Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of
Jovan Scott Lewis is Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of
Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy
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Published:October 2023
This chapter suggests the theoretical and practical opportunities that are to be found in the “third perspective” that Black geographic theory and Mesoamerican Indigenous linguistic concepts offer. The chapter argues for the importance of cross-border theorizing that centers the transformative and decolonizing value of languages in their written, spoken, and sung forms.
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