Humanities Decanted: Daina Sanchez
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a dialogue with Daina Sanchez (Chicana and Chicano Studies) about her new book, The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border. In The Children of Solaga, Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates ...
