Humanizing Acts: Resisting the Historical Erasure of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic across the US-Mexico Borderlands
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Chicano-Latino Studies and History
UC Irvine
Participants
Amy Sanchez Artega
Art History and Theory
San Diego State University
Dan Bustillo
Visual Studies
UC Irvine
Veronica Castillo-Muñoz
History
UC Santa Barbara
Sue Cronmiller
Poet-In-Residence
El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana, California
Misael Diaz
Art, Media, and Design
California State University, San Marcos
Adrian Felix
Ethnic Studies
UC Riverside
Christian Paiz
Ethnic Studies
UC Berkeley
Alice G. Terriquez
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Alumna, UC Irvine
Vanessa Nicole Torres
History
Northeastern University
“Humanizing Acts: Resisting the Historical Erasure of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic across the US-Mexico Borderlands” is steeped in an interdisciplinary commitment to routing multiple audiences to archival sources, creative expression, intergenerational experiences, intellectual frameworks, and/or fieldwork and notes that encourage them to pause, consider, and reflect on the generative potential of recognizing the global COVID-19 pandemic’s revealing emotive configuration and impact across the US-Mexico borderlands. Working to address the intense public pressure to erase and silence the enduring emotive weight of feelings, experiences, lessons, relationships, and connections made as immigrant people struggled with the emotive rigors of the global COVID-19 pandemic, each series contributor identifies and unpacks the generatively humanizing potential of engagement that promotes acknowledging the revealing power of enduring sources, subjectivities, modalities, and lessons born out of or exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The diversity of investigative and creative approaches grounding this collaboration makes for a capaciously humane consideration of the urgent relevance of resisting the historical erasure of the global COVID-19 Pandemic across the US-Mexico borderlands proactively.
This project was partially funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
