Brent Campney's research collection on race relations in South Texas

Collection — Container: 179

Identifier: ELIBR-0179

Staff Only

Content Description

The Brent Campney Collection consists of research files (chielfly newspaper clippings from online news databases) accumulated during Dr. Campney's research into race relations in South Texas, particularly the Rio Grande Valley, during the 19th and 20th Centuries. The collection has a series of folders dealing with (in most cases) long forgotten episodes of racism and violence in South Texas and are intended to 1) inform interested scholars that these incidents occurred and; 2) provide a starting point for their own research into the incidents.

Dates

1852 - 1990

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley assumes no responsibility.

Conditions Governing Use

Some of the contents of this folder originated at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas Austin. See individual file records for more specific information on collection origination.

Citations should include the associated information. For reproductions and other uses, please contact the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection.

Materials in our collections may be protected by copyright. Publication, transmission, or reproduction of items protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Whenever possible, accurate information about the copyright status of material is provided in the item record and/or documentation for material in the collection. The Library does not own the copyright in much of the material in its collection and is therefore unable to grant copyright permission to publish those items. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine copyright or other use restrictions and obtain proper permission when publishing or distributing materials found in these collections. Researchers must make their own assessments of rights in light of their intended use. Additional information about copyright and fair use is available via the Library's Copyright Guide at https://utrgv.libguides.com/copyright

Biographical

Brent M. S. Campney is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015) and more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Western Historical Quarterly, American Nineteenth Century History, Journal of Southern History, and Middle West Review.

Extent

18 Folders (Legal)

1.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged to the folder level, by subject or specific event.

General

Please contact University Library, Special Collections and University Archives at (956) 665-2726 or via email at archives@utrgv.edu for more information and requests.

Subjects

Discrimination against Mexican Americans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Mexican Americans--Violence against--Texas Subject Source: Local sources
Racism--Texas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings