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Writing the Goodlife
Mexican American Literature and the Environment
The University of Arizona Press
The decolonial approaches found in Writing the Goodlife provide rich examples of mutually respectful relations between humans and nature. Ybarra’s book takes on two of today’s most discussed topics: environmentalism and Latina/o population growth. Ybarra shines a light on long-established traditions of environmental thought that have existed in Mexican American literary history for at least 150 years.
Weaving the Boundary
By Karenne Wood
The University of Arizona Press
Political yet universal, Weaving the Boundary tells of love and betrayal, loss and forgiveness. Poet Karenne Wood intertwines important and otherwise untold stories and histories with a heightened sense of awareness of Native peoples’ issues and present realities.
The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
The University of Arizona Press
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher, Maria Irene Fornes, who has transformed American theatre. Considering Fornes’s legacy, Anne García-Romero shows how five award-winning playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
The University of Arizona Press
How Myth Became History emphasizes the heterogeneity of border communities and the foregrounding narratives often ignored, such as Mexican-indio histories. John E. Dean provides critical insight into the vexed status of the contemporary Texas-Mexico divide and points to broader implications for national and transnational identity.
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.
Los Primeros Mexicanos
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora
The University of Arizona Press
Los Primeros Mexicanos explores the Clovis occupation of Mexico’s northwest region of Sonora through extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and Paleoindian archaeology. Guadalupe Sánchez presents a synopsis and critical review of current data and a unique summary of hard-to-find information that until now has not been available in English.
Translating Southwestern Landscapes
The Making of an Anglo Literary Region
The University of Arizona Press
The Visions of Sor María de Agreda
Writing Knowledge and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau
Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa
Edited by Shirley Powell and Francis E. Smiley
The University of Arizona Press
Empire of Sand
The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645–1803
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan
The University of Arizona Press
Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization
Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq
Edited by Norman Yoffee and Jeffery J. Clark
The University of Arizona Press
A Frontier Documentary
Sonora and Tucson, 1821–1848
Edited by Kieran McCarty
The University of Arizona Press
Asteroids IV
The University of Arizona Press
150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites. Most importantly, this volume outlines the outstanding questions that will focus and drive researchers and students of all ages toward new advances in the coming decade and beyond.
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
The University of Arizona Press
The Body as Capital analyzes and develops the notion of the male body as a dialogic site of enunciation, arguing that the writing of masculinities is a project that centers socioeconomic and political concerns, anxieties, and paradigms both on the male anatomy and on the matrices of masculinities presented in fiction. It forges a new path in the critical debates over gender and sexuality in Latin American writing.
Other Country
Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists
The University of Arizona Press
A deep concern with landscape, animals, indigenous cultures, and essential moral values runs through Other Country as author James Perrin Warren reveals the dynamic relationship between Barry Lopez and the artistic community in their quest to lead cultural change.
Born of Resistance
Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture
Edited by Scott L. Baugh and Victor A. Sorell
The University of Arizona Press
Born of Resistance revisits and updates resistance as a complex underlying force in Chicana/o art and visual cultural expression. This groundbreaking volume includes nine clustered discussions that interface scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical discussions alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works in several media, including prints, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television, anchor each cluster of essays.
Speaking Mexicano
Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico
By Jane H. Hill and Kenneth C. Hill
The University of Arizona Press
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award, this volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. Drawing on thirty years of research, Wendy Hodgson has synthesized the widely scattered literature and added her own experiences to create an exhaustive catalog of desert plants and their many and varied uses. Accessible to general readers, this book is an invaluable compendium for anyone interested in the desert’s hidden bounty.
Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes
The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film
The University of Arizona Press
Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes compares the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized by an acknowledgment of the contingent status of present-day identity formations.
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