Indigenous Archives

The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

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Author(s)
Boj Lopez, Floridalma
Language
English
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Abstract
Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults in Los Angeles, Indigenous Archives examines how Mayas in diaspora actively forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109103
Keywords
Indigeneity; immigration; youth; cultural production; settler colonialism; archives; community engaged research; Guatemala; Maya diaspora; transnational racism; genocide; intergenerational poverty; exclusion; anti-Indigenous racism; 1982 Río Negro Massacres; Discovering Dominga film; Maya Achí peoples; Algona Iowa; Baja Verapaz; intergenerational; epistemology; Maya clothing; mobility; La Comunidad Ixim; queering kinship; children's literature; social justice organizing; mobile archives; Maya Womxn; photography; intergenerational dialogue; Latinidad
DOI
10.1215/9781478061755
ISBN
9781478061755, 9781478061755, 9781478029564, 9781478033011, 9781478094470
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina USA, 2025
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Classification
Indigenous peoples
Pages
200
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/