This digital archive preserves and makes public a collection of the correspondence and other personal documents of a Mexican American family that migrated from the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to the states of Colorado and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century
Our work is a collaboration between the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Language in the small spaces
Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss
Memory, language, and healing
Essays in Honor of Prof. Chantal Kalisa. University of Nebraska Press (2019)
Ongoing Research
Heritage Speakers in the Midwest Project
Patterns of Spanish Maintenance and Loss among Latinx Families in Lincoln, NE
Eder Muniz (@calangoss), Avenida Sete de Setembro, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
Como si fuera de oro,
como un collar fino,
como ancho plumaje de quetzal,
así aprecio
tu canto verdadero:
con él yo me alegro.
-Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472)
Franco Martínez, Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, México,