Culture

Understanding the coloniality of gendered lives, family dynamics, social arrangements, and political structures in Indigenous Wixárika communities in Jalisco State, Mexico begins with confronting and interrogating a history written largely by and for men in positions of power. The archives are limited in terms of what can be gleaned about gender equality and what existed before the proliferation of European patriarchy. Joan Scott (1988) argued that the incorporation of gender as a category of analysis should elucidate the integral role that women have played in the historical process, rather  than forming the basis of a specific chapter about women.

Poem by Chicano poet Juan Felipe Herrera's anthology Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, 2015.

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What

did I know?

Tepic-Nayarit,

Ixtlan,

Ixcuintla. Where was I?

The Huichol smoke.

Coras

in Bogart

hats awaiting blessings from Big Al to hand them agricultural prowess, a drop

of chemical awareness from a new form of capitalism. This?

 

Read full poem here.