Chicana por mi Raza
Description: making humanities matter...
I am a scholar of feminist of color genealogies who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Since my earliest days as a graduate student, I have been interested in the archive—what it tells us, what it cannot say—largely as a result of my exposure to the archives of Tejana folklorist Jovita González Mireles. As a Master’s Student at the University of Texas, I had the good fortune of working with Dr. Jose Limón on a recovery proje
Most recently, my work has centered on extending this feminist of color genealogy into the 1960s and 1970s through Chicana por mi Raza a national digital humanities project that seeks to create an online interactive archive of oral histories and material culture documenting Chicana Feminist praxis from 1965-1985.
This project, along with my work with El Museo del Norte ( a community engagement project in partnership with activist and public historian, Elena Herrada) has to allowed me to rethink the politics of scholarly production and to re-imagine its possible “publics.”
Chicana por mi Raza