在纳瓦特尔·约尔基（Nahuatl Yolki）中，有一个战士从死亡中复活的想法。对于作家兼活动家罗伯托·辛特利·罗德里克斯（Roberto Cintli Rodríquez）来说，这本书描述了他自己在1979年3月的一个晚上被洛杉矶警长残忍殴打后的经历。
这本书以罗德里格斯关于警察暴力的个人证词为框架，提供了美国针对红-黑-棕社区的法外暴力文化的历史深度。除了罗德里格斯的故事外，这本书还包括受害者和幸存者的几篇短文，这些短文汇集了警方暴行和国家资助的暴力的个人描述。这部内容广泛的作品涉及历史和当前事件，包括瓦茨叛乱、Zoot西服暴动、流线行动、站立岩石等等。
从Bartoloméde las Casas的目击者描述到Standing Rock的抗议者和盟友，这本书清楚地表明了针对红-黑-棕色尸体的殖民暴力与当今我们社区的警察暴力之间的联系。以警察暴力受害者和幸存者的生活故事为基础，从精神世界召唤的战士约尔基阐释了种族化非人化的身体、精神和认知深度及其后果。
罗德里格斯向我们发出了一个紧急、尖锐和个人的呼吁，要求结束暴力，以及允许这种暴力盛行的理念。与纳瓦特尔·约尔基一样，这本书旨在作为一种治疗手段，提供一个追溯暴力起源的足迹，更重要的是，提供一条前进的道路。
劳尔·阿尔卡雷斯·奥乔亚、西塔利·阿尔瓦雷斯、塔尼亚·阿尔瓦雷斯、丽贝卡·巴伯、尤文纳尔·卡波拉莱、大卫·西德、阿丽安娜·马丁内斯·雷纳、卡洛斯·蒙特斯、特拉维斯·莫拉莱斯、西蒙·莫亚·史密斯、塞萨尔·诺列加、金伯利·菲利普斯、克里斯蒂安·拉米雷斯、米歇尔·拉森·卡纳莱斯、卡罗琳·托雷斯、杰里·泰洛、塔拉·特鲁德尔和劳里·瓦尔迪兹的贡献。
Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World: Testimonios on Violence
In Nahuatl yolqui is the idea of a warrior brought back from the dead. For author and activist Roberto Cintli Rodríquez, it describes his own experience one night in March 1979 after a brutal beating at the hands of L.A. sheriffs.
Framed by Rodríguez’s personal testimony of police violence, this book offers a historia profunda of the culture of extralegal violence against Red-Black-Brown communities in the United States. In addition to Rodríguez’s story, this book includes several short essays from victims and survivors that bring together personal accounts of police brutality and state-sponsored violence. This wide-ranging work touches on historical and current events, including the Watts rebellion, the Zoot Suit Riots, Operation Streamline, Standing Rock, and much more.
From the eyewitness accounts of Bartolomé de las Casas to the protestors and allies at Standing Rock, this book makes evident the links between colonial violence against Red-Black-Brown bodies to police violence in our communities today. Grounded in the stories of the lives of victims and survivors of police violence, Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World illuminates the physical, spiritual, and epistemic depths and consequences of racialized dehumanization.
Rodríguez offers us an urgent, poignant, and personal call to end violence and the philosophies that permit such violence to flourish. Like the Nahuatl yolqui, this book is intended as a means of healing, offering a footprint going back to the origins of violence, and, more important, a way forward.
With contributions by Raúl Alcaraz-Ochoa, Citalli Álvarez, Tanya Alvarez, Rebekah Barber, Juvenal Caporale, David Cid, Arianna Martinez Reyna, Carlos Montes, Travis Morales, Simon Moya Smith, Cesar Noriega, Kimberly Phillips, Christian Ramirez, Michelle Rascon Canales, Carolyn Torres, Jerry Tello, Tara Trudell, and Laurie Valdez.
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