Second Accession

The archives presented in this guide are a second accession of papers acquired approximately one year after the earlier material, this time from Anzaldúa's family's home in South Texas. It includes the following series:

Series nine, Personal and Biographical, contains photographs in album pages of Anzaldúa and various friends; some of the people in the photographs are identified by name. This series also includes Anzaldúa’s teaching certificate, admissions notification from the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Texas, Austin, and a grade transcript from UT Austin.

Series ten, Correspondence, includes letters to Anzaldúa during the 1970s. The series also includes poetry and other documents sent to the UT-based publication HEMBRA; a few of these materials carry notes to Anzaldúa about sharing the materials.

Series eleven, Written Works, includes progressive versions of poems written and revised between 1969 and 1977. The series also includes short fiction and essays written and revised between 1966 and 1977 along with the text of a single speech. The guide lists the names of poems, fiction, and non-fiction pieces within each folder. The series also includes works and notes for works written when Anzaldúa was a student at Pan-American University, Texas A&I University, and the University of Texas at Austin. A couple of notes about her dissertation work appear in this series. Box 4, folder 3, "Through the Blow-Up," First Draft, undated, includes a short note about the content and structure of her dissertation; box 5, folder 7, "The New Fiction in Revolt," 1975, includes a short note about the qualifying exam and committee members.

Series twelve, Gigs and Teaching, includes materials from Anzaldúa’s time as a student teacher in 1967-68, materials from her time as a liaison between migrant camps and school officials in Indiana, and course materials from her work teaching La Mujer Chicana and other courses as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. While the series includes a few materials from Anzaldúa’s 2002 events at the Esperanza Center in San Antonio, Texas, the remainder of the materials in this series originate between 1967 and 1977.

Series thirteen, Collected Materials, includes the sub-series Subject Files, Course Notes, Course Material, Research Material, Collected Material/Others’ Work, and Clippings. The Course Notes and Course Material include documents from her student teaching as well as her undergraduate and graduate coursework. The Research Material includes her personal reading lists and reading notes.

Series fourteen, Oversized Materials, includes two sketch books and a cloth banner painted with quotations.