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Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
The University of Arizona Press
In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides students and educators alike with an indispensable overview of the relationship between Mexican Americans and the U.S. public schooling system. She examines controversial issues, such as standardized testing, segregation, and curriculum tracking, as well as a historical analysis of the barriers that Mexican American students have and continue to regularly face.
Tributaries
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Tributaries lyrically surveys Shawnee history alongside personal identity and memory. With the eye of a storyteller, poet Laura Da’ creates an arc that flows from the personal to the historical and back again. With narrative content from the period of Indian Removal in the 1830s to the present, the collection is composed of four sections that come together to create an important new telling of Shawnee past and present.
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
By Cristina Devereaux Ramírez; Foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster
The University of Arizona Press
Occupying our Space examines the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Through her analysis of the women’s writings, Cristina D. Ramírez coins the phrase rhetorical puestos, or rhetorical public spaces, meant to create an authentic speaking arena for the women. Allowing the women to speak first, Ramírez deftly reframes the conversation about the rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the shifting political and identity culture in Mexico.
More or Less Dead
Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico
By Alice Driver
The University of Arizona Press
More or Less Dead is a rigorous critical work that asks us to reexamine conversations about human rights. This provocative book offers a penetrating portrayal of life and death in Ciudad Juárez.
Mexico in Verse
A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, examines Mexican history through its poetry and music, the spoken and the written word. The book provides a window to the beliefs and aspirations of ordinary people, fresh and vigorous and honest, in Mexico during a period of dynamic and turbulent change.
Women Who Stay Behind
Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive.
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortés, Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration.
Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
Sixteen scholars on both sides of the border present recent research on the economy, history, religion, and far-reaching influence of Casas Grandes. Macaw feathers, copper, shells, ritual mounds, and ball fields all reveal the secrets of Casas Grandes, a massive town whose trading network extended from the Chihuahua Desert up through the American Southwest.
Reconnaissance in Sonora
Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase
The University of Arizona Press
Reconnaissance in Sonora is based on Charles D. Poston’s handwritten report about his 1854 journey from San Francisco to Sonora, Mexico, and his return through the Gadsden Purchase territory of southern Arizona. Along the way, C. Gilbert Storms explores the national debate over a route for a transcontinental railroad and the legends of rich gold and silver mines in 1850s northern Mexico.
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
The University of Arizona Press
George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.
Canto hondo / Deep Song
The University of Arizona Press
Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems, in both Spanish and English, in the style of Federico García Lorca, which has been compared to “the trilling of birds” and “the natural music of woods and streams.” An important voice in Chicano and GLBT poetry, Alarcón’s new work is his most complex and emotionally powerful published.
Twelve Clocks
The University of Arizona Press
Twelve Clocks consists of interconnected poems concerned with various modes of time and its relation to personal and historical events. It transports the reader across six cities around the world while simultaneously traveling through time from the age of Troy to the present.
Ponderosa
Big Pine of the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
After spending almost three decades studying among ponderosa pine trees, Allred shares his experiences and observations in Ponderosa, an introduction to ponderosa pine forests. With color photographs and multidisciplinary explanations throughout, Allred invites readers to join him in his exploration of the forest.
Chasing Arizona
One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State
The University of Arizona Press
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. Chasing Arizona takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joy ride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. This book is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, and a celebration of what makes the state a great place to visit and live.
The Last Grizzly and Other Southwestern Bear Stories
Edited by David E. Brown and John A. Murray
The University of Arizona Press
Pilgrimage and Healing
Edited by Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman
The University of Arizona Press
Cultural Capital
Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City
The University of Arizona Press
Planets and Perception
Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609-1909
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Astronomy Book of the Year from Mercury Magazine (Astronomical Society of the Pacific), Planets and Perception is a provocative book that will intrigue anyone who has ever looked through a telescope. Drawing on both astronomical and psychological data, William Sheehan offers the first systematic analysis of the perceptual and cognitive factors that go into the initial structuring of a planetary image and its subsequent elaboration. Sheehan details the development of lunar and planetary astronomy, underscoring perceptual and psychological themes.
Fluid Arguments
Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
Battle for the BIA
G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier
The University of Arizona Press
Nature and Antiquities
The Making of Archaeology in the Americas
The University of Arizona Press
Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.
Archaeology at El Perú-Waka'
Ancient Maya Performances of Ritual, Memory, and Power
Edited by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr and Michelle Rich
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to summarize the results of long-term field research at the major Maya site of Waka’. Bringing together findings from diverse research programs of the El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project, its fifteen wide-ranging contributions lead to a greater understanding of the richness and complexity of Classic-period Maya culture.
Transformation by Fire
The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
The University of Arizona Press
Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Edited by Rebecca Tillett
The University of Arizona Press
Almanac of the Dead is a demanding, polarizing, and unique novel. Howling for Justice offers a fresh collection of essays by international scholars that examine and explain some of the book’s key themes in new and useful ways. Included is a never-before-published interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.
Constructing Community
The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman uses the Salinas District in New Mexico to examine the relationships of subsistence practices, mobility, and settlement. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world.
The Borders of Inequality
Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
By Íñigo Moré; Translated by Lyn Dominguez
The University of Arizona Press
The Borders of Inequality illustrates how longstanding “multidirectional misunderstandings” can exacerbate cross-border problems—and consequent public opinion. Perpetuating these misunderstandings can inflame and complicate the situation, but purposeful efforts to reduce inequality can produce promising results.
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers
Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
The University of Arizona Press
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.
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