Writing

Books

Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. University of California Press. Fall 2020.

Mike Garcia and the Justice for Janitors Movement. Kent Wong, David Huerta, Victor Narro, Hugo Romero, and Maurice Rafael Magaña. UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. Summer 2020.

Edited Volumes

Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportations. Contributing Editor with Kent Wong and Nancy Guarneros. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. 2015.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Multimodal Archives of Transborder Belonging: Murals, Social Media, and Racialized Geographies in Los Angeles.” American Anthropologist. Vol. 124 (4), 2022.

“Rebel Aesthetics: Street Art, Urban Space, and Militarization in Heritage Mexico.” Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture. Vol. 4 (4), 2022.

“The Politics of Black and Brown Solidarities: Race, Space, and Hip-Hop Cultural Production in Los Angeles.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 5 (5), 2022.

Spaces of Resistance, Everyday Activism and Belonging: Youth Reimagining and Reconfiguring the City in Oaxaca, Mexico, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Vol. 22 (2), 2017.

From the Barrio to the Barricades: Grafiteros, Punks and the Remapping of Urban Space. Special double issue, “Mexican and Special double issue, “Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements,” Social Justice: Vol. 42 (3/4), 2016.

Analyzing the Meshwork as an Emerging Social Movement Formation: An Ethnographic Account of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Journal of Contemporary Anthropology: Vol. 1 (1), 2010.

Refereed Book Chapters

“Murales y hashtags como archivos multimodales de las comunidades transfronterizas.” In Comunidades Virtuales en Las Industrias Culturales en Norteamérica. Alejandro Mercado Celis (ed). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte (Mexico). 2024.

Wright, Anthony, Maurice R. Magaña, and Jurhamutí José Velasquez Morales. “Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: Mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space.” In Handbook on Youth Activism. Jerusha Conner (ed). Edward Elgar. 2024.

Magaña, Maurice R. and Xóchitl Flores-Marcial “Giving Form to Indigenous Futures Through Monumental Architecture, Art, and Technology.” In Indigenous Futures: a Critical Handbook on Indigenous Development. Nancy Postero, Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, Katharina Rickshtul, and John Andrew McNeish, and (eds). Routledge. 2023.

Building Horizontal Political Cultures: Youth Activism and the Legacy of the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006. In Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below. Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker (eds.). Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom Series. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2014.

Editor-Reviewed Essays (Invited)

“The Ungovernability of Anarchist and Liberationist Political Imaginations” featured in the virtual issue Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power and Alternative Futures. Political and Legal Anthropology Review (POLAR). March 31, 2022.

“Anthony Leeds Prize for Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico.” City & Society. Vol. 34 (1), 2022.

“Giving Form to Black and Brown: The Art of Political Solidarity.” Published in Dialogues: Blog of the American Studies Journal. October 1, 2021.

“Educational Reform and Repression in Mexico.” Publish in blog for the journal
Social Justice. Published June 22, 2016.

Peer-Edited Book Chapters

Latin American Immigration in Rural Oregon, Co-Authored with Lynn Stephen and Marcela Mendoza. In Understanding the Immigrant Experience in Oregon: Research, Analysis, and Recommendations from University of Oregon Scholars, Robert Bussel (ed.), pp 45-55. Eugene: Labor Education Research Center of the University of Oregon, 2008.

Book Reviews

Review of The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space. By Ulrich Oslender (Duke University Press, 2016). In Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 90 (2), 2017.

Review of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, race, and spatial entitlement in Los Angeles. By Gaye Theresa Johnson (University of California Press, 2013). In American Studies 53(4), 2014.

Other Writing

“Archiving Transborder Communities Through Murals and Social Media.” Invited blog post for Youth Circulations: Tracing the Real and Imagined Circulations of Global Youth. October 19, 2020.

“How to Sustain a Mass Movement? Lessons from Urban Indigenous Youth Collectives and “Decolonial Anarchism” in Mexico.” Invited blog post for the University of California Press Blog: Where Bright Minds Share Bold Ideas. October 12, 2020.

Magaña, Maurice R., and Michelle Téllez
“A Climate of Hate: How Border Militarization Is Getting Deadlier.” Article
published in Truthout. March 27, 2017

Téllez, Michelle, and Maurice R Magaña
“Border (In)Securities in the Era of 45.” Invited blog post for Australian Outlook of
the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Published March 1,2017.

“Seeing Race and Citizenship in the U.S. Through Ava DuVernay’s 13th.” Invited blog post for the #Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project. Published March 1, 2017.

Téllez, Michelle, and Maurice R Magaña
“The U.S-Mexico Borderlands.” Invited blog post for Australian Outlook of the
Australian Institute of International Affairs. Published December 7, 2016.

“Engaged Anthropology- Maurice Rafael Magaña.” Invited blog post for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Blog. Published October 25, 2016.