Tag Archives: Latino/as

RG 248 Centro Cultural César Chávez

The collection RG 248 Centro Cultural César Chávez (4Cs) is now available! The 4Cs was established at OSU in the 1970s to provide a location and facility for various academic, cultural, recreational, and social events related to Chicano/Latino/Hispanic culture. The 4Cs is managed … Continue reading

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Borderless Stories Exhibit

Borderless Stories Exhibit The traveling exhibit Borderless Stories is now at the OSU Valley Library! Borderless Stories shares the lives of immigrants in Rural Oregon. The exhibit is coordinated by the Rural Organizing Project (ROP) with the Immigrant Family Advocates (IFA) in … Continue reading

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Miracle Theatre Group Inventory Project

The Miracle Theatre Group of Portland, Oregon is the Northwest’s premier Latino/a Arts and Culture Organization. For almost thirty years, Teatro Milagro’s mission is to share the diversity of Latin America and advocate for global unity through theatre. Like many theatre groups, … Continue reading

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Sundown Towns in Oregon Display, Fall 2012

Sundown Towns in Oregon Display, 2012 This Fall term Professor Jean Moule taught her course TCE 408H “Sundown Towns in Oregon” and she invited the OMA to be a part of the classroom experience! Natalia, OMA Archivist, and Tiah, SCARC’s … Continue reading

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OMA Exhibit!

  OMA Exhibit As part of the Special Collections and Archives Research Center‘s new Signature Areas Exhibit, the OMA is featuring numerous manuscript, photo, and oral history collections available to researchers! Exhibit Photos and Information Oregon’s African American and Latino/a … Continue reading

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The OMA in the OLAQ

OLAQ Fall 2012 One of the OMA collections is featured in this Fall’s Oregon Library Association Quarterly (pages 21-27)! It’s the Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection and in the article we discuss the history of the collection, access to the photos, and a brief … Continue reading

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The OMA and CL@SE

CL@SE Inaugural Week Poster This past week was the inaugural week of OSU’s Center for Latino/a Studies and Engagement (CL@SE) and the OMA was excited to be a part of the festivities. CL@SE’s mission is to promote engaged research and outreach … Continue reading

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Oregon Latino/a Heritage Conference

On Saturday September 22, the OMA was thrilled to attend the Hispanic Heritage and Activism in Oregon conference at Pacific University in Forest Grove, a one day gathering of academics, students, and community members organized by the Centro Cultural de Washington … Continue reading

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Braceros Program Photographs Exhibit

Braceros Collection Exhibit In honor of Latino/a Heritage Month, the Oregon Multicultural Archives presents “The Braceros Collection” a photographic exhibit documenting the Bracero Program in Oregon. In 1942 the United States government signed a labor agreement with Mexico that allowed its … Continue reading

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Minorities in the Barometer, the 1970s

Barometer Reel, 1977 and various 1970s articles Throughout the year many students researching minority groups and multicultural issues on campus ask for assistance locating appropriate resouces. One of the resouces we always suggest is OSU’s student newspaper, The Daily Barometer. The Barometer is … Continue reading

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