Irene & Jorge Garcia Collection

Overview

 In 2009, Professor Jorge Garcia (CSUN) and his wife, Irene donated over 3,000 items from their personal collection of Chicana-o materials in 2009. The Irene & Jorge collection contains an assortment of self-published, printed materials ranging from 1906-1990 that address a variety of political, social, economic, and religious issues, many written within a socialist or communist ideology, in English or Spanish.

The Irene & Jorge Collection is a fascinating array of documentation from all eras, examining dissenting and disenfranchised groups from all over the world.  The collection includes pamphlets, booklets, journals, even cartoons.  Subjects include U.S. immigrant experience, U.S. and Canadian labor immigrant movements, Civil rights in the United States, Chicano Movement in the U.S., Capitalism, U.S. Expansionism, Labor, Segregation, Communism, Socialism, Marxism, Mexico, Cuba, China, Soviet Union, Vatican, British Empire, Puerto Rico, Poland, Korea, Hollywood, Wall Street, Czechoslovakia, South America, Central America, Yugoslavia, Africa, Israel, La Raza, Cesar Chavez, JM Keynes, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung or Chairman Mao).

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• Available in Library
• Digital Collection
• Finding Aide

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