Indigeneity in real time : the digital making of Oaxacalifornia / Ingrid Kummels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kummels, Ingrid, author.

Contributor:

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Series:

Latinidad

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zapotec Indians--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Zapotec Indians.

Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Sierra Norte (Oaxaca)--Social conditions.

Mixe Indians--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Mixe Indians.

Mixe Indians--Mexico--Sierra Norte (Oaxaca)--Social conditions.

Internet and Indigenous peoples--California--Los Angeles.

Internet and Indigenous peoples.

Internet and Indigenous peoples--Mexico--Sierra Norte (Oaxaca).

Communication and culture--California--Los Angeles.

Communication and culture.

Communication and culture--Mexico--Sierra Norte (Oaxaca).

Transnationalism.

Urban Zapotec Indians--California--Los Angeles.

Urban Zapotec Indians.

Mixe Indians--California--Los Angeles--Urban residence.

Manners and customs.

Mixe Indians--Social conditions.

Zapotec Indians--Social conditions.

Mixe Indians--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Sierra Norte (Oaxaca, Mexico)--Social life and customs.

Sierra Norte (Oaxaca, Mexico).

California--Los Angeles.

Mexico--Sierra Norte (Oaxaca).

Physical Description:

vii, 219 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Community life and media in times of crisis

Histories of mediatic self-determination : pioneer Oaxacan videos go transnational

Zapotec dance epistemologies online

The fiesta cycle and transnational death : community life on Internet radio

Ayuujk basketball tournament broadcasts : expanding transborder community interactively

Turning fifteen transnationally : the politics of family movies and digital kinning

Epilogue: Reloading comunalidad-indigeneity on the ground and on the air.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-209) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9781978834798

1978834799

9781978834781

1978834780

OCLC:

1333078766

Publisher Number:

99993617892