A. Rolando Andrade Collection
Collection Overview
Abstract
Subject files, screenplays and other literary productions, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, class material, and taped interviews of Bowling Green State University professor in Ethnic Studies A. Rolando Andrade. Includes extensive material on Mexico, Baldemar Velasquez, Day of the Dead, and Andrade's activities in local civic, university, and social organizations.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-2007
Extent
5 Cubic Feet (11 archive boxes (of varying sizes) and 2 record cartons)
Creator
- Andrade, A. Rolando (Person)
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection relates primarily to Andrade's career at BGSU, the Kansas Youth Missions tours and the BGSU student trips to Mexico that Andrade chaperoned and his research interests.
One of Professor Andrade's career-long interests was the study of Mexico's political plans, especially during the historic period of La Reforma. Included in the collection are his research files and an unfinished manuscript on this topic. The research files contain copies of over thirty political plans, all in Spanish. Some of the files include English translations and Andrade's comments. The manuscript contains three near-complete chapters, while the rest of the sections are in various forms of completion. Several books on the Mexican constitution in the collection complement this series.
The collection also includes correspondence and news clippings regarding Baldemar Valasquez, founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), and a file illustrating Andrade's nomination of Valasquez for a BGSU honorary degree. Other items of interest are a speech on the Day of the Dead traditions in Mexico, books on Panama, FLOC publications, two Mexican Rotary publications, and an educational guide to Latino music culture of Toledo, Ohio. There are also fifteen audio cassettes of interviews, radio broadcasts, and other conversations with Andrade covering Latino issues, such as religion, labor, and education. As with the publications, some of the tapes are in Spanish.
Also of interest is Andrade's typewritten reminiscence of the first Kansas Youth Missions Tour that he chaperoned in 1960, along with four scrapbooks for subsequent Kansas Youth Missions trips to Mexico. There are two planning files for the "Chapman in Mexico" programs that Andrade developed as well as seven photograph albums of the BGSU summer in Mexico programs.
A particular strength of the collection is the over 1,200 color slides, mostly taken by Andrade, of Mexican cities, art, architecture, scenery, and people. Although no scrapbook exists in the collection for the 1960 Kansas Youth Missions Tour, there are color slides in the collection from that trip.
Researchers of Mexican folk art may find a rare book on the artist José Guadalupe Posada in the collection of interest. Almost all of the publications in this collection are oversize and in Spanish.
The screenplays in the collection were written by BGSU graduate, Kevin Andrade, A. Rolando Andrade's son. It is not known whether any of them have been produced.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. A. Rolando Andrade was an Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. He was born and raised in Mexico. His Venezuelan mother grew up in Panama and his father was a minister in Mexico and the United States. Andrade earned two bachelor's degrees from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma and worked as a pastor in Kansas and Oklahoma before beginning his academic career. His master's and doctoral degrees are from the University of Oklahoma, where he taught for two years before coming to Bowling Green.
Professor Andrade began his career at BGSU as an assistant professor in 1977 and was promoted to associate professor in 1982. From 2001 until his retirement in 2008, he taught in the Chapman Learning Community/Chapman Community at Kohl. While at BGSU, he developed a "Summer in Mexico" program, during which he took students for a two- to six-week academic exploration of Mexico and its culture. He established and was the liaison for a cooperative program between BGSU and the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara.
His other accomplishments include being the founder of Educators in College Helping Hispanics Onward, organizing the Latino Network Committee of BGSU, and serving as chair for BGSU's Human Rights and Cultural Diversity committees. He is also the former chair of the Bowling Green Human Relations Commission, and the city's 1992 Citizen of the Year. He was president of the Bowling Green Rotary Club in 2001-2002.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Copyrights for the screenplays in the collection are held by Kevin R. Andrade and only he may issue permission for their use.
Language of Materials
Materials in English and Spanish
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The material was donated to the Center for Archival Collections in August 2007 by A. Rolando Andrade. Additional material was donated by Professor Andrade in June 2008.
- Title
- Guide to the A. Rolando Andrade Collection
- Author
- Dana Nemeth, Cindy Radford
- Date
- September 2007, July 2008, January 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English