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Cenizas
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives were shaped by tumultuous global politics. Cynthia Guardado’s poems argue that the Salvadoran Civil War permanently altered the Salvadoran people’s reality by forcing them to become refugees who continue to leave their homeland, even decades after the war.
World of Our Mothers
Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories
The University of Arizona Press
World of Our Mothers highlights the largely forgotten stories of forty-five women immigrants in the early twentieth century. Through interviews in Arizona mining towns, Phoenix barrios, and selected areas of California, Texas, and the Midwest, we learn how they negotiated their lives with their circumstances.
Children Crossing Borders
Latin American Migrant Childhoods
Edited by Alejandra J Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado
The University of Arizona Press
This volume draws attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Dance of the Returned
The University of Arizona Press
The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
The University of Arizona Press
Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people.
Michael Chiago
O’odham Lifeways Through Art
By Michael Chiago and Amadeo M. Rea
The University of Arizona Press
O’odham artist Michael Chiago Sr.’s paintings provide a window into the lifeways of the O’odham people. This book offers a rich account of how Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham live in the Sonoran Desert now and in the recent past.
Indigenous Economics
Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
The University of Arizona Press
The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.
The Border and Its Bodies
The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
The increasingly militarized U.S.-México border is an intensely physical place, affecting the bodies of all who encounter it. The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals on the most basic social unit possible: the human body.
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
The University of Arizona Press
Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives. It offers conservation efforts that not only include people as beneficiaries but also demonstrate how they are essential and knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition
The University of Arizona Press
This is most comprehensive book yet to describe the minerals known to occur in Arizona. It presents a framework of Arizona’s mineralogy and a set of mineral district maps that can help identify new mineral occurrences. A must-have resource for anyone interested in Arizona minerals, gemstones, fluorescent minerals, and geology.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua
Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements
The University of Arizona Press
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community’s emergence as political actors—from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists.
Unwriting Maya Literature
Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge
By Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios
The University of Arizona Press
Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya and other Indigenous texts. Through insightful analyses of Maya cultural productions—whether textiles or poetry—this perspective offers a point of departure for the study of Maya literature and art that is situated in an Indigenous way of performing the act of reading.
The Aztecs at Independence
Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
The University of Arizona Press
This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers—Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.
Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién
The University of Arizona Press
In Crafting Wounaan Landscapes, Julie Velásquez Runk upends long-standing assumptions about the people that call Panama's Darién home, and she demonstrates the agency of the Wounaan people to make their living and preserve and transform their way of life in the face of continuous and tremendous change. She unpacks environmental governance efforts that illustrate what happens when conservation is confronted with people in a purportedly peopleless place.
A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back
The University of Arizona Press
In 1981, Chicana feminist intellectuals Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa published what would become a foundational legacy for generations of feminist women of color—the seminal This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. To celebrate and honor this important work, editors gloria j. wilson, Joni B. Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe offer new generations A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back.
Pachamama Politics
Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
The University of Arizona Press
Pachamama Politics examines how campesinos came to defend their community water sources from gold mining upstream and explains why Ecuador’s “pink tide” government came under fire by Indigenous and environmental rights activists.
Flower Worlds
Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
Edited by Michael Mathiowetz and Andrew Turner
The University of Arizona Press
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages.
Postindian Aesthetics
Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
The University of Arizona Press
Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics.
Latinx Teens
U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen
By Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera
The University of Arizona Press
Latinx Teens examines how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. The book explores the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go.
The Greater San Rafael Swell
Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands
By Stephen E. Strom and Jonathan Bailey
The University of Arizona Press
This book offers the story of how citizens of a small county in the rural West – Emery County, Utah—resolved perhaps the most volatile issue in the region – the future of public lands.
Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
Decolonizing Ifugao History
By Stephen Acabado and Marlon Martin
The University of Arizona Press
This book illustrates how descendant communities can take control of their history and heritage through active collaboration with archaeologists. Drawing on the Philippine Cordilleran experiences, Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines discusses how changing historical narratives help empower peoples who are traditionally ignored in national histories.
Transforming Diné Education
Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice
Edited by Pedro Vallejo and Vincent Werito
The University of Arizona Press
Transforming Diné Education honors the perspectives and voices of Diné educators in culturally relevant education, special education, Diné language revitalization, well-being, tribal sovereignty, self-determination in Diné education, and university-tribal-community partnerships. The contributors offer stories about Diné resilience, resistance, and survival by articulating a Diné-centered pedagogy and politics for future generations.
American Indian Studies
Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories
The University of Arizona Press
Native American doctoral graduates of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD, gift their stories. The Native PhD recipients share their journeys of pursuing and earning the doctorate, and its impact on their lives and communities.
Barger Gulch
A Folsom Campsite in the Rocky Mountains
The University of Arizona Press
This monograph summarizes findings from nine seasons of excavation at Barger Gulch Locality B, a Folsom campsite in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Archaeologist Todd A. Surovell explains the spatial organization of the camp and the social organization of the people who lived there.
The Community-Based PhD
Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR
Edited by Sonya Atalay and Alexandra C McCleary
The University of Arizona Press
This volume explores the complex and nuanced experience of doing community-based research as a graduate student. Contributors from a range of scholarly disciplines share their experiences with CBPR in the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health, and STEM fields.
Calculating Brilliance
An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza
The University of Arizona Press
This book contextualizes the discovery of a Venus astronomical pattern by a female Mayan astronomer at Chich’en Itza and the discovery’s later adaptation and application at Mayapan. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy.
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the 2021 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak offers the insightful voice of a first-generation immigrant to the United States in both Spanish and English. The poems, both fantastical and real, create poetic portraits of historical migrants, revealing shocking and necessary insights into humanity while establishing a transatlantic dialogue with the great voices of the Spanish Renaissance.
The Book of Wanderers
The University of Arizona Press
The Book of Wanderers is a dynamic short story collection that shows readers what a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter can have in common. Reyes Ramirez takes readers on a journey through Houston, across dimensions, and all the way to Mars with riveting stories that unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary—and perhaps future—America.
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America
The University of Arizona Press
Our Fight Has Just Begunilluminates Native voices while exposing how the justice system has largely failed Native American victims and families. This book tells the untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States.
A History of Navajo Nation Education
Disentangling Our Sovereign Body
By Wendy Shelly Greyeyes; Foreword by Kevin K Washburn
The University of Arizona Press
On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Diné Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships, competing agendas, and jurisdictional battles influenced by colonial pressures and tribal resistance. In providing the historical roots to today’s challenges, Wendy Shelly Greyeyes clears the path and provides a go-to reference to move discussions forward.
Trickster Academy
The University of Arizona Press
Trickster Academy is a collection of poems that explore the experience of being Native in Academia—from land acknowledgement statements, to mascots, to the histories of using Native American remains in anthropology. This collection illuminates the shared experiences of Indians across many regions, and all of us who live amongst Tricksters.
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse
Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California
The University of Arizona Press
As an Indigenous scholar researching the history and archaeology of his own tribe, Tsim D. Schneider provides a unique and timely contribution to the growing field of Indigenous archaeology and offers a new perspective on the primary role and relevance of Indigenous places and homelands in the study of colonial encounters.
Navigating CHamoru Poetry
Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization
The University of Arizona Press
For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics.
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
The University of Arizona Press
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans documents how and why the Indigenous Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples took part in the Mexican Revolution as they struggled to preserve their cultures, lands, and political autonomy in the face of civil war, bandit raids, and radical political reform. In unpacking the ambiguities that characterize their participation in this tumultuous period, it sheds light on the inner contradictions of the revolution itself.
Primitivism and Identity in Latin America
Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture
Edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas and José Eduardo González
The University of Arizona Press
Land Uprising
Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity
The University of Arizona Press
Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Simón Ventura Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.
The Sound of Exclusion
NPR and the Latinx Public
The University of Arizona Press
In The Sound of Exclusion, Christopher Chávez critically examines National Public Radio’s professional norms and practices that situate white listeners at the center while relegating Latinx listeners to the periphery. By interrogating industry practices, we might begin to reimagine NPR as a public good that serves the broad and diverse spectrum of the American public.
Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds
The Transformations of Mexico's Narco Cartels
The University of Arizona Press
Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds describes the history of Mexican narco cartels and their regional and organizational trajectories and differences. Covering more than five decades, sociologist James H. Creechan unravels a web of government dependence, legitimate enterprises, and covert connections.
Returning Home
Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School
The University of Arizona Press
Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Diné (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Diné student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures.
Once Upon the Permafrost
Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia
The University of Arizona Press
Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about “knowing” a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change. Through careful integration of contemporary narratives, on-site observations, and document analysis, Susan Alexandra Crate shows how local understandings of change and the vernacular knowledge systems they are founded on provide critical information for interdisciplinary collaboration and effective policy prescriptions.
Decolonizing “Prehistory”
Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America
Edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Christen Mucher
The University of Arizona Press
Decolonizing “Prehistory” critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.
Baja California's Coastal Landscapes Revealed
Excursions in Geologic Time and Climate Change
The University of Arizona Press
Expert geologist and guide Markes E. Johnson takes us on a dozen rambles through wild coastal landscapes on Mexico’s Gulf of California. Descriptions of storm deposits from the geologic past conclude by showing how the future of the Baja California peninsula and its human inhabitants are linked to the vast Pacific Basin and populations on the opposite shores coping with the same effects of global warming.
Discovering Mars
A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet
By William Sheehan and Jim Bell
The University of Arizona Press
A leading historian of astronomy and a leading planetary scientist who works at the forefront of space exploration provide a comprehensive history of the solar system’s most alluring planet beyond Earth. William Sheehan and Jim Bell chronicle how ancient watchers of the skies attended to Mars’s red color and baffling movements, how three and a half centuries of telescopic observations added vistas and controversies around possible seas and continents and canals, and how the current era of exploration by flyby, orbiter, lander, and rover spacecraft have conjured for us the reality of a world of towering shield volcanoes, vast canyons, ancient dry riverbeds—and even possible evidence of past life. A unique collaboration between two authors on the forefront of Mars explorations, past and future, Discovering Mars provides an ambitious, detailed, and evocative account of humanity’s enduring fascination with the Red Planet.
Natural Landmarks of Arizona
By David Yetman
The University of Arizona Press
Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of an author who has called Arizona home for most of his life. In David Yetman’s new book, he shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on more recent histories of these landmarks as well.
Latin American Immigration Ethics
Edited by Amy Reed-Sandoval and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda
The University of Arizona Press
Latin American Immigration Ethics advances philosophical conversations and debates about immigration by theorizing migration from the Latin American and Latinx context.
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
The University of Arizona Press
This is a book about hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Postcards from the Baja California Border
Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s–1950s
The University of Arizona Press
Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery—the vintage postcard—to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.
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