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Abstract: How might digital public archives offer a more accessible modality for teaching and learning about marginalized histories in border regions? This presentation introduces two recently launched projects on Afro-Chicanx communities and Mexicana/Chicana activists in the borderlands. I will discuss development, methodology and initial observations of this multi-sited research.
About the Speaker: Dr. Michelle Téllez is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her public and academic scholarship focuses on transnational community formations, mothering, and gendered migration along the U.S./Mexico borderlands. She co-edited The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolución (2019) and is the author of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect (2021), winner of the 2023 National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book of the Year Award.