Chicana Por Mi Raza: Archives, Memory, and Community

Check out our new episode with Dra’s Maria E. Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant. They share with us their collaborative archival, memory and community work being done for Chicana For Mi Raza. Summer of 2021, Natalia Toscano and Gustavo Garcia were part of a UNM Chicana/o Studies field school in Taos, New Mexico with Dr. Theresa J. Cordova. As part of the class, they learned about archival practices and digitized the lifelong work of Enriqueta Vasquez. In this episode, Dr. Cotera and Garcia Merchant talk about the power of community archiving and the importance of sharing strategies for community documentation.