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Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua

The University of Arizona Press

This groundbreaking book reframes five hundred years of western Nicaraguan history by giving gender and sexuality the attention they deserve. González-Rivera decenters nationalist narratives of triumphant mestizaje and argues that western Nicaragua’s LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous one.

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Reconnaissance in Sonora

Charles D. Poston's 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase

The University of Arizona Press

Reconnaissance in Sonora is based on Charles D. Poston’s handwritten report about his 1854 journey from San Francisco to Sonora, Mexico, and his return through the Gadsden Purchase territory of southern Arizona. Along the way, C. Gilbert Storms explores the national debate over a route for a transcontinental railroad and the legends of rich gold and silver mines in 1850s northern Mexico.

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El Fin del Mundo

A Clovis Site in Sonora, Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

El Fin del Mundo: A Clovis Site in Sonora, Mexico provides a full report on the site of the first documented Clovis association with gomphotheres in North America.

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Frontera Madre(hood)

Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The University of Arizona Press

Reflecting on the concept of frontera madre(hood) as both a methodological and theoretical framework, this collection embodies the challenges and resiliency of mothering along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than thirty contributors examine how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

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Working en comunidad

Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/os/es

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume showcases examples of service-learning practices and pedagogies for working alongside Latina/o/e communities. The contributors tackle three major themes: ethical approaches to working with Latina/o/e communities within language courses and beyond; preparing Latina/o/e students for working with their own communities in different environments; and ensuring equitable practices and building relationships that are mutually beneficial for students and community. Written by scholars, practitioners, and researchers, the collection’s six chapters offer case studies of how to carry out service-learning work that is culturally informed and provides a guide to help others do the same.

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Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California

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The influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists into Alta California between 1769 and 1834 challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors to this volume draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference.

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Forging a Sustainable Southwest

The Power of Collaborative Conservation

The University of Arizona Press

Forging a Sustainable Southwest is the story of how diverse groups of citizens in the Southwest have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonize ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs.

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Testimonios of Care

Feminist Latina/x and Chicana/x Perspectives on Caregiving Praxis

The University of Arizona Press

The first English-language collection of Latina/x caregiving testimonios, this volume gives voice to diverse Chicana/x and Latina/x caregiving experiences. Bringing together thirteen first-person accounts of how Latinx people deal with serious health conditions as caregivers, these testimonies highlight tragic flaws in the health-care system, how woefully undervalued caregiving is, and how as care recipients and caregivers, they have been harmed by the for-profit health-care system.

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Healing Like Our Ancestors

The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660

The University of Arizona Press

Offering a provocative new perspective, this book examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in Central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records. Historian Edward Anthony Polanco draws from diverse colonial primary sources, largely in Spanish and Nahuatl (the ancestral Nahua language), to explore how Spanish settlers framed Nahua titiçih (healing specialists), their knowledge, and their practices within a Western complex. Polanco argues for the usage of Indigenous terms when discussing Indigenous concepts, and arms the reader with the Nahuatl words to discuss central Mexican Nahua healing.

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Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

Engaged Ethnography

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume is a collective conversation between anthropologists, activists, students, im/migrants, and community members about accompaniment—a feminist care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement. Across the chapters, contributors engage with accompaniment with im/migrant communities in a variety of ways that challenge traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community member to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and well-being for the communities they work with and alongside.

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