Indigenous Archives
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1982 Rio Negro Massacres
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Algona Iowa
anti-Indigenous racism
archives
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Baja Verapaz
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children's literature
community engaged research
cultural production
Discovering Dominga film
epistemology
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exclusion
genocide
Guatemala
immigration
Indigeneity
intergenerational
intergenerational dialogue
intergenerational poverty
La Comunidad Ixim
Latinidad
Maya Achi peoples
Maya clothing
Maya diaspora
Maya Womxn
mobile archives
mobility
photography
queering kinship
settler colonialism
social justice organizing
transnational racism
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781478029564
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Indigenous Archives analyzes the modes through which young Guatemalan Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults, Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora craft and circulate narratives about their experiences across borders. Citing a more active practice of “archives in formation,” Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in memory, survival, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts move, adapt, and assert their presence in the contemporary. Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider Indigeneity as a process, lived experience, and historical perspective, rather than as a static identity, and shows how extending analysis across borders is critical to understanding Latinidad and Indigeneity.
Floridalma Boj Lopez is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
