Image from The University of New Mexico Newsroom Mexican American, Folklore, Music, Lexicography Rubén Cobos (1911-2010) At age 16, Rubén Cobos and his penniless family arrived in Albuquerque from San Antonio, to say goodbye to his older sister Consuelo, a Presbyterian teacher who died from TB in a sanatorium a month later. Having escaped Piedras […]
Photo from the Francis L. K. Hsu Facebook page Chinese American, Anthropology, Folklore Francis L. K. Hsu (Xu Langguang) (1909-1999) Francis Hsu is generally known as an anthropologist. His psychological approach to folklore and folklife and his ideas about diasporic Chinese communities have not only expanded anthropological studies, but also influenced studies of Overseas Chinese,
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Professor Arthur L. Campa, Sr. sits at his desk in his office in the Spanish Department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico [1935?]. Image from Auraria Library via Denver Public Library Digital Collections. Mexican American, Folklore, Federal Writers’ Project,Cultural History Arthur L. Campa, Sr. (1905-1978) With the 1914 death of his
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“Recording Spirituals Sung by Ex-Slaves, Petersburg, VA.” Part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Photo from Hampton University Archives. Chemist, Educator, Oral Historian, Folklorist Roscoe Edwin Lewis (1904 -1961) Roscoe E. Lewis was born in Washington, D.C., the son of William Harrison Lewis and Mary Over Lewis in 1904. Equipped with a strong public education despite
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Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. African American, Music, Folklore, Education Willis Laurence James (1900-1966) Willis Laurence James was a musician, composer and music director, educator, concert violinist, lecturer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist of African American religious and secular music traditions of the
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Photo courtesy of the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida. Lydia Cabrera Papers, CHC0339. Cuban Folklorist, Ethnologist, Writer, and Literary Activist Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) Lydia Cabrera was one of the first writers to recognize and make public the richness of Afro-Cuban culture. She made valuable contributions in the areas of anthropology
Image from Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Folklore, Literature Arthur Huff Fauset (1899-1983) Arthur Huff Fauset was born in New Jersey in 1899. His father, Redmon Fauset, was an African American minister. His mother, Bella Huff, was Jewish. Fauset grew up in Philadelphia and earned his AB (1921), an MA (1923) and
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Photo of Mary Kawena Pukui taken when she worked at the Bishop Museum. She is working on the Hawaiian-language newspaper titled “Ka Na’i Aupuni.” Courtesy of Nanea Armstrong-Wassel and Kawena Pukui’s daughter, Patience Namaka Bacon. Native Hawaiian, Folklore, Narrative, Linguistics, Dance, Music Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniohiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonua Pukui (1895-1986) Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniohiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonua Pukui was born in 1895, during the
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Photo from the National Women’s History Museum Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore, Federal Writers’ Project, Activism Aurora Lucero-White Lea (1894-1963) Aurora Lucero-White Lea was born to parents Julia Romero and Antonio Lucero in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Throughout her life, Lucero-White was committed to the Hispanic community of New Mexico, and she strived to maintain and continue
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American Association of University Women-New Mexico. “Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert.” (1976). MSS 303 BC, Women of New Mexico, Catalog of AAUW exhibit on “Women in New Mexico”, Albuquerque Museum, February 1-June 6, 1976, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore, Foodways, Federal Writers’ Project Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert
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