Tucson Festival of Books

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.


Panelists
Victoria Blanco

Born 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 Lucero

Jose 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) Wilson

Michael Steven Wilson (Tohono O’odham) is a human rights activist, US military retiree, and film documentarian. He lives in Green Valley, Arizona.

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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
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Based on more than a decade of oral history and participatory field work, Blanco paints a vivid portrait of Raramuri displacement. More/less