Presented By: Department of History
Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and their New Geographies of Mestizaje
Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Undisciplined // Global Theories of Critique 2021-22
All meetings are on Zoom, and open to all publics.
The Global Theories of Critique (GTC) workshop this year revolves around the practice of un-disciplining knowledge. Each speaker will open up the session with the body of theory and/or practice they strive to un-discipline and challenge in their work. Followed by a round-table discussion of the speakers’ work that the participants will read beforehand.
In our November meeting, we will be rethinking the concept of indigeneity in the context of the migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the United States since 1994.
Fri, Nov 12, 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
"Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and their New Geographies of Mestizaje"
Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.
Register in advance for this event here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdeugrjoiGNdLSP8YS8lxfbhI53giJsjn. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Abstract:
Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those from Mexico and Mesoamerica traveling as family units. As a consequence, according to the 2020 US Census, the Native American population in the US increased by 86% since 2010. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken indigenous language in the United States, while Mixtec is taught as part of the bilingual education curriculum in New York City. This is challenging how we define indigeneity in the United States, our official categories of recognition. Latin American indigenous people in US cities and towns not only bring into sharp relief different hemispheric modes of defining indigenous identity, they also challenge the ongoing biopolitical function of mestizaje and indigenismo in Latin America. How does the mass migration that we are witnessing of indigenous peoples require a hemispheric rethinking of indigeneity? Of mestizaje? Of who gets to sing the nation-state now, and in what languages?
For this event, we will read the following 2 pieces. They will be sent to participants prior to the event:
1. Saldaña-Portillo, "Where is the Indian in Aztlán?" (forthcoming/unpublished article)
2. Saldaña-Portillo, "Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón" in Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón (Duke UP)
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture and the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan.
All meetings are on Zoom, and open to all publics.
The Global Theories of Critique (GTC) workshop this year revolves around the practice of un-disciplining knowledge. Each speaker will open up the session with the body of theory and/or practice they strive to un-discipline and challenge in their work. Followed by a round-table discussion of the speakers’ work that the participants will read beforehand.
In our November meeting, we will be rethinking the concept of indigeneity in the context of the migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the United States since 1994.
Fri, Nov 12, 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
"Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and their New Geographies of Mestizaje"
Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.
Register in advance for this event here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdeugrjoiGNdLSP8YS8lxfbhI53giJsjn. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Abstract:
Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those from Mexico and Mesoamerica traveling as family units. As a consequence, according to the 2020 US Census, the Native American population in the US increased by 86% since 2010. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken indigenous language in the United States, while Mixtec is taught as part of the bilingual education curriculum in New York City. This is challenging how we define indigeneity in the United States, our official categories of recognition. Latin American indigenous people in US cities and towns not only bring into sharp relief different hemispheric modes of defining indigenous identity, they also challenge the ongoing biopolitical function of mestizaje and indigenismo in Latin America. How does the mass migration that we are witnessing of indigenous peoples require a hemispheric rethinking of indigeneity? Of mestizaje? Of who gets to sing the nation-state now, and in what languages?
For this event, we will read the following 2 pieces. They will be sent to participants prior to the event:
1. Saldaña-Portillo, "Where is the Indian in Aztlán?" (forthcoming/unpublished article)
2. Saldaña-Portillo, "Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón" in Who's the Indian in Aztlán? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón (Duke UP)
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture and the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan.
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