Da cuenta de las diversas culturas que asentaron en las márgenes del río Mariposa.

A useful text for those teaching and/or doing research on recent immigration from Mexico (especially to the Southeast), immigrant networks and labor markets.

A Revised edition exploring current issues in the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance and race. A new chapter focuses on higher education.

A history of Latino Catholicism in the U.S. Contrasting the development of three Latino communities Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans, Badillo challenges the popular concept of the overarching "Latino experience."

Examines how the presence of skilled immigrants affects the earnings of men and women, native born and immigrant. Challenges the exclusive focus on immigrants as individual workers and suggests placing the immigrant-native competition debate in the context of the American economy characterized by deepening labor market segmentation, occupational segregation and gender inequality

Conflict in Chiapas from the perspective of landed elites.

Examines alienage in all its complexities: the dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion inherent in the practices and institutions of citizenship in liberal democratic societies, especially the U.S.

Demonstrates how religion shaped cultural encounters, contributed to the construction of racial identities and served as a motivating factor in the lives of historical actors. Attempts to clearly show how race, religion and region are as critical as gender, sexuality and class.

A retrospective of Graciela Iturbide's career and an introspective self portrait; an artists' art book.

Shows the degree to which the U.S., a nation of immigrants, has become more ethnically and racially diverse. This new census includes new and expanded categories of racial and ethnic identity by which residents can accurately identify themselves.

Photographs capture the desolate beauty of the desert translating its formidable monotone into finely tuned studies of light.

Aims at bridging the divide between a critique of a state-centered notion of citizenship and the recognition of Mexican migrants as political actors. Based on data from Aguililla, Michoacán (Mexico), and Redwood City, California (United States), Castañeda argues that citizenship lies at the crossroads of legal definitions of membership and senses of belonging.

Twenty-two tales of love, lust, and Latina tradition with bold protagonists investigating the substance of their lives. The lovers are not always boys but a variety of emotionally misguided, pathetic or bizarre social rejects.

Using archival materials, including thousands of court cases at the federal, county and local level that have been ignored by other scholars. The author concludes that the American takeover of the state irrevocably altered gender patterns, and women's rights and status in a positive fashion. It shows how women also used the courts to gain equity and justice.

Shows how books, films and cartoons have rewritten popular notions of the Spanish Conquest.

Reveals how the stricter U.S. border-control activities of the past decade have affected the behavior of migrants and potential migrants in rural Mexico. Presents detailed and direct evidence of the failure of the post-1993 U.S. strategy to deter unauthorized entry across the U.S.-Mexico border and the reasons for its failure.

Details the challenges Mexico faces in reforming the administration of its justice system.

The author posits that compromise and capitulation have pushed a promising and effective political movement to the edge of irrelevance.

Although farm laborers continue to work in the worst conditions and earn the lowest wages in the U.S., Du Bry shows that they are reforming rural communities in California and redefining their roles in social and political participation.

Traces the effect of El Niño in central Mexico in the late 1990s next to some of the principal changes in the country's agricultural policies. Shows how the parallel processes of globalization and climatic change result in populations that are "doubly exposed" and vulnerable.

Documents race-of-victim discrimination and compares to experimental research on the race-of-offender effect. Using interviews with jurors, seeks to reconcile this conflict and explain how and when race effects are likely to occur.

Reveals the medicinal properties of foods in the specific cultural contexts in which they are used. Addresses some of the physiological effects of foods across cultures and through history while taking into account both the complex dynamics of foods choice and the blurred distinctions between food and medicine.

Explores the migration processes and the social, cultural and civic effect of indigenous peoples in the U.S. and Mexico. Shows how the creation and re-creation of collective ethnic identities among indigenous migrants influence their economic, social and political relationships in the U.S.

Features vivid characters telling their stories and distressing reflections on life, illustrating that adaptation, persistence and survival are traits that Mexican culture values and that over time Mexican immigrants don't only adapt to another culture they transform it.

Short stories about women's experiences and ability to overcome adversity.

One of the foundational documents of Mexican American History in Texas, the author created a study that has served as source material on the Texas-Mexican Borderlands for more than twenty five years.

Fourteen short stories about characters who struggle to come to grips with self-discovery, sibling rivalry and dysfunctional relationships while learning to survive in a steamy border environment. Dramas unfold in dull households as working-class men come home from work, and their wives and children do their best to deal with their lives.

Uses perspectives from criminology, police science, sociology, victimology and the law. Offers the latest approaches to crime in America.

Essays by Chicanos, Pochos, Pachucos, Mexicanos and Expatriots.

Examines informal institutions in Latin American and how they support or weaken democratic governance.

Updated edition treats the range of issues facing the region in the first decade of the 21st century. The author provides current analyses of history, politics, economics, environmental concerns, class, ethnicity, the role of women, religious beliefs, education and cultural expression.

UC researcher details his career uncovering the previously unknown habits of sharks.

The origins of Southern California are rooted not solely in the Spanish colonial period but also in the early twentieth century. Four case studies examine the responses of Mexican and Indian people to the construction of places that gave shape to this cultural memory.

Examines two little-known guerrilla wars that took place at the same time as the Mexican-American war and proved particular to the outcome of the conflict. Takes information from 24 archives that include the normally closed files of Mexico's National Defense Archives.

The impact of economic globalization-agricultural & trade policies, migration & dehumanization of farmworkers.

Examines water management from economic and symbolic perspectives. Presents a unified perspective of how water was conceived, used and represented in ancient greater Mesoamerica, showing that water was not only an essential natural resource but an important spiritual one.

Describes how continual immigration, the growth of the Latino population and the Chicano Movement have been important factors in shaping the experience of Mexican Americans. Argues that Mexican American identity is often not merely an "ethnic option" but a necessary response to stereotyping and interactions with Anglo society.

These 11 stories guide the reader into the hidden worlds of the culture wars. The people belong to the fringes of society, struggling for an identity and a place to belong.

Traces the birth and initial development of this ethno-religious community through the westward expansion of the U.S. Using the records of Protestant missionaries, Martinez uncovers the story of Mexican converts and the churches they developed.

This revised edition includes new information on migration and drugs including the heavy rise of violence traced largely to the illegal drug trade and the devastating effects of U.S. Border Patrol "blockages" that have resulted in thousands of deaths.

Studies the largely ignored, flat, dry reaches of the northern Maya lowlands. By exploring various social and political levels of Maya society through a broad expanse of time, reconstructs a little-known past, and also suggests the broad implications of archaeology for related studies of tourism, household economies and ethnoarchaeology.

A new look at women on both sides of the border to portray them as active participants in the changing structures of life, often engaging in political struggles. Topics range from the changing gender composition of the maquiladora workforce over the past decade to border women's non-governmental organizations and political activism.

Analysis of primary indigenous education in a southern Yucatan community.

Forty-nine odes, thick with the microcultures of foodstuffs, family, places, regions, deities, spirits and literary figures.

Influence of metaphysics on Mexican construction.

The biography of the first Mexican American rodeo star.

Study of 10 women healers from three cultures, their beliefs and power of the psyche on illness.

First published in 1954, this child's-eye critique of adult society was decades ahead of its time. This first American edition contains four of Poniatowska's short stories with female protagonists.

The Mimbres people, a division of the Mongollon culture, produced bewitching pottery unique among the ancient art traditions of North America. Tracing the way technology evolved in ceramic decoration, architecture and mortuary practices, this collection of eight original contributions brings new insights into previously unexplored dimensions of the Mimbres Society.

Exposes the American Catholic hierarchy's internal and often confidential deliberations during the California farm labor crisis of the 1960s and 1970s. Traces how the Catholic Church went from reluctant mediator to outright Chavez supporter.

Debunks the myth of the cognitive and behavioral intransigence of first generation Mexican immigrants. Reveals the flexibility of female immigrants' beliefs about health and illness, and shows that the majority of changes in attitude occur within ten years, regardless of the age at immigration, the type of sending community, the level of education or English language fluency.

Proporciona una visión global de enorme interés, da enfoques particularmente al sistema político, su crisis actual, su capacidad de reproducción, la reforma agraria, el petróleo, la corrupción, la deuda externa, la política exterior y muchos otros problemas que nos afectan.

Examines recent contributions to the detective fiction genre by writers such as Rodolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava and Manuel Ramos. Shows that their novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics and cultural citizenship.

Written in both Spanish and English, outlines the history of Mexican cooking, followed by an overview of healthy eating habits.

Analyzes nine cities, and explores how tourism has increased redevelopment opportunities in inner city areas, yet requires the juxtaposition of restoration and conservation needs with new economic imperatives.

Explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities in the upper Santa Cruz Valley of Arizona from the late 1600s to the 1700s. Melding history, anthropology and critical geography, the book shows the lasting effect of greed and power on those left powerless.

The story of the preservation of the California condor in the U.S. and Mexico.

Studies indigenous Oaxacans working in California & Oregon.

The book tells about four men who regularly meet to play dominoes. They witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers and an American industrialist.

Explores the work of Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Alberto Urrea and many more. Examines the important social, historical and cultural context in which writing evolved, paying special attention to the Chicano movement and the flourishing of literary texts during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Leads readers through the history of Pakal's discovery, skeletal analysis and interpretation of Maya biographies. Royal Maya life and death histories form the written record analyzed from a regional perspective to provide a broad panorama of the twisted power politics of rulers' families and the entangled genealogies of the Maya classic period.

These six bilingual stories have regional and historical emphases. Each story is followed with discussion questions and suggestions for classroom activities.

The first comprehensive summary of the natural history, biology and conservation of the Sonoran and Sinaloan desert tortoises. Gathers decades of research on tortoise populations in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

Offers an innovative interpretation of the social uses of blasphemous speech by groups such as conquistadores, Spanish settlers, Spanish women and slaves of both genders. Interweaves images of daily life in colonial Mexico with vivid descriptions of human interactions to illustrate the enormous influence of the Catholic Church.

Studies the role of violence and guns in the construction the social identity of minority youth. Gives an insightful analysis and carefully builds a compelling narrative that details the etiology and meaning of violent events.

Conference Proceedings.

A selection of essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.