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Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
By Ilan Stavans
The University of Arizona Press
Sor Juana: Or, The Persistence of Pop encapsulates the life, times, and legacy of seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Ilan Stavans provides a biographical and meditative picture of how popular perceptions of her life and work both shape and reflect Latinx culture.
México Beyond 1968
Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
Edited by Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa
The University of Arizona Press
México Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. It challenges the conception of the Mexican state as “exceptional” and underscores and refocuses the centrality of the 1968 student movement.
Brazil's Long Revolution
Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
The University of Arizona Press
Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists to think about alternatives. Author Anthony Pahnke argues that activists should look to the Global South and Brazil—in particular the Landless Workers Movement (MST)—for inspiration. Brazil’s Long Revolution shows how the MST positioned itself take advantage of challenging economic times to improve its members’ lives.
Literature as History
Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience
The University of Arizona Press
Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.
Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents
The Southwest North American Region Since 1540
The University of Arizona Press
Esteemed author Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez details the linguistic and cultural processes used by penetrating imperial and national states to establish language supremacy in the Southwest North American Region from 1540 to the present, and the manner in which those affected have responded and acted, often in dissatisfaction and at times with inventive adaptations.
Marking Indigeneity
The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations
By Tevita O. Ka'ili; Foreword by ‘Okusitino Mahina
The University of Arizona Press
Marking Indigeneity examines the conflicts and reconciliation of indigenous time-space within the Tongan community in Maui, as well as within the time-space of capitalism. Using indigenous theory, Tēvita O. Ka‘ili provides an ethnography of the social relations of the highly mobile Tongans.
Yaqui Indigeneity
Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
The University of Arizona Press
The first book-length study of the representation of the Yaqui nation in literature, Yaqui Indigeneity examines the transborder Yaqui nation as interpreted through the Mexican and Chicana/o imaginary. Tumbaga identifies a community of Chicano-Yaqui authors whose writings reclaim their own Native identities and challenge Mexican and Chicana/o views of Indigeneity.
Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society
The University of Arizona Press
This edited volume integrates a remarkable body of new data representing current issues and methodologies in the archaeology of hilltop sites, known as cerros de trincheras, in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Looking Like the Enemy
Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945
By Jerry García
The University of Arizona Press
The first English-language book to report on the Japanese experience in Mexico, Looking Like the Enemy is an important examination of the tumultuous half-century before World War II, offering illuminating insights into the wartime experiences of the Japanese on both sides of the US/Mexico border.
The Shadow of the Wall
Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edited by Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martínez, and Scott Whiteford; Foreword by Josiah Heyman; By (photographer) Murphy Woodhouse
The University of Arizona Press
Mass deportation is currently at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. This volume allows readers to understand the very real impact that mass removal to Mexico has on people’s lives. The Shadow of the Wall underscores the unintended social consequences of increased border enforcement, immigrant criminalization, and deportation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Lives of Stone Tools
Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers
The University of Arizona Press
The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. Kathryn Weedman Arthur shows their perspective that stone tools are living beings with a life course. In so doing, Arthur subverts long-held Western perspectives on gender, skill, and lifeless status of inorganic matter.
Beyond Alterity
Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
The concept of “indigenous” has been entwined with notions of exoticism and alterity throughout Mexico’s history. In Beyond Alterity, authors from across disciplines question the persistent association between indigenous people and radical difference, and demonstrate that alterity is often the product of specific political contexts.
Interwoven
Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy
By Rachel Corr
The University of Arizona Press
Interwoven focuses on the lives of native Andean families in Pelileo, a town dominated by one of Quito’s largest and longest-lasting textile mills. Rachel Corr reveals the strategies used by indigenous people to maintain their families and reconstitute their communities in the face of colonial disruptions.
Immigration and the Law
Race, Citizenship, and Social Control
Edited by Sofía Espinoza Álvarez and Martin Guevara Urbina
The University of Arizona Press
In today’s highly charged atmosphere, Immigration and the Law gives readers a grounded and broad overview of U.S. immigration law in a single book. Encompassing issues such as shifting demographics, a changing criminal justice system, and a volatile political climate, this book offers a critical and sweeping look at the history and nuances of immigration law.
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country
Edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider
The University of Arizona Press
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country calls to attention the need for culturally appropriate research protocols and critical discussions of social and criminal justice in Indian Country. Contributors reflect on issues in three key areas: crime, social justice, and community responses to crime and justice issues. Each essay demonstrates how Indigenous communities are finding their own solutions for social justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.
Big Water
The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
The University of Arizona Press
Big Water focuses on the uniquely overlapping character of South America’s Triple Frontier. These essays complicate the frontiers and balance the excessive weight previously given to empires, nations, and territorial expansion. Big Water’s transdisciplinary approach provides a new understanding of how space and society have developed throughout Latin America.
Multiple InJustices
Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America
The University of Arizona Press
R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women’s organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and anyone interested in social justice.
Laura Méndez de Cuenca
Mexican Feminist, 1853–1928
The University of Arizona Press
Laura Méndez de Cuenca—poet, teacher, editor, writer, and feminist—dared to bypass the cultural traditions of her time. Her story reveals an extraordinary mexicana, an intrepid individual in a time of tumultuous politics and transformation. Covering Méndez de Cuenca’s exciting life experiences, Mílada Bazant has written a highly readable, intimate tale of a remarkable woman.
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
The University of Arizona Press
Latino Placemaking and Planning offers a pathway to define, analyze, and evaluate the role that placemaking can have with respect to Latino communities in the context of contemporary urban planning, policy, and design practices. The book illustrates the importance of placemaking as a pathway to sustainable urban revitalization.
Latinas and Latinos on TV
Colorblind Comedy in the Post-racial Network Era
The University of Arizona Press
Interweaving discussions about the ethnic, racial, and linguistic representations of Latinas/os within network television comedies, Isabel Molina-Guzmán probes published interviews with producers and textual examples from hit programs like Modern Family, The Office, and Scrubs to understand how these prime-time sitcoms communicate difference in the United States.
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