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  • Ecologies of Resistance

    Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds

    Reframing traditional conceptions of ecologyEcologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed separation of the human and nonhuman, human dominance over ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Haunted Southwest

    Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature

    In the American Southwest, Hispano, Indian, and Euro-American cultures display conflicting and competing avenues for legitimacy. Examining literature of the region, The Haunted Southwest makes use of theories of place, space, and haunting to show how memory instills an ethic and orientation tied to embodied knowledge.American modernist ideologies accelerated the erasure of indigenous histories and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • We Are Nature Defending Itself

    An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place

    Series series Wittliff Collections Literary Series
    In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives.” Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Technofuturos

    Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

    Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Extractive Zone

    Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

    Series series Dissident Acts
    In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Everyday Language of White Racism

    by Jane H. Hill ...
    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racismreveals how racializing discourse—talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them—facilitates a ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Children of the Land

    A Memoir

    An NPR Best Book of the YearA 2020 International Latino Book Award FinalistAn Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the YearThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future ... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Spirit Run

    A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

    by Noé Álvarez ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEThe son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run)**Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé A ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Planetary Longings

    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Hurting Kind

    by Ada Limón ...
    An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus