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"Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets-including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings-across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream-in real time"--

Transnationalism. --- Zapotec Indians --- Zapotec Indians --- Urban Zapotec Indians --- Mixe Indians --- Mixe Indians --- Mixe Indians --- Internet and indigenous peoples --- Internet and indigenous peoples --- Communication and culture --- Communication and culture --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Urban residence --- Social conditions. --- Sierra Norte (Oaxaca, Mexico) --- Social life and customs. --- california, mexican, latino, latina, latinx, Hispanic, immigration, migration, emigration, expat, undocumented, illegal immigration, Oaxaca, oaxacan, Zapotec, Ayuujk, indigenous, native, sierra norte, race, ethnicity, culture, racism, xenophobia, discrimination, anthropology.