Fleshing the archive : an intimate genealogy of Chicana knowledge praxis / María Eugenia Cotera.
| Author/creator | Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Intimate genealogy of Chicana knowledge praxis |
| Contents | Introduction. Chicana knowledge praxis before and after the digital turn -- Fleshing the archive -- La Tlamatini : information as a praxis of freedom -- Tlamatini Infrastructures in the Shadow of Precarity -- X marks the spot : mapping the sitios y lenguas of Chicana Studies in California (1969-1971) -- Beyond a history of violence : tracing the knowledge modalities of Chicana Studies in the 1970s -- Mujerista genealogies : encuentros in the queer Chicana archive -- Postscript. Chicana futures past and present. |
| Abstract | "In this manuscript, Maria Cotera draws on a long lineage of Chicana feminist knowledge in the Movimiento years (1968-1974) that resulted in the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, a digital archive. This gives her the framework to study the Chicana feminist work being produced by women in Texas and California during these years, and in doing so she hopes to show how this can transform an archive, making it feel living and real, and bringing the past and present closer together. She also considers the role of autohistorias like Gloria Anzaldúa's, as an early way of weaving together multiple strands of memory, the collective, and the documentary that can allow us to produce knowledge with the past rather than about it. The CPMR archive contains over 20,000 oral histories, platicas, newspapers, photographs, correspondence and written work by Chicana feminists. By creating this digital archive Cotera and her colleagues have created a space to not only save important historical objects, writings and histories, but in the process of doing this work she wanted to think through how an archive can feel "alive" and where the practice of creating the archive intersects in unexpected ways with these works themselves that were otherwise hidden. She looks first to the work of her mother, Martha Cotera, to understand how her lived experience as a Chicana working within and outside of the academy and local Chicano power movements shaped her information philosophies and moved her towards creating a new form of engagement and sharing of ideas through "information hubs" that eventually carried over into her creation of the Chicana Research and Learning Centers. The second major half of the book looks at Chicana scholars and activists who participated in the Santa Barbara conference that helped push for the creation of Chicana Studies in California by showing how documents in the archive illustrate the invisible labor they faced in working within these Chicano movement groups, and she is able to trace how they challenged power from within and began to focus on the classroom as a site of knowledge and organizing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964- Fleshing the archive First edition Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026 9781477332979 |
| LCCN | 2025012433 |
| ISBN | 9781477332962 |
| ISBN | 9781477332955 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1477332952 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1477332960 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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