Maylei Blackwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 74996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maylei Blackwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maylei |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwell |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2967-612X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students
Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism
Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism
In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance…
Geographies of Difference
This chapter discusses geographies of difference as a conceptual frame to name the uneven and differential terrains of power that transborder activists must learn to navigate, and explores how indigenous migrant and non-migrant women are experiencing them in various locales in Oaxaca and California. Although there was multigenerational organizing on both sides of the border, an interesting difference is that the children recruited the parents in …
Indian Time: Temporality, Gender, Mobility
If the expression "Indian time" means anything, it should signify this history of temporal multiplicity
Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez: A Tribute
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez:A Tribute Sarah M. Quesada (bio) and Maylei Blackwell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Portrait of a young Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, by Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde. [End Page 996] Long before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned red lipstick into a political statement, Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martínez donned it as a badge of audacity. After all, Martínez epitomized the unapologetic…
Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973
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 …
Call Me by My True Names
(inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh)Maylei Sugunya Rojanasakul BlackwellCall me by my true namesCall to the truth of me My name My powerThe song of my being the chant of my bones the soul’s mantraMy true names with thirteen lettersA mouthful of continents consonants and not enough vowelsToo many syllables for your tongue to untangle The rhythm The orderThe rhyme of my true nameThe name imprinted on my heart Tucked in my bowels The sound of my flightI dr…
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
Geographies of indigeneity: Indigenous migrant women’s organizing and translocal politics of place
Special issue: Critical Latinx indigeneities
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable Maylei Blackwell (bio), Laura Briggs (bio), and Mignonette Chiu (bio) The special issue editorial collective organized this roundtable as part of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute held at Ohio State University in July 2014. Given the abundant circulation of the term "transnational feminism" in current women's studies scholarship, dissertations, and job descriptions, the collective invited scholars to …
Gender, Activism, and the Border
Research Article| April 01 2013 Gender, Activism, and the Border Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell is an interdisciplinary scholar activist, oral historian, and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (University of Texas Press, 2011), which was a Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize finalist and received the Western Historical Association’s Armitage-Jameson Book Prize hono…
The Practice of Autonomy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Strategies from Indigenous Women's Organising in Mexico
Bridging the ways in which scholars have looked at the co-option of both gender and cultural rights through neoliberal governance in Latin America, this article will examine how gender has been utilised by the state as a discourse of governmentality in order to regulate indigenous subjects. Moreover, the article will explore how indigenous women activists in Mexico are creating apracticeof autonomy as a vital strategy to move beyond rights discou…
Chicana Power: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant…
Líderes Campesinas
Based on a collaborative ethnography with Líderes Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women's organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a community based social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldúa's theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina organizers create sources of empowerment from their binational life experiences and new forms of gend…
Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women’s Organizing in Mexico
Ignited by the 1994 Zapatista uprising, local indigenous organizations, both existing and new, coalesced into a national indigenous movement that spread throughout Mexico. While centering their demands on indigenous autonomy, a claim that was forged in the formal political sphere, the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) and the national indigenous movement have been at the forefront of recovering indigenous cultural, juridical, and socia…
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms
This article examines the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros as critical transnational sites for the collective re-imagining of feminist politics in the region. Paying special attention to the most recent regional gathering, held in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic in 1999, we analyze the major political and philosophical debates that have emerged during twenty years of Encuentros: 1) shifting conceptions of movement "autonomy" and fe…
Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos
Este artigo examina os Encontros Latino-Americanos e do Caribe como espaços críticos transnacionais onde se re-imagina a política dos feminismos na região. Enfocando o Oitavo desses Encontros, realizado em Juan Dolio, República Dominicana, em 1999, analisamos os principais debates politicos e filosóficos que surgiram durante 20 anos de Encontros: (1) mudanças nas concepções de 'autonomia' do movimento e na relação dos feminismos com o movimento d…
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
Special issue: Critical Latinx indigeneities
Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos
Este artigo examina os Encontros Latino-Americanos e do Caribe como espaços críticos transnacionais onde se re-imagina a política dos feminismos na região. Enfocando o Oitavo desses Encontros, realizado em Juan Dolio, República Dominicana, em 1999, analisamos os principais debates politicos e filosóficos que surgiram durante 20 anos de Encontros: (1) mudanças nas concepções de 'autonomia' do movimento e na relação dos feminismos com o movimento d…
Geographies of indigeneity: Indigenous migrant women’s organizing and translocal politics of place
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
The Practice of Autonomy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Strategies from Indigenous Women's Organising in Mexico
Bridging the ways in which scholars have looked at the co-option of both gender and cultural rights through neoliberal governance in Latin America, this article will examine how gender has been utilised by the state as a discourse of governmentality in order to regulate indigenous subjects. Moreover, the article will explore how indigenous women activists in Mexico are creating apracticeof autonomy as a vital strategy to move beyond rights discou…
Líderes Campesinas
Based on a collaborative ethnography with Líderes Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women's organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a community based social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldúa's theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina organizers create sources of empowerment from their binational life experiences and new forms of gend…
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Indian Time: Temporality, Gender, Mobility
If the expression "Indian time" means anything, it should signify this history of temporal multiplicity
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez: A Tribute
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez:A Tribute Sarah M. Quesada (bio) and Maylei Blackwell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Portrait of a young Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, by Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde. [End Page 996] Long before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned red lipstick into a political statement, Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martínez donned it as a badge of audacity. After all, Martínez epitomized the unapologetic…
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable Maylei Blackwell (bio), Laura Briggs (bio), and Mignonette Chiu (bio) The special issue editorial collective organized this roundtable as part of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute held at Ohio State University in July 2014. Given the abundant circulation of the term "transnational feminism" in current women's studies scholarship, dissertations, and job descriptions, the collective invited scholars to …
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization
Research Article| March 01 2002 Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell; Maylei Blackwell maylei blackwell is an activist-scholar whose work examines how racial and sexual difference shapes the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Interseccionalidade em uma era de globalização: As implicações da Conferência Mundial contra o Racismo para práticas feministas transnacionais
Este relatório analisa a interseccionalidade como uma abordagem feminista com significante impacto nos discursos e debates durante o Fórum de ONGs e a Conferência Mundial Contra o Racismo, em Durban, África do Sul. O termo 'interseccionalidade' se refere às articulações entre a discriminação de gênero, a homofobia, o racismo e a exploração de classe. Falando do lugar de enunciação de mulheres de cor feministas situadas nos territórios geográficos…
Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms
This article examines the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros as critical transnational sites for the collective re-imagining of feminist politics in the region. Paying special attention to the most recent regional gathering, held in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic in 1999, we analyze the major political and philosophical debates that have emerged during twenty years of Encuentros: 1) shifting conceptions of movement "autonomy" and fe…
Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos
Este artigo examina os Encontros Latino-Americanos e do Caribe como espaços críticos transnacionais onde se re-imagina a política dos feminismos na região. Enfocando o Oitavo desses Encontros, realizado em Juan Dolio, República Dominicana, em 1999, analisamos os principais debates politicos e filosóficos que surgiram durante 20 anos de Encontros: (1) mudanças nas concepções de 'autonomia' do movimento e na relação dos feminismos com o movimento d…
Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women’s Organizing in Mexico
Ignited by the 1994 Zapatista uprising, local indigenous organizations, both existing and new, coalesced into a national indigenous movement that spread throughout Mexico. While centering their demands on indigenous autonomy, a claim that was forged in the formal political sphere, the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) and the national indigenous movement have been at the forefront of recovering indigenous cultural, juridical, and socia…
Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Toward a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology
Líderes Campesinas
Based on a collaborative ethnography with Líderes Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women's organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a community based social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldúa's theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina organizers create sources of empowerment from their binational life experiences and new forms of gend…
Chicana Power: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant…
The Practice of Autonomy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Strategies from Indigenous Women's Organising in Mexico
Bridging the ways in which scholars have looked at the co-option of both gender and cultural rights through neoliberal governance in Latin America, this article will examine how gender has been utilised by the state as a discourse of governmentality in order to regulate indigenous subjects. Moreover, the article will explore how indigenous women activists in Mexico are creating apracticeof autonomy as a vital strategy to move beyond rights discou…
Gender, Activism, and the Border
Research Article| April 01 2013 Gender, Activism, and the Border Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell Maylei Blackwell is an interdisciplinary scholar activist, oral historian, and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (University of Texas Press, 2011), which was a Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize finalist and received the Western Historical Association’s Armitage-Jameson Book Prize hono…
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable
Transnational Feminisms Roundtable Maylei Blackwell (bio), Laura Briggs (bio), and Mignonette Chiu (bio) The special issue editorial collective organized this roundtable as part of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute held at Ohio State University in July 2014. Given the abundant circulation of the term "transnational feminism" in current women's studies scholarship, dissertations, and job descriptions, the collective invited scholars to …
Geographies of indigeneity: Indigenous migrant women’s organizing and translocal politics of place
Special issue: Critical Latinx indigeneities
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
Call Me by My True Names
(inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh)Maylei Sugunya Rojanasakul BlackwellCall me by my true namesCall to the truth of me My name My powerThe song of my being the chant of my bones the soul’s mantraMy true names with thirteen lettersA mouthful of continents consonants and not enough vowelsToo many syllables for your tongue to untangle The rhythm The orderThe rhyme of my true nameThe name imprinted on my heart Tucked in my bowels The sound of my flightI dr…
Contested Histories: Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms, and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968–1973
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 …
Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez: A Tribute
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez:A Tribute Sarah M. Quesada (bio) and Maylei Blackwell (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Portrait of a young Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, by Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde. [End Page 996] Long before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned red lipstick into a political statement, Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martínez donned it as a badge of audacity. After all, Martínez epitomized the unapologetic…
Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism
Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism
In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance…
Geographies of Difference
This chapter discusses geographies of difference as a conceptual frame to name the uneven and differential terrains of power that transborder activists must learn to navigate, and explores how indigenous migrant and non-migrant women are experiencing them in various locales in Oaxaca and California. Although there was multigenerational organizing on both sides of the border, an interesting difference is that the children recruited the parents in …
Indian Time: Temporality, Gender, Mobility
If the expression "Indian time" means anything, it should signify this history of temporal multiplicity
Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works)