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!
Looking for some fun reading that’s a little bit spooky? 👻📚 Check out this post written by our @SERHouston-@BankofAmerica intern, Jennifer that lists @artepublico books for children and adults that weave folklore into contemporary tales. https://t.co/P3g2mbl2Jm
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day!
Also, reminder NOT to claim indigeneity because your DNA results tell you you are 1/16th of a indigenous group. Indigeneity is an experience, often of oppression, erasure and discrimination, based on that group.
Visiting and reviewing different archives like: The Mexican Revolution and the United States, Bordersights, Embattled borderlands, Torn Apart / Separados, Delis Negrón Digital Archive is key to belong us understand the importance of visualization and representation #DHLatinx
Latinx digital humanities? Tell us all about it! With @LGauth19 & @fronteriza956 I'm co-editing a special issue of Chiricú Journal on “Latinx Digital Humanities: Method, Theory, and Praxis.” Submit by 8/15/23. Find the CFP at https://t.co/mzjtNLoVZk and tell all your friends!
November 2 at 5:30 my amazing colleague will be speaking at #UWisc. I love her framing of fugivity—it was quite inspirational for my own work on chicana mobility. @PorChicana
“To the shock of tribal leaders, these data were then subsequently downloaded by unknown government officials and emailed to nongovernment employees in a massive data breach by the Treasury.” https://t.co/WgxBbcHGpN
“Tribes have the right to authorize—or not—the sharing and future use of such data for reservation lands and tribal affiliation.” https://t.co/WgxBbcHGpN