Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations, and the territories of writing

Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "e;writing."e; Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "e;visual/multimodal"e; education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "e;new"e; ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century.