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Maya America

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis.

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis publishes academic papers, commentary, personal reflections, and creative works, including literature and poetry. We accept Spanish and English, and the Mayan languages. Our authors, editors, and advisors come from multiple academic disciplines, and we welcome people from non-academic backgrounds who have experiences, stories, and points of view that add to our knowledge platform.

"Maya" alludes to the linguistic and nation groups that share heritage with the original Proto-Mayan, which emerged some 5000 years ago; however, the journal welcomes essays on all aspects of the Indigenous Americas.

Maya America refers to the traditional lands of the Maya towns and nations, as well as new lands such as the United States and Canada. Thus, “Maya America” refers to the historic and present-day geographic regions where people of Maya descent live, while “Maya American” is a term of self-identification when used by new generations born or raised beyond traditional homelands, where lives involve intergenerational connections and reflect an intersection of indigenous, cross-cultural, and transnational experiences. As borders span geographically, socially, and psychologically, Maya America opens spaces for thoughtfulness and discussion and, in addition, proposes collaboration in discovering decolonized methodologies in academic research. From our first issue in 2019, we have promoted Maya experiences and knowledge and discouraged works that situate themselves within frameworks of power to “study” the people.

REVIEW POLICIES: Academic essays are double-blind peer-reviewed, and creative essays and commentaries are peer-reviewed.

Authors maintain the copyright over their work.

Maya America does not charge any APCs nor other author fees, nor does it have any embargo on its articles.

Maya America applies a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-SA) to all published articles.

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