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Maylei Blackwell : Assistant Professor , Chicano Studies
contact information: 7343 Bunche , (310) 825-3082 ,maylei@chavez.ucla.edu
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Biography:
Dr. Blackwell is an interdisciplinary scholar activist and oral historian whose forthcoming book on early Chicana feminism is entitled, Retrofitted Memory: Contested Histories of Gender and Feminism in the Chicano Movement. Her teaching and research also explore the possibilities and challenges of women’s transnational organizing around various axes of difference, or across what she calls Geographies of Difference.
Professor Blackwell works with indigenous women’s organizers in Mexico, Latin American feminist movements, and sexual rights activists, all of who are involved in cross border organizing and community formation. Her most recent research projects with farm worker women and indigenous migrants seek to better understand new forms of grassroots transnationalism. She is currently a faculty member in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. In addition, she is affiliated faculty in the Women’s Studies Department and the American Indian Studies and GLBT Studies programs. Born in Long Beach, California, professor Blackwell received her B.A. from California State Long Beach and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Awards (Selected):
Award for Excellence in Mentorship, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, UCLA, 2008.
Academic Advancement Program (AAP) Faculty Recognition Award, UCLA Division of Undergraduate Education, January 2008.
Faculty Research Grant, 2008-2009. Institute of American Cultures Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies. University of California, “Líderes Campesinas: Transnational Migrant Organizing Strategies.”
Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2006-2007. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Mentor: Vicki L. Ruiz.
Collaborative Research Grant, 2006-2007. Other Americas/Otros Saberes: A Collaborative Research Initiative of the Latin American Studies Association. “Desarrollando el Liderazgo Binacional Indígena: Género, Generación y Etnicidad dentro del FIOB.” Co-Principal Investigator with the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB) and Laura Velasco of the Colegio de Frontera Norte, Baja California.
Faculty Research Grant, 2006-2007. Institute of American Cultures Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies. Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles. “Indigenous Women’s Organizing in the Migrant Stream: Digital Storytelling, Community Memory, and Empowerment.”
Collaborative Research Grant, 2005-2006. “Indigenous Rights, Globalization, and Gender: Towards a Comparative Methodology.” Co-Principal Investigator with Aída Hernández and Teresa Sierra of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS).
Ethnography Grant. Leadership for a Changing World Research and Documentation Grant, 2005-2006. The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at the New York University. “Documenting the Power of las Mujeres Poderosas de Líderes Campesinas.” Collaborative Grant with Mily Treviño, Executive Director of Líderes Campesinas Organization.
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2002. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Ethnic Studies. Mentor: Norma Alarcón.
Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000. Women’s Studies Dissertation Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dissertation Grant, 1998-2000. University of California Institute for Mexico and the U.S., UC MEXUS.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
U.S. Women of Color Feminist Theory
· Social Movements and Historiography
· Chicana Feminism
Women’s Social Movements in Mexico
· Indigenous Women’s Political Mobilization
· Sexual Rights and Human Rights Organizing
Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Transnational Organizing
· Latin American Feminisms and Women’s Social Movements
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Selected Publications
Blackwell, M. 2006. “Weaving in the Spaces: Transnational Indigenous Women’s Organizing and the Politics of Scale.” In R. Aída Hernández, Shannon Speed, and Lynn Stephen (eds.) Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Pp. 240-318.
Blackwell, M. 2005. “Bearing Bandoleras: Transfigurative Liberation and the Iconography of la Nueva Chicana.” In Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar (eds.) Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Photography. New York: Palgave. Pp. 171-196.
Blackwell, M. 2004. “Tongues of Fire: A Tribute to Gloria E. Anzaldúa.” Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 4:1 (Fall 2004): 136-141.
Blackwell, M. 2004. “(Re) Ordenando el discurso de la nación: El Movimiento de Mujeres Indígenas en México y la Práctica de la Autonomía.” In Natividad Gutiérrez Chong (ed.) Mujeres y nacionalismo: De la independencia a la nación del nuevo milenio. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Pp. 193-234.
Translation (English). 2007. “‘Engendering the ‘Right to have Rights’: The Indigenous Women’s Movement in Mexico and the Practice of Autonomy.” In Natividad Gutiérrez Chong (ed.), Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America. Hampshire: Ashgate, pp. 193-222.
Blackwell, M. 2003. “Contested Histories: las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968-1973.” In Gabriella Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramirez, and Patricia Zavella (eds.) Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Pp. 59-89.
Translation (Spanish): 2008. “Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc: feminismo chicano y prensa cultural, 1968-1973.” In Liliana Suárez Navaz and Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo, eds, Descolonizando el Feminismo: Teorías y Prácticas desde los Márgenes (Decolonizing Feminism: Theories and Practices from the Margins). Valencia, España: Instituto de la Mujer, Ediciones Cátedra, Universitat de Valencia, pp. 351-406.
Alvarez, S., Friedman, E., Beckman, E., Blackwell, M., Chinchilla, N., Lebon, N., Navarro, M., Ríos, M. 2002. “Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms.” Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter): 537-580.
Translation (Portugese): “Encontrando os feminismos latinoamericanos e caribenhos.” 2003. In the Brazilian Feminist Journal Revista Estudos Feministas, Volume 11, Number 2 (July-December): 541-575.
Blackwell, M. and Naber, N. 2002. “Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the UN World Conference Against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Volume 2, Number 2: 237-248.
Translation (Portugese): “Interseccionalidade en uma era de globalização. As implicações da comferencia mundial contra o racismo para prácticas feministas transnacionais.” 2002. In Revista Estudos Feministas, Volume 10, Number 1: 189-199.
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Courses
Chicano Studies 10B, " Introduction to Chicana/Chicano Studies: Social Structure and Contemporary Conditions." ( Winter 2005 )
Chicano Studies 89, " Honors Seminars Chicano 89, seminar 1: Honors Seminar for Chicano 10B, Lecture 1." ( Winter 2005 )
Chicano Studies 144, " Women's Movement in Latin America." ( Winter 2004 )
Chicano Studies 157, " Chicano Movement and Its Political Legacies."
( Winter 2009 , Winter 2008 )
Chicano Studies 197C, " Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies."
( Winter 2004 )
Chicano Studies M110, " Chicana Feminism." ( Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006 )
Chicano Studies M144, " Women's Movement in Latin America." ( Fall 2004, Winter 2006, Fall 2007 )
Chicano Studies M147, " Transnational Women's Organizing in Americas."
( Spring 2005, Spring 2006 )
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