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Ancient Light

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Ancient Light is a timely and innovative collection by renowned Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser. It looks squarely at pressing social issues of our time while simultaneously invoking Indigenous pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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When Language Broke Open

An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent

The University of Arizona Press

This collection of creative offerings by forty-three queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent helps illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, race, and what it means to experience a livable life.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Light As Light

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Light As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortiz’s first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume are a powerful journey through the poet’s life—both a love letter to the future, and a sentimental, authentic celebration of the past.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ordinary Injustice

Rascuache Lawyering and the Anatomy of a Criminal Case

The University of Arizona Press

Ordinary Injustice shows how the legal and judicial system is stacked against Latinos, documenting the racial inequities in the system from the time of arrest and incarceration to final deposition and post-conviction experiences. The book chronicles the obstacles and injustices faced by a young Latino student with no previous criminal record and how a simple misdemeanor domestic violence case morphed into a very serious case with multiple felonies, and potential life sentence without the possibility of parole.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

The University of Arizona Press

Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding drugs from nature—or “bioprospecting”—biodiversity offsetting, and the selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level and provides a voice for community workers many times left out of environmental policy discussions, ultimately in the hope of offering critiques that build better conservation interventions with perspectives of the locals.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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From the Skin

Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Edited by Jerome Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer; Foreword by Nick Estes
The University of Arizona Press

In this edited volume, J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer deploy the term practitioner-theorist to describe Indigenous studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. The essays use an intersectional approach to demonstrate the complexity of the migration experience. This volume opens a dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars on the complex migratory processes of the region.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ready Player Juan

Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games

The University of Arizona Press

This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept—digital mestizaje—that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast

Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley

The University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 2010
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Construction of Maya Space

Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times

The University of Arizona Press

This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power—and how the powerless pushed back.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Our Hidden Landscapes

Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

The University of Arizona Press

Our Hidden Landscapes introduces people to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. This volume presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation. Chapters from Indigenous community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving these important sacred spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Nihikéyah

Navajo Homeland

Edited by Lloyd L. Lee
The University of Arizona Press

This anthology of essays offers Diné perspectives on the experiences, observations, and examinations of their homeland. Together, the contributors thoughtfully illustrate the complex state of nihikéyah, “our land,” as viewed by Diné people.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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In the Arms of Saguaros

Iconography of the Giant Cactus

The University of Arizona Press

In the Arms of Saguaros pictures how nature’s sharpest curves became a symbol of the American West. From the botanical explorers of the nineteenth century to the tourism boosters in our own time, saguaros and their images have fulfilled attention-getting needs and expectations.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Bringing Home the Wild

A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City

The University of Arizona Press

Bringing Home the Wild follows a two-decade journey in ecologically guided urban gardening on a four-acre irrigated parcel in Phoenix, Arizona, from the perspective of a retired botanist and her science historian partner. Through humor and a playful use of language, the book not only introduces the plants who are feeding them, buffering the climate, and elevating their moods but also acknowledges the animals and fungi who are pollinating the plants and recycling the waste. This work shows all of us the importance of observing, appreciating, and learning from the ecosystems of which we are a part.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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All That Rises

A Novel

The University of Arizona Press

Two neighboring families in El Paso, Texas, have plunged into a harrowing week. Rose Marie DuPre has abandoned her family. Across the street, Jerry Gonzalez and his family struggle with the sudden arrival of a difficult, long-lost sister. Even Lourdes, the Mexican maid who works in both houses, finds herself entangled in secrets, lies, and border politics that blur every boundary between them. All That Rises asks what it means to belong—to a family and to the world beyond.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Chicana Portraits

Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

The University of Arizona Press

This innovative collection details critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Portraits of the authors are each examined by a noted scholar, who delves deep into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. What results is a brilliant intersection of visual and literary arts that explores themes of sexism and misogyny, the fragility of life, Chicana agency, and more.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Latinos and Nationhood

Two Centuries of Intellectual Thought

The University of Arizona Press

Spanning from the early nineteenth century to today, this intellectual history examines the work of Latino writers who explored the major philosophic and political themes of their day, including the meaning and implementation of democracy, their democratic and cultural rights under U.S. dominion, their growing sense of nationhood, and the challenges of slavery and disenfranchisement of women in a democratic republic that had yet to realize its ideals.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles

A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940

The University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán

From Deserts to Clouds

The University of Arizona Press

Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán provides an accessible overview of an extraordinary region of Central Mexico. Through firsthand experience and engaging prose, the authors provide a synthesis of the environment, plants, and peoples of the valleys, showing their importance and influence as Mesoamerican arteries for environmental and cultural interchange through Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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La Plonqui

The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

The University of Arizona Press

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, this volume includes critical essays, reflections, interviews, and previously unpublished writing by the author herself to document the lifelong craft and legacy of a pioneering writer in the field.

This volume’s essays analyze her work’s themes of Chicana identity, the Chicanx movement, and the sociopolitical climate of Arizona and the larger U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as issues of gender, sexuality, and identity related to the Chicanx experience over time.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Urban Indigeneities

Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples are living in cities, yet the vast majority of studies focus solely on rural Indigenous populations. This is the first book to look at urban Indigenous peoples globally and present the urban Indigenous experience—not as the exception but as the norm. Dismissing the false idea that indigeneity is only “authentic” when it is practiced in remote rural areas, these wide-ranging essays show that a vigorous, vibrant, and meaningful indigeneity can be created in urban spaces too and offers perspectives and tools to understand a contemporary Indigenous urban reality.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Diverting the Gila

The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916–1928

The University of Arizona Press

Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona’s Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Alone but Not Lonely

Exploring for Extraterrestrial Life

The University of Arizona Press

Humans have always been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life, often wondering if we are alone in the universe. Drawing on the author’s fifty years in the field, this book looks at the subject of extraterrestrial life, separating knowledge from conjecture, fact from fiction, to draw scientific and technical conclusions that answer this enduring question and examine the possibility of remotely exploring life on other worlds.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Listening to Laredo

A Border City in a Globalized Age

The University of Arizona Press

Nestled between Texas and Mexico, the city of Laredo was a quaint border town, nurturing cultural ties across the river, attracting occasional tourists, and populated with people living there for generations. Mehnaaz Momen traces Laredo’s history and evolution through the voices of its people. She examines the changing economic and cultural infrastructure of the city, its interdependence with its sister city across the national boundary, and, above all, the resilience of the community as it adapts to and even challenges the national narrative on the border.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Bennu 3-D

Anatomy of an Asteroid

The University of Arizona Press

This book, the world’s first complete (and stereoscopic) atlas of an asteroid, is the result of a unique collaboration between OSIRIS-REx mission leader Dante Lauretta and Brian May’s London Stereoscopic Company. Lauretta’s colleagues include Carina Bennett, Kenneth Coles, and Cat Wolner, as well as Brian May and Claudia Manzoni, who became part of the ultimately successful effort to find a safe landing site for sampling. The text details the data collected by the mission so far, and the stereo images have been meticulously created by Manzoni and May from original images collected by the OSIRIS-REx cameras.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Birds of the Sun

Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest

The University of Arizona Press

The multiple vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although the birds’ natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central and South America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region yet absent at the vast majority. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance

The University of Arizona Press

Featuring analysis from historical, ethnological, and philosophical perspectives, this volume dissects Indigenous Amazonians’ beliefs about urban imaginaries and their ties to power, alterity, domination, and defiance. Contributors analyze how ambiguous urban imaginaries express a singular view of cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city interactions, and the history of how they came into existence, as well as their influence in present-day migration and urbanization.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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No Place for a Lady

The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert

The University of Arizona Press

Marjorie Lambert’s life story is intricately entwined in the development of archaeology in the American Southwest. In Shelby Tisdale’s compelling biography, Lambert’s work as an archaeologist, museologist, and museum curator in Santa Fe comes to life and serves as inspiration for today.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Juan Felipe Herrera

Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate

The University of Arizona Press

This book is a wide-ranging collection of critical approaches on the highly accomplished poet Juan Felipe Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. The chapters in this book expertly demonstrate the author’s versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Becoming Hopi

A History

The University of Arizona Press

Becoming Hopi is a comprehensive look at the history of the people of the Hopi Mesas as it has never been told before. The product of more than fifteen years of collaboration between tribal and academic scholars, this volume presents groundbreaking research demonstrating that the Hopi Mesas are among the great centers of the Pueblo world.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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