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Aztlán Arizona
Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
The University of Arizona Press
Aztlán Arizona is the first thorough examination of Arizona’s Chicano student movement, providing an exhaustive history of the emergence of the state’s Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts. Darius V. Echeverría reveals how Mexican American communities fostered a togetherness that ultimately modified larger Arizona society by revamping the educational history of the region.
Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California
Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and Islands
The University of Arizona Press
A must-have for anyone who has visited or hopes to visit Baja California’s Gulf Coast, Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California describes—and maps and illustrates—nine hikes on islands, along coastal outcrops, and other special places where geography, geology, and ecology meet in singular ways. Whether you like to hike with your boots on or from the comfort of your couch, this book is a delight.
Seriously Funny
Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
By Samuel Schmidt; Translated by Adam Schmidt
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring the ways in which political humor has developed and operated in Mexico over more than four centuries, this is groundbreaking work argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes.
With Blood in Their Eyes
By Thomas Cobb
The University of Arizona Press
Thomas Cobb introduces the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history. In this Spur Award Winner (Best Western Long Novel) Cobb cunningly weaves the story of the Power brothers’ escape with flashbacks of the boys’ father’s life and his struggle to make a living ranching, logging, and mining in the West around the turn of the century. Deftly drawn characters and cleverly concealed motivations work seamlessly to blend a compelling family history with a desperate story of the brothers as they attempt to escape.
The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band
The University of Arizona Press
Opening July 4, 1969, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band follows a country western band through a summer of gigs in this novel that is equal parts mystery and community chronicle. At its core is the band’s sassy lead singer and guitarist, Sissy Roberts, who must unravel a mysterious death as well as her own future in this story set in Indian Country on the verge of historic changes.
Raza Studies
The Public Option for Educational Revolution
The University of Arizona Press
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive—indeed revolutionary—program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it.
Ameriscopia
By Edwin Torres
The University of Arizona Press
Shattering the definition of Latino into a million little pieces, poet Edwin Torres reassembles identity into something that is more likely and at the same time unexpected, complex, and multifaceted. From conversations in cars to fast-beat lullabies, Ameriscopia is a collection that taps into rhythms both distinctive and dynamic.
Reimagining National Belonging
Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
The University of Arizona Press
Reimagining National Belonging offers the first sustained critical examination of post-civil war El Salvador, describing how one nation took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. An “ethnography of the state,” it highlights the practices and the complexities of nation-building in the 21st century.
Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction
The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety
The University of Arizona Press
A much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory, race critical theory, Chicana/o–Latina/o studies, and Los Angeles writing and film, López-Calvo offers multiple theoretical perspectives—including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, gender studies, and cultural studies—contextualized with notions of transnationalism and post-nationalism.
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the Spaniards’ reconquest in 1692—completely skipping over the years of indigenous independence that occurred in between. Revolt boldly breaks out of this mold and examines the aftermath of the uprising in colonial New Mexico, focusing on the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.