Ithaca College

Dr. Blackwell will be addressing this years Discussion Series theme "Beyond Community" by presenting her work on the increasing complexity of community in Los Angeles in the context of indigenous migration from Latin America. Based on collaborative research on tranborder community building and political participation among indigenous women migrants active in the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (The Indigenous Front of Binational Organization) (FIOB), her research seeks to better understand how indigenous migrant women advocate for themselves as they navigate the multiple systems of racial meaning that shift, overlap, and hybridize in the process of migration. 

When: Monday, September 21 from 7-9PM

Where: Clark Lounge

Maylei Blackwell is the author of ¡Chicana Power!  Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (University Texas Press, 2011). Her research has accompanied indigenous women’s organizers in Mexico, feminist movements and sexual rights activists throughout Latin American, and farm worker women’s organizing and indigenous migrant activism in Oaxacalifornia. She is an Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in LGBT Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Along with professors Mishuana Goeman and Wendy Teeter at UCLA, she directs the Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles Project, a digital story mapping project underway with indigenous communities of Los Angeles.

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