Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, November 4
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Pacific, 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. Eastern
Slides from Blackwell presentation
Maylei Blackwell is the author of the landmark ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (2011) as well as a co-editor of ¡Chicana Movidas! New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (University of Texas Press, 2018). Her forthcoming book, Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing (in press with Duke University Press), draws on twenty years of research accompanying indigenous women’s organizing in Mexico and its diaspora. Her research on social movements in the US and Latin America, transborder activism, and indigenous politics and migration have appeared in the U.S., Mexico, and Brazil in journals such as Latino Studies, Meridians, Signs, Aztlán, Journal of Latin American Studies, Desacatos and Revista Estudos Feministas. She is a Professor and Vice Chair of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Gender Studies and is affiliated faculty in American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a co-creator and co-director of the digital story platform Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles.