Refreshing a stale debate about power in the postcolonial state, this book addresses a topic debated across the humanities and social sciences: how to define, discuss, and address power and the subjective experience of ordinary people in ...

The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals, how that embodiment transcends the crossing of the line, and how it varies depending on subject positions and identity categories, especially race, class, and ...

Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music

This volume is the first large-scale investigation of the prehispanic ethnobotany of this important ancient site and its neighbors.

In April de Angelis's hilarious makeover of the bedside "classic" prostitute Fanny sacks her (male) biographer and tells it like it REALLY was - with the aid of two foul-mouthed, fellow sex workers, a stuffed sock and a cello.

"An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

This new book is the first single-source of taxonomic information on Leptographium species. Leptographium Species: Tree Pathogens, Insect Associates, and Agents of Blue-Stain covers all known species of the fungi.

This book focuses on the so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring.

The product of more than fifteen years of collaboration between tribal and academic scholars, this volume presents groundbreaking research demonstrating that the Hopi Mesas are among the great centers of the Pueblo world.

The Book of Wanderers deeply explores Houston, a Gulf Coast metropolis that incorporates Southern, Western, and Southwestern identities near the borderlands with a connection to the cosmos.