Indigenous genres of the human : locating the intersections of indigeneity and Latinidad / Gabriela Raquel Ríos

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ríos, Gabriela Raquel, 1981- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2026

Summary:

"In this work, scholar Gabriela Raquel Ríos considers how Latina/o/x communities engage in the ethical reclamation of indigeneity. Through case studies that include testimonios and other Indigenous storytelling practices, Ríos reveals how cultural logics of colonization continue to shape—and often constrain—understandings of indigeneity across Latin America and in the United States. Addressing different genres of human and what contemporary indigeneity and reclaiming indigeneity looks like across Latin American contexts, chapters in this work examine digital bruja poetry, Aymara women’s Lucha Libre in Bolivia, Raramuri dance in Mexico, and Indigenous Khipu in the Andes. The author weaves her own story of being from southern Texas and traveling to Mexico throughout the book. Bridging Sylvia Wynter’s theory of “genres of the human” with critical Latinx indigeneity studies, Chicana/o/x studies, decolonial theory, and rhetorical new materialisms, this book challenges readers to rethink what it means to be human, Indigenous, and Chicanx in the wake of colonial violence. Rather than reinforcing binaries defined by settler colonialism, Ríos proposes a framework that centers community knowledge and grounded practices. Her work opens space for dialogue, listening, and healing, emphasizing that reclaiming indigeneity requires attention to the stories, movements, and rhetorical practices that emerge from within communities themselves"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Introduction : Testigos de maíz : One South Texan Chicana’s “theory in the flesh”

Tracing and “unsettling the coloniality of being” in new materialist discourse : Making othered ontologies matter

Brujería feminism and the rise of digital brujas

(Re)assembling the cholita : Cholita bodily arts in the lucha libre

Iwígara : Rarámuri dance as archive of biocultural diversity

Khipu structures of coding and decolonial approaches to object-oriented rhetorics

Conclusion : On Chicanx Indigeneities

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Ríos, Gabriela Raquel, 1981- Indigenous genres of the human

ISBN:

9780816552689

0816552681

OCLC:

1583238832