University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
More Than Two to Tango
Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for...
by Tim Z. Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural...
Enduring Seeds
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity...
The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is...
A New Form of Beauty
Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In Glen Canyon waters rose, inundating petroglyphs and creating Lake Powell. Now the Colorado River basin is experiencing the longest dry spell in modern history—one that shows alarming signs of becoming the new normal.
In A New Form of Beauty photographer Peter Goin and writer Peter Friederici...
by Rigoberto González
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint. Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos,...
Moral Ecology of a Forest
The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract speculators....
Object and Apparition
Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively...
Laura Méndez de Cuenca
Mexican Feminist, 1853–1928
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Laura Méndez de Cuenca—poet, teacher, editor, writer, and feminist—dared to bypass the cultural traditions of her time.
In the early 1870s, when conservative religious thought permeated all aspects of Mexican life, she was one of very few women to gain admission to an extraordinary constellation...
The Colonias Reader
Economy, Housing and Public Health in U.S.-Mexico Border Colonias
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching...
Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction...
Like a Brother
Grenville Goodwin’s Apache Years, 1928-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
When the anthropologist Grenville Goodwin died in 1940 at the age of 32, he had published several papers and one book, Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache, and had already achieved a stature that has only continued to grow. His posthumous landmark monograph, The Social Organization of the...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
For decades, Stafford Poole has stood at the forefront of scholarship on the historicity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon that serves as one of the most important formative religious and national symbols in the history of Mexico. Poole’s groundbreaking first edition of Our Lady of Guadalupe was...
Staking Claim
Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, Hawai‘i exists at a global crosscurrent of indigeneity and race, homeland and diaspora, nation and globalization, sovereignty and imperialism. In order to better understand how settler colonialism works and thus move decolonization efforts forward, Staking Claim...