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Unforgetting place: The urgency of becoming a Mixteca geographer

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Acknowledgements

I deeply appreciate my current advisors and the mentorship of the Feminist Geography Collective at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). I also extend gratitude to “The People Went Reading” diasporic Oaxaqueño reading collective. I wish to acknowledge funding from Tinker Grants through San Diego State University and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at UT-Austin. I received fellowship support from the LLILAS Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Program at UT-Austin and the Graduate Mentoring Fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts at UT-Austin. Finally, I express recognition to the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT-Austin for the Donald D. Brand Summer Field Research Grant and the Rapoport Center at UT-Austin for the Human Rights Field Research Grant.

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Alcantar, E.S. Unforgetting place: The urgency of becoming a Mixteca geographer. Lat Stud 21, 411–416 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-023-00418-2

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