The Camille Guerin-Gonzales papers document the research, teaching, and other professional activities of Professor Camille Guerin-Gonzales on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus and elsewhere. It is primarily composed of research materials for two works. The first: "Mexican Workers, American Dreams" was published in 1994. The second "Mapping Working-Class Struggle in Appalachia, South Wales, and the American Southwest" remained unfinished at the time of her death. The collection also includes some of Camille's correspondence and materials documenting both her teaching at several campuses across the United States and her work with a variety of Chican@/Latin@ campus organizations.
The research materials for "Mexican Workers, American Dreams" include Professor Guerin-Gonzales's chapter by chapter notes, complete bibliographic references, and composition notebooks. There is also a great deal of primary source material including interviews and repatriation lists.
The research materials for "Mapping Working-Class Struggle in Appalachia, South Wales, and the American Southwest" include large amounts of reproduced primary sources from various institutions which include correspondence, interviews, legal documents, court proceedings, and corporate records regarding the encounters between coal workers, coal companies, and state and federal governments in the geographic regions the book set out to cover. Professor Guerin-Gonzales's work also drew heavily on oral histories drawn from a number of sources including the Huerfano County History Project, the work of sociologist Eric Margolis, and interviews she conducted herself from the late 1970s through to the early 2000s. Many of these oral histories are present in the collection both as transcripts and audio recordings on 1/8th inch tape.
In addition the collection contains Professor Guerin-Gonzales's professional correspondence in two sections, that which was collected by the UW Archives in 2008 and that which was collected again in 2019. Along with correspondence the collection includes a great deal of material documenting Professor Geurin-Gonzales's teaching, including student projects, journals, research papers, and feedback. Similar to the correspondence, this material is split into two sections, one from each chronological accession.
