Girvetz 2320
How can the lived experiences of a family living between México and the United States demonstrate the perseverance of comunalidad? This is one of the central questions that Teresa Figueroa Sánchez seeks to answer in her recent book, A Family’s Endless Journey Between Oaxaca, Mexico, and California. Beginning with an exploration of identity through comunalidad in Oaxaca, the author delves into the journey of three generations of her family, first in México City, then Santa Marta, California. Examining how her family struggled to live in the borderlands and transterritorial fragmented spaces, this autoethnography addresses the tools used to exercise control among immigrants living in the US and how they were stripped of their historical memory, as well as discussing themes such as agrarian capitalist economies, and Chicana praxis.