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Pasadena Before the Roses
Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890
The University of Arizona Press
In Pasadena Before the Roses, historian Yvette J. Saavedra shows how Indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, and American groups each have redefined the meanings of land use to build their homes and their lives. This social and cultural history illustrates the interconnectedness of power, ideas of land use, and the negotiation of identity within multiple colonial moments.
Memories of Earth and Sea
An Ethnographic History of the Islands of Chiloé
The University of Arizona Press
Spiral to the Stars
Mvskoke Tools of Futurity
By Laura Harjo
The University of Arizona Press
Spiral to the Stars offers a critical and concrete map for community making that leverages Mvskoke way-finding tools of energy, kinship, knowledge, power, and spaces. It is must-have book for community organizers, radical pedagogists, and anyone wishing to empower and advocate for their community.
Border Brokers
Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics
The University of Arizona Press
Border Brokers examines the broader consequences of U.S. immigration policies on both immigrant and citizen members within mixed-status families. Christina Getrich offers the first book-length longitudinal study of children from mixed-status families.
Footprints of Hopi History
Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni'at
The University of Arizona Press
Footprints of Hopi History illuminates how Hopis understand and value their ancestral landscapes. It offers fresh and innovative perspectives on archaeology and anthropology initiatives, and demonstrates how one tribal community significantly has advanced knowledge about its past through collaboration with archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians.
Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World
Testimonios on Violence
By Roberto Cintli Rodríguez; Foreword by Patrisia Gonzales
The University of Arizona Press
This is a testimonio, a historia profoundo of the culture of extralegal violence against the Red-Black-Brown communities in the United States that operates with impunity. Framed by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez’s personal testimony of police violence, this book is a clarion call to end that violence and those philosophies that permit such violence to flourish.
Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City
By Diana Negrín
The University of Arizona Press
Utilizing archival and ethnographic research, this book explores the construction of racial and ethnic imaginaries in the western Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Tepic, and the ways in which these imaginaries shape the contemporary experiences and activism of Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous university students and professionals living, studying, and working in these two cities.
Transforming Rural Water Governance
The Road from Resource Management to Political Activism in Nicaragua
The University of Arizona Press
Detours
Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South
Edited by M. Bianet Castellanos
The University of Arizona Press
Detours is an attempt to crack cultural imperialism by bringing forth the personal as political in academia and research. Speaking from the intersection of race, class, and gender, the contributors explore the hubris and nostalgia that motivate returning again and again to a particular place. Through personal stories, they examine their changing ideas of Latin America and the Caribbean and how those places have shaped the people they’ve become, as writers, as teachers, and as activists.
Cultivating Knowledge
Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India
The University of Arizona Press
Cultivating Knowledge highlights the agency, creativity, opportunism, and performance of individuals and communities carving out successful lives in a changing agricultural landscape. The practice of sustainable agriculture on the farm—let alone the global challenge of feeding or clothing the world—is a social question, not a technological one. Farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their choices have dire consequences, sometimes leading to death. Through an ethnography of seeds, Andrew Flachs investigates the human responses to global agrarian change.
Postcards from the Chihuahua Border
Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s
The University of Arizona Press
Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history of Mexico’s northern border. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when the border towns of Ciudad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Knowledge in Motion
Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place
Edited by Andrew P. Roddick and Ann B. Stahl
The University of Arizona Press
Knowledge in Motion brings together archaeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists to examine communities from around the globe as they engage in a range of practices constituting situated learned and knowledge transmission. The contributors lay the groundwork to forge productive theories and methodologies for exploring situated learning and its broad-ranging outcomes.
Kafka in a Skirt
Stories from the Wall
The University of Arizona Press
Kafka in a Skirt is not your ordinary short story collection. In his newest work, Daniel Chacón subverts expectation and breaks down the walls of reality to create stories that are intriguing, hilarious, and deeply rooted in Chicano culture.
How “Indians” Think
Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory
The University of Arizona Press
This book shines light on Indigenous perspectives of Spanish colonialism through a novel interpretation of the works of the two most important Amerindian intellectuals in the Andes, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Departing from the predominant scholarly position that views Indigenous-Spanish relations as the clash of two distinct cultures, Gonzalo Lamana argues that Guaman Poma and Garcilaso were the first Indigenous activist intellectuals and that they developed post-racial imaginaries four hundred years ago.
The Intimate Frontier
Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Building on the most recent scholarship in borderlands history, The Intimate Frontier is an intellectual and social history that explores the immensely complex web of interpersonal relationships and layers of emotional sophistication inherent among frontier communities.