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Poetry of Resistance
Voices for Social Justice
The University of Arizona Press
Poetry of Resistance offers a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing. Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights.
Indigenous Pop
Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
The University of Arizona Press
American Indian musicians have been innovators in virtually all popular forms of music—jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip-hop. In fact, some of the United States’ most prominent musicians have been American Indians. Yet for too long their contributions have been invisible to the public. This book showcases the range of musical genres to which Native musicians have contributed and the unique ways in which their engagement advances the struggle for justice and continues age-old traditions of creative expression.
The Settlement of the American Continents
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography
The University of Arizona Press
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
From Flowers to Ash
The University of Arizona Press
Copper for America
The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
The University of Arizona Press
An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
The El Mozote Massacre
Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition
The University of Arizona Press
The El Mozote Massacre, 2nd Edition brings a fresh perspective on what may be the largest massacre in modern Latin American history. Through many new additions, including data from half a dozen field trips, discussions of reconstruction and the fight for justice, and the relation of the massacre to the region, Binford continues to bring social identity and a sense of history to the fallen people of the Salvadoran village.
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout
White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
By Lori Davisson, Edgar Perry, and The Original Staff of the White Mountain Apache Cultural Center; Edited by John R. Welch
The University of Arizona Press
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout showcases and annotates articles published between June 1973 and October 14, 1977, in the tribe’s Fort Apache Scout newspaper. This twenty-eight-part series shared Western Apache culture and history, and the book powerfully shows the importance of collaborative projects aimed at preserving and perpetuating Native heritage.
Barrio Dreams
Selected Plays
The University of Arizona Press
Silviana Wood’s teatro has elicited tears and laughter from audiences young and old. Barrio Dreams brings together for the first time the plays of Wood, one of Arizona’s foremost playwrights. Wood is acclaimed locally, regionally, and nationally as a playwright, actor, director, and activist.
The Sonoran Desert
A Literary Field Guide
The University of Arizona Press
A groundbreaking book that melds art and science, this collection is sure to become the new classic, offering up the next generation of voices of this special place, the Sonoran Desert. More than fifty poets and writers respond to as many species of this stunning desert. Each creative contribution is joined by an illustration and scientific information, creating a new form of Sonoran Desert field guide.