University of California, Santa Barbara

Davidson Library

Department of Special Collections

California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives

 

GUIDE TO

THE GARZA, BEN COLLECTION,

1970-1973.

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Collection Number: CEMA 092.

 

Size Collection:  0.2 linear feet (1 half-size document box).

 

Acquisition Information: Undetermined.

 

Access restrictions: None.

 

Use Restriction: Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB.  All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections.  Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. 

 

Processing Information:  Collection processed by Michelle Wilder, May 24, 2004.

 

Location:  Del Norte.

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SCOPE NOTE

 

Ben Garza was involved in the Chicano Student Movement while a student at UCSB.  He was an amateur photographer and recorded events and meetings.  This small collection came to CEMA from the UCSB Library’s Colección Tloque Nahuaque with no known provenance.   Of particular interest are the few but significant photographs including on photograph taken at City Hall during the Chicano Student Movement at UCSB and one photograph of Cesar Chavez during a speech he was giving on UCSB campus.  Ben Garza’s autobiographical statement is very helpful; his thoughts on his life and work add depth and context to the photographs.

 

CONTAINER LIST

 

Box   Folder                           Content

 

1        1                                     Garza, Ben, biographical sketch, ca. 1970

1        2                                     Essay titled The Chicano Community Seminar Project, in Relation to                                                           Erving Goffman’s “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”, Ben                                                           Garza, 1971

1        3                                     Essay titled La Raza Libre Launches An Attack on MECHA: A ‘Cycle of                                                           Conflict’ That Resembles The Cuban ‘Bay of Pigs’, author unkown,                                                           n.d.

1        4                                     Flyer advertising the sale of Mexican Student por la Raza, The Chicano                                                           Student Movement In Southern California 1967-1977 by Juan
                                                          Gómez-Quiñones, n.d.

1        5                                     Photographs, 13 images including Teatro Campesino performing in
                                                          Santa Barbara in 1973, “Towards City Hall” a May 1973 photo depicting                                                           a Chicano student (Arnulfo Casillas) addressing Santa Barbara City                                                           Council at City Hall during the Chicano student protest at UCSB in                                                           May 1973 and one photograph of Cesar Chavez when delivering a                                                           speech at UCSB.