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Blanco Aguinaga (Carlos) Papers
MSS 0647
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Papers
Creator:
Blanco Aguinaga, Carlos
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0647
Physical Description:
20.4 Linear feet
(51 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1946-2010
Abstract: Papers of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, writer and professor of Spanish literature. Blanco Aguinaga was one of the founders of UC
San Diego's Literature Department, Third College (Thurgood Marshall College), and the Third World Studies Program. The collection
contains a small amount of correspondence, some teaching and program planning materials, and many manuscript drafts of his
writings.
Languages:
Spanish; Castilian
.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, writer and professor of Spanish literature. Blanco Aguinaga was one of the founders of UC
San Diego's Literature Department, Third College (Thurgood Marshall College), the Third World Studies Program, and the Chicano
Studies Program. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, some teaching and program planning materials relating
to the founding of programs at UC San Diego, and many manuscript drafts of his writings. The bulk of the collection is in
Spanish, though some materials are in English.
Arranged in four series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) UC SAN DIEGO, and 4) WRITINGS.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Papers. MSS 647. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Carlos Blanco Aguinaga was born November 9, 1926 in Irún, in the Basque Country of Spain. He and his family were exiled during
the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, eventually moving to Mexico. After receiving a scholarship to Harvard University, where
he majored in philosophy, Blanco Aguinaga returned to Mexico where he received his doctorate in Spanish Literature at the
College of Mexico in 1953. His first published book,
Unamuno, teórica del lenguaje, was based on his doctoral thesis.
Blanco Aguinaga was recruited by UC San Diego in 1964 to head the Spanish Section of the new Department of Literature. While
at UC San Diego, he was also involved in the founding of Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) and the Third World
Studies Program, and served as faculty advisor for the Mexican American Youth Association (now known as MEChA). He also taught
at the University of the Basque Country, and lectured on Spanish literature at many institutions around the world. He published
literary criticism and fiction in both Spanish and English, particularly on the themes of the Spanish Exile of 1939 and the
Generations of 1898 and 1927. Carlos Blanco Aguinaga died on September 12, 2013.
Acquired 2011, 2015; small addition on Chicano Studies Program donated in 2022 by Jorge Mariscal.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty -- Archives
University of California, San Diego. Third College -- History
Thurgood Marshall College -- History
University of California, San Diego. Third World Studies Program -- Archives
Blanco Aguinaga, Carlos -- Archives