{"product_id":"the-children-of-solaga-indigenous-belonging-across-the-us-mexico-border-9781503641372","title":"The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging Across the U.S.-Mexico Border","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating racial and social institutions in the U.S. and Latin America, and, in doing so, transform notions of Indigeneity and push the boundaries of \u003ci\u003eLatinidad\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between Los Angeles, California and San Andr?s Solaga, a Zapotec town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, \u003ci\u003eThe Children of Solaga\u003c\/i\u003e centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world, and adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the study of Indigenous immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Sanchez, herself a diasporic Solague?a, argues that the lived experiences of Indigenous immigrants offer a unique vantage point from which to see how migration across settler-borders transforms processes of self-making among displaced Indigenous people. Rather than accept attempts by both Mexico and the U.S. to erase their Indigenous identities or give in to anti-Indigenous and anti-immigrant prejudice, Oaxacan immigrants and their children defiantly celebrate their Indigenous identities through practices of \u003ci\u003eel goce comunal\u003c\/i\u003e (\"communal joy\") in their new homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daina Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503641372","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159023878281,"sku":"9781503641372","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_09b2ab40-2379-488e-b009-b490307eb0ce.jpg?v=1732614390","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-children-of-solaga-indigenous-belonging-across-the-us-mexico-border-9781503641372","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}