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Activist Leaders of San José
En sus propias voces
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging stereotypes, this book unearths and makes visible lived experiences of Chicana and Latino activists from San José, California, who made contributions to the cultural and civic life of the city. Through oral histories, we see a portrait of grassroots leadership in the twentieth century.
A Marriage Out West
Theresa and Frank Russell’s Explorations in Arizona, 1900–1903
The University of Arizona Press
A Marriage Out West is an intimate biographical account of two fascinating figures of twentieth-century archaeology. Frances Theresa Peet Russell, an educator, married Harvard anthropologist Frank Russell in June 1900. They left immediately on a busman’s honeymoon to the Southwest. Their goal was twofold: to travel to an arid environment to quiet Frank’s tuberculosis and to find archaeological sites to support his research.
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture
Understanding the Past for the Future
Edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture offers a unique approach to advancing understanding of traditional agriculture worldwide. The volume focuses on what is unknown, why and how we can know more, and the specific research needed.
La Raza Cosmética
Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
La Raza Cosmética examines postrevolutionary identity construction as a project of settler colonialism that at once appropriated and erased indigeneity. In its critique of Indigenous representation, it also shows how Indigenous women strategically engaged with and resisted these projects as they played out in beauty pageants, films, tourism, art, and other realms of popular culture.
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
Looking Through the Kaleidoscope
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture traces the development of Chicana/o literature and cultural production from the Spanish colonial period to the present. In doing so, it challenges us to look critically at how we simultaneously embody colonial constructs and challenge their legacies.
Binational Commons
Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edited by Tony Payan and Pamela L Cruz
The University of Arizona Press
Binational Commons focuses on whether the institutions that presently govern the U.S.-Mexico transborder space are effective in providing solutions to difficult binational problems as they manifest themselves in the borderlands. The volume addresses key binational issues and explores where there are strong levels of institutional governance development, where it is failing, how governance mechanisms have evolved over time, and what can be done to improve it to meet the needs of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the next decades.
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities
The University of Arizona Press
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa provides pedagogical applications of Anzaldúa’s noted theories, including la facultad, the path of conocimiento, and autohistoria, among others. This text provides examples, lesson plans, and activities for scholars, professors, teachers, and community members in various disciplines—such as history, composition, literature, speech and debate, and more—and for those interested in teaching the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
A Desert Feast
Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage
The University of Arizona Press
This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. You’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to making Tucson taste like nowhere else.
Innocent Until Interrogated
The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
The University of Arizona Press
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
With unity of heart and mind, the creative and the scholarly, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities opens wide its arms to all non-binary, decolonial masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs tomorrow.
Oysters in the Land of Cacao
Archaeology, Material Culture, and Societies at Islas de Los Cerros and the Western Chontalpa, Tabasco, Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Oysters in the Land of Cacao delivers a long-overdue presentation of the archaeology, material culture, and regional synthesis on the Formative to Late Classic period societies of the western Chontalpa region (Tabasco, Mexico) through contemporary theory. It offers a significant new understanding of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast.
America's Early Whalemen
Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750
The University of Arizona Press
The Native Americans of Long Island were integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. John A. Strong has produced the authoritative source on Indians and shore whaling.
Coastal Lives
Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru
The University of Arizona Press
Coastal Lives reveals the ways in which ocean life is organized to produce value and thus provides a critical examination of the politics of contemporary environmental change in Peru and around the world. The authors underscore the importance of making the co-production of nature, capital, and politics visible as a critical means for addressing ecological crises and the multispecies dispossessions that accompany them.
Planetary Astrobiology
The University of Arizona Press
Planetary Astrobiology represents the combined efforts of more than seventy-five international experts consolidated into twenty chapters and provides an accessible, interdisciplinary gateway for new students and seasoned researchers who wish to learn more about this expanding field. Readers are brought to the frontiers of knowledge in astrobiology via results from the exploration of our own solar system and exoplanetary systems.
Fighting for Andean Resources
Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru
The University of Arizona Press
Fighting for Andean Resources offers a singular contribution to the literature critiquing monolithic views of nation-state dynamics and globalization. Vladimir R. Gil Ramón examines the protocols of accountability and the social critique of the application of environmental impact assessments and safeguard policies. His analysis reveals the complex mechanisms for legitimizing decision-making and adds to an understanding of everyday state-nation conflicts and negotiations.
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
By Claudia Leal
The University of Arizona Press
Landscapes of Freedom reconstructs the unusual postemancipation trajectory of African descendants on Colombia’s Pacific coast, who attained high levels of autonomy by controlling rainforests for subsistence and procuring natural resources for export.
Girl of New Zealand
Colonial Optics in Aotearoa
The University of Arizona Press
Girl of New Zealand resurrects Māori women from objectification and locates them firmly within Māori whanau/families and communities.
Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World
By Lloyd L. Lee
The University of Arizona Press
Informed by personal experience and offering an inclusive view, Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World showcases the complexity of understanding and the richness of current Diné identities.
State Formation in the Liberal Era
Capitalisms and Claims of Citizenship in Mexico and Peru
Edited by Ben Fallaw and David Nugent
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities
Edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider
The University of Arizona Press
This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions. The research in this volume focuses on the resurgence of traditional law, tribal–state relations in the United States, laws that have impacted Native American women, laws that have failed to protect Indigenous sacred sites, the effect of international conventions on domestic laws, and the role of community justice organizations in operationalizing international law.
Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005
The University of Arizona Press
In the fifteen-year span from 1990 to 2005 uprisings of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia changed their societies forever. The combination of mass mobilization, elections, and indigenous socialism created a new form of twenty-first-century revolution that applies to cultures far beyond the Andes. Jeffrey M. Paige’s interviews present the powerful personal experiences and emotional intensity of the revolutionary leadership.
Indigenous Environmental Justice
Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
The University of Arizona Press
The book explores the ongoing effects of colonization and emphasizes Native American tribes as governments rather than ethnic minorities. Combining elements of legal issues, human rights issues, and sovereignty issues, Indigenous Environmental Justice creates a clear example of community resilience in the face of corporate greed and state indifference.
Cycles of Conquest
The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960
The University of Arizona Press
To the Last Smoke
An Anthology
The University of Arizona Press
This anthology offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The essays offer a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America.
To the Last Smoke is Stephen J. Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season as a wildland firefighter to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
Tewa Worlds
An Archaeological History of Being and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest
By Samuel Duwe
The University of Arizona Press
Tewa Worlds offers an archaeological history of eight centuries of Tewa Pueblo history in the Rio Chama Valley through the lens of contemporary Pueblo philosophical and historical discourse. The result gives weight to the deep past, colonial encounters, and modern experiences. It challenges archaeologists to both critically reframe interpretation and to acknowledge the Tewa’s deep but ongoing connection with the land.
Sugarcane and Rum
The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula
The University of Arizona Press
More than a history of coveted commodities, the unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews’s new historySugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Radio Nation
Communication, Popular Culture, and Nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
The University of Arizona Press
Reading Popol Wuj
A Decolonial Guide
The University of Arizona Press
Reading Popol Wuj offers readers a path to look beyond Western constructions of literature to engage with this text through the philosophical foundation of Maya thought and culture. This guide deconstructs various translations to ask readers—scholars, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students—to break out of the colonial mold in approaching this seminal Maya text.
Moquis and Kastiilam
Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume II, 1680–1781
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Anton Daughters, Dale S. Brenneman, T. J. Ferguson, Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, and Leigh Wayne Lomayestewa
The University of Arizona Press
The second of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the Pueblo Revolt through 1781. Balancing historical documents with oral histories, it creates a fresh perspective on the interface of Spanish and Hopi peoples in the period of missionization.
Intersectional Chicana Feminisms
Sitios y Lenguas
By Aída Hurtado
The University of Arizona Press
Advocating for and demonstrating the importance of an intersectional, multidisciplinary, activist understanding of Chicanas, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms provides a much-needed overview of the key theories, thinkers, and activists that have contributed to Chicana feminisms.
The Arizona Diary of Lily Frémont, 1878–1881
By Elizabeth Benton Frémont; Edited by Mary Lee Spence
The University of Arizona Press
North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
The University of Arizona Press
In North American Borders in Comparative Perspective leading scholars provide a contemporary analysis of how globalization and security imperatives have redefined the shared border regions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier
The University of Arizona Press
This ethnography takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders’ homes to offer a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today. It is a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet.
The Sovereign Street
Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia
The University of Arizona Press
The Sovereign Street offers a rare look at political revolution as it happens, showing how mass street protest can change national political life. It documents a critical period in twenty-first century Bolivia, when small-town protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.
Living with the Dead
Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica
Edited by James L. Fitzsimmons and Izumi Shimada
The University of Arizona Press
Sown in Earth
Essays of Memory and Belonging
By Fred Arroyo
The University of Arizona Press
Sown in Earth is a collection of personal memories, which speak to the larger experiences of hard-working migratory men. By crafting a written journey through childhood traumas, poverty, and the impact of alcoholism on families, Fred Arroyo clearly outlines how his lived experiences made him want to become a writer. Sown in Earth is a shocking yet warm collage of memories which serve as more than a memoir or an autobiography. Rather, Arroyo recounts his youth through lyrical prose to humanize and immortalize the hushed lives of men like his father, honoring their struggle and claiming their impact on the writers and artists they raised.
Our Bearings
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Our Bearings is a collection of narrative poetry that examines and celebrates Anishinaabe life in modern Minneapolis. The poems offer a beautifully layered discourse between landscapes, stories, and the people who inhabit them. Through keen observation and a deep understanding of Native life in Minneapolis, McGlennen has created a timely collection which contributes beautifully to the important conversation about contemporary urban Native life in North America and globally.
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