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Digital Hispanisms

Borderlands Archives Cartography

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Sylvia Fernández

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University of Houston

Alternative Interventions:

Borderlands Digital Humanities

• creates a historical revision of the borderlands
• decentralize the Mexico-U.S. border
• becomes a valuable intervention to humanize and decolonize the knowledge of the borderland regions and its communities
•  becomes an act of (digital) social activism utilizing technology and digital learning
• putting to the forefront collaborative, solidarity and interdisciplinary work methods
• engage with various communities (locally, nationally, and globally)
• raise new questions and proposes other forms of interpretations  
• transforms productions of knowledge that go beyond geopolitical borders
• establishes alternative bridges and alliances between the Global South and North.

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Borderlands DH:

Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC)

• transnational project (shared newspaper archive)

• dedicated to locate, map and facilitate the access to 19th and mid-20th-century newspapers published in what is now the Mexico-U.S. border region

• visualizes, documents and analyzes the junction of several cultures and the diverse histories of the borderlands by embracing the past to honor the multiple experiences of the border communities

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19th and Mid-20th Century Borderlands Newspapers

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BAC: Transnational Project-Shared Archive

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Newspaper Data and Static Maps of the Border Region

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BAC's Digital Map

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(Trans)Fronterizas' Activism: BAC as a Counterdiscourse

"Somos una gente"

Hay tantísimas fronteras /
que dividen a la gente, /
pero por cada frontera /
existe también un puente.
—Gina Valdés  (Anzaldúa 107)

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Thank you!

¡Gracias!

Sylvia Fernández

@sferna109 / safernandez4@uh.edu

University of Houston

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