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Book SynopsisThis study presents a comprehensive architectural survey of ancient structures in the region ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico.Trade ReviewAn excellent example of how a critical eye and an analytical mind can distill the essential formal character of architecture from the great complexity of previous documentary evidence. Morgan's carefully crafted work has successfully enlarged the scope of his subject beyond archaeological, anthropological, and historical concerns; his method now places the ancient architecture of western North America in the mainstream of formal architectural discourse as well. * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *Scholars of architectural history will find Morgan's book a useful source of data, and it should become a standard reference work....Although Morgan's book is accessible to a general audience it is also a great source for professionals in the fields of architecture, planning, and archaeology. Students will find the book useful in providing quick access to data and directing them to more in-depth sources. The book successfully communicates the chronological, geographical, and architectural diversity of prehistoric Southwestern architecture. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Table of Contents Foreword by Rina Swentzell Acknowledgments Introduction Early Settlements to A.D. 900 Mogollon Village Harris White Mound Village Tohatchi Village Badger House McPhee Village Grass Mesa Village Alkali Ridge Regional Developments, 900 to 1140 Mogollon Cameron Creek Galaz Swarts NAN Ranch T J Ruin Hohokam Snaketown Chaco Canyon Anasazi Una Vida Peñasco Blanco Pueblo Bonito Hungo Pavi Chetro Ketl Pueblo Alto Pueblo del Arroyo Wijiji Tsin Kletzin Kin Kletso Casa Chiquita New Alto San Juan Basin Anasazi Bee Burrow Casa Cielo Casa Abajo Kin Klizhin Whirwind House Kin Bineola Pueblo Pintado Andrews Casamero Fort Wingate Las Ventanas San Mateo Kin Ya’a Muddy Water Toh La Kai Hogback White House Northern San Juan Anasazi Far View Lowry Aztec Salmon Squaw Springs Wallace Escalante Three Kiva Pueblo Chimney Rock Virgin and Kayenta Anasazi Main Ridge Coombs Unrest and Adjustment, 1140 to 1300 Mogollon Turkey Creek Chodistaas Gila Cliff Dwellings Hohokam Pueblo Grande Cerro Prieto Palo Parado Salado Janss Sycamore Creek Park Creek Reno Creek Zuni (Anasazi) Casa Vibora Village of the Great Kivas Deracho Pescado Canyon Fort Site Yellowhouse Ramah Schoolhouse Atsinna Sinagua Elden Pueblo Tuzigoot Montezuma Castle Kayenta Anasazi Kiet Siel Betatakin Mummy Cave Wupatki San Juan Anasazi Cliff Palace Spruce Tree House Sand Canyon Square Tower Group Crumbled House Rio Grande Anasazi Tsiping San José Forked Lightning Migration and Consolidation, 1300 to 1540 Mogollon Kinishba Grasshopper Casa Malpais Paquimé Cave of Las Ventanas Olla Cave Hohokam Casa Grande Los Muertos Salado Salome Tonto Cline Terrace Schoolhouse Point Besh Ba Gowah Zuni (Anasazi) Kin Tiel Hawikuh Hopi (Anasazi) Oraibi Chukubi Awatovi Fire House Sinagua Nuvaqueotaka Rio Grande Anasazi Kuaua Otowi Long House Tyuonyi Poshuouinge Sapawe Arroyo Hondo Paako San Cristóbal Pecos Arrowhead Gran Quivira Historic Pueblos, 1540 to Present Zuni Zuni Lower Pescado Nutria Hopi Walpi Sichomovi Hano Shongopavi Shipaulovi Mishongnovi Payupki Rio Grande Acoma Santo Domingo Taos Overview Glossary Pronunciation Guide Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of America’s leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that “frame” women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as “bad women” and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.Trade Review"With a convincing methodology and well-presented material, the book undoubtedly is a valuable contribution that increases the visibility of the variety of feminisms beyond the predominance of Western points of view. It is an innovative book and it is definitely recommended to students of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies." * Critical Reviews on Latin American Research *Table of ContentsPreface: Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa, in Gratitude for Your Tongues of FireAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Activist Scholarship and the Historical Vortex of the “Bad Woman”1. The Politics of Location of La Décima Musa: Prelude to an InterviewInterview with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz2. Malinche’s Revenge3. There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Homeland Myths and Embodied Aesthetics4. Coyolxauhqui and Las "Maqui-Locas”: Re-Membering the Sacrificed Daughters of Ciudad Juárez5. Mapping the Labyrinth: The Anti–Detective Novel and the Mysterious Missing Brother6. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Inquisition Continues7. The Sor Juana ChroniclesEpilogue: To Your Shadow-Beast: In MemoriamNotesBibliographyReprint PermissionsIndex

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Book SynopsisWith insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today.Trade ReviewAldama does more than hit his marks: he has created an exhilarating, accessible and much-needed study of one of the most inventive and multifaceted directors to come along during the last thirty years. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone who wishes to become a filmmaker or who simply loves movies. * La Bloga *Table of Contents Foreword: A Teaser before the Show by Charles Ramírez Berg Acknowledgments Art and Industry: The Films of Robert Rodriguez Good, Bad, Ugly . . . and Beautiful El Mariachi (1992) Desperado (1995) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) Regenerative Aesthetics of Degenerate Genres From Dusk till Dawn (1996) The Faculty (1998) Familia Redefined, Chocolate Rivers, Rainbow Rocks, Dreamscapes, and S'mores Spy Kids 1 (2001) Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011) The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005) Shorts (2009) Tour de Noir Comic-Book Film Sin City (2005) Otherworldly Mutants, Bandidas, Borderland Vigilantes . . . Fight Back Planet Terror (2007) Machete (2010) Machete Kills (2013) It's a Wrap Interview with Robert Rodriguez Filmography References Index

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Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric sTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword (Patty Jo Watson)Preface (Carol Diaz-Granados)AcknowledgmentsLandowners' Introductory MessagePart 1. OverviewChapter 1. Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 2. "Tracings in the Idleness of Art": Picture Cave in the Context of Southeast Prehistoric Cave Art (Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler)Chapter 3. The Geology and Ecology of Picture Cave (Philip W. Newell)Part 2. Technical Work at Picture CaveChapter 4. Geochemical Analyses of Prehistoric Pigment Materials from Picture Cave (Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 5. AMS Radiocarbon Dates for Charcoal from Three Pictographs and Their Associated Iconography (Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon)Chapter 6. Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 7. The Origins of Picture Cave: An Essay on the Artists/Priests Who Made the Drawings, as Interpreted from the Salvaged Cultural Materials (James R. Duncan)Part 3. InterpretationsChapter 8. Tradition and Horizons in Southeastern Representation: Lessons from Picture Cave (James A. Brown and Jon Muller)Chapter 9. The Black Warrior Pictograph: Dating and Interpretation (James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson)Chapter 10. The Cave and the Beneath World Spirit: Mythic Dragons from the North American Past (F. Kent Reilly III)Chapter 11. The Cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha Tribe (Richard F. Townsend)Chapter 12. Mortal Combat, Sacred Narratives, and Symbolic Weaponry: Mississippian Culture Heroes in Picture Cave (David H. Dye)Chapter 13. The Spider in the Cave (Kathryn Red Corn)Chapter 14. Transmogrification, Healing, and Resurrection: Extraordinary Themes in Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan )Chapter 15. Color Symbolism and Preliminary Assessment of Styles at Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 16. Visions in Picture Cave (George E. Lankford)Chapter 17. Identifying the Characters on the Walls of Picture Cave (James R. Duncan)Part 4. Artistry and ReactionChapter 18. The First Man Was an Artist: Meditations on a Prehistoric Mississippian Cave (Pala Townsend)Chapter 19. Layered Pictures, Layered Stories, Layered Lives (Anita Fields)Part 5. Osage Interviews and CommentaryChapter 20. Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage Commentary (William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma))Chapter 21. The Future of Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek)Appendix: Illustrated Catalogue of Picture Cave ArtAlan Cressler and Jan F. SimekReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.Trade Review"There is no comparable study to this one. Pena is without question the outstanding student of Mexican-American music... He has written the definitive study of the orquesta." --Mario T. Garcia, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents Acknowledgments Prelude: Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation Exposition: Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict Part One: Origins Chapter 1. Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940 Part Two: The Mexican American Era Chapter 3. Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation Chapter 4. The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection Chapter 5. The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero Part Three: The Chicano Era Chapter 6. The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis Chapter 7. La Onda Chicana Chapter 8. Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno Coda: Music in the Post-Chicano Era Notes Selected Discography References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWritten for general readers as well as scholars, this book sheds new light on the local activism that propelled the national civil rights movement, as well as on the birth of an organization that has been at the forefront of Mexican American and Latino ciTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Claiming Rights on a Local LevelChapter 1. Integration a Mordidas in Alpine Schools Chapter 2. The Multistep Integration of the El Paso Police Department Part 2. Claiming Rights on a National LevelChapter 3. MALDEF: Born into the Crosswinds of the Chicano Movement Conclusion: Of Oral History and Research Possibilities Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow imprisoned Native American women are treated within the criminal justice system.Trade Review"Professor Ross, through painstaking phenomenological analysis, has unmasked some of the ways in which (race, class, and gender) prejudices, and their internalization by individuals targeted by them, exert enormous influence on the processes and outcomes of the American criminal justice system... This book will be of tremendous import to a broad, interdisciplinary audience." Franke Wilmer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Montana State UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Colonization and the Social Construction of Deviance 1. Worlds Collide: New World, New Indians 2. Racializing Montana: The Creation of "Bad Indians" Continues Part II. Creating Dangerous Women: Narratives of Imprisoned Native American and White Women 3. Prisoner Profile: Past and Present 4. Lives Dictated by Violence 5. Experiences of Women in Prison: "They Keep Me at a Level Where They Can Control Me" 6. Rehabilitation or Control: "What Are They Trying to Do? Destroy Me?" 7. Prison Subculture: "It's All a Game and It Doesn't Make Sense to Me" 8. Motherhood Imprisoned: Images and Concerns of Imprisoned Mothers 9. Double Punishment: Weak Institutional Support for Imprisoned Mothers 10. Rehabilitation and Healing of Imprisoned Mothers 11. Narrative of a Native Woman on the Outside: Gloria Wells Norlin (Ka min di tat) Epilogue Appendix: Violations and Descriptions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the response of Mexican immigrants to Anglo American prejudice and violence early in the twentieth century.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Mexican Revolution, Border Mexicans, and Anglos 2. México Lindo Mobilization 3. The Consuls and México Lindo 4. Mexican Criminals in the United States 5. Police Treatment of Mexican Immigrants 6. Civilian Violence against Mexican Immigrants 7. Mexicans and Justice in the Courtroom 8. Capital Punishment and Mexicans in the United States 9. Doing Time for Mexicans in the United States 10. Extradition between Mexico and the United States Conclusion Appendix A. White and Black Civilian Violence against Mexicans Appendix B. Mexican-on-Mexican Violence in Texas and the Chicago Area Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas.Trade ReviewMrs. Waugh's book is by far one of the best of the vast number of volumes on San Antonio. . . . a contribution that will always sympathetically keep a record of part of the real life of the people. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments 1. The Bottom of the Pile 2. The Silver Cradle 3. Babe of Beauty 4. The Blessing of the Animals 5. Apostles Twelve 6. Easter and Epiphany 7. Honor to the Cura Hidalgo 8. Carnival of Memory 9. Diversified Honors 10. Royalty on the West Side 11. A Place of Frequent Emotions

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Nahuat Orthography 1. Introduction Part I. The People 2. The Nahuat 3. Huitzilan de Serdán 4. Santiago Yaonáhuac Part II. A Common Cosmology 5. Space and Time 6. Nahuat and Hispanics Part III. Differences in Parallel Stories 7. Narrative Acculturation 8. Men Who Enter the Forest 9. Lightning-bolts Who Punish Sin 10. Adam and Eve 11. Men : Women : : Culture : Nature 12. Conclusions Appendix 1. Story Summaries Appendix 2. Profiles of Nahuat Storytellers Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of Midwestern Mexican American communities.Trade Review"This is to date the most comprehensively narrated and researched work on Mexicans in the Midwest... It clearly supersedes [past published works] and is also of higher quality, I think, than most other works published in the field of Chicano studies in recent times." -Juan Gomez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLATable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Mexican Inequality and the Midwest Modeling Chicano Inequality Mexicans and Midwestern Geography Chapter 2: Reckoning with Winter Last of the Immigrants Urban Farmworkers Organizing and the Community Chapter 3: Memory of Hunger The Drive to Repatriate The Internal Colonia Agents of Americanization Chapter 4: Good Solid Workers An Urban Proletariat Dilemmas of Americanism Dismantling the Barrio Chapter 5: El Movimiento: Becoming a Little More Militant Reconstructing a Barrio El Movimiento and the Community Agency and Agencies The Struggle for Knowledge: Chicano Studies Chapter 6: Completing a Circle Migration and Settlement Chasing the Dream Mexican Menace Contradictions of Culture Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, David Wilkins examines fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly curtailed Indian rights.Trade ReviewA detailed, thorough analysis of 15 US Supreme Court cases involving Native Americans. . . . The cases range from the well-known Johnson v. M’Intosh to the little-known Ward v. Racehorse, but all are instance in which the Court has mistakenly ‘limited or terminated the rights of indigenous peoples.’ In each case the author notes the errors the justices made and the ‘judicial masks’ that have often enabled them to ignore reality and morality. . . . Judicious and persuasive, he provides new information and insights in this important field. A must read for tribal officials, attorneys, judges, public officials, and others concerned with Native American affairs. * Choice *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Legal Masks, Legal Consciousness Chapter 2. The Era of Defining Tribes, Their Lands, and Their Sovereignty Chapter 3. The Era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903 Chapter 4. The Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism, and Moral Progress Chapter 5. The Era of Judicial Backlash and Land Claims Chapter 6. The Era of the Imperial Judiciary Chapter 7. Removing the Masks Appendix A. Cases Cited Appendix B. Supreme Court Justices Authoring the Fifteen Opinions Analyzed Notes Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisThis engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and Anglo social history.Trade ReviewIn the nascent field of Chicano history psychohistorical studies are not abundant. Thus Mazón makes an immense contribution to the study of the Mexican American. * American Historical Review *Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Sleepy Lagoon Case 3. The "Zoot Suit Yokum" Conspiracy 4. Servicemen and Zoot-Suiters 5. The Zoot-Suit Riots 6. The Symbols, Imagery, and Rhetoric of the Riots 7. "The Hard to Get At" 8. Between Annihilation and Redemption Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.Trade Review"[A] vivid retelling of Native history in Seattle, and it is an incredible history. . . . We have tremendous roots, we just don't know it. So read this." * The Stranger *"Native Seattle offers a dynamic new model for writing urban and Indian histories together. Thrush successfully challenges narratives of progress in U.S. history that imply that modernity is predicated on the decline of Native people. . . . By demonstrating how white place-stories involving disappearing Indians have shaped our accounts, he successfully works to restore both the deeper history of urban places as well as the influence of Native people in the subsequent development of cities." * Journal of American History *"Coll Thrush's book has importance far beyond the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest . . . revolutionary in his approach to the broad nature of Seattle's indigenous history. . . . This book will endure." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"An eye-opener." -- Knute Berger * Crosscut *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Susette Min Introduction: For the Love of Unicorns: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 1 QUEERING SURVEILLANCE “You Blushed”: Queering Surveillance after 9/11 in the Work of Jill Magid and Hasan Elahi by Harrod J. Suarez Performance, Surveillance, and Sousveillance: A Conversation with Wafaa Bilal and Hasan Elahi by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 2 QUEERING TIME Pacific Standard Time: Queering Temporality in Asian American Visual Cultures by Mariam B. Lam Promiscuous Time Traveling (on Leaving and Returns): A Conversation with Lin + Lam and Việt Le by Laura Kina CHAPTER 3 QUEERING AFFECT Filipino Diasporic Queer Killjoy: Recuperating Failure in Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s Guilty Party and BOMH Series by Jan Christian Bernabe Negotiating Desire and (Queer) Masculinity: An Interview with Kenneth Tam by Jan Christian Bernabe CHAPTER 4 QUEERING METHODOLOGY Queer Zen: Unyoking Genealogy in Asian American Art History by Alpesh Kantilal Patel Pin@y Projections: Urban Spaces, Digital Ephemerality, and Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Eliza Barrios by Jan Christian Bernabe Queer Traveler–on Desiring and Failing Sublime Landscapes: An Interview with Kim Anno by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 5 QUEERING SUBJECTIVITY Risky Subjectivity: Select Works by Korean Adoptee Artists by Eun Jung Park Dazzle: A Conversation on Transgender Subjectivity with Greyson Hong and Kiam Marcelo Junio by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 6 QUEERING MIXED RACE Liminal Possibilities: Queering Mixed-Race Asian American Strategies in the Art of Maya Mackrandilal and Zave Gayatri Martohardjono by Laura Kina Chimera: A Conversation on Mixed Race/Mixed Methods with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Saya Woolfalk by Laura Kina CHAPTER 7 QUEERING ASIAN AMERICA Open-Source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the Work of Three Asian American Artists by Valerie Soe Muscles, Mash-Ups and Warning Shots–Queering Japanese American History: An Interview with Tina Takemoto by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina The Buddhist Bug—Spanning Borders and Bodies: An Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali by Laura Kina Afterword: To be Queer Being to Queer It . . . by Kyoo Lee

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This text offers itself as a pragmatic guide, and, as such, its ideology tends to privilege finding immediate solutions for the crises it addresses. This immediacy is fitting, of course. Ecological threats aren't the kind of thing that can wait to be resolved. Unlikely Alliances is also, ultimately, a hopeful text, one that celebrates a kind of progress in these alliances." -- John Gamber * Transmotion *"The most valuable contribution of Grossman’s detailed study is that it provides a useful guide for building alliances against environmentally destructive projects and evaluating what strategies have been successful, and which ones have not worked so well, in defending rural land, resources and cultures." -- Al Gedicks * Race & Class *"Unlikely Alliances is particularly salient in a contemporary context of both political gridlock and increasing environmental threats. With specific attention to each rural context, Grossman acknowledges complexity and the dynamic intersecting factors that allow Native/white alliances to thrive or, conversely, to erode and dissolve. The lessons he offers from rural Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nevada, and beyond support the place based work of constructing collaboration across lines of historic conflict." * Native & Indigenous Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One | Running Upstream 1. Fish Wars and Co-Management: Western Washington 2. Water Wars and Breaching Dams: Northwest Plateau Part Two | Militarizing Lands and Skies 3. Military Projects and Environmental Racism: Nevada and Southern Wisconsin Part Three | Keeping It in the Ground 4. Resource Wars and Sharing Sacred Lands: Montana and South Dakota 5. Fossil Fuel Shipping and Blocking: Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest Part Four | Agreeing on the Water 6. Fishing and Exclusion: Northern Wisconsin 7. Mining and Inclusion: Northern Wisconsin Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A first-of-its-kind book that looks at tribal disenrollment." -- Florangela Davila * Seattle Magazine *"A powerful and painful analysis of the abuses of tribal governments against their own people and the rights of individuals against their leaders. . . . Readers who do delve into its troubling contents will have a deeper understanding of the challenges facing tribal peoples in the twenty-first century." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Banishment 2. Federal Power and Citizenship in Indian Country 3. A New Deal for Native Citizenship 4. Native Self-Determination 5. The Dismembering Explodes 6. Judicial Interpretations of Dismemberment Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Across desert mountains and seasonal rainstorms, through colonial disconnection and deprivation, moving like water, Duarte weaves her words into a technoscape not unlike tribes weaving their ICTs, with defined purpose, connecting past and future through the lineage, relationship, and community dreaming." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Network Thinking 2. Reframing ICTs in Indian Country 3. The Overlap between Technology and Sovereignty 4. Sociotechnical Landscapes 5. Internet for Self-Determination 6. Network Sovereignty 7. Decolonizing the Technological Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Time to Rise comes out at an opportune time as another fascist regime emerges in the Philippines. As in the past, former KDP activists have responded to the call to fight back." -- Boying Pimentel * Inquirer.net *"This nearly 20-year project is a remarkable documentation of one of the leading revolutionary Asian American Movement organizations. . . . A Time to Rise provides much greater complexity to teaching and learning about both Filipino American and Asian American movement history. . . . More than lessons of the past, A Time to Rise illuminates the way forward to complete unfinished revolutions." -- Tracy Lai * International Examiner *"About much more than politics, this collection opens a window on the lives people lead when they set out to change the world. . . . Dedication, humor and simple good writing make this collection a worthwhile exposure of a piece of recent history." -- Mike Wold * Real Change News *Table of ContentsForeword / Augusto F. Espiritu Acknowledgments Introduction: A Snapshot—The Life and Times of the KDP / Rene Ciria Cruz Part One | Beginnings 1. To Teach the Masses a Love for Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven / Therese R. Rodriguez 2. “Who Is Marshall Law?” / Jeanette Gandionco Lazam 3. How My Life Changed / Romy Garcia 4. What’s in a Name? / Christine Araneta 5. Running Away to Life / Estella Habal 6. A Little Red Book / David Della 7. Not the Usual Path / Bo Apostol (as told to his daughter Rebecca Apostol) 8. The Accident / Dale Borgeson 9. In the Name of Love / Maribel Salomon 10. Different Roads Home / Velma Veloria Part Two | In the Thick of the Struggle 1. The Birth of a KDP Chapter / Dale Borgeson 2. No Aloha for Marcos / Sorcy Apostol 3. Between the Personal and the Political / Estella Habal 4. Transfer to Paradise . . . Not! / Walter Yonn 5. Hitting the High Notes / Gil Mangaoang 6. Fighting US Imperialism with a Master’s Degree / Cindy Domingo 7. Infiltrating the World Bank / Jon Melegrito 8. Moving to Gotham / Lourdes Marzan 9. Defending Nurses—I’d Do It Again / Esther Hipol Simpson 10. They Won’t Know What Hit Them / Elaine Elinson 11. Working the Corridors of Power / Odette Polintan 12. A Cultural Gypsy / Ermena Vinluan 13. “Is This What You Call Democracy?” / Jeanette Gandionco Lazam 14. Why Me? / Amado David 15. In the Armed Struggle / Ka Linda Part Three | The Test of Fire 1. The Fall / Alonzo Glenn Suson 2. The Terrible Blow / Dale Borgeson 3. Initiation from Hell / Emily Van Bronkhorst 4. A Day I’ll Live with for the Rest of My Life / David Della 5. A Memory of Strong Women / Lillian Galedo 6. How Do I Size a Bulletproof Vest? / Kris Melroe 7. We Had Already Lost Too Much to Turn Back /Terri Mast 8. A Night in Camelot / Michael Withey 9. Long Road to Justice / Cindy Domingo 10. Defeating the Marcoses in a Court of Law / Jim Douglas Part Four | Looking Back 1. Revolutionary Baby / Rebecca Apostol 2. Scooby Doo: Growing Up with the KDP / Silahis M. Taverna 3. One February Night in San Francisco / Fely Villasin 4. I Have Not Stopped Dreaming / Estella Habal 5. Deep Horizon / Gil Mangaoang 6. No Regrets / Edwin Batongbacal Afterword / Rene Ciria Cruz Appendix I: List of Abbreviations Appendix II: Ang Aktibista, “Orientation to Philippine Support Work in the Current Period” Appendix III: KDP Activism Timeline / Compiled by Helen Toribio Suggested Reading Index

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Book SynopsisSince 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people have hunted bison and bighorn sheep, fished for cutthroat trout, and gathered bitterroot and camas bulbs here for at least 11,000 years, and twenty-six tribes claim cultural association with Yellowstone today. In Before Yellowstone, Douglas MacDonald tells the story of these early people as revealed by archaeological research into nearly 2,000 sitesmany of which he helped survey and excavate. He describes and explains the significance of archaeological areas such as the easy-to-visit Obsidian Cliff, where hunters obtained volcanic rock to make tools and for trade, and Yellowstone Lake, a traditional place for gathering edible plants. MacDonald helps readers understand the archaeological metTrade Review"Before Yellowstone is beautifully produced from front cover to back. . . . Visitors to Yellowstone National Park now have a resource that will add another dimension to their visit to this remarkable place." * National Parks Traveler *"Drawing on his own extensive discoveries in the field, the work of previous archaeologists, the historical record and Native American oral traditions, MacDonald provides an essential account of Yellowstone’s human past." * Smithsonian Magazine *"[T]his study is worthy of being emulated by other scholars interested in the intersection of national parks, public history, and local knowledge." * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era. . . . Raymond’s study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration. . . Highly entertaining and readable." -- Mark Walmsley * H-1960s *"Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today." -- Sarah Jilani * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black Celebrity and the Making of Porgy and Bess 2. Sammy Davis, Jr.: Daring, Deferential, and “Money” 3. Harry Belafonte and the Northern Liberal Network 4. The Arts Group and the March on Washington 5. Dick Gregory and Celebrity Grassroots Activism 6. Stars for Selma 7. Celebrities and Black Power Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A substantial and important book that succeeds admirably in deepening our understanding not only of the ongoing struggles of Portland’s black community, but also the impact of the Black Panther Party on the city’s political and physical landscape. This work should gain a wide readership among those with an interest in the Black Panther Party, the modern African American freedom struggle, and the post-World War Two urban West and the contests over space and place that shaped it. . . . Required reading for anyone who has every called Portland home." -- Nancy K. Bristow * Western Historical Quarterly *"A substantial and important book that succeeds admirably in deepening our understanding not only of the ongoing struggles of Portland’s black community, but also the impact of the Black Panther Party on the city’s political and physical landscape. This work should gain a wide readership among those with an interest in the Black Panther Party, the modern African American freedom struggle, and the post-World War Two urban West and the contests over space and place that shaped it. Given the range and depth of insights it offers into the city’s racial past and thereby into the contemporary City of Roses, it should also be required reading for anyone who has ever called Portland home." -- Nancy K. Bristow * Western Historical Quarterly *"The Portland Black Panthers chronicles the largely peaceful efforts of Portland's black community to be heard during a turbulent time in Oregon history." * East Oregonian *"The authors fill an important gap. . . . This is a significant contribution to our understanding of black history in the Northwest and just as important a contribution to the history of community organizing and urban development in one of the most important cities in the Pacific Northwest." -- Dale E. Soden * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *"An important study for students and researchers interested in the genesis of local black activism in US cities. Their detailed examination of the Portland’s police operations adds to the information being collected on police behavior by those in the Black Lives Matter movement currently." -- Edward Leon Robinson Jr. * Journal of African American History (JAAH) *"The book illuminates Portland’s troubled passage through the 1960s and 1970s, as experienced by community activists, and the photographs evocatively humanize urban planning decisions. It is a must-read for teachers in Oregon’s public schools and for any serious student of Pacific Northwest history, including undergraduates and graduates in ethnic studies, urban studies, criminal justice, and regional history." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A Chemehuevi Song] represents the highest level of academic and community collaboration. . . [It] is the embodiment of an intellectual and cultural relationship that combines an astute analysis from the historian/ethnographer with a melody of rare tribal voices sharing the lived realities—both past and present—that Chemehuevi people experienced, survived, and relied upon to create the cultural resilience they are experiencing today." -- Theresa L. Gregor * Southern California Quarterly *"The sound historical research, sources, and extensive employment of oral history interviews makes this account of the history and persistence of the Chemehuevi an impressive work." -- William D. Rowley * Montana Magazine *"Trafzer’s book is a wondrous portrayal. . . . Compelling historical discourse. . . . A Chemehuevi Song is a song, and a story, that we should all make time to hear." -- David Martínez * The Journal of Arizona History *"Clifford E. Trafzer has produced a thorough history of the Chemehuevi people. . . . This work will appeal to a wide audience. It is certainly an important work for California Indian scholars. . . . This book is a song with a very clear message and chorus, and Trafzer makes very clear that the song continues." -- Rebecca Bales * Western Historical Quarterly *"A well-written and illustrated, carefully documented, masterful contribution to the overlapping fields of ethnohistory, ethnomusicology, Native American and American studies, myth, and folklore. Essential." * Choice *"Some academics are good scholars and a few are good storytellers. Clifford Trafzer is both. . . . Trafzer presents a nuanced view of the community's culture, especially their songs as methods of dealing with sorrow. . . . A Chemehuevi Song is a testament to their songs as metaphors for the Chemehuevi's adaptations to adversity and relative prosperity." -- Ronald L. Holt * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Chemehuevi Way 2. Invading and Defaming the Chemehuevi 3. War, Resistance, and Survival 4. The Chemehuevi at Twenty-Nine Palms 5. Unvanished Americans 6. Willie, Williams, and Carlota 7. Cultural Preservations, Ethnogenesis, and Revitalization Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent. . . . In Enduring Conviction, [Lorraine Bannai] skillfully weaves the story of the landmark court case with Fred’s personal journey. . . . Her elegant telling of the story of the incarceration and Fred Korematsu’s fight against it could not be more timely. . . . Hopefully, the inspiration provided by Fred Korematsu may be an even more enduring response to injustice." -- Elaine Elinson * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Enduring Conviction shows how politics and racial prejudice can conspire to trample the civil rights of an entire racial group during a time of war, based on fabricated claims of military necessity. . . . Bannai’s volume is a worthwhile read for those interested in learning about some of the worst events and court rulings in American history, and serves as a reminder that the constitutional rights of American citizens should also be safeguarded during times of war, and in the darkest times of American history." -- Harvey Gee * Asian American Policy Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue | A San Francisco Courtroom 1. The Son of Immigrants, but All-American 2. The Call to Get Rid of the “Japs” 3. Fred’s Decision to Live Free 4. Jail Was Better than Camp 5. The Rocky, Winding Road to the Supreme Court 6. The Ugly Abyss of Racism 7. Rebuilding a Life 8. “Intentional Falsehoods” 9. “A Legal Longshot”? 10. Correcting the Record 11. A Symbol in the Continuing Search for Justice Epilogue Notes Glossary A Note on Terminology Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume is a welcome addition to environmental collections given the conspicuous dearth of quality environmental histories of Spain. . . . Hamilton presents an approachable, well-researched account of how the Albufera was the nexus of environmentalists’ efforts for conservation through "rewilding" both before and after the Franco dictatorship and his regime’s pointed effort to develop the tourism industry on what would become an extremely sensitive and biodiverse site of European environmental importance. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Understands the specificities of a space (La Albulfera de Valencia) that cannot be understood without human intervention in its more than six centuries of history; a space shaped by farmers, hunters, citizens of Valencia, politicians, and officials in a changing and often conflictive relationship, who display opposing interests and conflicting conceptions of conservation." * Environmental History *"[A] remarkable monograph, which demonstrates its author’s clear commitment to in-depth research in telling this fascinating and complex story." * Environment and History *"Cultivating Nature is a work written in a clear, engaging language, which is not only excellently suited for academic introductory courses on the agricultural and conservation history of Spain in the twentieth century, but also provides a good introduction for a readership outside the academic world that is generally interested in nature conservation." * Agricultural History *"Hamilton captures the inherent complexity of environmental issues very well." * Technology and Culture *"An excellent reference for environmental history in Spain, consolidating existing research and opening new lines of reflection toward the future." * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Power in the Telling is a unique contribution to Native American studies, and its audience includes not just scholars and students in this field but also Native communities and their allies. . . . By moving from scholarly analysis to concrete recommendations, Power in the Telling provides Native nations with incisive strategies for working together in pursuit of revitalization." * H-AmIndian *"Readers will close the book with new appreciation for the transformative potential—disempowering and liberatory alike—of casino-era relations. The empirical and programmatic force of this book affirms that, indeed, there is “power in the telling.”" * NAIS Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Risling Baldy skillfully argues that a Native feminist analytic reveals that Native feminisms were not introduced by Western culture, but have always been contained in oral narratives and are fundamental aspects of Native culture and society." -- Olivia Chilcote * News from Native California *"Risling Baldy distinctly positions the significance of coming-of-age ceremonies through arduous historical research, sophisticated contributions to Native feminisms, and Indigenous narrative interweavings." * Gender & Society *"Her book is well-written, well-argued, and a joy to read for scholars and general audiences alike!" * IK: Other Ways of Knowing *"This text is critical for scholars of Native studies, American Indian studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, gender studies, history, and American studies, as well as other fields... In centering a gendered ceremonial practice, We Are Dancing for You documents that cultural resurgence, decolonizing praxis, and Native feminisms provide a space for academics to recognize the daily and ceremonial roles of Indigenous women in indigenizing space and place in their homelands and homewaters. Beyond the academy, Risling Baldy references the positive outcomes for ceremonial participants and reminds readers of the critical and utilitarian need to re-indigenize Indigenous life." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a strong compilation, mixing Okada’s writing with copious analysis of it, and telling a story of his life that both echoes and informs his best-known work." -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword Reviews *"Combining an extensive biographical treatment of Okada (1923–71), recovered works by Okada, and critical essays, John Okada offers an innovative introduction to the Japanese American author. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Thanks to the recent publication of a collection of previously unknown writings by Okada (John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy), readers are in a better position to understand how these themes were embedded in the author’s life. Revisiting No-No Boy alongside the recent collection offers a valuable opportunity to connect the legacies of wartime incarceration with current struggles against a state that seems intent on repeating the injustices of the past." * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisNo-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure.This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okada's early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industryTrade Review"This is a strong compilation, mixing Okada’s writing with copious analysis of it, and telling a story of his life that both echoes and informs his best-known work." -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword Reviews *"Combining an extensive biographical treatment of Okada (1923–71), recovered works by Okada, and critical essays, John Okada offers an innovative introduction to the Japanese American author. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Thanks to the recent publication of a collection of previously unknown writings by Okada (John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy), readers are in a better position to understand how these themes were embedded in the author’s life. Revisiting No-No Boy alongside the recent collection offers a valuable opportunity to connect the legacies of wartime incarceration with current struggles against a state that seems intent on repeating the injustices of the past." * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatt’s ethnographic study illustrates in detail the lived reality of the men, women and children who make up this population of transmigrants – moving from India to the US, back to India and oftentimes back again to the States. Whilst focusing on the gendered dimension of these movements, the book presents a broader context of how personal and professional expectations and aspirations are affected by legal frameworks, family demands and considerations about future migrations. . . . [a] rich empiracal work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) *"An intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle . . . highlights the calculated decisions many of these young families make to ensure their own financial stability and maintain connections with both U.S. and India." * International Examiner *"intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle in Washington state." * International Examiner *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Judicious in her use of critical theory and academic jargon, Barber tells an engaging, important story of continuing relevance for the region and the nation." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"In this beautifully executed book, Katrine Barber explores the intertwined livesof these two extraordinary women to provide a rich meditation on lived experiences,alliance building, and resistance within changing contexts of settler colonialism." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Judicious in her use of critical theory and academic jargon, Barber tells an engaging, important story of continuing relevance for the region and the nation." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"In this beautifully executed book, Katrine Barber explores the intertwined livesof these two extraordinary women to provide a rich meditation on lived experiences,alliance building, and resistance within changing contexts of settler colonialism." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Asians in Colorado brings] to light individual actors among the historical Chinese and Japanese American communities in Colorado—ones that could easily be forgotten. In some cases, these stories re-affirm a broader well-known arc in Asian American and American history, but at other times, he adds a useful complexity to our narratives that furthers the argument and showcases the need for local histories." -- Lily Wong * 8Asians.com *"A compelling history of Asians in the state." -- Sandra Dallas * Denver Post *"For all Asians in Colorado, this is a must-read book." -- Jules Nadeau * Asian Avenue Magazine *"Asians remained largely invisible in the history of Colorado until William Wei successfully put pen to paper to complete this scholarly narrative. It is much needed, as the sources available on the subject have been limited to a few publications. . . The greatest strength of Wei’s book is how he narrates the personal histories of Asians in Colorado." -- Marie von Haas * Colorado Book Review *"Asians in Colorado offers compelling arguments and innovative analysis, tidily packaged for general readers and undergraduate students." -- David Torres Rouff * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue | Once Upon a Time in the West 1. Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Coming of Asians to Colorado 2. Chinese Pioneers: Looking for Work, Finding Violence Instead 3. Exotic Oasis in the Queen City of the West 4. Importing Chinese Prostitutes, Excluding Chinese Wives 5. The Denver Race Riot and Its Aftermath 6. Japanese Immigrants: From Feudal Peasants to Independent Farmers 7. Yellow Peril: From Threatening Chinamen to Treacherous Japan 8. A Concentration Camp in the Centennial State 9. Loyalty and Betrayal on the Home Front 10. Asian Colorado’s Greatest Generation Epilogue | Coming to America, Again List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n important contribution to an EJ literature...it should be widely used there in courses on US environmental history, the history of race and environment, and even on social movements in the twentieth century." * Environmental History *"[A] powerful tool for introducing students to the US environmental justice movement and the sometimes tense relationship between environmentalism and social justice." * New Books Network *Table of ContentsForeword: The Age of Environmental Inequality / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION “WHERE WE LIVE” Russell Lee, Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938 John Vachon, Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941 Carl Mydans, Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935 Dorothea Lange, Migratory Mexican Field Worker’s Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation, Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939 John Vachon, Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941 Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants Arthur S. Siegel, Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors’ Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942 Craig Thompson, “Growing Pains of a Brand-New City,” 1954 Norris Vitchek, “Confessions of a Block-Buster,” 1962 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963 Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964 Fair Housing Act of 1968 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Understanding Fair Housing,” 1973 “WHERE WE WORK” Ruby T. Lomax, [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi], 1940 John Vachon, Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940 Help Wanted White Only Lloyd H. Bailer, “The Negro Automobile Worker,” 1943 Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953 Mildred Pitts Walter, “Biographical Sketch,” September 28, 2017 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965“ Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” 1968 “WHERE WE PLAY” Victor H. Green, ed., Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950 Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park Colored Only Sign Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955 Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale’s Segregated Public Beach, 1961 Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963 PART 2 A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE Indians of All Tribes, “The Alcatraz Proclamation,” 1969 Timothy Benally, “‘So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows’” El Malcriado, “Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons,” 1969 Wilbur L. Thomas Jr., “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities,” 1970 RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Edmund S. Muskie, Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970 EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971 John H. White, Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974 Don Coombs, “The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself,” 1972 TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES Penelope Ploughman, Protest Signs in Front Yard Love Canal 99th Street Home, 1978 Protest Sign: Danger, Dioxin Kills, 1980 Robert T. Stafford, “Why Superfund Was Needed,” 1981 Jenny Labalme, Anti-PCB Protests in Warren County, North Carolina, 1982 “A Warren County PCB Protest Song,” 1982 General Accounting Office, “Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities,” 1983 Cerrell Associates, Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-Energy Conversion Plant Siting, 1984 United Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” 1987 United Church of Christ, “Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Waste Sites,” 1987 Marianne Lavelle and Marcia Coyle, “Unequal Protection,” 1992 BUILDING THE MOVEMENT Sam Kittner, The Great Louisiana Toxics March, 1988 Peggy Shepard and Chuck Sutton Protest New York City’s North River Sewage Treatment Plant, 1988 SouthWest Organizing Project, “Letter to Big Ten Environmental Groups,” March 16, 1990 Mark Gutierrez, From One Earth Day to the Next, 1990 Indigenous Environmental Network, “Unifying Principles,” 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit Press Conference, October 24, 1991 Dana Alston, “Moving beyond the Barriers,” 1991 “The Principles of Environmental Justice,” 1991 William K. Reilly, “Environmental Equity,” 1992 Melissa Healy, “Administration Joins Fight for ‘Environmental Justice’ Pollution,” 1993 William J. Clinton, Executive Order 12898, February 16, 1994 Dorceta E. Taylor, “Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism,” 1997 Luz Claudio, “Standing on Principle” “Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing,” 1996 Public Citizen, “NAFTA’s Broken Promises,” 1997 PART 3 THE ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY ERA INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES Richard Moore, “Government by the People” Christine Todd Whitman, “Memorandum,” August 9, 2001 Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Working Together,” 2002 Robert D. Bullard et al., “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” 2007 Marty Durlin, “The Shot Heard Round the West,” 2010 Environmental Protection Agency, “Plan EJ 2014,” 2011 Kristen Lombardi, Talia Buford, and Ronnie Greene, “Environmental Justice, Denied,” 2015 CONTINUING EJ ACTIVISM Tracy Perkins, Buttonwillow Park, CA, January 30, 2009 Tracy Perkins, Wasco, CA, January 30, 2009 Online Meme on #NoDAPL Amy Goodman, “Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray,” 2016 Brian Bienkowski, “2017 and Beyond: Justice Jumping Genres,” Environmental Health News FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TO JUSTICE AND THE ENVIRONMENT “Bali Principles of Climate Justice,” August 29, 2002 Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, “Rising Sea Levels,” 2016 Brentin Mock, “For African Americans, Park Access Is about More Than Just Proximity,” 2016 Norma Smith Olson, “Food Justice,” 2013 Van Jones, “Power Shift Keynote,” 2009 World Rainforest Movement, “‘For a Change of Paradigm’: Interview with Tom Goldtooth from the Indigenous Environmental Network,” 2016 Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent book for scholars interested in soy in particular, but also for those interested in food in general. It clearly traces the links between soybean milk production, nutrition scientists, and social issues to create new meanings and understanding about food, the body, and nationhood." * China Review International *"The Other Milk presents a case study on the drink as a modern, science- and nation-building enterprise for these nutrition activists." * Food Anthropology *"[A] fascinating intellectual history of soy in China from the early 1920s to the late 1930s. The key strength of the book is Fu’s success at challenging the dominant narrative of a ubiquitous nature of soy as an undeniable good for all." * Social History of Medicine *"The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China presents a prototype of the transition between animal and plant milk, albeit one that occurred in the other direction, and arguably more in aspiration than in reality. The Other Milk traces early twentieth century China’s newfound interest in soy milk (doujiang), a simple product of ground soybeans, and familiar feature of Chinese breakfasts." * Global Food History *"[A] great read for historians of modern China and anyone who is curious about how diets are shaped by historical actors...The book is a generous contribution to the fields of Asian Studies and Food Studies, sharing the previously underexamined history of soy milk as an attempt to elevate Chinese nationhood via nutrition." * Asia Pacific Perspectives *"Based on solid research Fu has provided us with a stimulating biography of soybean milk in China...The book also has plenty of fascinating details, intriguingliterary anecdotes and some thoughtful discussion of the entanglement of nutritional science and Chinese nationalism. In all, it is a valuable contribution to food history and to the history of science and medicine in modern China." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"[S]killfully charts the transnational networks, political imperatives and social conditions that led to the rise and brief apotheosis of soy milk as the food of the future in Republican China." * China Quarterly *"Fu does an excellent job at introducing us to a variety of lesser-known figures in Chinese history while also presenting the material in a way that is accessible to a general academic audience. The Other Milk is a satisfying dive into the world of soy that will appeal to those interested in Republican China, food history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine." * H-Environment *"The book will be essential reading for historians of science and food studies scholars, focused on China and beyond." * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"Jia-Chen Fu writes eloquently and convincingly about the development of nutrition sci-ence and activism in Republican and wartime China that led many to regard the humble soybean as a foundational remedy to China’s problems." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Herbert has ably demonstrated how [race and gender] operated in mid-nineteenth century gold rush societies in ways that enabled the dominance of one class of men over others." * The Ormsby Review *"A compelling survey of gender, race, labour, and politics, Gold Rush Manliness should be read by scholars interested in the cultural logic of settler colonialism in western history." * BC Studies *"Herbert’s style is eminently readable and concise, while his arguments are thought-provoking and engaging. Gold Rush Manliness is an excellent read for those interested in gender and identity in nineteenth-century North America." * Journal of Arizona History *"[I]nsightful study...a major step forward." * American Historical Review *"[A] welcome addition to the still nascent field of masculinity studies. Packed with useful observations about midnineteenth-century manliness, race history, and the relationship between different western rushes, the book is written in an engaging andjargon-free style and is useful to undergraduate and graduate students as well as lay readers" * Oregon Historical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Tao of Raven is likely the most thoughtful book you’ll read all year, memoir or otherwise." -- Addley Fannin * Fairbanks Daily News-Miner *"The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir is a beautifully written and almost hypnotic narrative. . . . Hayes artfully weaves Indigenous creation stories and the mischievous trickster figure of Raven, creating a type of magical realism. Her writing style is musical in nature, and when reading her work aloud, the timbre and cadence of the words are like a song." * NAIS Journal *"The Tao of Raven is beautifully written, both thoughtful and thought-provoking." -- Mary Catherine Martin * Capital City Weekly *"A multilayered narrative of remarkable creativity, historical understanding, philosophical insight, and empathy for all those who share the earth with us. . . . The Tao of Raven should be widely read, in and out of schools, if Alaskans are to understand something of what it means to belong to this place and the history that brings us to this moment in time and our relationships with one another. Ernestine Hayes is a gifted and gifting teacher, opening for us a box of light." -- Nancy Lord * Alaska Dispatch News *"In a lyrically intoxicating style, Ernestine Hayes crafts a . . . mesmerizing storytelling, an alternative world, that reveals as much, if not more, about how our society works, or does not work, for today’s Alaskan Native citizen. . . . Her bold study marries the tragedies of her life with the greater horrors perpetrated upon Alaskan Natives. . . . Hayes manages to wrangle a promising, optimistic tinged message as she closes out her autopsy of what has gone awry. In her inimitable, metaphorical style she voices cause for hope – a prayer that all is not forsaken." -- David Fox * Anchorage Press *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Brown Bear Spins beneath the Darkly Spinning Stars 2. Wolves Sing like Old Women Keeping Anceint Songs 3. Regret and the Forest Are Patient Teachers 4. They Are Holding Everything for Us Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Harmon] provides an informative context behind the 1978 Oliphant v. Suquamish decision, which removed tribal jurisdictions over non-Indians. This background elucidates the history of tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians, numerous court decisions favoring tribal sovereignty, the evolution of Indian-issue lawyers, tribal decision makers, the place of activists in the campaigns for sovereignty, and case studies of both the Quinault and Suquamish reservation issues. Students of policy and law will benefit from the extensive analysis of the Oliphant case, which includes plausible alternative approaches that might have made the tribal position more effective." * Choice *"Reclaiming the Reservation should be essential reading for anyone interested in federal Indian law and policy andis useful for those who want to know more about how historians and judges tell stories about the past." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Like all good historiography, the story is rich in people with big ideas and chutzpah who beat their heads against convention and established institutions...Reclaiming the Reservation gives them proper recognition as the yeast that gave western Washington tribes the confidence to reassert their cultural and political identities and reclaim collective power in the twentieth century." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"[T]his clearly written and detailed book... is much more than the story of one lost case. It also documents the ongoing activism and ingenuity of the Quinault and the Suquamish communities and shows, most importantly, what happened outside of the courtroom—in congressional hearings, forests, universities, tribal offices, beaches, intertribal meetings, conferences, and fishing grounds." * Pacific Historical Review *"Reclaiming the Reservation offers an unmatched synopsis of Native American sovereignty cases in a rich historical narrative that emphasizes Indigenous activism. Harmon moves seamlessly between local and national efforts, successfully articulating legal arguments in a human context... [S]imply an exceptional contribution that makes plain an otherwise-complicated field." * Journal of American History *"[A] surprisingly well-balanced look at how tribes have weathered colonialism as tribal nations continue to examine ways to affirm their sovereignty." * Tribal College Journal *"[T]his body of work opens critical intertribal dialogue with Native readers across Indian country…[A] pivotal Native American studies work that boldly demands the inclusion of community experiences outside the courts as a manner to revisit, rewrite, and re-right legal and policy analyses." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Although Harmon has worked as an academic for the past few decades, teaching in the American Indian studies program at the University of Washington, she previously represented various tribes in Washington state, including a stint as the staff attorney for the Suquamish. Harmon makes clear from the outset that she is by no means a neutral, dispassionate observer of the history she writes about... [and she] builds her case through a careful study of Quinault and Suquamish tribal histories." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Harmon] provides an informative context behind the 1978 Oliphant v. Suquamish decision, which removed tribal jurisdictions over non-Indians. This background elucidates the history of tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians, numerous court decisions favoring tribal sovereignty, the evolution of Indian-issue lawyers, tribal decision makers, the place of activists in the campaigns for sovereignty, and case studies of both the Quinault and Suquamish reservation issues. Students of policy and law will benefit from the extensive analysis of the Oliphant case, which includes plausible alternative approaches that might have made the tribal position more effective." * Choice *"Reclaiming the Reservation should be essential reading for anyone interested in federal Indian law and policy andis useful for those who want to know more about how historians and judges tell stories about the past." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Like all good historiography, the story is rich in people with big ideas and chutzpah who beat their heads against convention and established institutions...Reclaiming the Reservation gives them proper recognition as the yeast that gave western Washington tribes the confidence to reassert their cultural and political identities and reclaim collective power in the twentieth century." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"[T]his clearly written and detailed book... is much more than the story of one lost case. It also documents the ongoing activism and ingenuity of the Quinault and the Suquamish communities and shows, most importantly, what happened outside of the courtroom—in congressional hearings, forests, universities, tribal offices, beaches, intertribal meetings, conferences, and fishing grounds." * Pacific Historical Review *"Reclaiming the Reservation offers an unmatched synopsis of Native American sovereignty cases in a rich historical narrative that emphasizes Indigenous activism. Harmon moves seamlessly between local and national efforts, successfully articulating legal arguments in a human context... [S]imply an exceptional contribution that makes plain an otherwise-complicated field." * Journal of American History *"[A] surprisingly well-balanced look at how tribes have weathered colonialism as tribal nations continue to examine ways to affirm their sovereignty." * Tribal College Journal *"[T]his body of work opens critical intertribal dialogue with Native readers across Indian country…[A] pivotal Native American studies work that boldly demands the inclusion of community experiences outside the courts as a manner to revisit, rewrite, and re-right legal and policy analyses." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Although Harmon has worked as an academic for the past few decades, teaching in the American Indian studies program at the University of Washington, she previously represented various tribes in Washington state, including a stint as the staff attorney for the Suquamish. Harmon makes clear from the outset that she is by no means a neutral, dispassionate observer of the history she writes about... [and she] builds her case through a careful study of Quinault and Suquamish tribal histories." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionInterrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slaveryFrom Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead's literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele's body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging alternate takes on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the postCivil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and BlTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable. . . . This book does us all a service by ushering Curtis’s In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century." * American Ethnologist *"Offers a stunning range of perspectives and visual materials drawing from the original production to the present. . . . Ambitious not only in its scope but in its commitment to understanding and presenting the film in its multiple indigenous contexts." * American Literary History *"A detailed and thoughtful book that brings together scholars, artists, and Kwakwaka’wakw community members in a wide-ranging discourse on the film." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"The essays provide a rare look at both the tremendous amount of planning, negotiation, and artistic work that goes into this kind of production, but also the diversity of reactions it necessarily inspires—from sturdy appreciation to charges of romanticism and exploitation." * Pacific Historical Review *"[An] accomplished critical engagement with the complicated and tumultuous nature of the place of the film in academia and in First Nations communities. . . . The volume is also testimony to the fact that 100 years after the original production, the film can still capture the imaginations and minds of scholars and the broad public." * BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly *"[This] generously illustrated anthology of essays—some decidedly academic, others more personal and anecdotal—address the film from every angle while also placing Curtis (1868–1952) and his First Nations collaborators on the film in their historical context." * Seattle Times *

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