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Video Title:
Strong Women/Strong Nations 8: Maylei Blackwell
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"Strong Women/Strong Nations: Native American Women & Leadership" is a day-long symposium examining the complex identities of Native women through lively, insightful discussions by elected tribal leaders, activists, artists, and business leaders about the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities confronting women today. In this segment, Maylei Blackwell, University of California, Los Angeles, speaks on "Rebellion at the Roots: Reflections on the Last Twenty Years of Indigenous Women’s Organizing in Mexico." Maylei Blackwell, an interdisciplinary scholar activist, oral historian, and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, is an Associate Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women’s Studies Department, and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is based on accompanying indigenous women’s organizers in Mexico, the U.S., and in continental networks across Abya Yala. Her current research focuses on gender, indigeneity, and migration with Zapotecs and Mixtecs from Oaxaca as well as the increasingly Mayan diaspora from Guatemala in Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book entitled Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women and the Practice of Autonomy. The symposium was webcast and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on March 18, 2016.
Video Duration:
29 min 7 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
