Scope and arrangement
The José A. Vigo papers consist of materiasl reflecting Vigo's dissertation topic, "Language Maintenance and Ethnicity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Samaná, Dominican Republic", which is a study of the processes of language maintenance and language shift among the descendants of a 19th-century American colony of freed people. Materials include research proposals, papers, field notes, and undergraduate papers pertaining to linguistics and anthropology. The collection also contains numerous bibliographies and articles written by other scholars, pertaining to the history of Samaná, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, the Creole language, and Cuba. Additionally, there are publications prepared by the Northeast Center for Curriculum Development for a community school district in the Bronx, New York, regarding Puerto Rican and African influences in the United States. Many publications are written in Spanish. Other materials include transcripts of interviews, and documents related to a course in Haitian Creole.