| Abstrakt: |
This essay examines capacity building on the U.S. - Mexico Border by indigenous, Latino/a/x and People of Color activists working for social and environmental justice, from the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The essay begins with a description of a toxic tour offered at the 1999 American Society of Environmental Historians (ASEH) Annual Conference and ends with insights gathered in a panel discussion with Teresa Leal (Opata) at the 2011 ASEH twelve years later. The essay focuses on Leal's fivedecade legacy of empowering women, her community, her fellow activists, and her academic colleagues to 'become seres puentes or bridge-beings' who work for equity and intergenerational justice by engaging in performative collective actions such as the toxic tour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
