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Southwest Project
A Study of Shifting Learning Roles


Significant Southwestern Data Added
July 2003 -

Completed

Reisdorfer, Kathryn. CHARLEY HONG, RACISM, AND THE POWER OF THE PRESS IN JEROME, ARIZONA TERRITORY, 1909, The Journal of Arizona History, Volume 44, Summer 2003, p. 133-146.

Pugsley, Andrea."AS I KILL THIS CHICKEN SO May I BE PUNISHED IF I TELL AN UNTRUTH" Chinese Opposition to Legal Discrimination in Arizona Territory, The Journal of Arizona History, Volume 44, Summer 2003, p. 170-190. http://www.library.arizona.edu/promise/andreapugsley.html

Andrea Pugsley received an M.A. degree in history from Arizona State University in 2001 and is currently an archives specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland. This article is adapted from her thesis, "The Chinese in Territorial Arizona Criminal Court Records." She would like to acknowledge Melanie Sturgeon and the staff of the Arizona State Archives for their assistance with this project. This article has been added to the publications section of The Promise of Gold Mountain [August 2003]

Additional resources added to Esther Don Tang Honors section

Soza Family History: Antonio Campa Soza 1845 - 1915 redesigned

Like many of the websites for Through Our Parents' Eyes that were created between 1995-1998, the appearance looks "old." One our student workers in the LTC redesigned the site and it has received positive feedback from the Soza community. This site comes from a book written by Edward Soza, Arizona Pictorial Biography. [SG January 2004]

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946

In February 2003, the WRA Camps website was redesigned. Some images were revised in the process, although we hope to scan the entire collection again. The original website was created in the mid-1990s and with better scanners and monitors at our disposal, as well as larger screen resolutions being common among today's users, providing larger retrievable images would be good practice. [SG February 2004]

Books By Edward Soza

Mr. Soza's five other books were contributed to the Project and staff in the Learning Technologies Center has been scanning and marking up text since the summer of 2003. With the addition of these five works, significant, original research as been made publically accessible to students and scholars of the U. S. Southwest. [SG March 2004]

In Development

Del Corazón: Mariachi & Folklorico Heritage in Tucson

Del Corazón: Mariachi & Folklorico Heritage in Tucson is a jointly sponsored project with the UofA that is funded by a grant from the Starbucks Foundation. It includes the participation of the Pima Community College Community and Oral History Center and is centered around students involved in the mariachi band and folklorico dance group of Amphitheater High School. With the support of adult mentors drawn from local Starbucks stores and the community, our students will interview Mexican American community members about the importance of mariachi and folklorico to their culture and heritage. Students will write essays about the experience and compile transcripts of the interviews for inclusion in printed booklets and a website. Read the proposal to the Starbucks Foundation as an RTF file. In addition, a proposal to the UofA Foundation has been submitted that would fund development of online instructional modules designed to guide others through the process of training mentors to work with students on oral history projects. We think that if this is funded it will enable the UofA to provide an extremely important resource to other communities and guarantee this project's sustainability. Contact Stuart Glogoff, UofA Learning Technologies Center. [August 2003]

Sierry Petes, Señor Migra, and Desert Caballeros: Preserving Borderlands Musical Heritage

Submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts. Earliest award notification is April 2004 for FY 2004/2005. The University of Arizona Library's Special Collections houses hundreds of reel-to-reel audiotapes that are at considerable risk due to aging, chemical reactions of compounds contained in the tape media, and years of storage in previous facilities that lacked appropriate preservation conditions. These audiotapes represent a unique collection of U.S. Southwest and Borderlands music, dance, and oral traditions. Without a sustainable program to preserve these collections, many may be lost and future access denied to the community, students, artists, and researchers. The goal of Sierry Petes, Señor Migra, and Desert Caballeros: Preserving Borderlands Musical Heritage is to institute a process that preserves these at-risk audiotapes in order to ensure their availability to future generations. Read the concept paper as RTF file. Contacts: Stuart Glogoff, Dr. Janet Sturman School of Music, Shan Sutton UofA Library Special Collections.

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