Mon, Nov 13
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Searchlight New Mexico & CW Presents: Race and Class in New Mexico
Unraveling the complexities of identity in light of the recent shooting at an Oñate rally in Española, as explored in a personal essay by Deborah Taffa (Kwatsaán/Laguna Pueblo), director of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 13, 2023, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and live-streamed on Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Collected Works Bookstore and Searchlight New Mexico are thrilled to engage in a community collaboration to bring important and relevant conversation to our city. This event is the third in our series.
Deborah will be in conversation with Luis Peña. Together they will discuss Deborah's recent Searchlight article about the September shooting in Española, which occurred during a rally meant to halt the reinstallation of a Juan de Oñate statue. At first, it appeared to be yet another example of rampant gun violence and political divisions: A young man wearing a MAGA hat lashed out and shot an Indigenous activist. But in a state as complex as New Mexico, such assumptions don’t necessarily apply. Deborah dispels the cliches in a piece that explores the historic class inequities and racial divisions behind the violence.
About the Speakers