Welcome We're an archival repository that preserves Latino history in Arizona and the Southwest. Since 1970, we've compiled a distinguished collection of manuscripts, photographs, books, newspapers, and ephemera. Today, we continue to acquire primary and secondary sources that complement the instructional and research needs of the ASU community and the general public. Somos un repositorio de archivos que preserva la historia de los latinos en Arizona y el suroeste. Desde 1970, hemos compilado una distinguida colección de recursos primarios y secundarios que complementan las necesidades de enseñanza y investigación de la comunidad de ASU y el público en general. What do we collect? / ¿Qué coleccionamos? Personal Records: Material that documents an individual’s life and achievements. (e.g. Diaries, Correspondence, Oral Histories) Family Records: Material that documents a family’s history and roots in Arizona and the Southwest. (e.g. Genealogy Records, Family Artifacts, Photographs) Organization Records: Material that documents an organizations history and their work with a community. (e.g. Meeting Minutes, Correspondence, Financial Records) Published Material: Material that focuses on Latino history and culture. (e.g. Rare Books, Newspapers, Recordings) Personales: Material que documenta la vida y logros de un individuo.  (e.g. Diarios, Correspondencia, Historias Orales) Registros Familiares: Material que documenta la historia y las raíces de una familia en Arizona y el suroeste. (e.g. Registros de Genealogía, Artefactos Familiares, Fotografías) Registros de Organización: Material que documenta la historia de las organizaciones y su trabajo con la comunidad. (e.g. Actas de la Reunión, Correspondencia, Registros Financieros) Material Publicado: Material que se concentra en la historia y cultura de Latinos. (e.g. Libros Raros, Prensa, Grabaciones) , Collections of note Franco and French Families Papers Documents the family's political and social presence in Arizona between the 1930s and the 1990s. Finding aid for the Franco and French Families Papers Los Mineros Photographs Documents the lives of Mexican and Mexican-American copper miners in Arizona and New Mexico between 1900s and 1970s. Finding aid for the Los Mineros Photographs Chicanos Por La Causa Records Documents the history of CPLC, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Latinos through education, economic development, social services and affordable housing since 1969. Finding aid for Chicanos Por La Causa Records , Information Access the collection Materials in this collection can be viewed by appointment in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138). Please make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or call 480-965-4932 for more information. Questions? Ask an Archivist Resources Chicano/a Research Collection Library Guide ASU Digital Repository Arizona Archives Online ASU Distinctive Collections Policies Camera Use Agreement Using our collections in publications , Nancy Godoy Associate Archivist nancy.godoy@asu.edu 480-965-2594

Welcome Black Collections, a new archival repository within the Community-Driven Archives Initiative at ASU Library, focused on creating a robust community collection dedicated to documenting the lived experiences of Black people living and thriving in Arizona. As part of the award-winning CDA Initiative established in 2017 with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Black Collections seeks to establish and implement programs and services that will engage, educate and empower Arizona’s Black community to preserve currently silenced narratives and history. Building this infrastructure and relationships with historically marginalized communities takes time and patience, a deep desire and passion to create change and highly trained students, staff and professionals. , Why create Black Collections? “I want Black Collections to be an important collection that the Black community of Phoenix and Arizona are proud of. Everybody deserves to have their stories documented and the ability to see themselves within the archival record. Black Collections is about working with community to preserve Black history and stories in Arizona.” – Jessica Salow, assistant archivist of Black Collections , Highlighted Collection J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Documents the work and legacy of artist, educator and mentor of generations of young artists, Dr. Jefferson Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Visit the finding aid for the J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Papers   , LIFT Initiative elevates Black Collections Black Collections was created as part of ASU’s LIFT (Listen, Invest, Facilitate, Teach) Initiative. In the fall of 2020, President Crow’s office shared a list of 25 actions to support Black students, faculty and staff. On point 23, the action reads, “ASU has committed to providing funding to sustain the Community-Driven Archives initiative in the ASU Library in order to enhance the historical record of and the university’s and library’s engagement with underrepresented communities.” You can help CDA and Black Collections recover ASU’s Black history to reflect the scholarship and academic accomplishments of the Black community. Make a gift today. , Information Access the collection Materials in this collection can be viewed by appointment in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138). Please make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or call 480-965-4932 for more information. Questions? Ask an Archivist Jessica Salow Assistant Archivist of Black Collections jessica.salow@asu.edu , Resources Black Collections Symposium LibGuide Arizona Archives Online ASU Digital Repository ASU Distinctive Collections Policies Camera Use Agreement Using our collections in publications Connect with us Follow Community-Driven Archives on social media!     , News and blog More news Department of English celebrates 125th anniversary with special events, including a history exhibit Read more about the "Department of English celebrates 125th anniversary with special events, including a history exhibit" article Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona Read more about the "Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona" article ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona Read more about the "ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona" article University Archives chronicles more than 140 years of Sun Devil history Read more about the "University Archives chronicles more than 140 years of Sun Devil history" article , ASU Events

Join us in honoring Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). Below is a roundup of blog posts, exhibits, and other resources from our member libraries. Arizona State University Chicano/a Research...

Tracking anti-CRT efforts introduced at the local, state, and federal levels.

Lloyd Lionel Gaines applied to the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936. Despite an outstanding scholastic record, Gaines was denied admission based solely on the grounds that Missouri’s Constitution called for “separate education of the races.” Because Missouri had no public law school that admitted Black applications, state law required the state to pay Gaines’ tuition at public universities in Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska. Attorneys from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) identified Gaines’ case as a good vehicle to begin the incremental process of challenging the ignominious precedent of “separate but equal” established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they sued the University of Missouri seeking an order granting him admission to its Law School.

Policing data is vital to improving police accountability and transparency. In 2021, Arizona enacted a law requiring law enforcement agencies in the state to co

The emerging culture war over the holiday is misguided. In reality, Juneteenth celebrates one of the greatest triumphs of America and its founding principles.

Present-day courts, practitioners, and scholars continue to cite to and rely upon cases involving slavery and enslaved persons to construe, interpret, and apply

Accountability is a well-worn word in social justice circles. The three of us, one a member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, one of us African-American, one of us white, have worked hard to figure out what accountability means to us as we attempt to walk our social justice talk. We have done this because we’ve seen too often how the concept of accountability gets (mis)used in interpersonal games of tit for tat, manipulations aimed at getting people to follow an agenda rather than reach for a shared vision. We know how challenging it is to build community-wide accountability when we are spinning in ever increasing dysfunctional circles personally.

The Florida St. Thomas University College of Law has recently rebranded to the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University in recognition of the prominent Black civil rights lawyer. Crump is a Florida State University College of Law graduate and has offices in California, Florida, and Washington, D.C. He is widely recognized […]

This Article offers a detailed portrait of the potentially negative systemic effects of the growth of autonomous vehicles on racial and economic justice in traf

A longstanding justification for the institution of property is that it encourages effort and planning, enabling not only individual wealth creation but indirec

Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School An exhibition curated by Kathryn James and Fred Shapiro

Universities Studying Slavery (USS) is a consortium of over ninety institutions of higher learning in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Scotland, Ireland, and England. These schools are focused …

Education Week summarizes where state policymakers are attempting to censor the way teachers talk about racism and gender.

This paper addresses “Orientalization,” which I define as the objectification of Asian women as the “Oriental Woman”—the stereotypical image of the Ex…

This article is written as a series of letters between a law professor and a medical doctor in reaction to the events surrounding the rise of the Black Lives Ma

In June of 2022, Michigan Department of Corrections (“MDOC”) made national news when NPR reported that non-English language dictionaries were banned in state pr

Victim Services in Colorado Examined From an Equity Perspective

The development of law is inextricably linked to matters of race and ethnicity. The stories of minority citizens--the texture of their lives, the prejudices they have endured, and their struggles for fair treatment--have been documented in the pages of legal opinions, as judges over the years have wrestled with fundamental questions of racial bias and inequality. Studying race, ethnicity, and the law is challenging for many reasons, not the least of which is the prime difficulty of defining what we mean by race. Even the choice of words used to identify minority individuals has social and political ramifications. How law functions to oppress and liberate minorities has been a longstanding topic in the field of sociolegal studies. Issues of race, ethnicity, and law have taken on new urgency in recent years, as affirmative action and reverse discrimination claims as well as reapportionment battles and racial hate speech cases have come before the courts. This special issue of Law and Human Behavior focuses on social science research on race, ethnicity, and the law. Articles in the special issue consider the influence of race and ethnicity on substantive law, legal processes, and crime and deviance, and illustrate the tensions and contradictions that pervade the law's treatment of racial and ethnic minorities. We conclude that taking race and ethnicity into account may force scholars to reconceptualize theories about law's impact and that a greater number of racial and ethnic minority scholars would enrich the field of sociolegal studies.

Buried within Adelante is evidence of a fleeting attempt at prison reform and oversight in Connecticut. Is history repeating itself?

This continuous publication journal is is the primary publication for peer-reviewed articles relating to all forms of coercive confinement, including imprisonme...

In 1968, almost 50 years ago, the Supreme Court validated, in a case called Terry v. Ohio (1968), a common police practice known as stop and frisk, so long as an officer could justify the action on the basis of a newly developed standard: reasonable suspicion. Today, policing agencies use stop and frisk prophylactically, stopping in some cities tens or even hundreds of thousands of people annually. These developments and the litigation around the strategy in New York City and elsewhere provide an opportunity to revisit Terry and to consider recent research in law and social science regarding stop and frisk. This review focuses on three issues: the evolution of legal doctrine pertaining to stop and frisk, arguments regarding the effectiveness of stop and frisk as a mechanism to control and reduce crime, and a delineation of the relevance of the theory of procedural justice to our understanding of the interleaving of the law and social science of stop and frisk.

Recent controversial interactions of police with the public have become an issue of important concern for public and governmental leaders, who have openly quest...

Blacks and whites in the U.S. disagree over police performance and differ on the causes of fatal encounters between blacks and police.