Indigenous Archives: The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

Author/Contributor(s):	Boj Lopez, Floridalma
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	01/06/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Indigenous Archives analyzes the cultural production of Maya youth in Los Angeles to examine how they create a sense of Indigenous belonging despite transnational experiences of settler colonialism. Floridalma Boj Lopez explores an Indigeneity that, because of the Maya's violent displacement from Guatemala, is forcibly untethered from ancestral land tenure, tribal citizenship, and governmentalities of the nation-state. Instead, citing a more active practice of "archives in formation," Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in survival, memory, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts mobilize and adapt in the contemporary. Boj Lopez uses mobile Indigenous archives to disrupt static, institutionalized settler archives of Latinidad and Indigeneity that do not account for spatial articulations of power and mobile diasporic knowledges in the contemporary"--