Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisExamines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization.Trade Review“In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer provides an original genealogical reading of the U.S. medical profession’s public discourses about abortion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone who appreciates Foucauldian perspectives should find admirable Stormer’s precisely developed argument that these medical discourses ‘made the chaotic material conditions of abortion’s morbidity rhetorically capacious for biopolitics.’”—Celeste M. Condit,University of Georgia“Nathan Stormer has written a stunning book, beautifully illustrating how rhetorical struggles over and through abortion have long been about situating ourselves—and pregnant women—in time and place. Civilization is recursive to the maternal body, with abortion positioned as a sign of collective disorder. It is precisely because abortion is a medicalized national metric that the issue is so intractable. Defined through biopolitics, abortion is perceived as a collective, irreparable wound, and ongoing political struggles reliant on familiar frameworks only deepen this intractability. Stormer’s elegant genealogy, both diagnostic and gently prognostic, has the capacity to shift how we see human reproduction and our place in it.”—Monica J. Casper,University of Arizona“If your primary scholarship is in abortion rhetorics or historic American medical rhetorics, then this text is an indispensable and invaluable contribution to your area. Similarly, for those interested in rhetorical genealogy and/or rhetorical historiography, broadly conceived, Signs of Pathology is an exemplar text in the genre.”—S. Scott Graham Rhetoric & Public AffairsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Struggling Through LifePart 11. When Abortion Became a Political-Economic Problem2. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Secrets of LifePart 23. “White Man’s Plague”: Anti-Malthusian Memory Work at the Fin de Siècle4. “More Wisdom in Living”: Neo-Malthusian Memory Work at Midcentury5. “The Lesser of Threatened Evils”: Therapeutic AmnesiasConclusion: Seeking ImmunityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the aristocratic experience in early modern France through a close examination of the history of the Rohan, a noble family in the Parisian court who were involved in notable political and religious events from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.Trade Review“Jonathan Dewald’s new monograph throws a multifaceted light on one of the leading grandee families of early modern France. . . . Dewald’s important study establishes with clarity and erudition how the egos of high-ranking nobles helped to shape early modern France and Europe, and shows how their grandiose actions would prompt their overthrow in the wake of the revolution.”—Joanna Milstein Renaissance Quarterly“Dewald’s descriptive explications of the Rohan nobles’ characters and lives capture the atmosphere of the time, colorfully conveying the dynamics of court life, political maneuverings, violence, and honor. This work is a welcomed addition to the field of early modern French history.”—Carolyn Corretti Sixteenth Century Journal“Powerfully argued and written with his customary elegance and precision, as well as with an eye for the telling example, Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France: The Rohan Family, 1550–1715 confirms Dewald’s status as one of the leading scholars of early modern elites.”—Charles Lipp American Historical Review“Jonathan Dewald’s Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France demolishes the myth of comfortable stability for the Ancien Régime elite, providing a template for future studies of elites in any society. Using careful analysis of all forms of social capital, his innovative methodology reveals the intricate exchanges among king and aristocrats undergirding the French monarchical state. His emphasis on the Rohan women, in particular, should open up new research perspectives on gender and continuities of aristocratic power. This new classic of social and political analysis freshens a debate launched a generation ago by Sharon Kettering and will open the twenty-first-century conversation on how to analyze clientage, status, and power.”—James Collins,Georgetown University “Jonathan Dewald has established himself as the premier historian of the early modern European nobility. With this book, he delivers a microhistory of one of its leading and most interesting families. He uncovers not only how the Rohan managed to maintain their prominence in the face of the vicissitudes of fortune and multiple challenges that confronted them across several crucial generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but also, perhaps most intriguingly, how reinvention, self-fashioning, and historical awareness were part and parcel of their continued success as one of France’s preeminent clans. Dewald wears his learning lightly, making this book both indispensable for scholars and eminently accessible to students.”—Robert A. Schneider,Indiana University “In this lively historical account of how the distinguished and powerful Rohan family was established in early modern France, Jonathan Dewald tracks the amazing array of cultural moves and social strategies that were deployed over generations by family members—both the men and the women—equally charged with attaining the crucial social capital for building the dynastic base from which they worked to preserve their social status amid ups and downs, including political blows from the outside and intrafamilial rivalries, scandals, and litigation on the inside. These riveting stories are historical gems that easily rival fictional competitors.”—Sarah Hanley,University of Iowa“No historian has more authority than Jonathan Dewald to write about an early modern French ducal family. Here is his chef d’oeuvre. By exploring the importance of family myths of origin, and the lives of dedicated servants, Dewald had done what he has never done before: the history of a family as a micro-state society. The firmness and clarity of the social and economic aspects of the Rohan dynasty reach deeper than the Rohan and their managers knew.”—Orest Ranum,Johns Hopkins University“An epic account of one of France's most notable—and notorious—families. Writing with flair and an eye for detail, Jonathan Dewald shows how the Rohan amassed power in the sixteenth century and pulled themselves back from the brink of dynastic disaster in the seventeenth century, which saw the great commander Henri de Rohan and his brother, the duc de Soubise, in exile without male heirs. In a perfect blend of political and cultural history, this startling new account of the house of Rohan weaves together public and private histories to elucidate the fragility of social standing, the fortunes spent to acquire or maintain it, and the provincial estates, esteemed bloodlines, military exploits, and family myth-making that produced both hard cash and social capital. A must-read for anyone interested in French aristocratic society.”—Kate van Orden,Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceNote on the TextIntroduction1. Constructing Status: Family Narratives, Family Myths2. Constructing Identity: Henri de Rohan, 1579–16383. Women, Gender, and the Management of Dynastic Capital4. Material Contexts: Wealth, Income, Strategies 5. Followers and Servants: Aristocracy as Collective Practice Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the history of Spain’s most iconic art museum. Highlights the political history of the museum’s relation to the monarchy, the church, and the liberal nation state, as well as its role as an extension of Madrid’s social center, the Prado Promenade.Trade Review“Afinoguénova's unconventional yet superbly academic take on museum history and analysis will be of interest to art historians, museum studies professionals, and scholars of visual and cultural history alike. . . . Highly recommended.”—A. Verplaetse Choice“Afinoguénova’s harrowing story of the Prado museum and its role in creating a more inclusive Spain is both engaging and an important reminder of the role of public institutions, such as museums, in promoting pluralism in liberal democracies even despite often complicated origins.”—Louie Dean Valencia-García EuropeNow“Eugenia Afinoguénova plays on the complex relationship between the Museo and the Paseo del Prado to make a compelling argument about the liminal and shifting position of the Spanish museum in relation to nationhood and the public. Her deep mining of the archival sources and creative integration of museum and leisure studies should be read by all who love a great museum.”—M. Elizabeth Boone,author of Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914“This book is much more than a history of the Prado Museum. Afinoguénova’s brilliant perception is that the history of the museum can be understood only by situating it in the context of the evolving recreational activities and, increasingly, street politics that took place in the Prado Promenade outside its walls. A fascinating contribution to the history of leisure that shows its imbrication with politics, class, and gender.”—Jo Labanyi,author of Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel“A short, intensive, sophisticated, and sweeping study of Madrid’s iconic art museum.”—Adrian Shubert Journal of Modern History“A rich and richly rewarding book, and one looks forward to the author’s future work with great anticipation.”—Clinton D. Young Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies“Afinoguénova’s attempt to write a fact-rich history of place is ambitious and brave. It offers a new way of interrogating the history of our cultural institutions by inserting them into a web of cultural manifestations that take into account the complexities of life and ‘history as it really was.’”—Michaela Giebelhausen Hispanic Research JournalTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between the Prado and the Pradera1 A Royal Public Institution, 1819–18332 Inscribing Monarchy into the New Regime, 1833–18683 Museum and Revolution, 1868–1874 4 Becoming National, 1874–19025 The Era of the Masses, 1902–1936Epilogue: “More Important for Spain than the Republic and the Monarchy Combined”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between photography and citizenship, through a comprehensive account of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee's lantern slide lecture scheme: a project initiated by the British government at the beginning of the twentieth century that aimed to photograph the entirety of the empire.Trade Review“Moser has provided an arresting account of how imperial citizenship was founded not in the undoing of colonialism but in its establishment. . . . Its contribution to the historiography of colonial citizenship and the methodology of the visual historian is decidedly momentous.”—Peter K. Andersson English Historical Review“Studies such as Moser’s have the merit of reminding us that the power to represent is far from an innocuous privilege in the hands of nationalist projects.”—Stéphanie Hornstein History of Photography“Moser’s nuanced, sophisticated, and data-rich analysis has much to offer art historians and scholars of photography, citizenship, and imperialism, and deserves to be very widely read.”—Jane Lydon CAA.Reviews“Brilliantly elucidates the inner photographic workings of the fraught historical and cultural processes that are at work whenever we see, or think we see, images of citizens. Moser’s book adds important historical nuance to the burgeoning literature on photography and citizenship, demonstrating that the scenes of precarious spectatorship that came to structure concepts and practices of citizenship across the British Empire were often first produced by photography. The book also makes bold new theoretical claims. Its explorations of the disobedient gazes, experiences of photographic latency, and paradoxical desires that we continue to inherit from colonial visuality promise to enrich ongoing debates.”—Jennifer Bajorek,author of Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony“Projecting Citizenship contributes new thought and visual material to the field in a theoretically savvy manner and in dialogue with a number of theorists of photography and colonial projects. Moser lays out how colonial photography worked with other material to form a pedagogical mission to define ‘imperial citizens.’ This is a must-read not only for those interested in colonialism’s use of photography in defining colonial subjects but also for those readers of photography and European imperialism who understand the intersubjective process as one fraught with anxieties, dangers, and promises but also containing the underpinnings of colonialism’s eventual unmaking.”—Stephen Sheehi,author of The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910“This assiduously researched book positions itself at the intersection of two expanding fields of scholarship: studies of the ideological processes of colonialism and the practice and significance of magic-lantern shows.”—Geoffrey Batchen The Art BulletinTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: Archival ReconstructionsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Citizenship in and out of Sight1. The Spectator: Projecting Imperial Citizens in England and India2. The Photographer: Looking Along3. The Subject: Developing the Image of the Indentured Laborer4. The Archive: Residues of Noncitizens in the COVIC ArchiveConclusionFrom Imperial to Global Citizens: Picturing Citizenship in the PresentNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines German theories and practices of play, parenting, and pedagogy from 1631 to 1912. Explores the role of the domestic sphere and home economies in establishing transatlantic networks that influenced the emergence of gender, class, race, and religious identities for Germans beyond Europe.Trade Review“A valuable intervention in the historiography of German childhood and play. Simpson’s argument has tremendous sweep: exploring changes in childhood and parenting over centuries, the role of play in child development, the deployment of racial and imperial images, the circulation of images and toys across the Atlantic, and the decline of German influence on images of childhood in the twentieth century.”—David Hamlin German History“The Play World is an engaging read with a compelling argument about the unique contribution of German arts and letters—through toys, children’s literature, and pedagogical texts—that offers a new understanding of the role of play in modern childhood.”—Maureen O. Gallagher German Studies Review“Simpson not only breaks ground for the critical study of the role of play and toys in the formation of modern German and American culture, paying special attention to the 18th and 19th centuries, but she also resists the lure of an easy narrative. Instead, her book reminds us how complicated, conflicted, and barely progressive this story of play and toys was.”—Willi Goetschel The Germanic Review“Simpson’s book is a welcome addition to discussions of the importance of the domestic sphere, and its artifacts and practices, for questions of cultural nationalism and transnational interplays. It shows the impact of toys and play on narratives of migration, the articulation of middle-class subjectivity, and the role of model childhoods in the self-identity of modern European family structures—and how they influenced European American family structures in their acquisition of racial, ethnic, and national regimes.”—Karin A. Wurst,author of Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780–1830“Within the burgeoning scholarship on play and the material culture of childhood, Simpson’s The Play World stands out through its attention to a breathtaking range of texts and artifacts that lie at the margins of the canon; its brilliantly eclectic methodology (combining literary, material, and intellectual history with postcolonial studies, critical race theory, gender studies, disability studies, and much more); and its ability to illuminate complex cultural and commercial currents that connect German-speaking Europe with Africa, Great Britain, and the Americas from the seventeenth century to WWI. It’s a remarkable book that will resonate within and beyond the field of childhood studies.”—Elliott Schreiber,co-editor of Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800“[A] fascinating read for scholars of the transatlantic world, of Germany, and of parenting, and it importantly cements German imperialism not as a fact to be debated but as clearly constitutive of familial and (trans)national identities.”—Amanda M. Brian H-Transnational German Studies

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring how scholars can discern the voices, thoughts, activities, and motivations of indigenous Christians of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in texts produced in the context of European domination from 1500 to the present.Trade Review“Breaking new ground in the study of Christian historiography beyond its Eurocentric underpinnings to encompass the diverse but hitherto overlooked Christian historiographies across the Majority World, Christian Interculture draws attention to the ignored and often suppressed endeavors by indigenous Christians to define Christianity in their own voices beyond the colonial expressions that were imposed on them, with important intercultural and interreligious implications for shaping the emergent historiographies of World Christianities.”—Jonathan Y. Tan,author of Christian Mission Among the Peoples of Asia“Jones has edited a work that is a meaningful addition to the postcolonial conversation, and this book invites a continuation of the dialogue by way of research opportunities.”—Millicent H. Haase Reading Religion

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice.Trade Review“The authors in this volume focus critically on postmodern analyses of race, class, and gender for early modern studies and the history of the body. As a result, Stigma highlights a fresh history of skin that does not center solely on racial identity of the time but instead illuminates the changing, rather than fixed, understandings of skin during the early modern era.”—Andrew Kettler,author of The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World“Stigma offers stimulating reading in the expanding field of skin studies and is a beautifully produced point of reference for accomplished interdisciplinary early modern studies.”—Karen J. Lloyd Journal of Early Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMarking Skin: A Cutaneous CollectionKatherine Dauge-Roth and Craig KoslofskyPart I: Marked Encounters in America, Asia, and Africa1. “Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted”: English Ideas of Tattooing as Indigenous LiteracyMairin Odle2. Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern European and Chinese EyesXiao Chen3. Following the Trail of the Slave Trade: Branding, Skin, and CommodificationKatrina H. B. Keefer and Matthew S. HopperPart II: Marks of Faith4. Jerusalem Under the Skin: The History of Jerusalem Pilgrimage TattoosMordechay Lewy5. Stigmata and the Mind-Body ConnectionAllison Stedman6. The Invisible Mark: Representing Baptism in Early Modern French DramaturgyAna Fonseca Conboy7. Rabies and Relics: Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern EuropeKatherine Dauge-RothPart III: Standing Out: Marks of Honor, Shame, and Beauty8. Skin Narratives: Speaking About Wounds and Scars in Shakespeare’s CoriolanusNicole Nyffenegger9. Branding on the Face in Early Modern EuropeCraig Koslofsky10. Mouches Volantes: The Enigma of Paste-On Beauty Marks in Seventeenth-Century FranceClaire GoldsteinAfterwordCultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800Peter S. EricksonList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how fragile and decaying artworks transformed the relation between art, time, and value in eighteenth-century France.Trade Review“A lyrical and witty rereading of eighteenth-century French art that connects the popularity of physically fragile artworks—from cracking Watteau paintings to precarious Clodion terracottas by way of disintegrating pastel paintings and quixotic experiments with encaustic—to a nascent consumer culture dependent on ephemeral goods. Wunsch adroitly joins sophisticated technical analysis to a thought-provoking argument about the ways in which the market shaped artistic practice, art collecting, and aesthetic theory.”—Amy Freund,author of Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France

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Book SynopsisIn early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch to forge a more authentic relationship to the past, to challenge stagnant artistic canons, and to foster deeper human connections. Networks of Touch is an engaging exploration of this sensory turn. In this book, Michael J. Hatch examines the artistic network of Ruan Yuan (17641849), a scholar-official whose patronage supported a generation of artists and learned people who prioritized epigraphic research as a means of truing the warped contours of Confucian heritage. Their work instigated an epigraphic aesthetican appropriation of the stylistic, material, and tactile features of ancient inscribed objects and their reproductive technologiesin late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century artwork. Rubbings, a reduplicative technology, challenged the dominance of brushwork as the bearer of artistic authority. While brushwork represented theTrade Review“Thoroughly researched, smartly conceived, and artfully presented, Networks of Touch is one of those rare books that would satisfy both the specialist scholar and the general reader. With his intellectual ambition, formal visual analysis skills, and fine eye for details, Hatch has enlivened both the forest and the trees down to the textures of the bark and leaf.”—Dorothy Ko,author of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

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Book Synopsis From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally impressive range of defensive technology. Native Americans constructed very effective armor and shields using wood, bone, and leather. Their fortifications ranged from simple refuges to walled and moated stockades to multiple stockades linked in strategic defensive networks. In this book, David E. Jones offers the first systematic comparative study of the defensive armor and fortifications of aboriginal Native Americans. Drawing data from ethnohistorical accounts and archaeological evidence, he surveys the use of armor, shields, and fortifications both before European contact and during the historic period by American Indians from the Southeast to the Northwest Coast, from the NorTrade ReviewThis succinct book is well written and systematically organized and it will serve as the starting point for any future studies on the subject. * Military History of the West *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: People of the Rivers: The Prairie Culture Area Chapter 2: Standing Fights and Poison Arrows: The California Culture Area Chapter 3: The Horse Warriors: The High Plains Culture Area Chapter 4: The Castle Builders: The Northeast Culture Area Chapter 5: The Importance of Influential Neighbors: The Plateau/Basin Culture Area Chapter 6: Warriors with Glittering Shields: The Southwest Culture Area Chapter 7: Land of the Cold Snow Forests: The Subarctic Culture Area Chapter 8: The Salmon Kings: The Northwest Coast Culture Area Chapter 9: The Strongbows: The Southeast Culture Area Chapter 10: Home of the North Wind: The North Pacific Culture Area Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA first comprehensive look at the work of black Hollywood directors, from the pioneers to current talents.Trade Review"Donalson's pioneering text ... will become an indispensable resource for general students, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general reader. It will be a major contribution to American and African American film studies and popular culture." Wilfred D. Samuels, Associate Professor of English, University of UtahTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The Pathmakers: Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles Chapter 2 The Visionary Actors: Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier Chapter 3 Black Urban Action Films and Mainstream Images: Gordon Parks Jr., Ivan Dixon, Fred Williamson, Hugh A. Robertson, Ron O'Neal, Gilbert Moses, Raymond St. Jacques Chapter 4 Black Sensibilities and Mainstream Images: Berry Gordy Jr., Stan Lathan, Jamaa Fanaka Chapter 5 Michael Schultz: The Crossover King Chapter 6 Spike Lee: The Independent Auteur Chapter 7 Keeping It Real (Reel): Black Dramatic Visions: Charles Burnett, John Singleton, Matty Rich, Mario Van Peebles, Ernest Dickerson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Doug McHenry, David Clark Johnson, Preston A. Whitmore II, Tim Reid, Robert Patton-Spruill, Darin Scott, Hype Williams Chapter 8 And Still They Rise: Black Women Directors: Euzhan Palcy, Julie Dash, Leslie Harris, Darnell Martin, Kasi Lemmons, Millicent Shelton, Troy Beyer, Cheryl Dunye, Maya Angelou Chapter 9 Not without Laughter: Directors of Comedy and Romance: Oz Scott, Topper Carew, Richard Pryor, Prince, Robert Townsend, Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Reginald Hudlin, Martin Lawrence, Theodore Witcher, George Tillman, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Christopher Scott Cherot Chapter 10 Off the Hook: Comedy and Romance with a Hip-Hop Flavor: Reginald Hudlin, James Bond III, George Jackson/Doug McHenry, Rusty Cundieff, F. Gary Gray, Paris Barclay, Lionel C. Martin, Ice Cube Chapter 11 Redefining Crossover Films: Kevin Hooks, Bill Duke, Carl Franklin, Thomas Carter, Forest Whitaker, F. Gary Gray, Antoine Fuqua Filmography Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn African American woman from the inner city tells her life story, in collaboration with an anthropologist.Table of Contents Foreword by Molly Ivins Sugar's Preface Sugar's Shouts Tracy's Acknowledgments Tracy's Introduction Chapter One: The List of Men Chapter Two: The Hustle: Welfare and Work Chapter Three: The Mr. Lester Chronicles Chapter Four: Mother, Daughter, Sister, Woman Chapter Five: Feeling Blessed Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian homeland.Trade ReviewJuliane Hammer's book is a welcome addition to the relatively meager literature on Palestinians who were born in exile and "returned" to Palestine.... * Journal of Palestine Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Palestinian Migration, Refugees, and Return 2. Palestinian National Identity, Memory, and History 3. The Country of My Dreams 4. Return to Palestine: Dreams and Realities 5. The Return Process in Comparison 6. Rewriting of Identities in the Context of Diaspora and Return 7. Home and the Future of Palestinian Identities Epilogue Appendix. List of Respondents Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data.Trade ReviewMeadows combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and analysis of symbols to reconstruct the history and significance of the military societies of the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche tribes of southwestern Oklahoma. More important, he shows how these groups adapted in the twentieth century to provide each tribe with its own distinctive identity while serving as tools for social integration and enculturation at the same time. * Journal of American History *Meadows produced a book that captures and records for all time the specifics of military society ceremonies, history and organization. In documenting and preserving these aspects of Indian life, he created a work valuable not just to anthropologists but to native preservationists as well. * Whispering Wind *Because of the book’s descriptive content, readers interested in the clothing, songs, dances, recruitment strategies, and symbols used by the various military societies recognized by the Comanches, Apaches, and Kiowas will find this work incredibly useful. * Journal of Military History *This book deserves praise, especially for the author’s own fieldwork and thorough use of the Native voice in depicting the multifaceted roles these sodalities played in Southern Plains Indian cultures. * Western Historical Quarterly *This is a good book, detailed, scholarly, and clearly presented. . . . The importance of [the author’s] fieldwork cannot be overemphasized. The research is solid. The author used important, and some long-forgotten, archival manuscripts and the best linguistic data available. * Military History of the West *Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Pronunciation Guide: The Parker McKenzie Kiowa Language Orthography 1. Sodalities and Plains Indian Military Societies 2. Yàpfàhêgàu: Kiowa Military Societies to 1875 3. The Decline and Revival of Kiowa Military Societies, 1875 to the Present 4. Plains Apache Naishan Military Societies 5. Comanche Military Societies 6. Comparison and Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study charts the history of Latin America’s experience of mestizaje through the prisms of literature, the visual and performing arts, social commentary, and music.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cult of Mestizaje 1. José Vasconcelos' About-Face on the Cosmic Race 2. Caribbean Counterpoint and Mulatez 3. Tango in Black and White 4. Showcasing Mixed Race in Northeast Brazil 5. Dis/encounters in the Labyrinths: Mestizaje in Quito Epilogue: Globalization, Cyberhybridity, and Fifth World Mestizaje Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.Trade ReviewThad Sitton and James H. Conrad have made an important contribution to African American and southern history with their study of communities fashioned by freedmen in the years after emancipation. * Journal of American History *Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Terrible Freedom 3. Making Do, Getting By 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings 5. School Days 6. Working for the Man 7. Decline and Remembrance Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes.Table of Contents Preface 1. Preamble to the Present 2. The Emergence of Indian Activism 3. The Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 4. The Confrontation at Wounded Knee 5. The Doctrine of Discovery 6. Dependent Domestic Nations 7. The Plenary Power Doctrine 8. The Size and Status of Nations 9. The Indian Reorganization Act 10. Litigating Indian Claims 11. The International Arena 12. Reinstituting the Treaty Process Afterword Index

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Book SynopsisThe experiences of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants.Trade ReviewThis book reminds readers that Arab Americans are as American as the pita bread, hummus, and baklawa that they introduced to the American diet. But it also reminds us that the challenge of integration and acceptance is far from over. Much remains to be done, and this book charts the way through the stories and testimonials of those among America's proudest citizens. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsEpigraphs Contents Illustrations Maps Preface Acknowledgments Methodology: Data Collection 1. Historical Background 2. Migration 3. Multicultural and Multireligious Neighborhoods 4. Work 5. Tradition, Education, and Culture 6. Americanization 7. Legacy and Linkage Addendum I: Private-Sector Organizations A. Syrian Brotherhood Orthodox Society, 1905 B. Young Mahiethett Society, 1916 Addendum II: The Middle East and the Arab World after World War II Genealogy: Expanded Kinship in One Family Timeline: Eastern Orthodox Syrian Christian Church Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Annotated Suggested Reading Organizations, Collections, and Exhibits Author Biography Index

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Book SynopsisSeventeen sages respond to the destruction of Native American populations as evidenced in a variety of arenas--from law and literature to ecology and education.Table of Contents Editor's Note on Chief Seathl's Speech Acknowledgments Prologue: Red Road, Red Lake—Red Flag! (by Four Arrows) Introduction (by Four Arrows) 1. Happiness and Indigenous Wisdom in the History of the Americas (by Frank Bracho) 2. Adventures in Denial: Ideological Resistance to the Idea That the Iroquois Helped Shape American Democracy (by Bruce E. Johansen) 3. Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism (by Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson) 4. (Post) Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings (by Jodi A. Byrd) 5. Conquest Masquerading as Law (by Vine Deloria Jr.) 6. Traditional Native Justice: Restoration and Balance, Not "Punishment" (by Rudy Al James [ThlauGooYailthThlee-The First and Oldest Raven]) 7. Where Are Your Women? Missing in Action (by Barbara Alice Mann) 8. Peaceful versus Warlike Societies in Pre-Columbian America: What Do Archaeology and Anthropology Tell Us? (by James DeMeo) 9. Ecological Evidence of Large-scale Silviculture by California Indians (by Lee Klinger) 10. Preserving the Whole: Principles of Sustainability in Mi'kmaw Forms of Communication (by Trudy Sable) 11. The Language of Conquest and the Loss of the Commons (by Chet Bowers) 12. Overcoming Hegemony in Native Studies Programs (by Devon A. Mihesuah) 13. The Question of Whitewashing in American History and Social Science (by David N. Gibbs) 14. Before Predator Came: A Plea for Expanding First Nations Scholarship as European Shadow Work (by David Gabbard) 15. Roy Rogers, Twin Heroes, and the Christian Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation (by Four Arrows) 16. Western Science and the Loss of Natural Creativity (by Gregory Cajete) 17. On the Very Idea of "A Worldview" and of "Alternative Worldviews" (by Bruce Wilshire) Epilogue (by Four Arrows) Appendix: Essays from The Encyclopedia of American Indian History (by Four Arrows) "The Myth of the Noble Savage" "Indian Education and Social Control" "American Indian Worldviews and Values" Index

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Book SynopsisTwelve essays by noted Reconstruction-era historian Barry A. Crouch which explore the African American experience in Texas following emancipation.Trade Review"Barry Crouch was a pioneer revisionist whose work greatly influenced a new generation of Texas historians... This anthology will appeal to many audiences, both academic and general. It will be an ideal reader for courses on Southern history, Texas history, and the history of African Americans... This volume will also be controversial among laypeople and some scholars, especially among white Texans and other white Southerners. Many of them believe the Civil War is still raging and that old Dixie still has a chance to win. Their sacred cows, such as their view of 'scalawags' and 'carpetbaggers,' are confronted head on. Crouch might become the man they love to hate." James Smallwood, Oklahoma State University (emeritus), author of Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (coauthored with Barry Crouch and Larry Peacock), Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction, and The Struggle Upward: Blacks in TexasTable of Contents Foreword by Arnoldo De León Acknowledgments by Larry Madaras Introduction by Larry Madaras Part I. Historiography 1. "Unmanacling" Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective Postscript to Part I Part II. Freedom 2. Reconstructing Black Families: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Records 3. Black Dreams and White Justice 4. Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction Postscript to Part II Part III. Reaction 5. A Spirit of Lawlessness: White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865-1868 6. Crisis in Color: Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction 7. "All the Vile Passions": The Texas Black Code of 1866 8. The Fetters of Justice: Black Texans and the Penitentiary during Reconstruction Postscript to Part III Part IV. Freedmen's Bureau Agents and African American Politicians 9. Guardian of the Freedpeople: Texas Freedmen's Bureau Agents and the Black Community 10. Hesitant Recognition: Texas Black Politicians, 1865-1900 11. Self-Determination and Local Black Leaders in Texas 12. A Political Education: George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Postscript to Part IV Bibliography of Works by Barry A. Crouch Index

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Book SynopsisThe first extensive study of the representation of the Latina body in U.S. popular culture, from “Latin bombshell” Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek today.Table of Contents Introduction: Embodying "Latinidad": An Overview (Myra Mendible) Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez) 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) 3. Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica" (William A. Nericcio) Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media 4. Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner) 5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán) 6. Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia) 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart) 8. "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs) 9. "Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight (Karen R. Tolchin) Section Three. Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz) 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán) 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez) 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman) 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTwo prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. IndTrade Review"This book is unique in its thorough analysis of the entire Constitution as it relates to Indian tribes." --Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program, Arizona State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Chapter I. Europeans and the New World Chapter II. The Articles of Confederation Chapter III. The Constitution and American Indian Tribes The Federalist Papers Explicit Clauses Dealing with Indians Implicit Clauses Dealing with Indians Chapter IV. The Relationship of Indian Tribes to the Three Branches of the Federal Government Indians and the Executive Branch Indians and the Legislative Branch Indians and the Judicial Branch Chapter V. The Historical Development of Constitutional Clauses The Treaty-making Power The Power to Regulate Commerce The Property Clause Miscellaneous Constitutional Clauses Chapter VI. The Constitutional Amendments The Bill of Rights The First Amendment: The Establishment of Religion The First Amendment: The Free Exercise Clause The Lyng Decision The Smith Decision The First Amendment: Freedoms of Speech and Assembly The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure The Fifth Amendment: Double Jeopardy The Fifth Amendment: Due Process The Fifth Amendment: Just Compensation The Sixth Amendment: Legal Counsel Chapter VII. The Later Constitutional Amendments The Thirteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Due Process The Fifteenth Amendment The Sixteenth Amendment The Prohibition Amendments The Twenty-sixth Amendment Chapter VIII. The Status of Indian Tribes and the Constitution Notes References Index of Cases General Index

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Book SynopsisThe most complete, up-to-date portrait of Texas's Native peoples since W. W. Newcomb's 1961 book The Indians of Texas.Table of Contents Foreword by Alston V. Thoms Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Between the Lower Brazos and the Lower Colorado Rivers Chapter Supplement: Study Area I Chapter 2. Between the Lower Colorado and the San Antonio Rivers Chapter Supplement: Study Area II Chapter 3. The Central Texas Coast Chapter Supplement: Study Area III Chapter 4. South Texas Chapter Supplement: Study Area IV Chapter 5. The Texas Trans-Pecos Chapter Supplement: Study Area V Chapter 6. The Texas Southern Plains Chapter Supplement: Study Area VI Chapter 7. Northeast Texas Chapter Supplement: Study Area VII Chapter 8. The Upper Texas Coast Chapter Supplement: Study Area VIII Chapter 9. Conclusions Appendix 1. Selected Animals Reported on Spanish and French Expeditions into Texas, 1528-1722 Appendix 2. Selected Trees and Other Plants Reported on Spanish and French Expeditions into Texas, 1528-1722 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive look at the meanings and uses of rap music and hip hop culture among Chicano/a youth.Trade Review"This study of Chicano rap music is truly a first of its kind... a single-focus study on Chicano rap, its musicians and politics, and how rap and hip hop is a musical counter-narrative to the disenfranchisement of working class barrios." Arturo Aldama, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, University of Colorado, BoulderTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Hip-Hop Project Chapter One. Reading Chicano Rap: The Patriarchal Dominance Paradigm in the Postindustrial Barrio Chapter Two. Chicano Rap Primer: A Guide to Artists and Genres Chapter Three. Machos y Malas Mujeres: The Gendered Image Chapter Four. Sexual Agency in Chicana Rap: JV Versus Ms. Sancha Chapter Five. Violence and Chicano Rap: Mirror of a Belligerent Society Chapter Six. The Chicano Rap on Globalization Chapter Seven. Confronting Dominance and Constructing Relationships with Young People Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of the important ways in which La Llorona—the Weeping Woman—has shaped Mexican cultural identity, from folktales to acts of political resistance.Trade Review"This book is genius... This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest ... that seamlessly crosses and blurs the methodological boundaries of ethnography, cultural critique, feminist critique, literary analysis, visual analysis, and popular culture studies... I wanted to read every word of it." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English, University of California at Los AngelesTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting Our Cultural Imagination Chapter 1. A Five-Hundred-Year History: Traditional La Llorona Tales Chapter 2. Revision and the Process of Critical Interrogation Chapter 3. Infamy and Activism: La Llorona as Resistance Chapter 4. "Long Before the Weeping": Re-Turning La Llorona Chapter 5. La Llorona Lore as Intercultural Dialogue Chapter 6. A New Generation of Cultural/Critical Readers Conclusion: Folklore as Critical Lens Notes Bibliography Index Permissions Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III) 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford) 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke) 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye) 8. The "Path of Souls": Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe) References Index

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Book Synopsis Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical lenses of feminist theory and queer theory in a central position to interrogate Mexican female dissident sexualities in transnational public culture. This is the first book-length study to wed performance studies and queer theory in examining the performative/performance work of important contemporary Mexicana and Chicana cultural workers. It proposes that the creations of several important artists—Chicana visual artist Alma López; the Mexican political cabareteras Astrid Hadad, Jesusa Rodríguez, Liliana Felipe, and Regina Orozco; the Chicana performance artist Nao Bustamante; and the Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas—unsettle heterosexual natTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Unsettling Comforts: Notes on Language, Politics, and Sex/Sexuality in a Transnational Context Part One. Reimagining the Archives of Femininity and Sexuality Chapter 1. Sexing Guadalupe in Transnational Double Crossings Chapter 2. Gender Parody, Political Satire, and Postmodern Rancheras: Astrid Hadad's "Heavy Nopal" Aesthetics Chapter 3. Fue en un cabaret: Nation, Melodrama, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Mexican Performance Part Two. Chicana and Mexicana Queer Performative Interventions Chapter 4. Nao Bustamante's "Bad-Girl" Aesthetics Chapter 5. Ximena Cuevas's Critical Collages Coda. Transtortilleras: Political Cabaret in the Twenty-first Century Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the foremost scholars in Chicana/o studies offers a compelling, authoritative history of the Chicano movement in San Antonio—a movement that provided models for organizing that broke barriers to political participation and power for Latinos acrossTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Conflict Within 1. The Leaking Caste System 2. Barrios at War 3. Organizing Unity 4. A Congressman Reacts 5. Kill the Gringos! 6. The Berets Rise Up Part Two: Marching Together Separately 7. Women Creating Space 8. Batos Claiming Legitimacy 9. Fragmenting Elements Part Three: After the Fury 10. Several Wrong Turns 11. A Transformation Appendix: On Intepreting the Chicano Movement Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe obstacles that cause Latino/a students to drop out of high school, and strategies to overcome them.Trade Review"The authors focus on stories of 'students who graduate from high school against the odds'-especially gratifying since Hispanic youth drop out at about twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites. Romo and Falbo emphasize strategies the students, their parents, and the schools used to achieve graduation... The longitudinal data and combination of qualitative and quantitative data strengthen the study and give it significance." ChoiceTable of Contents Foreword by Charles M. Bonjean Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Goals and Methods of This Book 2. The Tracking of Hispanic Students: "You're not college material." 3. Caught in the Web of School Policies: "Why me?" 4. Gang Involvement and Educational Attainment: "My own gang. " 5. Teen Motherhood: "I wanted him. " 6. Immigrant and Second-Generation Students: "Well, she's Mexican. She's going to drop out. " 7. Going for the GED: "I didn't want to be 20 when I graduated." 8. Bureaucratic Glitches: " I guess no one wants me. " 9. Cultural Boundaries, Family Resources, and Parental Actions: "Don't be like me--stay in school. " 10. What Schools Must Do to Improve Graduation Rates: "What would I change? Everything." Appendix 1: Parent Questionnaire Appendix 2: Student Questionnaire Appendix 3: Ethnographic Interview #1--Parent Appendix 4: Ethnographic Interview #1--Student Appendix 5: Ethnographic Interview #2--Parent Appendix 6: Ethnographic Interview #2--Student Appendix 7: Telephone Interview--Parent Appendix 8: Telephone Interview--Student Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of women''s involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women''s leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities.¡Chicana Power! provides a critical geTrade Review"Blackwell's !Chicana Power! offers a compelling microhistory that invites readers to drill down into the 'disturbances and shifts'... Blackwell seeks to make an intervention into how historians frame the Chicana/o movement, and while her focus on Chicana voices invites comparison to important works in this vein... Blackwell's aim is to broaden not only the cast of characters in movement narratives but also the epistemological registers of movement historiography itself." - Signs "The Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s gained national prominence fighting discrimination against Mexican Americans, but women's contribution to the cause is frequently downplayed. In !Chicana Power!, Chicano studies professor Maylei Blackwell shines light on Mexican American women's fight for equality. For the book, Blackwell drew on documents written by Chicana activists and oral histories gathered over the past 20 years to create 'the first book-length study of women in the Chicano movement.' The book focuses on Anna NietoGomez, a Chicana theorist and founder of Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, a feminist newspaper and organization from Long Beach, California, that opposed male domination, racism, and classism. Blackwell notes that Chicana activists faced numerous hurdles to social equality, foremost amongst them the 'chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harrassment' of male Chicano movement leaders. Tracing the role of women in the movement's development, the book paints an illuminating picture of Chicano movement history from a feminist perspective." - NACLA Report on the Americas "This is an excellent study that can be used in Chicano and Chicana literature courses, as well as women's and gender studies and Latina studies classes. It is a book written with passion that uses fundamental theoretical oral history and ethno- graphic practices."--The Oral History ReviewTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. The Telling Is Political One. Spinning the Record: Historical Writing and Righting Two. Chicana Insurgencies: Stories of Transformation, Youth Rebellion, and Campus Organizing Three. Retrofitted Memory: Chicana Historical Subjectivities between and beyond Nationalist Imaginaries Four. Engendering Print Cultures and Chicana Feminist Counterpublics in the Chicano Movement Five. Interpretive Dilemmas, Multiple Meanings: Convergence and Disjuncture at the 1971 Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza Six. Chicanas in Movement: Activist and Scholar Legacies in the Making Appendix. Narrator Biographies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins 2. Los Angeles 3. San Antonio 4. New York City 5. Tampa 6. On the Road: Hispanic Theatre outside Its Major Centers 7. Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIndians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Depending on available information, he reconstructs something of their history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture. He also offers general information on various unnamed groups of Indians, on the lifeways of the indigenous peoples, and on the relations between the Indian groups and the colonial Spanish missions in the region.Trade Review"The scholarship is nothing short of superb. ... Salinas has produced the definitive work on the area, which has been needed for years." --Rudolph C. Troike, professor, Department of English, University of ArizonaTable of Contents Foreword by Thomas R. Hester Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Environmental Setting 3. Historical Background 4. The Rio Grande Delta 5. Coastal Areas North and South of the Rio Grande Delta 6. Northeastern Nuevo León 7. Culture 8. Historical Demography 9. Languages 10. Spanish Missions Nearest to the Rio Grande Delta 11. Summary and Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisWith fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and José Kozer, have lived “life on the hyphen,” this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study ofTable of Contents Preface to the Second Edition. The Facts of Life on the Hyphen Introduction. The Desi Chain Mambo No. 1: Lost in Translation Chapter One. I Love Ricky Mambo No. 2: Spic 'n' Spanish Chapter Two. The Man Who Loved Lucy Mambo No. 3: Desi Does It Chapter Three. A Brief History of Mambo Time Mambo No. 4: The Barber of Little Havana Chapter Four. Salsa for All Seasons Mambo No. 5: Mirror, Mirror Chapter Five. Rum, Rump, and Rumba Mambo No. 6: English Is Broken Here Chapter Six. No Man's Language Mambo No. 7: El mago de la ñ y el acento Chapter Seven. The Spell of the Hyphen Epilogue. My Repeating Island Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAdvancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III, James F. Garber, and George E. Lankford) General Studies Chapter 1. Regional Approaches to Iconographic Art (George E. Lankford) Chapter 2. The Cosmology of the Osage: The Star People and Their Universe (James R. Duncan) Regional Studies: Middle Mississippi Valley Chapter 3. The Regional Culture Signature of the Braden Art Style (James A. Brown) Chapter 4. Early Manifestations of Mississippian Iconography in Middle Mississippi Valley Rock-Art (Carol Diaz-Granados) Regional Studies: Lower Mississippi Valley Chapter 5. Mississippian Ceramic Art in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Thematic Overview (David H. Dye) Chapter 6. The Great Serpent in the Lower Mississippi Valley (F. Kent Reilly III) Regional Studies: Cumberland Valley Chapter 7. Iconography of the Thruston Tablet (Vincas P. Steponaitis, Vernon James Knight, Jr., George E. Lankford, Robert V. Sharp, and David H. Dye) Chapter 8. Woman in the Patterned Shawl: Female Effigy Vessels and Figurines from the Middle Cumberland River Basin (Robert V. Sharp, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and George E. Lankford) Regional Studies: Moundville Chapter 9. A Redefinition of the Hemphill Style in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Vincas P. Steponaitis) Chapter 10. The Raptor on the Path (George E. Lankford) Chapter 11. The Swirl-Cross and the Center (George E. Lankford) Regional Studies: Etowah and Upper Tennessee Valley Chapter 12. Iconography of the Hightower Region of Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia (Adam King) Chapter 13. Dancing in the Otherworld: The Human Figural Art of the Hightower Style Revisited (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) Chapter 14. Raptor Imagery at Etowah: The Raptor Is the Path to Power (Adam King and F. Kent Reilly III) Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCorrelating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern PlTrade Review"Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600 is an ambitious synthesis of archaeological and historical evidence concerning the effects of climate on human societies...The book is suitable for a range of audiences and I think it could make a good text for a course on climate and culture change or one on North American archaeology...The book deserves to be read as a beginning point for a long, thoughtful discussion about climate and culture change in North America and is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject." -- Staff The Midcontinental Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Tenth Century Chapter 2. The Eleventh Century Chapter 3. The Twelfth Century Chapter 4. The Thirteenth Century Chapter 5. The Fourteenth Century Chapter 6. The Fifteenth Century Chapter 7. The Sixteenth Century Summary and Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the complexities of the present Indian situation, particularly with regard to legal and political rights.Trade ReviewA pioneering work, responsible in vision and treatment, it focuses on the judicial branch of government, giving an overview of federal Indian law in perspective of political and legal rights. * Los Angeles Times *Table of Contents Introduction 1. American Indians in Historical Perspective Discovery, Conquest, and Treaty-Making (1532-1828) Removal and Relocation (1828-1887) Allotment and Assimilation (1887-1928) Reorganization and Self-Government (1928-1945) Termination (1945-1961) Self-Determination (1961-Present) 2. Federal Responsibility and Power over Indian Affairs Roots of Federal Responsibility The Sources of Federal Power 3. Indian Country 4. The Evolution of Tribal Governments Traditional Forms of Tribal Government Transitional Tribal Governments Tribal Government in Modern Perspective Tribal Government and Contemporary Problems 5. The Indian Judicial System The Development of the Indian Court System Tribal Judges Tribal Courts and the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act Federal Review of Tribal Court Decisions The Tribal Court System: An Assessment 6. The Role of Attorneys, Advocates, and Legal Interest Groups in the Indian System of Law Indian Attorneys and American Society Attorneys and Advocates in an Indian Setting Indian Legal Services Attorneys Indian Legal Interest Groups 7. The Criminal System of Justice in Indian Country Federal Statutes and Criminal Law Criminal Jurisdiction: Bringing Order to a Complex Maze Law Enforcement and Criminal Prosecution Special Problems in Law Enforcement 8. The Civil System of Justice in Indian Country Traditional Civil Law The Civil System in Operation Immunity from State Encroachment The Indian-State Conflict of Laws 9. Public Policy and the Legal Rights of Indians The Civil Liberties of American Indians American Indian Religious Freedom The Right to Basic Governmental Services Bibliographic References Index of Cases Index of Topics

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Book SynopsisIn her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's life and mind.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Volunteers and Conscripts 2. Diseases and Doctors 3. Rewards and Recreation 4. Crimes and Courts 5. Training and Campaigning 6. Bonds and Banners Conclusion Appendix. Parliamentary Debate on Responsibility for the British Loss in America Notes Abbreviations Used in Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.Trade ReviewFatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. -- Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for RepresentationThis book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work—there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. -- Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureTable of Contents Preface: The Slow Lowdown Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions Part I. Sourcing Authority Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father” Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity Parting Shot Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisLeading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.Trade Review"This is a fascinating volume on a subject for which detailed investigation is long overdue." - Midcontinental Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Carol Diaz-Granados and Aaron Deter-Wolf) 1. Native American Tattooing in the Protohistoric Southeast (Antoinette B. Wallace) 2. Needle in a Haystack: Examining the Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Tattooing (Aaron Deter-Wolf) 3. Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos: Ethnographic Insights on Prehistoric Body Decoration and Material Culture (Benjamin A. Steere) 4. Tattoos, Totem Marks, and War Clubs: Projecting Power through Visual Symbolism in Northern Woodlands Culture (Lars Krutak) 5. The Art of Enchantment: Corporeal Marking and Tattooing Bundles of the Great Plains (Lars Krutak) 6. Identifying the Face of the Sacred: Tattooing the Images of Gods and Heroes in the Art of the Mississippian Period (F. Kent Reilly III) 7. Dhegihan Tattoos: Markings That Consecrate, Empower, and Designate Lineage (James R. Duncan) 8. Snaring Life from the Stars and the Sun: Mississippian Tattooing and the Enduring Cycle of Life and Death (David H. Dye) References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHow the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town.Trade Review[Menchaca's] work buttresses the argument that race is alive and well and that twenty-five years of affirmative action policies have not eliminated the legacy of segregation... [This book] provides an excellent view of social relations in one place across time. Compelling and thought-provoking, the study argues for sustaining public policies that challenge racist discrimination. * Journal of American History *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Political Relations and Land Tenure Cycles in Santa Paula: Chumash Indians, Mexicans, and Anglo Americans Chapter Two. White Racism, Religious Segregation, and Violence against Mexicans, 1913 to 1930 Chapter Three. School Segregation: The Social Reproduction of Inequality, 1870 to 1934 Chapter Four. Mexican Resistance to the Peonage System: Movements to Unionize Farm Labor Chapter Five. Movements to Desegregate the Mexican Community, the 1940s and 1950s Chapter Six. The Segmentation of the Farm Labor Market, 1965 to 1976 Chapter Seven. Interethnic City Council Politics: The Case of the Housing Cooperative Movement Chapter Eight. Modern Racism: Social Apartness and the Evolution of a Segregated Society Chapter Nine. The Impact of Anglo American Racism on Mexican-Origin Intragroup Relations Chapter Ten. Historical Reconstruction Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with all surviving members of the Comanche Code Talkers, their original training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as military records and news accounts, William C. Meadows follows the group from their recruitment and training toTrade Review"Of all the books on Native American service in the U.S. armed forces, this is the best... Readers will find the story of the Comanche Code Talkers compelling, humorous, thought-provoking, and inspiring." - Tom Holm, author of Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam WarTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Notes on the Comanche Sound System by Jean O. Charney Chapter 1: The Origins of Native American Code Talking Chapter 2: Native American Veterans and Code Talkers in World War II Chapter 3: "Get him back on that scale and weigh him again!" Chapter 4: "Utekwapa naka: I hear what you say." Chapter 5: Fighting Po'sataiboo': Crazy White Man Chapter 6: "Numurekwa'etuu: Comanche Speakers!" Appendix A: Members of Company E, 142d Infantry, Thirty-sixth Division, World War I Appendix B: World War I Choctaw Code Talkers Appendix C: Organization of the Fourth Infantry Division, 1941-1945 Appendix D: Combat Narrative of the Fourth Infantry Division Appendix E: Fourth Infantry Division Campaign (June 6, 1944, to May 8, 1945) Appendix F: Fourth Signal Company Activities, 1940-1945 Appendix G: Glossary of Comanche Code Terms Appendix H: Known Native American Code Talkers of World Wars I and II (Tribes, Group Size, Form of Code Talking, and Military Units) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn innovative application of four social types—the downtrodden Peladita/Peladito and the zoot-suited Pachuca/Pachuco—that illuminates working-class subjects in a broad spectrum of Mexican and Mexican American cultural production.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface: Wild Tongues/Lenguas Necias Chapter 1: From the Carpa to the Novel: The Peladito in Las aventuras de Don Chipote, o Cuando los pericos mamen Chapter 2: Las Peladitas: Gender and Humor in Teatro de Carpa Chapter 3: Transnational Pachucada: Artistic Representations in Film, Theater, and Music across the Border Chapter 4: Of Wild Tongues and Restless Bodies: María Elena Gaitán's Performance Art Chapter 5: Beyond the Comfort Zone: Dan Guerrero's ¡Gaytino! Conclusion: Connecting the Past with the Present Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive assessment of MAYO’s history, politics, leadership, ideology, strategies and tactics, and activist program.Table of Contents Foreword by Mario C. Compean Preface Acknowledgments Photographs Introduction. Paradigm for the Etiology of the Chicano Movement Chapter 1. The Chicano Movement: Impact of Endogenous Antagonisms Chapter 2. The Chicano Youth Movement: Catalyst for Change Chapter 3. MAYO: A Cadre Organization of Organizers Chapter 4. MAYO: Protagonist for Educational Change Chapter 5. MAYO: Advocate for Social Change Chapter 6. MAYO: Precursor to the Raza Unida Party Chapter 7. MAYO: Decline and Demise Epilogue Appendixes 1. “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán” 2. MAYO Membership Requirements 3. Crystal City School Walkout Demands 4. “El Plan de Del Rio” Notes Index

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