Publications

Books

2023. Scales of Resistance: Transborder Organizing in the Americas. Duke University Press.

2018. Espinoza, E., M. Cotera and M. Blackwell, ed. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era. Austin: University of Texas, 488 Pp. Introduction and 21 Chapters, including “Many Roads, One Path: A Testimonio of Gloria E. Anzaldúa,” pp. 110-122, “Women Who Make Their Own Worlds: The Life and Work of Ester Hernandez,” pp. 138-158 and “Visions of Utopia While Living in Occupied Aztlán” with Hidalgo de la Riva, O., pp. 207-226.

2011. ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. University of Texas Press, (Chicana Matters Series). 300 Pp.

Edited Journals

Quesada, Sarah M. and Maylei Blackwell, eds. 2022.  Forum on Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez. American Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 4. Introduction and articles.

La Fountain-Stokes Lawrence, Maylei Blackwell, and Francisco Galarte, eds. 2022. Special Issue on Queer and Trans Latinidades. Latinx Talk. Preface and articles.2017. Blackwell, M. and Luis Urrieta, ed. Special Issue on Critical Latino Indigeneities. Latino Studies XV (2). 137 Pp. Introduction and 8 articles. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-017-0064-0

2015. Blackwell, M. and Edward McCaughan, eds. Special issue on Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order. Volume 42, Numbers 3-4. 251pp. Introduction and 15 articles.

2013. Editor of Special Dossier, Gender, Activism, and the Border, a commemoration of the 25th Anniversary Publication of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Volume 31, Number 1. 124 Pp. Introduction and six articles.

Journal Articles

2023. “Indian Time: Temporality, Gender, Mobility.” In Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, special issue on Indigenous Migrations in Mexico and the United States in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Christian Zlolinki Volume 39, Number 1. 92–116. Journal Article. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.92

2022. Quesada, Sarah M. and Maylei Blackwell. “Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez: A Tribute.” In American Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 4: 996-1009. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2022.0066

2022. La Fountain-Stokes Lawrence, Maylei Blackwell, and Francisco Galarte. “Preface: Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx (or Queer and Trans Latinidad/es).” Latinx Talk. La Fountain-Stokes Lawrence, Maylei Blackwell, and Francisco Galarte, eds. s

2020. Blackwell, M., M. Cotera, D. Espinoza, and L. Garcia Merchant. “Making Chicana Movidas.” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Volume 45, Number One: 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2020.45.1.197

2017. “Geographies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Migrant Women’s Organizing and Translocal Politics of Place.” Latino Studies, Volume 15, Number 2: 156-181. DOI:10.1057/s41276-017-0060-4

2015. Blackwell, M., Briggs, Laura, Chiu, Minnie. “Transnational Feminisms: A Roundtable Dialogue.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Volume 36, Number 3: 1-24. DOI:10.5250/fronjwomestud.36.3.0001

2013. “Gender, Activism and the Border.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Volume 31, Number 1: 127-38. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2013.38.1.127

2012. “The Practice of Autonomy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Strategies from Indigenous Women’s Organising in Mexico.” Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 44, number 4: 703-722. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X12000788

2010. “Líderes Campesinas: Nepantla Strategies and Grassroots Organizing at the Intersection of Gender and Globalization.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Volume 35, number 1 (Spring): 13-48. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2010.35.1.13

2009. Maylei Blackwell, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Juan Herrera, Morna Macleod, Renya Ramírez, Rachel Sieder, María Teresa Sierra y Shannon Speed. “Cruces de fronteras, identidades indígenas, género y justicia en las Américas.” (“Cross Border Indigenous Identities, Gender and Justice in the Americas”). In Desacatos, número 31 (septiembre-diciembre): 13-34.

English translation: Speed, Shannon, Maylei Blackwell, Aída Hernández, Juan Herrera, Morna Macleod, Renya Ramírez, Rachel Sieder and Teresa Sierra. 2009. “Remapping Gender, Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas: Towards a Comparative Analysis and Collaborative Methodology.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Volume 14, Number 12: 300-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1935-4940.2009.01050.x

2009. “Mujer rebelde: testimonio de Odilia Romero Hernández.” (“Rebel Woman: Testimony of Odilia Romero Hernandez”). In Desacatos special issue on Reivindicaciones étnicas, género y justicia, número 31 (septiembre-diciembre): 147- 156.

2004. “Tongues of Fire: A Tribute to Gloria E. Anzaldúa.” Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall): 136-141.

2002. Alvarez, S., Friedman, E., Beckman, E., Blackwell, M., Chinchilla, N., Lebon, N., Navarro, M., Ríos, M. “Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms.” Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter): 537-580. https://doi.org/10.1086/342589

Portuguese translation: “Encontrando os feminismos latinoamericanos e caribenhos.” 2003. In the Brazilian Feminist Journal Revista Estudos Feministas, Volume 11, Number 2 (July-December): 541-575.

Book Chapters

2024. “Geographies of Difference: Transborder Organizing and Indigenous Women’s Transborder Organizing” in Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History (5th ed.). Edited by Stephanie Narrow, Kim Cary Waren, and Judy Wu with Vivki L. Ruiz. 573-591.New York: Routledge. Book Chapter.

2015. “Triple Jeopardy: The Third Women’s Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women of Color Feminism.” In Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought, ed. Susan Bordo, Cristina Alcade, Ellen Rosenmen. Berkely: University of California Press, pp. 281-291.

2014. “Translenguas: Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Transnational Women’s Organizing across Geographies of Difference.” In Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas, ed. Sonia Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Veronic Feliu, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, and Millie Thayer. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 299-320.

2013. Romero-Hernández, Odilia, Centolia Maldonado Vásquez, Rufino Domínguez-Santos, Maylei Blackwell y Laura Velasco. “Género, generación y equidad: los retos del liderazgo indígena binacional entre México y Estados Unidos en la experiencia del FIOB (Gender, Generation and Equity: The Challenges of Indigenous Binational Leadership between Mexico and the US in the FIOB).” In Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Cultural Politics, ed. Lynn Stephen and Charles R. Hale. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the Latin American Studies Association, pp. 75-101.

2009. “Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women’s Organizing in Mexico.” In Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture , ed. Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, Renya K. Ramirez, and Lok Siu. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press. pp. 39-54.

2006. “Weaving in the Spaces: Transnational Indigenous Women’s Organizing and the Politics of Scale.” In Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas, ed. Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández, and Lynn Stephen. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 240-318.

2005. “Bearing Bandoleras: Transfigurative Liberation and the Iconography of la Nueva Chicana.” In Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, ed. Neferti X.M. Tadiar and Angela Y. Davis. New York: Palgrave. pp. 171-196.

2004. “(Re) Ordenando el discurso de la nación: El Movimiento de Mujeres Indígenas en México y la Práctica de la Autonomía.” In Mujeres y nacionalismo: De la independencia a la nación del nuevo milenio, Natividad Gutiérrez Chong. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). pp. 193-234.

English translation: 2007. “‘Engendering the ‘Right to have Rights’: The Indigenous Women’s Movement in Mexico and the Practice of Autonomy.” In Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America, ed. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong. Hampshire: Ashgate, pp. 193-222.

2003. “Contested Histories: las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968-1973.” In Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, ed. Gabriella Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramirez, and Patricia Zavella. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. pp. 59-89.

Spanish translation: 2008. “Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc: feminismo chicano y prensa cultural, 1968-1973.” In Descolonizando el Feminismo: Teorías y Prácticas desde los Márgenes (Decolonizing Feminism: Theories and Practices from the Margins), ed.

Liliana Suárez Navaz and Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo. Valencia, España: Instituto de la Mujer, Ediciones Cátedra, Universidad de Valencia, pp. 351-406.

Encyclopedia and Keyword Entries

2017. “Indigeneity.” Keywords in Latina/o Studies, ed. Deborah Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. New York University Press, pp. 100-104.

Poems

2019. “Call Me By My True Names.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Volume 18, Number 2: 278-281.

Newsletters and Popular Press

2015. Blackwell, M. and Shannon Speed, “Otros Saberes Emergentes.” Latin American Studies Association Forum XLVI:2 (April): 28.

2007. “Las mujeres indígenas ante la violencia sexual.” (“Indigenous Women Against Sexual Violence”). La Ojarasca in La Jornada,the indigenous affairs supplement to La Jornada. Número 121 (Mayo). (Translation and editing by Mariana Mora).

2006. “Farm Worker Women’s Organizing and Gendered Grassroots Leadership.” Research Report Excerpt in CSW Update: Newsletter of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, June. Pp. 1, 16-18. Available at: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/Newsletter/Jun06/blackwell.html

2005. “Tongues of Fire: A Tribute to Gloria E. Anzaldúa.” La Voz de Esperanza. Newsletter of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas, Vol 18, Issue 4. Pp. 7-9. (Reprint).