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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.
- Copyright year: 2021
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.
- Copyright year: 2021
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.
- Copyright year: 2021
Naturalizing Inequality
Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa
The University of Arizona Press
The book discusses the reproduction and legitimization of racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. Michela Marcatelli unravels this inequality paradox through an ethnography of water in a rural region of the country. She documents how calls to save nature have only deepened and naturalized inequality.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Beloved Border
Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land
The University of Arizona Press
The Beloved Border is a potent and timely report on the U.S.-Mexico border. Though this book tells of the unjust death and suffering that occurs in the borderlands, Davidson gives us hope that the U.S.-Mexico border could be, and in many ways already is, a model for peaceful coexistence worldwide.
- Copyright year: 2021
Deuda Natal
The University of Arizona Press
Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life—and for language—can create a space of poetic decolonization.
- Copyright year: 2021
Count
The University of Arizona Press
Count is a powerful book-length poem that reckons with the heartbreaking reality of climate change. With sections that vary between poetry, science, Indigenous storytelling, numerical measurement, and narration, Valerie Martínez’s new work results in an epic panorama infused with the timely urgency of facing an apocalyptic future.
- Copyright year: 2021
Museum Matters
Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections
The University of Arizona Press
Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico’s national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.
- Copyright year: 2021
x/ex/exis
poemas para la nación
The University of Arizona Press
Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet’s gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation. For Salas Rivera, the x marks Puerto Rican transness in a world that seeks trans death, denial, and erasure. Instead of justifying his existence, he takes up the flag of illegibility and writes an apocalyptic book that screams into an uncertain future, armed with nothing to lose.
- Copyright year: 2020
Science Be Dammed
How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
By Eric Kuhn and John Fleck
The University of Arizona Press
Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It offers important lessons in the age of climate change and underscores the necessity of seeking out the best science to support the decisions we make.
- Copyright year: 2019
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