The Yalagazapotecs -- Building Community and Connections in Los Angeles -- Community Life Across Borders -- Yalalagzapotec Identities in a Changing World -- Indentities of the Second-Generation Yalalagzapotecs -- Danzas Chuscas : Performing Status, Violence, and Gender in Ozaxaca California -- Community and Culture in Transnational Perspective
Summary
Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs ("Yalaltecos") in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, the author examines the impact of international migration on this community, tracing five decades of migration to Los Angeles to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations of Yalálag Zapotecs in the U.S
