Indigeneity in real time : the digital making of Oaxacalifornia /
"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 Stat...
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| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2023]
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| סדרה: | Latinidad.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530866 |
| סיכום: | "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"-- |
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| תיאור פיזי: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ביבליוגרפיה: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978834828 1978834829 9781978834798 1978834799 9781978834781 1978834780 |