Maria E Cotera
Biographic Data
| ID | 272020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria E Cotera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cotera |
| SIGNATURE | COTERA M E |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1375-0738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disruptive Latinx Visualities and the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
This Dialogues is a curated discussion of Latinx digital humanities emphasizing digital visual culture and the digital visualization of culture by scholars and artists with diverse backgrounds and projects. Envisioned as a foundational text in the growing Latinx visual digital humanities field, this Dialogues is not striving to be comprehensive. Instead, through its discussion, participants define Latinx digital humanities and visual culture broa…
Unpacking Our Mothers' Libraries
This chapter aims to focus Chicana collecting as a praxis of memory that offers a model to critically reframe the relationship between the past and the present. It argues that the critical reframing of the past in the present offers new objects of inquiry and new methods of analysis. Scholars of Chicana history have long observed how relative invisibility of Chicanas in institutional archives has structured absences in the collective historical k…
In Betita's Garage
In Betita's Garage:Tracing the Archival Afterlives of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez María Eugenia Cotera (bio) The last time I saw Betita Martínez was in the summer of 2010 at the tail end of a research trip to California that Linda Garcia Merchant and I had organized as part of our oral history and archive project: Chicana por mi Raza (CPMR). We were in California to interview Chicanas who had been active in the movement years, and among those int…
Making Chicana Movidas
Research Article| March 01 2020 Making Chicana Movidas Maylei Blackwell, Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell is the author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (2011) and co-editor of ¡Chicana Movidas! New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (2018). Her forthcoming book, Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing, investigates indigenous women’s organizing in Mexico and …
Chicana Movidas
Nuestra Autohistoria
This essay explores the extent to which insurgent models of knowledge making offered up by theories of the "undercommons" and critical digital humanities can converge. I take up this question through an account of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an undercommons project that seeks to recover the history of Chicana feminist formations in the 1960s and 1970s and thereby build "new constituencies of resistance" (Chela Sandoval) ins…
Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster
This essay focuses on the Chicana por mi Raza digital archive, a collection of oral histories and documents from women who were active in social movements during the 1960s and 1970s. The essay argues that digital archiving projects like Chicana por mi Raza challenge conventional notions of humanistic research and reformat the archive in critical ways by shifting it from a static repository to an active site for the co-creation of feminist knowled…
Unveiling Objectivism
Research Article| April 01 2012 Unveiling Objectivism: Renato Rosaldo and the Rise of Passionate Praxis María Cotera María Cotera María Cotera is an associate professor of American culture and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in modern thought and literature from Stanford University (2001) and an MA in English from the University of Texas–Austin (1994). Her research interests include US third world feminist theory, L…
Native Speakers
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading mal…
Recovering “Our” History
Research Article| September 01 2007 Recovering "Our" History: Caballero and the Gendered Politics of Form María Cotera María Cotera Maria Eugenia Cotera teaches Latina/o Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor (with José Limón) of Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: An Historical Novel (Texas A&M Press, 1996) and the editor of Jovita González's Life Along the Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis (Texas…
Quot;All My Relatives Are Noble
Through all the centuries of war and death and cultural and psychic destruction have endured the women who raise the children and tend the fires, who pass along the tales and the traditions, who weep and bury the dead, and who never forget. There are always the women, who make pots and weave baskets, who fashion clothes and cheer their children on at powwow, who make fry bread and piki bread, and corn soup and chili stew, who dance and sing and r…
Refiguring “the American Congo
R e f ig u r in g “t h e A m e r ic a n C o n g o ”: J o v it a G o n z á l e z , J o h n G r e g o r y B o u r k e , a n d t h e B a t t l e o v e r E t h n o - H is t o r ic a l R e p r e s e n t a t io n s o f t h e T e x a s M e x ic a n B o r d e r M a r ía E u g e n i a C o t e r a In the summer of 1925, Lilia Casis, the venerable professor of Spanish at the University of Texas in Austin, introduced one of her students, Jovita González, to …
Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster
This essay focuses on the Chicana por mi Raza digital archive, a collection of oral histories and documents from women who were active in social movements during the 1960s and 1970s. The essay argues that digital archiving projects like Chicana por mi Raza challenge conventional notions of humanistic research and reformat the archive in critical ways by shifting it from a static repository to an active site for the co-creation of feminist knowled…
Nuestra Autohistoria
This essay explores the extent to which insurgent models of knowledge making offered up by theories of the "undercommons" and critical digital humanities can converge. I take up this question through an account of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an undercommons project that seeks to recover the history of Chicana feminist formations in the 1960s and 1970s and thereby build "new constituencies of resistance" (Chela Sandoval) ins…
In Betita's Garage
In Betita's Garage:Tracing the Archival Afterlives of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez María Eugenia Cotera (bio) The last time I saw Betita Martínez was in the summer of 2010 at the tail end of a research trip to California that Linda Garcia Merchant and I had organized as part of our oral history and archive project: Chicana por mi Raza (CPMR). We were in California to interview Chicanas who had been active in the movement years, and among those int…
Quot;All My Relatives Are Noble
Through all the centuries of war and death and cultural and psychic destruction have endured the women who raise the children and tend the fires, who pass along the tales and the traditions, who weep and bury the dead, and who never forget. There are always the women, who make pots and weave baskets, who fashion clothes and cheer their children on at powwow, who make fry bread and piki bread, and corn soup and chili stew, who dance and sing and r…
Refiguring “the American Congo
R e f ig u r in g “t h e A m e r ic a n C o n g o ”: J o v it a G o n z á l e z , J o h n G r e g o r y B o u r k e , a n d t h e B a t t l e o v e r E t h n o - H is t o r ic a l R e p r e s e n t a t io n s o f t h e T e x a s M e x ic a n B o r d e r M a r ía E u g e n i a C o t e r a In the summer of 1925, Lilia Casis, the venerable professor of Spanish at the University of Texas in Austin, introduced one of her students, Jovita González, to …
Quot;All My Relatives Are Noble
Through all the centuries of war and death and cultural and psychic destruction have endured the women who raise the children and tend the fires, who pass along the tales and the traditions, who weep and bury the dead, and who never forget. There are always the women, who make pots and weave baskets, who fashion clothes and cheer their children on at powwow, who make fry bread and piki bread, and corn soup and chili stew, who dance and sing and r…
Recovering “Our” History
Research Article| September 01 2007 Recovering "Our" History: Caballero and the Gendered Politics of Form María Cotera María Cotera Maria Eugenia Cotera teaches Latina/o Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor (with José Limón) of Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: An Historical Novel (Texas A&M Press, 1996) and the editor of Jovita González's Life Along the Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis (Texas…
Native Speakers
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading mal…
Unveiling Objectivism
Research Article| April 01 2012 Unveiling Objectivism: Renato Rosaldo and the Rise of Passionate Praxis María Cotera María Cotera María Cotera is an associate professor of American culture and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in modern thought and literature from Stanford University (2001) and an MA in English from the University of Texas–Austin (1994). Her research interests include US third world feminist theory, L…
Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster
This essay focuses on the Chicana por mi Raza digital archive, a collection of oral histories and documents from women who were active in social movements during the 1960s and 1970s. The essay argues that digital archiving projects like Chicana por mi Raza challenge conventional notions of humanistic research and reformat the archive in critical ways by shifting it from a static repository to an active site for the co-creation of feminist knowled…
Chicana Movidas
Nuestra Autohistoria
This essay explores the extent to which insurgent models of knowledge making offered up by theories of the "undercommons" and critical digital humanities can converge. I take up this question through an account of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an undercommons project that seeks to recover the history of Chicana feminist formations in the 1960s and 1970s and thereby build "new constituencies of resistance" (Chela Sandoval) ins…
Making Chicana Movidas
Research Article| March 01 2020 Making Chicana Movidas Maylei Blackwell, Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell is the author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (2011) and co-editor of ¡Chicana Movidas! New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (2018). Her forthcoming book, Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing, investigates indigenous women’s organizing in Mexico and …
In Betita's Garage
In Betita's Garage:Tracing the Archival Afterlives of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez María Eugenia Cotera (bio) The last time I saw Betita Martínez was in the summer of 2010 at the tail end of a research trip to California that Linda Garcia Merchant and I had organized as part of our oral history and archive project: Chicana por mi Raza (CPMR). We were in California to interview Chicanas who had been active in the movement years, and among those int…
Unpacking Our Mothers' Libraries
This chapter aims to focus Chicana collecting as a praxis of memory that offers a model to critically reframe the relationship between the past and the present. It argues that the critical reframing of the past in the present offers new objects of inquiry and new methods of analysis. Scholars of Chicana history have long observed how relative invisibility of Chicanas in institutional archives has structured absences in the collective historical k…
Disruptive Latinx Visualities and the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
This Dialogues is a curated discussion of Latinx digital humanities emphasizing digital visual culture and the digital visualization of culture by scholars and artists with diverse backgrounds and projects. Envisioned as a foundational text in the growing Latinx visual digital humanities field, this Dialogues is not striving to be comprehensive. Instead, through its discussion, participants define Latinx digital humanities and visual culture broa…
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