Call Me by My True Names
Professor Maylei Blackwell is the author of the landmark ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano movement (2011), and coeditor of ¡Chicana Movidas! New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (2018). Her book, Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing (forthcoming), draws on twenty years of research accompanying indigenous women’s organizing in Mexico and its diaspora. Her research on social movements in the United States and Latin America, transborder activism, and indigenous politics and migration has appeared in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil in journals such as Meridians, Signs, Aztlán, Journal of Latin American Studies, Desacatos, and Revista Estudos Feministas. She teaches Chicana and Chicano studies and gender studies and is affiliated faculty in American Indian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has served as the chair of the Abya Yala Working Group of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), and she is a co-creator and co-director of the digital story platform Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles (mila.ssc.ucla.edu).
Maylei Blackwell; Call Me by My True Names. Meridians 1 October 2019; 18 (2): 278–281. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7775674
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