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Native Alienation
Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions
Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions
Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region’s Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents...
ISBN: 9780295753270
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Unrecognized in California
Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States
With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United...
ISBN: 9780295752846
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Tent City, Seattle
Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home
Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States
Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of...
ISBN: 9780295752617
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Surviving the Sanctuary City
Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcement
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating...
ISBN: 9780295751528
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Feminista Frequencies
Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley
How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwaves
Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the...
ISBN: 9780295749662
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Bad Dog
Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice
Challenges the way we think about pit bulls and their human companions
Fifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed bans have produced what could be called “America’s Most Wanted” dog: the pit bull. However,...
ISBN: 9780295748023
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A Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States...
ISBN: 9780295747088
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Circulating the Code
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could...
ISBN: 9780295747156
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Working with the Ancestors
Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands
Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land use and heritage preservation. As Marquesans continue their efforts to establish UNESCO World Heritage status,...
ISBN: 9780295745831
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Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of...
ISBN: 9780295745572
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