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
Aug 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Dec 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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
