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Oct 12 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
When r we going to stop calling it by its name, RACIAL VIOLENCE?! When our Indigenous & Black children are attacked for the color of their skin, certain features, etc. it is not bullying!!! IT IS RACIAL VIOLENCE! WHITE (LATINX) SUPREMACY INHERENTLY TIED TO SETTLER COLONIALISM!!!
This sh*t is so triggering! It is an emotional rollercoaster! I just hope that for those children who like myself tried to hurt ourselves and internalized self-hate for how we look can overcome all this! #IndigenousAlways #Brownisbeautiful #Blackisbeautiful #BlackandBrown #LA
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Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) Profile picture
Oct 10
As a Zapotec Professor, born and raised in Koreatown, I am appalled to hear LA City Council members blatant racial attacks. Many of us Indigenous Oaxacans, however, are not surprised to hear this racial violence from non-Indigenous Latinx and Mexicans! It happens EVERYDAY!
I began my research on Indigenous Oaxacan experiences in the US because of my family's and my pueblos (not "villages") transnational autonomous practices across #LosAngeles & #Oaxaca. I concentrate on women and children precisely because of the racial violence we have
endured by Latinx & non-Indigenous mestizo Mexicans, yet that remains invisible by most. Being called "Pinche India fea!," "India Maria Baja del cerro"... and the number of spitts from my Latinx peers growing up attending #LAUSD from elementary to h.s.
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Aug 31, 2021
Syllabi ready! Some new readings I'm assigning to my Chicana/o-Latina/o courses (which I actually came across here):

Oro, Paul Joseph López. "Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements of Blackness/Indigeneity/AfroLatinidad." Postmodern Culture 31, no. 1 (2020).
Magaña, Maurice Rafael. "The politics of Black and Brown solidarities: race, space, and hip-hop cultural production in Los Angeles." Ethnic and Racial Studies (2021): 1-24.
Flores-Villalobos, Joan. "Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone." International Labor and Working-Class History 99 (2021): 96-121.
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Dec 19, 2020
They say to promote yourself, esp. if you're BIPOC, so here it goes: Professor Brenda Nicolas (Zapotec) received her PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA. Her work looks at the transborder communal experiences of Zapotec diasporas in Los Angeles. Specifically,
she looks at women’s and adult children of migrants’ participation in community sociocultural and political organizing to contest settler colonial logics of Indigenous erasure. Dr. Nicolas has an M.A. in Chicana/o Studies (UCLA) and an M.A. in Latin American Studies with a
sociology concentration from UC San Diego where she completed two master theses. She received her B.A. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from UC Riverside. Dr. Nicolas is the recipient of several fellowships, including: the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the UC
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