The children of Solaga : indigenous belonging across the U. S.-Mexico border / Daina Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, Daina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--California--Los Angeles.

Immigrants.

Mexicans--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.

Mexicans.

Indians of Mexico--California--Los Angeles--Ethnic identity.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Social life and customs.

San Andrés Solaga (Mexico)--Social life and customs.

San Andrés Solaga (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 188 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating racial and social institutions in the U.S. and Latin America, and, in doing so, transform notions of Indigeneity and push the boundaries of Latinidad. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between Los Angeles, California and San Andrés Solaga, a Zapotec town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, The Children of Solaga centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world, and adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the study of Indigenous immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Sanchez, herself a diasporic Solagueña, argues that the lived experiences of Indigenous immigrants offer a unique vantage point from which to see how migration across settler-borders transforms processes of self-making among displaced Indigenous people. Rather than accept attempts by both Mexico and the U.S. to erase their Indigenous identities or give in to anti-Indigenous and anti-immigrant prejudice, Oaxacan immigrants and their children defiantly celebrate their Indigenous identities through practices of el goce comunal ("communal joy") in their new homes.

Contents:

Introduction

The Cargo System and Indigenous Belonging

Home of the Oaxacans

Returning to the Land of the Fallen Leaves

Music Follows Serranos

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503641389

1503641384