Committee on Latin American and Chicano Studies 1972-1974

The Gilbert G. Gonzalez Collection consists of journal articles, book chapters, personal notes, newspaper articles, lesson plans, Mexican consulate records, bibliographic entries and citations, handwritten research notes, marginal notes, and numerous yellow Post It notes. Primary and secondary source materials in this collection are written in both English and in Spanish. There are no translations provided for the materials written in Spanish.

Series I: Personal Papers and Writings dates from 1970 to 2001 and includes several drafts of Professor Gonzalez's 1974 UCLA dissertation, The System of Public Education and Its Function Within the Chicano Communities, 1920-1930; handwritten research notes and drafts of manuscripts, including materials published as Progressive Education: a Marxist Interpretation (circa 1982), Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (circa 1990), Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (circa 1994), and Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest (circa 1999); and preliminary notes for, and correspondence with, the publisher of Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico and Mexican Immigration, 1880-1930 (circa 2003).

Series II: Los Angeles Schools includes research notes taken from the Los Angeles School Journal (1920s); Los Angeles School Education Bulletin (1920s); Los Angeles School District Publications (1920s and 1930s); and Los Angeles School Board of Education Minutes (1950s).

Series III: Chicano Studies at the University of California at Irvine offers such primary source materials as annual reports, correspondence, and minority and academic personnel employment statistics produced by the Chicano/Latino Faculty Association and the Affirmative Action Committee at the University of California at Irvine, where Dr. Gonzalez held memberships (1980s and 1990s). Also included in this series are Dr. Gonzalez's lesson plans for his Chicano studies courses.

Series IV: Manuscript Materials contains numerous photocopies of selected book chapters from scholarly publications, articles published in trade periodicals, contemporary southwest monographs, and articles from the Spanish-language Mexican newspaper La Opinión, which was published in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Subjects discussed include the history of Mexico (1860s to 1890s), Mexican social life and customs (1900 to 1920s), the education of Mexican children in the southwest (1920s), the condition of Mexican agricultural laborers and Japanese growers in southern California (1930s), agricultural labor strikes and unionism (1930s and 1940s), and intelligence test scores of Mexican children (1940s and 1950s). Also included are numerous undated 5" x 7" and 3" x 5" index cards bearing Dr. Gonzalez's handwritten notes on such topics as the state of U.S.-Mexico history and thought, Mexican immigration, and Mexican culture and labor.