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What role did anti-Mexicanism and attacks on Latinx people and their communities play in Donald Trump's political rise and presidential practices? Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.
Examines the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. Contributors explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach centred around the design-and-anthropology relationship.
Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. Individual chapters demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and culture.
Provides new understandings of how Paraguay has become more integrated into the regional economy and societies of Latin America and changed in unexpected ways. Contributors examine how the political change impacted Paraguayans, especially its indigenous population, and how the country adapted as it emerged from authoritarian traditions.
Max Baca is one of the foremost artists of Tex-Mex music, the infectious dance music sweeping through the Texas-Mexico borderlands since the 1940s. His Grammy-winning group, Los Texmaniacs, and his extensive work with the accordionist Flaco Jimenez established the Albuquerque-born and San Antonio-based bajo sexto player/bandleader as a spokesperson for a too-often-maligned culture. The list of artists who have contributed to Los Texmaniacs' albums include Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Rick Trevino, Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, and Lyle Lovett.Max Baca was born to play music. By his eighth birthday, he was already playing in his father's band. Polkas, redovas, corridos, boleros, chotises, huapangos, and waltzes are in his blood. Baca's music grew out of the harsh life of the borderland, and the duality of borderland music-its keening beauty-remains a recurring theme in everything he does.
As the Albuquerque Journal's editorial cartoonist for nearly fifty years, John Trever provides insights into New Mexico's unique cartooning environment and the techniques and humor involved in the craft as he also shares his experiences covering local and national events and issues of the twenty-first century. The Art and Humor of John Trever: Fifty Years of Political Cartooning features the best, funniest, and most significant cartoons of Trever's career-showcasing his unique style, method, and voice-that captivated readers in New Mexico as well as readers throughout the United States through syndication. In addition, Trever provides anecdotes of how these drawings came to be and what kind of reactions they provoked, offers his thoughts about the state of editorial cartooning, and gives a frank account of what it takes to achieve, and sustain, a long career as a political mirror and as the political conscience of the Southwest.
Recounts George Shiras's life and craft as he travelled to wild country in North America, refined his trail camera techniques, and advocated for the protection of wildlife. This biography serves as an important record of Shiras's accomplishments as a visual artist, wildlife conservationist, adventurer, and legislator.
In this collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, LeRoy Chatfield recounts his childhood, explains the social issues that have played a significant role in his life and work, and uncovers the lack of justice he saw all too frequently.
Draws on a number of styles - persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal - to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss. From pleasure to pain to hope of new love, this collection draws readers into the everyday magic of the world.
From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Word Drops also uses an intriguing series of annotations to add background and historical context on everything from Anglo-Saxon cures for insanity to Samuel Pepys's cure for a hangover.
Brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of Argentina's Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) and its legacies. The collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights.
N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.
A collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies that explore the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genizaro writers and scholars from across the state.
Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas.
In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ambitious young poets. This volume makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.
Features interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured are inspired by Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising defenders of wilderness. These are mesmerizing stories about how they adapted Abbey's monkeywrenching ideas into a radical blueprint for direct action.
Mexico's National Indigenist Institute was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 to the mid-`70s, thanks to the development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in Chiapas. This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll.
Describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. In a comparative study that spans more than three centuries, McEnroe challenges common assumptions about the relationships among victors, vanquished, and their shared progeny.
Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Howard Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history.
James Sexton met Ignacio Bizarro Ujpan in 1970, when Sexton travelled to Guatemala for the first time. Ignacio became Sexton's research assistant and, as their friendship grew over the years that followed, Sexton asked Ignacio to keep a journal. This volume covers the period from 1987-98 and is the fourth and latest volume of Ignacio's diary.
Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923) was one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century. This biography by an authority on Southwest Indian history tells a dramatic story that sheds light both on Montezuma's career and on the movements he influenced.
Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy.
Basing the study of colonial Mexican masculinity on the experiences of mainstream men, Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In doing so she establishes an important foundation for gender studies in Mexico and Latin America.
Analyses Spanish rule and Catholic practice from the consolidation of Spanish control in the Americas in the sixteenth century to the loss of these colonies in the nineteenth century by following the life and afterlife of an accidental martyr, San Felipe de Jesus.
Traces conflicts stemming from Protestant conversion in southern Mexico and demonstrates that both Protestants and Catholics deployed cultural identity as self-defense in clashes over power and authority. This is an important addition to the literature on transnational religious movements, gender, and indigenous identity in Latin America.
Consisting of three rare documents about miracles during the second half of the eighteenth century, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study explores these divine signs and the move to change the role of the church and religion in colonial life.
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