CRSEA 2013

• 1. INTERACTIVE DIGITAL FOTONOVELAS:CREATING NEW MEDIAFOR SOCIAL JUSTICEKeynote AddressLeighAnna G. HidalgoUCLAs Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o StudiesCritical Race Studies in Education Association Vanderbilt,UniversityNashville, TNMay 31st, 2013

2. 1.Where my story beginsAbuelos, Papa, yTia, El Salvador,1960sPapa y Mama,Guatemala, 1980s 3. Violent Repression and ResistanceGuatemala ArizonaMirrors 4. Professional and Personal ExperiencesUndergraduate ResearcherSouth Phoenix Research CollectiveMoments Before Engaging in Non-violentCivil Disobedience when SB1070 passed 5. 2. What is a Fotonovela In1940s, designed astactile representationsof correlated movies. In Spain, Italy Portugal,Mexico, Latin America,and the Caribbean. Photographs, text, anddialogue bubbles. 6. History of Fotonovelas in Latin America In 1960s, 23 movies werefeatured in fotonovelas,while 3 times that werebased on original content In 1980s, 70 millionfotonovelas published inMexico per month. 3 types emerge: Novelas rosas Novelas suaves Novelas verdes 7. Contemporary Fotonovelas in the USScholars have noted potential offotonovelas for:Public health interventions Familiar to Spanish-speakingimmigrantsLiteracy and research Accessible to populationswith low literacy levelsLiberatory social interventions 8. 3. Interactive Digital Fotonovelas (IDF)Bringing thefotonovela into thedigital age: Video ethnographies Increasing access Multi-modal-onlineand print Augmented realityand smartphones 9. 4. Theoretical Lens and MethodologyCritical RaceFotonovelasCritical RaceTheory (Counter-storytelling)VisualAnthropology(New MediaEthnography)Critical RaceSpatial Analysis(GIS)Chicana FeministEpistemology(CulturalIntuition)Chicana/oStudies(Rasquachismo,Arte Publico) 10. 5. Video Demonstration of IDF 11. 6. New Directions 12. 6. New Directions 13. 7. Concluding Remarks Our fotonovelas will be different because we have differentstories and come from different communities.The point is to be the authors in our own stories You can use more accessible tools to create afotonoveladisposable camerapenpaper To me its about the process and the content that goes intothe fotonovela.Fotonovelas are about centering the role of race andcounterstorytelling in ways that are visually accessible to multipleaudiences.These visual stories are a way of democratizing our research,democratizing who tells the stories, and for whom? How do you see yourself using this as a tool in your own work?