Critical Latinx Indigeneities Forum

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A book launch event moderated by Simón Ventura Trujillo. 

A book launch event featuring Simón Ventura Trujillo, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Paul Joseph López Oro, and Bianet Castellanos.This forum on Critical Latinx Indigeneities features scholars whose research on Indigenous Latinx cultural politics pushes the boundaries of Latinx, Latin American, Indigenous, and Black studies to provide innovative analyses of race, gender, capital, and power in the contemporary moment. Their research points to the different ways that this field is challenging settler colonial logics of Native erasure, antiblackness, and migrant precarity while advancing transnational conceptualizations of solidarity, decolonization, and Indigenous continuance. The event will be moderated by Simón Ventura Trujillo whose new book Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler-colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.Simón Ventura Trujillo is an Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies in the English Department at New York University. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches and researches on Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, Borderland methodologies, de-colonial social movements, and comparative racialization in the Americas.Co-Sponsored by NYU Center for the Humanities and the Native Studies Forum. --Paul Joseph López Oro is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He teaches courses on Black Latin American and U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black diaspora theories and ethnographies, and Black feminisms/queer theory. His research interests include Black politics in Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. AfroLatinidades, Black Latinx LGBTQ movements and performances, and Black transnationalism. Bianet Castellanos is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the departments of American Indian Studies and Chicano &amp; Latino Studies. For the past three decades, she has collaborated with Maya communities in Mexico and their diasporas in the United States. Her research centers on developing indigeneity as an analytic to interrogate mobility across the Americas. Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera is an Associate Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies teaching in the American Cultural Studies curriculum. Her academic accomplishments and research pertain to the field of Latinx national migration, indigenous communities in the United States and Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor with the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU. She has published over twenty-five articles in U.S. and Latin America on revolutionary subjectivity, subaltern politics, indigenous peoples, racial formation, migration, and Latin American and Latino cultural studies.

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