Stories of Resistance
Compelling storiesof power and resistance, documented through participatory field work and oral history, highlight the multi-cultural history of the Southwest borderlands.
Where: | UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110) |
When: | Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)
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Genre: | History / Biography |
Moderator: | Danyelle Khmara |
Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries, University of Arizona Press |
Panelists
Victoria BlancoBorn and raised in El Paso and Juarez, Victoria Blanco received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guernica, Literary Hub and Catapult. "Out of the Sierra" is her first book....
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José LuceroJose Antonio Lucero is Chair and Professor of the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington, Seattle and holds a joint appointment in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies....
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Michael (Mike) WilsonMichael Steven Wilson (Tohono O’odham) is a human rights activist, US military retiree, and film documentarian. He lives in Green Valley, Arizona.
Books:
What Side Are You On?
A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders
José Lucero, Michael (Mike) Wilson
History / Biography
University of North Carolina Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781469675589
214 pages
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Out of the Sierra
A Story of Rarámuri Resistance
Victoria Blanco
History / Biography
Coffee House Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781566896535
Paperback, 328 pages
Buy nowBased on more than a decade of oral history and participatory field work, Blanco paints a vivid portrait of Raramuri displacement.
When drought leaves the Gutierrez family with nothing to eat, they are forced to leave their sacred homeland behind and journey from the Sierra Madre toward a new and uncertain future in a government-funded settlement. Out of the Sierra offers a groundbreaking testimony to human resilience and the power of community. More/less