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All photographs are to some extent about light. The eighty-five stunning colour photographs in this book are a masterful exploration not only of the light falling on objects or filling spaces but of the very act of seeing. Richard Ross has an uncanny ability to distil the space and the moment, whether it is profane or sacred, into its essence.

Traces the history of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona from 1846 to 1912. Lamar analyses the evolution of American political and economic systems to show their impact on the racial and ethnic groups already present in the Southwest. Lamar also puts into perspective both the local territorial history and the relationship between the region and the nation.

To grow up as a Mexican-American Methodist in a small town in south central Texas in the 1940s and 1950s was to be a minority within a minority. This account of a boyhood in Seguin, Texas, broadens our understanding of Latino culture by evoking a time when Catholics and Protestants had nothing to do with each other and the word Chicano was not yet in use.

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and its effects on the tribes.

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II

Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C. Fre(c)mont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey.

A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal that New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century's best known writers. Included here are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farge, Conrad Richter, D. H. Lawrence, C. G. Jung, Winfield Townley Scott, John DeWitt McKee, Ernie Pyle, Harvey Fergusson, and Lawrence Clark Powell.

Simon J Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This title shows his role in the development of cultural studies and Native American literatures on a number of fronts, garnering tribal, regional, national, hemispheric, and global levels of awareness and appreciation.

Alongside the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects, Hucks weaves historical and sociological analyses of the relationship between black cultural nationalism and reinterpretations of the meaning of Africa from within the African American community.

Presents a historical overview of the dramatic story of the American West since its prehistory. This book covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. It provides a fresh narrative of this geographically and culturally vast area and emphasises on two themes: change and complexity.

Photography came to Latin America early in its technological development and is an essential tool for documenting the region's physical spaces and encounters among cultures. Divided into four parts, this book documents the collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.

Presents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. This book makes the case that the programs' methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of American cities.

This bilingual edition comprises a collection of stories from the Cusco region.