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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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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.
- Copyright year: 2022
Finding Right Relations
Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism
The University of Arizona Press
Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors.
- Copyright year: 2022
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles
The University of Arizona Press
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the quality and marketability of Diné weaving but in so doing failed to understand the cultural significance of weaving and its role in the lives of Diné women.
- Copyright year: 2022
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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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