Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the. Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia

Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By...

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Main Author: Kummels, Ingrid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2023]
Series:Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets-including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings-across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream-in real time
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (226 pages) 24 color photographs, 1 table
ISBN:9781978834828
DOI:10.36019/9781978834828

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