1911-1974
Origination : Cardenas, GilbertUniversity of Notre Dame. Center de Estudios Chicanos.
Gilbert Cardenas Papers (GCD), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Papers on Mexican Americans collected by Gilbert Cardenas for purposes of scholarly research, filmed in the order in which he kept them.
Once Director of the Center de Estudios Chicanos at the University of Notre Dame, Gilbert Cardenas went on to serve as a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. He returned to Notre Dame as holder of the Samora Chair in Latino Studies, Director of Latino Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Fellow of the Kellogg Institute.