Olivia Cadaval speaks on a panel during the fiftieth anniversary Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2017.Photo by Joe Furgal, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. Mexican American, Activism Olivia Cadaval 1943-2025 Olivia Cadaval was a scholar, activist, and mentor who exemplified the values of cultural democracy. Committed to public sector folklore, Cadaval mentored countless young scholars interested in […]
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
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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