The University of Arizona Press
When: Thursday, April 27, 3 p.m.
Where: Oregon State University, Student Experience Center 354, 2251 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis
Michelle Téllez speaks about her award-winning book Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas, as part of the Ethnic Studies Author Series. The event is free and open to the public.
Border Women tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. This ethnography by Michelle Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor. Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas.
