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Minorities in Phoenix
A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail
Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail is a history of Western movies but also a history of twentieth-century America. Richard Aquila’s fast-paced narrative includes classic Westerns such as Stagecoach, A Fistful of Dollars, and Unforgiven. This engaging volume shows how the mythic West continues to ride tall in the saddle along a “sagebrush trail,” which reveals valuable clues about American life and thought.
Mexican Americans and Health
¡Sana! ¡Sana!
By Adela de la Torre and Antonio Estrada
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Americans and Health, 2nd Edition provides new and updated information on health and health care topics regarding people of Mexican origin. New additions include analysis of emerging diseases and populations, current health-care events, and predictions for the next ten years. De la Torre and Estrada’s collaboration brings scholarship that is both cross-disciplinary and highly readable.
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
The University of Arizona Press
In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides students and educators alike with an indispensable overview of the relationship between Mexican Americans and the U.S. public schooling system. She examines controversial issues, such as standardized testing, segregation, and curriculum tracking, as well as a historical analysis of the barriers that Mexican American students have and continue to regularly face.
Tributaries
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Tributaries lyrically surveys Shawnee history alongside personal identity and memory. With the eye of a storyteller, poet Laura Da’ creates an arc that flows from the personal to the historical and back again. With narrative content from the period of Indian Removal in the 1830s to the present, the collection is composed of four sections that come together to create an important new telling of Shawnee past and present.
More or Less Dead
Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico
By Alice Driver
The University of Arizona Press
More or Less Dead is a rigorous critical work that asks us to reexamine conversations about human rights. This provocative book offers a penetrating portrayal of life and death in Ciudad Juárez.
Mexico in Verse
A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, examines Mexican history through its poetry and music, the spoken and the written word. The book provides a window to the beliefs and aspirations of ordinary people, fresh and vigorous and honest, in Mexico during a period of dynamic and turbulent change.
Women Who Stay Behind
Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive.
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortés, Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration.
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
The University of Arizona Press
George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.
Canto hondo / Deep Song
The University of Arizona Press
Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems, in both Spanish and English, in the style of Federico García Lorca, which has been compared to “the trilling of birds” and “the natural music of woods and streams.” An important voice in Chicano and GLBT poetry, Alarcón’s new work is his most complex and emotionally powerful published.
Twelve Clocks
The University of Arizona Press
Twelve Clocks consists of interconnected poems concerned with various modes of time and its relation to personal and historical events. It transports the reader across six cities around the world while simultaneously traveling through time from the age of Troy to the present.
Ponderosa
Big Pine of the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
After spending almost three decades studying among ponderosa pine trees, Allred shares his experiences and observations in Ponderosa, an introduction to ponderosa pine forests. With color photographs and multidisciplinary explanations throughout, Allred invites readers to join him in his exploration of the forest.
Chasing Arizona
One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State
The University of Arizona Press
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. Chasing Arizona takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joy ride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. This book is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, and a celebration of what makes the state a great place to visit and live.
Wandering Time
Western Notebooks
The University of Arizona Press
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car and wandered the West from one year’s spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. As nature opened Urrea’s eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape, reminding us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Wandering Time offers Urrea’s most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
The Last Grizzly and Other Southwestern Bear Stories
Edited by David E. Brown and John A. Murray
The University of Arizona Press
Pilgrimage and Healing
Edited by Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman
The University of Arizona Press
Cultural Capital
Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City
The University of Arizona Press
Planets and Perception
Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609-1909
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Astronomy Book of the Year from Mercury Magazine (Astronomical Society of the Pacific), Planets and Perception is a provocative book that will intrigue anyone who has ever looked through a telescope. Drawing on both astronomical and psychological data, William Sheehan offers the first systematic analysis of the perceptual and cognitive factors that go into the initial structuring of a planetary image and its subsequent elaboration. Sheehan details the development of lunar and planetary astronomy, underscoring perceptual and psychological themes.
Fluid Arguments
Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
Battle for the BIA
G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeology at El Perú-Waka'
Ancient Maya Performances of Ritual, Memory, and Power
Edited by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr and Michelle Rich
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to summarize the results of long-term field research at the major Maya site of Waka’. Bringing together findings from diverse research programs of the El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project, its fifteen wide-ranging contributions lead to a greater understanding of the richness and complexity of Classic-period Maya culture.
Transformation by Fire
The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
The University of Arizona Press
Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Edited by Rebecca Tillett
The University of Arizona Press
Almanac of the Dead is a demanding, polarizing, and unique novel. Howling for Justice offers a fresh collection of essays by international scholars that examine and explain some of the book’s key themes in new and useful ways. Included is a never-before-published interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.
Constructing Community
The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman uses the Salinas District in New Mexico to examine the relationships of subsistence practices, mobility, and settlement. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world.
The Borders of Inequality
Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
By Íñigo Moré; Translated by Lyn Dominguez
The University of Arizona Press
The Borders of Inequality illustrates how longstanding “multidirectional misunderstandings” can exacerbate cross-border problems—and consequent public opinion. Perpetuating these misunderstandings can inflame and complicate the situation, but purposeful efforts to reduce inequality can produce promising results.
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers
Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
The University of Arizona Press
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.
Mestizaje and Globalization
Transformations of Identity and Power
Edited by Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young
The University of Arizona Press
Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.
Demigods on Speedway
The University of Arizona Press
Demigods on Speedway is dramatic and poetic, a work of linked stories that together paint a gritty portrait of the Southwest. Well-drawn characters, sprung from Greek mythology into the realities of modern life, face the dilemma of struggling to survive under siege while passionately seeking to make something immortal in their lives.
Thinking en español
Interviews with Critics of Chicana/o Literature
By Jesús Rosales; Foreword by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Thinking en español takes the important literary figures who shaped our knowledge of Chicano authors and places them in the dynamic arc of Chicana/o criticism and literature. Jesús Rosales interviews foundational Chicana/o literary critics and, through conversations, establishes the path of Chicana/o criticism from 1848 to the present.
Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
The University of Arizona Press
Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
By Ignacio Lopez-Calvo; Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
The University of Arizona Press
Dragons in the Land of the Condor studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors. Ignacio López-Calvo considers the different strategies used by Chinese Peruvian writers to claim either their belonging in the Peruvian national project or their difference as a minority ethnic group.
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
The University of Arizona Press
Billy J. Stratton’s critical examination of Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather’s influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre.
Creating Aztlán
Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
The University of Arizona Press
Creating Aztlán interrogates the historic and important role that Aztlán plays in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, engaging precolonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization.
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico
Literary and Cultural Inquiries
Edited by Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico analyzes how Mexico’s colonial experience has been reimagined in the twenty-first century. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the fourteen essays gathered in this book question the problematic formation of contemporary marginalities and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities.
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
By Dian Million
The University of Arizona Press
Therapeutic Nations is one of the first books to demonstrate trauma's wide-ranging historical origins, and it offers a new indigenous feminist critique of the conversation of healing. Million's theoretical sophistication and original research make the book relevant across a range of disciplines as it challenges key concepts of American Indian and indigenous studies.
Soul Over Lightning
By Ray Gonzalez
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection, which the poet calls his “rebirth in the search for home,” Ray Gonzalez expresses the gentle, humble intelligence that has made him a leading voice in Latino letters. He shares with the reader the voice of a grounded soul searcher who has passed through middle age and still vibrates with passion for the world. Soul Over Lightning lifts spirits and yet offers a timeless search for home and truth.
In the Garden of the Bridehouse
The University of Arizona Press
Scrutinizing myth, culture, identity, and sexuality, J. Michael Martinez, in his brave new collection, weds the innovative with the narrative tradition, cultivating a collection that is unlike any other, simultaneously drawing together and pulling apart the familiar and the foreign, the self and the other, the known and the unknowable, the recoverable and irrecoverable past, the historical record and all that is given up for lost. Martinez interrogates the restrictions chosen to constrain imagination’s boundlessness.
Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas
A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights
Edited by Stan Stevens
The University of Arizona Press
This passionate, well-researched book makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift in conservation practice. It explores new policies and practices, which offer alternatives to exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas and make possible new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples’ rights and benefit from their knowledge and conservation contributions.
From Enron to Evo
Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia
By Derrick Hindery; Foreword by Susanna B. Hecht
The University of Arizona Press
Offering a critique of both free-market piracy and the dilemmas of resource nationalism, From Enron to Evo is groundbreaking book for anyone concerned with Indigenous politics, social movements, and environmental justice in an era of expanding resource development.
Contingent Maps
Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West
Edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett
The University of Arizona Press
Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, former co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, offer in this collection a new approach to women’s history that is firmly rooted in a fresh understanding of place.
Sinking Suspicions
The University of Arizona Press
Sinking Suspicions offers a heartwarming story of loss and redemption, murder and healing in Oklahoma’s modern-day Indian Country. Mystery writer Sara Sue Hoklotubbe crafts an authentic tale that mixes stolen identity with a fast-paced search for a killer.
A Land Between Waters
Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
Edited by Christopher R. Boyer
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history.
Shells on a Desert Shore
Mollusks in the Seri World
By Cathy Moser Marlett; Foreword by Richard Stephen Felger
The University of Arizona Press
Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original look at an indigenous culture of North America having a deep and intimate knowledge of the Gulf of California. Cathy Moser Marlett offers a richly illustrated ethnographic work, describing the Seri knowledge of mollusks and their cultural importance.
Requiem for the Santa Cruz
An Environmental History of an Arizona River
By Robert H. Webb, Julio L. Betancourt, R. Roy Johnson, and Raymond M. Turner; Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press
Requiem for the Santa Cruz is the riveting human and natural history of the life and death of a Southwestern river. The book is a model for explaining changes in river systems and the consequences, and will appeal to a wide-ranging audience of water lawyers, floodplain managers, land-use planners, people who live near major rivers in the Southwest, bird watchers, and armchair historians.
Nature Inc.
Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age
The University of Arizona Press
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
Just Between Us
An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Just Between Us, set in the context of Mexico’s cultural codes, challenges norms in thinking about men’s identities, their pleasures, and their sense of belonging. Author Guillermo Núñez Noriega offers a groundbreaking study that contests patriarchal concepts limiting male relationships and masculinity.
Beyond the Page
Poetry and Performance in Spanish America
The University of Arizona Press
Beyond the Page examines the performance of poetry to show how it travels outside of writing, eventually becoming part of the cultural consciousness. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations to twenty-first-century film, CDs, and Internet renditions, Beyond the Page offers analytic tools to chart poetry beyond printed texts.
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