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Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage: A Case Study on US Latina/o Archives and Digital Humanities

  • Gabriela Baeza Ventura EMAIL logo , Lorena Gauthereau and Carolina Villarroel
Published/Copyright: March 25, 2019

Abstract

This article focuses on the work and efforts put forth by the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (Recovery) to create the first digital humanities center for US Latina/o Research: #usLdh. Recovery is a program to locate, preserve, and make available the written legacy of Latinas/os in the United States since colonial times until 1960. Through 27 years of successful work Recovery has not only been able to inscribe the excluded history of Latinas/os, but also has created an inclusive and vast digital repository that facilitates scholarship in this area of studies. This article focuses on the importance of recovery work in the writing, teaching, and understanding of history and considers how local personal archives have helped to fill in the gaps of mainstream history. We will detail the goals and challenges of this mission, as well as the importance of educating the community in digital methods that preserve and disseminate minority voices.

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Published Online: 2019-03-25
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