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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go.
The Greater San Rafael Swell
Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands
Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
Decolonizing Ifugao History
This book illustrates how descendant communities can take control of their history and heritage through active collaboration with archaeologists. Drawing on the Philippine Cordilleran experiences, Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines discusses how changing historical narratives help empower peoples who are traditionally ignored in national histories.
Transforming Diné Education
Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice
American Indian Studies
Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories
Native American doctoral graduates of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD, gift their stories. The Native PhD recipients share their journeys of pursuing and earning the doctorate, and its impact on their lives and communities.
Barger Gulch
A Folsom Campsite in the Rocky Mountains
The Community-Based PhD
Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR
This volume explores the complex and nuanced experience of doing community-based research as a graduate student. Contributors from a range of scholarly disciplines share their experiences with CBPR in the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health, and STEM fields.
Calculating Brilliance
An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak
Winner of the 2021 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak offers the insightful voice of a first-generation immigrant to the United States in both Spanish and English. The poems, both fantastical and real, create poetic portraits of historical migrants, revealing shocking and necessary insights into humanity while establishing a transatlantic dialogue with the great voices of the Spanish Renaissance.
The Book of Wanderers
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America
Our Fight Has Just Begunilluminates Native voices while exposing how the justice system has largely failed Native American victims and families. This book tells the untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States.
A History of Navajo Nation Education
Disentangling Our Sovereign Body
Trickster Academy
Trickster Academy is a collection of poems that explore the experience of being Native in Academia—from land acknowledgement statements, to mascots, to the histories of using Native American remains in anthropology. This collection illuminates the shared experiences of Indians across many regions, and all of us who live amongst Tricksters.
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse
Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California
Navigating CHamoru Poetry
Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans documents how and why the Indigenous Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples took part in the Mexican Revolution as they struggled to preserve their cultures, lands, and political autonomy in the face of civil war, bandit raids, and radical political reform. In unpacking the ambiguities that characterize their participation in this tumultuous period, it sheds light on the inner contradictions of the revolution itself.
Primitivism and Identity in Latin America
Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture
Land Uprising
Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity
Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Simón Ventura Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.