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Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist
From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán
The University of Arizona Press
Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares important insights into his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of the interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology.
Cultura y Corazón
A Decolonial Methodology for Community Engaged Research
The University of Arizona Press
Cultura y Corazón is a cultural approach to research that requires a long-term commitment to community-based and engaged research methodologies. This book presents case studies in the fields of education and health that recognize and integrate communities’ values, culture, and funds of knowledge in the research process.
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
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