Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- La Casa de la Raza is a non-profit community center on the Eastside of Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 1971, the mission of La Casa de la Raza is to develop and empower the Latino community by affirming and preserving the Latino cultural heritage, providing an umbrella for services and by advocating for participation in the larger community. This is a small collection mainly consisting of six recorded interviews with some of La Casa de la Raza's key co-founders and leaders, interviewed by UCSB Chicana/o Studies Professor Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval during October 2001. The collection also contains a small amount of ephemera including newsclippings and announcements about La Casa de la Raza. An additional VHS tape, (La Casa de la Raza and the Chicano artist community) originally housed in the Main Library, was digitized and added to this collection.
- Extent:
- 0.6 linear feet
- Language:
- and The collection is in English with some material in Spanish.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Casa de la Raza collection, CEMA 147. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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La Casa de la Raza is a non-profit community center on the Eastside of Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 1971, the mission of La Casa de la Raza is to develop and empower the Latino community by affirming and preserving the Latino cultural heritage, providing an umbrella for services and by advocating for participation in the larger community.
This is a small collection mainly consisting of six recorded interviews with some of La Casa de la Raza's key co-founders and leaders, interviewed by UCSB Chicana/o Studies Professor Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval during October 2001. The collection also contains a small amount of ephemera including newsclippings and announcements about La Casa de la Raza. An additional VHS tape, (La Casa de la Raza and the Chicano artist community) originally housed in the Main Library, was digitized and added to this collection.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift from UCSB Prof. Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, received in February, 2011. These were a set of 6 interviews conducted in October 200.There were no signed interview releases provided with the recordings, except for one by Thomas Costelo dated Feb. 9, 2011.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Salvador Guerena and Mari Khasmanyan, 2016.
- Physical location:
- The recordings have been digitized and are stored on the Library network. The original audio-cassettes are stored in the cold vault.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Casa de la Raza collection, CEMA 147. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062