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Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, “Copper Stain: ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso” (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros
Copper Stain
ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Ryan Driskell Tate

In Copper Stain: ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice. The physical and social legacy of the ASARCO smelter are told through the testimonies... Read More
Maria Cotera, “Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era” (U Texas Press, 2018)
Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell, eds.
Chicana Movidas
New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
University of Texas Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology July 17, 2019 Tiffany Gonzalez

In Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (University of Texas Press, 2018), Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era. Contributors... Read More
Genevieve Carpio, “Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race” (U California Press, 2019)
Genevieve Carpio
Collisions at the Crossroads
How Place and Mobility Make Race
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 8, 2019 Carrie Lane

In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Professor Genevieve Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire. In this wide-ranging study, the first academic work to draw on... Read More
Laura R. Barraclough, “Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity” (U California Press, 2019)
Laura R. Barraclough
Charros
How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 1, 2019 Stephen Hausmann

In Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity (University of California Press, 2019), Dr. Laura R. Barraclough tells a surprising story about the urban American West. Barraclough, the Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor in American Studies at Yale University, writes the history of elite Mexican and Mexican-American cowboys... Read More
Carolina Alonso Bejarano, “Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science” (Duke UP, 2019)
Carolina Alonso Bejarano
Decolonizing Ethnography
Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 1, 2019 Amy E. Brown

Almost 30 years ago, following the lead of scholars and thinkers of color and from the global South, anthropologist Faye Harrison and some of her colleagues published Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology of Liberation. Harrison asked her readers: “How can anthropological knowledge advance the interests of the world’s... Read More
Nancy Mirabal, “Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957” (NYU Press, 2017)
Nancy Mirabal
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
New York University Press, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 27, 2019 Jonathan Cortez

In Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017), Nancy Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along... Read More
Marisol LeBrón, “Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico” (U California Press, 2019)
Marisol LeBrón
Policing Life and Death
Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 18, 2019 Jesse Zarley

Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present. As in the United States, LeBrón shows... Read More