TY - BOOK ID - 147681927 TI - Indigeneity in real time : the digital making of Oaxacalifornia PY - 2023 SN - 1978834829 PB - Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Transnationalism. KW - Zapotec Indians KW - Urban Zapotec Indians KW - Mixe Indians KW - Internet and indigenous peoples KW - Communication and culture KW - Social conditions. KW - Urban residence KW - Sierra Norte (Oaxaca, Mexico) KW - Social life and customs. KW - 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. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147681927 AB - "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"-- ER -