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Food Fight!
Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace
The University of Arizona Press
Food Fight! contributes to urgent discussions around the problems of cultural misappropriation, labeling, identity, and imaging in marketing and dining establishments. Not just about food, restaurants, and coffee, this volume employs a decolonial approach and engaging voice to interrogate ways that mestizo, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples are objectified in mainstream ideology and imaginary.
When It Rains
Tohono O'odham and Pima Poetry
Edited by Ofelia Zepeda
The University of Arizona Press
When It Rains is an intuitive poetry collection that shows us how language connects people. With the poems in both O’odham and English, the volume serves as a reminder of the beauty and changeability of the O’odham language.
Snake Poems
An Aztec Invocation
By Francisco X. Alarcón; Edited by Odilia Galván Rodríguez; Translated by David Bowles and Xánath Caraza; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
The University of Arizona Press
This special edition of Snake Poems offers Nahuatl, Spanish, and English renditions of 104 poems based on Nahuatl invocations and spells that have survived more than three centuries, with a modern ecopoetic response from the late Francisco X. Alarcón.
Them Goon Rules
Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
By Marquis Bey
The University of Arizona Press
Marquis Bey’s debut essay collection unsettles normative ways of understanding Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Them Goon Rules is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know.
Rosa's Einstein
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Using details both from Einstein’s known life and from quantum physics, poet Jennifer Givhan imagines Lieserl, the daughter Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva allegedly gave up for adoption at birth, in a circus-like landscape of childhood trauma and survival, guided by Rosa and her sister Nieve. Rosa’s Einstein is a Latinx retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Snow-White and Rose-Red, reevaluating border, identity, and immigration narratives through the unlikely amalgamation of physics and fairy tale.
Brother Bullet
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, trauma, guilt, and, ultimately, survival. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in poems that are paralyzing and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
Edited by Paul M. Schenk, Roger N. Clark, Carly J. A. Howett, Anne J. Verbiscer, and J. Hunter Waite
The University of Arizona Press
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn brings together nearly eighty of the world’s top experts to establish what we currently understand about Saturn’s moons, while building the framework for the highest-priority questions to be addressed through ongoing spacecraft exploration.
Educating Across Borders
The Case of a Dual Language Program on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By María Teresa de la Piedra, Blanca Araujo, and Alberto Esquinca; Foreword by Concha Delgado Gaitan
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to address the learning experience of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students, in a dual language program. Educating Across Borders explains how transfronterizx language, literacy practices, and knowledge are used in the educational system.
Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
Pueblo and Spanish Interactions
The University of Arizona Press
A unique contribution to the archaeological literature on the Southwest, Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier introduces a wealth of data from one of the few known colonial metal production sites in the Southwest. Drawing upon ten seasons of excavation, archaeologist Noah H. Thomas provides an interpretation of data that is grounded in theories of agency, practice, and notions of value. This work brings to light a little-known aspect of the colonial experience: the production of metal by indigenous Puebloan people.
Rethinking the Aztec Economy
The University of Arizona Press
Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire.
Voices from Bears Ears
Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land
The University of Arizona Press
Through twenty individual stories, Voices from Bears Ears captures the passions of the debate that led to the creation of Bears Ears National Monument, a land of unsurpassed natural beauty and deep historical significance. The story of this place reflects the cultural crosscurrents that roil our times: maintaining tradition and culture in the face of change, healing the pain of past injustices, creating shared futures, and protecting and preserving lands for future generations.
Instruments of the True Measure
Poems
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present.
Here and There
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
Presented through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, Here and There moves the discussion on fire beyond the usual formulations of science and policy within a national narrative to one of thoughtful interpretation, analysis, and commentary. Centered on the unique complexities of fire management in a global world, Here and There offers a punctuation point to our understanding of wildfire.
The Motions Beneath
Indigenous Migrants on the Urban Frontier of New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
The Motions Beneath describes the encounters of thousands of Indigenous peoples from ten linguistic groups in the mining town of San Luis Potosí at the turn of the seventeenth century. It is the story of two generations of highly mobile individuals and their agency and subjectivity when facing colonial structures of exploitation on a daily basis.
The Making of a Mexican American Mayor
Raymond L. Telles of El Paso and the Origins of Latino Political Power
The University of Arizona Press
Politician Raymond L. Telles was the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city and the first Mexican American U.S. ambassador. Mario T. García’s updated biography of the ambitious, distinguished, and talented Telles brings the Chicano struggle for political representation to a new generation of readers.
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