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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

1. 17 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 17 audio recordings reflecting Vigo's career in the field of sociolinguistics.

Subject

1. Black people > Cultural assimilation
2. Black people > Dominican Republic
3. Black people > Cultural assimilation > Dominican Republic
4. Black people > Puerto Rico > Social life and customs
5. Black people > Dominican Republic > Social life and customs
6. Black people > Languages
7. United States > Civilization > African American influences
8. Anthropologists > United States
9. Dominican Republic > Civilization > African influences
10. Spanish language > Foreign elements
11. Languages, Mixed
12. Language and culture
13. Creole dialects, French > Haiti
14. Ethnology > Dominican Republic
15. Anthropology > Research > Dominican Republic
16. Languages in contact > Dominican Republic
17. Anthropological linguistics > Dominican Republic
18. Vigo, José A., 1950-1987

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Vigo 1989-11

Biography (note)

1. José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. Born in Puerto Rico, Vigo migrated to New York as a teenager. He graduated from Hunter College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture Studies. In 1980, he was awarded a Masters in Philosophy degree from Yale University. From 1982 through 1983, Vigo con­ducted field­work in Samaná, Dominican Republic, research­ing the Cre­ole lan­guage and trav­el­ing fre­quently between the Domini­can Repub­lic and his hometown in Puerto Rico. At the time of his death in 1987 due to an AIDS-related illness, he was working towards his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. Although it was never completed, his dissertation, "Language Maintenance and Ethnicity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Samaná, Dominican Republic" was meant to exam­ine the processes of lan­guage shift among the descen­dants of a nineteenth-century colony of American freed slaves. The audio recordings in this collection are likely research materials collected by Vigo.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the José Vigo papers. (Sc MG 374).

Author

1. Vigo, José A., 1950-1987, creator.

Title

1. José Vigo audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1989]

Biography

1. José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. Born in Puerto Rico, Vigo migrated to New York as a teenager. He graduated from Hunter College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture Studies. In 1980, he was awarded a Masters in Philosophy degree from Yale University. From 1982 through 1983, Vigo con­ducted field­work in Samaná, Dominican Republic, research­ing the Cre­ole lan­guage and trav­el­ing fre­quently between the Domini­can Repub­lic and his hometown in Puerto Rico. At the time of his death in 1987 due to an AIDS-related illness, he was working towards his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. Although it was never completed, his dissertation, "Language Maintenance and Ethnicity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Samaná, Dominican Republic" was meant to exam­ine the processes of lan­guage shift among the descen­dants of a nineteenth-century colony of American freed slaves. The audio recordings in this collection are likely research materials collected by Vigo.

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the José Vigo papers. (Sc MG 374).

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1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Vigo 1989-11