M. Bianet Castellanos is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (2010) and numerous journal articles devoted to indigeneity, gender, and settler colonialism in the Americas. She co-edited Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach (2012). Her talk draws from a forthcoming book, which analyzes contemporary Maya relations with the Mexican state through the lens of home-ownership and debt. In other research, she examines indigenous lives across national boundaries, between Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and Los Angeles, California.

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