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Lotería
Nocturnal Sweepstakes
My Heart Is Bound Up with Them
How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration
Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
Running After Paradise
Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Chicano-Chicana Americana
Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros
Reading the Illegible
Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
Translation and Epistemicide
Racialization of Languages in the Americas
Lavender Fields
Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19
Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965
Sonoran Desert Journeys
Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species
This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.
Corporate Nature
An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation
Nuclear Nuevo México
Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
Nuclear Nuevo México recovers the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of U.S. nuclear history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gómez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo México but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico.
Visualizing Genocide
Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums
Cornerstone at the Confluence
Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century
Guarded by Two Jaguars
A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith
Raven's Echo
Gardening at the Margins
Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance
Latinx Belonging
Community Building and Resilience in the United States
Debating American Identity
Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration
Bountiful Deserts
Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain
Cenizas
Poems
World of Our Mothers
Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories
Children Crossing Borders
Latin American Migrant Childhoods
Dance of the Returned
The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Michael Chiago
O’odham Lifeways Through Art
Indigenous Economics
Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.
The Border and Its Bodies
The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition
This is most comprehensive book yet to describe the minerals known to occur in Arizona. It presents a framework of Arizona’s mineralogy and a set of mineral district maps that can help identify new mineral occurrences. A must-have resource for anyone interested in Arizona minerals, gemstones, fluorescent minerals, and geology.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua
Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements
The Aztecs at Independence
Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién
A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back
Pachamama Politics
Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages.
Finding Right Relations
Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism
Postindian Aesthetics
Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
Latinx Teens
U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Latinx Teens examines how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. The book explores the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
The Greater San Rafael Swell
Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands
Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
Decolonizing Ifugao History
This book illustrates how descendant communities can take control of their history and heritage through active collaboration with archaeologists. Drawing on the Philippine Cordilleran experiences, Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines discusses how changing historical narratives help empower peoples who are traditionally ignored in national histories.
Transforming Diné Education
Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice
American Indian Studies
Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories
Native American doctoral graduates of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD, gift their stories. The Native PhD recipients share their journeys of pursuing and earning the doctorate, and its impact on their lives and communities.
Barger Gulch
A Folsom Campsite in the Rocky Mountains
The Community-Based PhD
Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR
Calculating Brilliance
An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak
Winner of the 2021 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak offers the insightful voice of a first-generation immigrant to the United States in both Spanish and English. The poems, both fantastical and real, create poetic portraits of historical migrants, revealing shocking and necessary insights into humanity while establishing a transatlantic dialogue with the great voices of the Spanish Renaissance.