Chicana/o Artivism: Judy Baca's Digital Work with Youth of Color

Part of the Volume on Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media Astounding digital murals have emerged from the minds and souls of Chicana artist Judy Baca and the youth of color who have collaborated with her over the past ten years. Their workspace is SPARC, the Social and Public Art Resource Center, founded by Baca in 1996 and dedicated to the creation and support of community and public art in Southern California. But the digital art they produce is not only located in SPARC -- it can be found in virtual installations globally, as well as on the walls of Los Angeles barrio housing projects and in the hybrid spaces of the Internet. We call their activity "digital artivism," a word that is itself a convergence between "activism" and digital "artistic" production. The digital artivism we find expressed through SPARC, we argue, is symptomatic of a Chicana/o twenty-first century digital arts movement. This digital artivist movement also advances the expression of a mode of liberatory consciousness that Chicana feminist philosopher Gloria Anzaldua calls la conciencia de la mestiza, i.e. the radical consciousness of a mixed race peoples. Chela Sandoval and Guisela Latorre call attention to this mode of digital artivism enacted by Baca and young people who are vested in the convergences between creative expression, social activism, and self-empowerment

Escaping a migrant metropolis: Post-Soviet urbanization through the art project Nasreddin in Russia

This article narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. The encounter of artistic practices and migrants’ embodied, everyday struggles to inhabit the city, it is suggested, has potential for disrupting the disciplinary and exclusionary effects of capitalist transformations and migration enforcement. This is made visible through transient spaces of escape in which the everyday lives and social worlds of migrants, constrained by the precarization of labour and by the multiplication and diversification of bordering practices, are reclaimed through laughter, mobility and care. This point is illustrated by focusing on three such spaces and practices: trickster politics in the housing market, acts of disidentification and care work on the city ‘as a body.’ The article offers a methodologically innovative contribution to ongoing debates on aesthetic political economy, cities and borders and artistic and activist interventions in global cities.Peer reviewe

Féminisme du tiers-monde états-uniens : mouvement social différentiel

Caminante no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. Gloria Anzaldúa Ce que « féminisme » signifie pour les femmes de couleur n’est pas la même chose que pour les femmes blanches. En raison de nos histoires collectives, nous nous identifions plus étroitement avec les sœurs internationales du Tiers-Monde qu’avec les féministes blanches. […] Un féminisme global, qui dépasse les divisions politiques du patriarcat et les frontières nationales ethniques, peut être formulé à partir d’une nouvelle pe..

Théories féministes et queers décoloniales

Ce numéro propose la première traduction en français de plusieurs textes-clés de la production Chicana et Latina-états-unienne. On trouvera des articles de Gloria Anzaldúa et Cherríe Moraga, coordinatrices de This Bridge Called My Back : Writings of Radical Women of Color, avec le poème de l’Africaine-Américaine Kate Rushin qui inspire le titre, ainsi que les travaux de Norma Alarcón, Chela Sandoval, Kate Rushin et María Lugones. Le numéro offre un aperçu de la complexité et de l'hétérogenéité des théories et des pratiques feministes et queers of color aux Etats Eunis ainsi qu’une brève première introduction en français au champ plus vaste des théorisations féministes et queers décoloniales dont certaines de ces auteures sont à l'origine, champ qui est distinct de la théorie postcoloniale et d’autres formations théoriques anti-(néo)coloniales.