printed Pathways in US Latino Periodicals
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s US Latino Digital Humanities program (USLDH) announces the release of “Printed Pathways in US Latino Periodicals.” This digital project is a comprehensive authority list that contains robust bibliographic information about Latina/o authors and poets who published in US Latino periodicals. With over 4,800 records, “Printed Pathways” makes visible the complex network of Latina/o authors–who published where and who was mentioned in which newspapers. The records include data such as author name, nationality, gender, newspaper title and place of publication, genre, pseudonym and more. Over the past 30 years, Recovery scholars have contributed to this growing bibliography. The program’s initial deliverables included, among others, the creation of a comprehensive bibliography and index of periodicals. Thus, the records visualized in “Printed Pathways” is the culmination of decades of research by Recovery scholars. Gabriela Baeza Ventura (co-founder of USLDH, Executive Editor of Arte Público Press, and Associate …
Rare Book School Awards 15 Fellowships for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage
Congratulations to Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s USLDH Digital Program Manager, Lorena Gauthereau, for being selected as one of the fellows for the 2021-2023 cohort of The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage. ***Rare Book School news release: Fellowship program seeks to enhance understandings of multicultural collections among professionals, local community members, and broader publics Charlottesville, VA, 12 April 2021–Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has selected the second cohort of 15 fellows to join the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage (RBS-Mellon CH Fellowship). Fellows will participate in a three-year program which includes an orientation, Rare Book School coursework, community symposia, and other activities relating to multicultural collections and trainings. “We are especially grateful to the Mellon Foundation for granting us the flexibility to adapt key aspects of the program in light of the global pandemic. With …
UH Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Establish Puerto Rican Literature Database
$1.35 Million Grant Funds Open-Access Digital Portal of Archival and Contemporary Materials ***Reposted from UH News & Events press release: Sara Tubbs, “UH Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Establish Puerto Rican Literature Database.” 19 April 2021. uh.edu.*** The University of Houston has received a nearly $1.35 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a free, open-access digital portal for anyone to learn about or teach Puerto Rican literature. “El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project” (PRLP) includes a database in Spanish and English of approximately 50,000 assets (photographs, manuscripts, poems, videos and archival materials), a digital archive and additional resources that document the material existence and experiences of key Puerto Rican poets in the archipelago and U.S. diaspora. The data collected dates back to 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson enacted the Jones-Shafroth Act extending U.S. citizenship to all residents of Puerto Rico, to the present. …
CLIR Announces 2020 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards
***Reposted from: Smith, Kathlin. “CLIR Announces 2020 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards.” Council on Library and Information Resources. 31 March 2021. https://www.clir.org/2021/03/clir-announces-2020-digitizing-hidden-special-collections-and-archives-awards/ Please visit full list of projects and summaries the abstract for Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region. Washington, DC, March 31, 2021—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the award of $4.02 million to fund 16 digitization projects through the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. Twenty-eight institutions located in nineteen U.S. states and one U.S. territory will be involved in the projects covering subjects ranging from hip hop, fashion, and public media to plant specimens and whale reproduction. See the full list of projects and summaries at https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/funded-projects/. This is the sixth group of projects supported by the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Digitizing …
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Amplify Your Library with Women Centric Writings “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger by Clotilde Betances Jaeger Edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas “Every woman who gets accustomed to the yoke of marriage remains a slave,” Clotilde Betances Jaeger wrote in an article published in 1929. This revolutionary idea, which scandalized society at the time of its publication, reflects her passionate ideas in this collection of essays and articles that shines a light on the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century in New York’s Hispanic community. Clotilde Betances Jaeger was a Puerto Rican feminist, writer and intellectual who, in addition to championing women’s rights, advocated for racial equality, education rights and Puerto Rican independence. She questioned the role of the church, reflected on marriage and highlighted women’s roles in education, the economy and politics. Her writing was a call to arms, encouraging women to fight for their emancipation: “Woman, mother, wife, daughter, alone you have …
2020-2021 Research Assistants and Interns
Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage welcomes its 2020-2021 Research Assistants (RAs), undergraduate interns and volunteers.* RAs, interns and volunteers gain specialized training with regard to archives, archival scanning, document preservation, description protocols, metadata creation, databases, archival research, data curation and digital humanities platforms. Graduate Student Research Assistants Roselia Bañuelos, MSW/PhD student, Graduate College of Social Work. “What I’m most looking forward to at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program is being part of a project that is resurrecting the voices of our ancestors. I believe that life is created by the stories we share and what an honor to be part of a project that is revisiting history so we may have a more complete story to our beginnings.” Chris Flakus, MFA student, Creative Writing-Fiction. “As a long time admirer of Arte Publico Press, I am thrilled to begin working as a Research Assistant with this unique and culturally …
Houston-Based Arts Organizations Partner to Celebrate Latino Roots
Houston, TX—Arte Público Press and the Alley Theatre are collaborating to celebrate Latino storytelling in a series of online events during Hispanic Heritage Month. Each week from September 15 to October 15, Alley Theatre staff members will read an Arte Público Press bilingual children’s book for the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans’ (AAMA) Early Childhood Development Center; links to the virtual readings will be available to the larger community via both groups’ social media sites. To support and enhance the impact of this project, Arte Público Press, the University of Houston-based publisher of Hispanic literature, is offering supporters a special 50% discount off these books for donation to AAMA’s school or the school of their choice. Orders can be placed by phone (800-633-ARTE), email (bkorders@uh.edu) or fax (713-743-2847). Dates for the live readings and books to be read are: September 18 – My Big Sister / Mi hermana …
Leonor Villegas de Magnón: Entre Balas y Rugidos
We invite you to explore the new digital exhibit, “Entre Balas y Rugidos” (available in English and Spanish) that explores the various roles of Leonor Villegas de Magnón during the Mexican Revolution, her indispensability to the cause, and her wider significance in history. These digital exhibits were created by Melinda Mejia, an instructor of English and Humanities at Houston Community College. Mejía worked on the Villegas de Magnón archive during the Spring 2020 semester. La Rebelde Villegas de Magnón (1876-1955), known as “La Rebelde,” was a supporter of the revolutionary efforts and founded La Cruz Blanca Constitucionalista in 1913, an organization of nurses formed in 1913 to treat those injured in the fighting. Aware of the importance that women were playing in the Revolution, Villegas de Magnón hired a photographer to document their historical role. “Exploring the life and legacy of Leonor Villegas de Magnón through the rich collection of …