Transnational Indigenous Communities: The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Kearney
Mixtecs are indigenous peoples from the southern Mexican states of the western portion of Oaxaca and small adjacent parts of Puebla and Guerrero. Mixtecs have been coming to the United States since the late 1970s as migrant workers. Michael Kearney became for the Mixtec migrant community in diaspora...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Latin American perspectives 2014-05, Vol.41 (3), p.26-46 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Mixtecs are indigenous peoples from the southern Mexican states of the western portion of Oaxaca and small adjacent parts of Puebla and Guerrero. Mixtecs have been coming to the United States since the late 1970s as migrant workers. Michael Kearney became for the Mixtec migrant community in diaspora and in Oaxaca a solid ally and a critical thinker who contributed with his intellect and sometimes plain hard physical labor to the efforts of the Mixtec community to promote the fundamental human rights of all indigenous Mexicans. He played an important role in advancing the struggle of indigenous migrants by forging innovative theoretical concepts that indigenous activists appropriated to focus and advance their struggle, among them transnational indigenous community, Oaxacalifornia, and Mixtec political consciousness. In the late 1980s and early 1990s these concepts appeared strange and abstract to indigenous activists, but eventually they became cornerstones of the discourse of many activists and indigenous organizers both in the United States and Mexico and are now common coin. Los mixtecos son un pueblo indígena de los estados mexicanos de Oaxaca (porción occidental) y pequeñas partes adyacentes de Puebla y Guerrero. Han viajado a los Estados Unidos como trabajadores migrantes desde finales de la década de 1970. Michael Kearney se convirtió en un aliado sólido y un pensador crítico para la diáspora mixteca y sus allegados en Oaxaca. Contribuyó, con su intelecto y a veces llano y arduo trabajo físico, a los esfuerzos de la comunidad mixteca por promover los derechos humanos fundamentales de todos los indígenas mexicanos. Jugó un papel importante en el avance de la lucha de los migrantes indígenas con innovadores conceptos teóricos luego utilizados por sus activistas, entre ellos la comunidad indígena transnacional, Oaxacalifornia y la conciencia política mixteca. En la década de los ochenta y principios de los noventa estos conceptos parecían extraños y abstractas a los activistas indígenas, pero eventualmente se convirtieron en pilares del discurso de muchos de ellos tanto en Estados Unidos como en México. Ahora son de uso común. |
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ISSN: | 0094-582X 1552-678X |
DOI: | 10.1177/0094582X13518753 |