119: Old Women, Race, and Power

We have a special treat for you today - we get to listen in on a panel from the conference Old Women, Race, and Power recorded at the Huntington Library in Pasadena CA.. The panel, "Challenging Colonial Imagery: Indigenous Centenarians and Gender in California,” explores the way old age and race intersected in ideas about Indigenous Californians, the California missions, and the Spanish fantasy past of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. https://www.huntington.org/event/old-women-race-and-power

The panel includes scholars

• Boyd Cothran (York University)
• Martin Rizzo-Martinez (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Olivia Chilcote (San Diego State University)

The excellent news for listeners is that there will be no ads today per the Huntington’s policies of not monetizing the content. But the Huntington does not endorse the podcast and that the opinions expressed in the episode are those of the speakers and not the Huntington.

The images the panelists discuss are available in the following articles:

Boyd Cothran and Martin Rizzo, "The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory," in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2018, 168-204 (University of Minnesota Press)

Olivia Chilcote, "Q and A with Bad Indians on 'The Belles of San Luis Rey'” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 47(3) (2024), 47-57

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