Indigeneity in real time : the digital making of Oaxacalifornia / Ingrid Kummels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: community life and media in times of crisis -- Histories of mediatic self-determination -- Zapotec dance epistemologies online -- The fiesta cycle and transnational death on internet radio -- Ayuujk basketball tournament broadcasts: expanding transborder community interactively -- Turning fifteen transnationally: the politics of family movies and digital kinning -- Epilogue: Reloading comunalidad-Indigeneity on the ground and on the air.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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