Digital humanities

Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative

Mapping Everyday Mexicana/Chicana Political Organizing in the Texas and Arizona Borderlands

This project examines the active participation of Mexican/Chicana women in politics. By centering the experiences of Mexican/Chicana women, our working group seeks to highlight the historical contributions of women’s grassroots organizing in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and Southern Arizona, in Tucson. We have been conducting oral histories with women to learn about their experiences in mobilizing and sustaining communities, from the late 1960s to 2010. Access our digital archive here. Principal Investigators: Dr. Jennifer Najera (UC Riverside) Dr. Cristina Salinas (UT Arlington) Dr. Michelle Téllez (University of Arizona).

AfroChicanx Digital Humanities Project: Memories, Narratives, and Oppositional Consciousness of Black Diasporas 

This is a community memory project and our goal is to preserve, amplify, and disseminate the histories and experiences of AfroMexican, AfroChicanxs, Blaxicans, and AfroHispanos in the Borderlands. Using digital humanities tools and oral history methods, we are working to create an AfroChicanx multimodal bilingual digital archive for undergraduate students, local and transnational communities, and academic departments. Principal Investigators: Dr. Dora Careaga (University of New Mexico), Dr. Micaela Diaz-Sanchez (UC Santa Barbara) and Dr. Michelle Téllez (University of Arizona). Peruse our digital archive here.

Memorias en Movimiento Exhibit and Archive Project

In the 1990s, many Chicana/o students across California began organizing around issues of the time. There was draconian state legislation that impacted communities of color, the struggle for representation in the educational system, increasing violence at the U.S./Mexico border and a fight to reveal the legacies of colonialism in the region and beyond. These movements impacted and shaped the future of the state as well as those who participated in them. One event that marked this historical time period was the massive anti-Columbus march that happened at the San Diego/Tijuana border in 1992 - led by Chicana/o students, it attracted thousands of people from across the southwest. This project was created to highlight and amplify the work of Chicana/o students in San Diego of this era.

Project Leads: Dr. Michelle Téllez, Maria Figueroa and Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.

Funded by California Humanities, ACLU San Diego & Imperial Counties, and Centro Cultural de la Raza.

Follow us here to get updates about the digital archive in development and watch the video of the closing event.