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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.
Ciudad Juárez
Saga of a Legendary Border City
The University of Arizona Press
Oscar J. Martínez offers a comprehensive history of Ciudad Juárez from its beginnings as a Spanish frontier outpost to the present. In this singular history, Martinez brings Juárez’s U.S. ties to the forefront, providing a rich and nuanced portrait of a complex border city.
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
The University of Arizona Press
The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert shares how the geology, geography, climate, and organisms, including humans, have shaped and been shaped by this fascinating desert.
The Interior West
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
America is a confederation of regions as well as a federation of states. Its fire scene is best understood in terms of those regions, of which the Interior West is one. This book surveys the fire scene characteristic of Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination that moves the topic beyond the usual science and policy formulations and places it within the national narrative.
The Real Horse
Poems
By Farid Matuk
The University of Arizona Press
Grounded by a rigorously innovative attention to form, The Real Horse offers a testament to and reminder of a daughter’s disobedience to cultural patrimony.