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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
La Plonqui
The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
This volume’s essays analyze her work’s themes of Chicana identity, the Chicanx movement, and the sociopolitical climate of Arizona and the larger U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as issues of gender, sexuality, and identity related to the Chicanx experience over time.
Urban Indigeneities
Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
The Ecolaboratory
Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica
Diverting the Gila
The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916–1928
Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona’s Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.