The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging Across the U.S.-Mexico Border Political Science Caldo de Pollo

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The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging Across the U.S.-Mexico Border Political Science Caldo de PolloIn this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating