CODICES AS CONFLUENCIA
Cross-Classroom Exchanges
Mission of the project
"The story is the storehouse of justice."
- Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The power of a people is in their words. To destroy a people, the Spanish conquistadors burned the scholarly writing (codices) of the Aztec and Maya civilizations. We revisit these texts, these storehouses, to inform the construction of our own.
We heal through creation. Here, you may explore the results of an exchange between students in Nuevo Leon, Mexico and California, U.S. who collaborated on their own co-created codex of personal writing and illustration.
History of the Codex
What is a codex? And why does it matter today?
NARRATIVE CODICES
In one magical summer, three teachers create their own codices as part of a graduate course
STUDENT CODICES
Students illustrate each other's stories in a international cross-classroom exchange
FUTURE CODICES
Codices as connections in a global pandemic, and the potential for radical representation
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Yulissa Nunez, Anjali Nirmalan, Grace Hunter
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