Indigeneity in Real Time : : The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia / / Ingrid Kummels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kummels, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.) :; 24 color photographs, 1 table

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Community Life and Media in Times of Crisis -- 2. Histories of Mediatic Self-Determination: Pioneer Oaxacan Videos Go Transnational -- 3. Zapotec Dance Epistemologies Online -- 4. The Fiesta Cycle and Transnational Death: Community Life on Internet Radio -- 5. Ayuujk Basketball Tournament Broadcasts: Expanding Transborder Community Interactively -- 6. Turning Fifteen Transnationally: The Politics of Family Movies and Digital Kinning -- 7. Epilogue: Reloading Comunalidad—Indigeneity on the Ground and on the Air -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index