His current book project “Cinematic Comanches: In the Media Borderlands of The Lone Ranger” (under contract with the University of Nebraska Press’ “Indigenous Films” series) continues his interest in the politics of indigenous visualities. It is a critical analysis of what he calls “Comanchería cinema” and the indigenous hype/anti-hype, representation, and reception of Comanches in the 2013 borderlands text The Lone Ranger. Another project is “Sounds Indigenous: Listening for Sonic Sovereignty in Indian Country” on the transnational and transtribal migrations of sound and music through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Contact: tahmahkera@austin.utexas.edu