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From the Skin
Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. The essays use an intersectional approach to demonstrate the complexity of the migration experience. This volume opens a dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars on the complex migratory processes of the region.
Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept—digital mestizaje—that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley
Construction of Maya Space
Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times
Our Hidden Landscapes
Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Our Hidden Landscapes introduces people to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. This volume presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation. Chapters from Indigenous community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving these important sacred spaces.
Nihikéyah
Navajo Homeland
This anthology of essays offers Diné perspectives on the experiences, observations, and examinations of their homeland. Together, the contributors thoughtfully illustrate the complex state of nihikéyah, “our land,” as viewed by Diné people.
Living and Leaving
A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde
In the Arms of Saguaros
Iconography of the Giant Cactus
In the Arms of Saguaros pictures how nature’s sharpest curves became a symbol of the American West. From the botanical explorers of the nineteenth century to the tourism boosters in our own time, saguaros and their images have fulfilled attention-getting needs and expectations.
Bringing Home the Wild
A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City
All That Rises
A Novel
Chicana Portraits
Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers
Latinos and Nationhood
Two Centuries of Intellectual Thought
Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles
A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940
Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán
From Deserts to Clouds
Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán provides an accessible overview of an extraordinary region of Central Mexico. Through firsthand experience and engaging prose, the authors provide a synthesis of the environment, plants, and peoples of the valleys, showing their importance and influence as Mesoamerican arteries for environmental and cultural interchange through Mexico.