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The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

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A War that Can’t Be Won

Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs

The University of Arizona Press

Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With evidence newly obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in Mexico, it proposes practical solutions to a seemingly intractable crisis.

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Where the Wind Blows Us

Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North

The University of Arizona Press

This useful book—part case study, part handbook—unites critical practice with a community-based approach to archaeology. It describes an inclusive archaeology that rests on a flexible but rigorous research design and incorporates responsible, ethical practice.

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Telling and Being Told

Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures

The University of Arizona Press

Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
 

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Milk and Filth

The University of Arizona Press

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Milk and Filth is a collection of forty-two poems exploring issues of gender, equality, sexuality and the artist-as-thinker in modern culture. Deftly blending a variety of tones, styles, and structure, Giménez Smith’s poems evocatively explores deep cultural issues.

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Indian Resilience and Rebuilding

Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West

The University of Arizona Press

This illuminating and comprehensive analysis of Native nations' resilience in the twentieth century demonstrates how Native Americans reinvented themselves, rebuilt their nations, and ultimately became major forces in the United States. Written by Donald L. Fixico, Indian Resilience and Rebuilding redefines how modern American history can and should be told.

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Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

Edited by Jessie L. Embry
The University of Arizona Press

The essays in this volume show how oral history can increase understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have made their communities and have made history.

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More Than Two to Tango

Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City

The University of Arizona Press

The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant dancers whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango gives a detailed portrait of the Argentine immigrant community, where tango is both an art form and a means of survival.

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Coconut Milk

The University of Arizona Press

Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.

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Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination

Thresholds of Belonging

The University of Arizona Press
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Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

Tracy L. Brown explores the impact of Spanish colonial interactions on Pueblo culture, using little-researched Spanish language documents from the eighteenth century. Pueblo peoples negotiated Spanish authority to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity.

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