Area Author Book Signing – Teresa Figueroa Sánchez
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Date & Time
Thu, Apr 17 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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3321 State Street
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Chaucer's Books
Thursday, April 17 6:00 PM
Chaucer’s Books (3321 State Street, 805-682-6787, Chaucersbooks.com) hosts Teresa Figueroa Sánchez for a talk and signing of her book A Family’s Endless Journey Between Oaxaca, Mexico and California: Fragmented Spaces, Fragmented Identities.
Description
Beginning with an exploration of identity through comunalidad in Oaxaca, author Teresa Figueroa Sánchez delves into the journey of three generations of her family, first in México City, then Santa Marta, California. Examining how her family struggled to live in the borderlands and transterritorial fragmented spaces, this autoethnography addresses the tools used to exercise control among immigrants living in the USA. Drawing from Jaime M. Luna and decolonial theory to illustrate how comunalidad, borderlands, objectified labor, lived labor, and la facultad enabled a family to resist racial patriarchal domination, this book is ideal reading for understanding the current political moment.
About the Author
Teresa Figueroa Sánchez is a third-generation immigrant from the southern state of Oaxaca, México, who arrived in Santa Maria in the early 1980s. She worked in the family’s sharecropping plot, went to the local city college, and studied at UC Santa Barbara. In the early 2000’s, she obtained her doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology after which she taught courses on Mexican and Chicano labor, migration, and labor unions. As a public intellectual, she is interested in the political economy of global agrarian capitalism, Latine immigration, and intersections with race, class, and gender. She also organizes her ethnographic research projects in California, and she publishes her findings in academic journals.
