Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m., PDT
Where: Namaste Lounge, UC Santa Cruz, College Nine Rd., Santa Cruz, CA
Rafael A. Martínez will read and speak about his book, Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, in the Namaste Lounge at UC Santa Cruz. Joining Martínez in conversation is Yosimar Reyes; the event is presented by CRES70U and I.D.E.A.S. from UC Santa Cruz. Martínez is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
This event is free and open to the public. The first 25 students will receive a free book.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., PDT
Where: Conference Rooms A & B – Hinson Campus Center, De Anza Community College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA
Rafael Martínez will speak about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States. He is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
The event is free, open to the public, and sponsored by the VIDA/HEFAS Program.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 2 p.m., CDT
Where: Elgin Community College, Building H, Classroom 123, 1700 Spartan Dr., Elgin, IL
Poet Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White, is the featured Guest Speaker at the Elgin Poetry Fest. The all-day event is presented by Elgin Literacy Connection to celebrate National Poetry Month; tickets for the day are $10-80 and are available here. The festival also includes a poetry workshop led by Chasity Gunn and an evening poetry slam.
About the book:
In Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White, English, Spanish, and Guaraní encounter each other through the elusive yet potent figure of the jaguar. The son of a Paraguayan father and a mother from Pennsylvania, Báez grew up in central Illinois as one of the only brown kids on the block—but that didn’t keep him from feeling like a gringo on family visits to Paraguay. Exploring this contradiction as it weaves through experiences of language, self, and place, Báez revels in showing up the absurdities of empire and chafes at the limits of patrimony, but he always reserves his most trenchant irony for the gaze he turns on himself.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 7 p.m., MDT
Where: Bears Ears Education Center 567 W Main St, Hwy 191, Bluff, UT
Photographer and writer Stephen Strom will show slides from the book he co-authored with Jonathan Bailey, The Greater San Rafael Swell, at The Bears Ears Education Center in Bluff, Utah. He will also talk about his new book, Forging a Sustainable Southwest: The Power of Collaborative Conservation. This event is free and open to the public. The event is hosted by the Bears Ears Partnership.
About the books:
Natural and human history come together in The Greater San Rafael Swell, which spans much of Emery County in Utah. Authors Stephen Strom and Jonathan Bailey paint a multi-faceted picture of a singular place through photographs, along with descriptions of geology, paleontology, archaeology, history, and dozens of interviews with individuals who devoted more than two decades to developing a shared vision of the future of both the Swell and the County. At its core, the book relates the important story of how a coalition of ranchers, miners, off-road enthusiasts, conservationists, recreationists, and Native American tribal nations worked together for nearly 25 years to forge and pass the Emery County Public Lands Management Act in 2019.
Forging a Sustainable Southwest introduces readers to four conservation efforts that provide insight into how diverse groups of citizens have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonized sometimes conflicting ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs. Through the voices of more than seventy individuals involved in these efforts, we learn how they’ve developed plans for protecting, restoring, and stewarding lands sustainably; the management and funding tools they’ve used; and their perceptions of the challenges that remain and how to meet them.
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 4:15 p.m., PDT
Where: Hahn Building, Room 101, Pomona College 420 N. College Avenue, Claremont, CA
Edward Anthony Polanco, author of Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660, will speak at Pomona College. He will talk on “Cacti, Chia, and Blood Rocks: Suppressed Indigenous Knowledge in Settler Extraction in Colonial Mexico.” By delving into various Nahuatl and Spanish texts, this talk will explore how Spaniards attempted to suppress the Indigenous knowledge of Nahua people. Polanco is a scholar of Mesoamerica and an assistant professor of History at Virginia Tech.
This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the talk.
About the book:
Offering a provocative new perspective, Healing Like Our Ancestors examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records.
This book emphasizes the importance of women as titiçih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge. These vital Nahua perspectives of healing—and how they differed from the settler narrative—will guide community members as well as scholars and students of the history of science, Latin America, and Indigenous studies.
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 2-3 p.m., MST
Where: Online via Zoom
Rafael Martínez will talk about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, as part of ASU Library’s online “Beyond the Bookshelf” series. Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU. His work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands. This virtual event is free and open to the public. Register to receive the Zoom link here.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 4-6 p.m., PST
Where: Loker Student Union, CSU Dominguez Hills, Ballroom A, 1000 E Victoria St, Carson, CA
Rafael Martínez will speak on “Bridging Borders: Stories from Undocumented Youth Movements,” at his alma mater, California State University, Dominguez Hills. Martínez is author of Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States and he is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Time: 1 p.m., MST
Where: Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, Prescott, AZ
Shelby Tisdale, author of No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie, will give a presentation and sign books at Highlands Center for Natural History. Her presentation will highlight the obstacles young women faced in the early years of the development of southwest archaeology. Tisdale, retired director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, is an award-winning author who has published more than forty book chapters, articles, and books on Southwest Native American art and women. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public.
About the book:
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canyons and mesas of the Southwest beckoned and the burgeoning field of archaeology thrived. Among those who heeded the call, Marjorie Ferguson Lambert became one of only a handful of women who left their imprint on the study of southwestern archaeology and anthropology.
In this delightful biography, we gain insight into a time when there were few women establishing full-time careers in anthropology, archaeology, or museums. Shelby Tisdale successfully combines Lambert’s voice from extensive interviews with her own to take us on a thought-provoking journey into how Lambert created a successful and satisfying professional career and personal life in a place she loved (the American Southwest) while doing what she loved.
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 7 -9 p.m., MST
Where: The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT
Join Stephen Strom in an engaging discussion of his book, Forging a Sustainable Southwest: The Power of Collaborative Conservation, at The King’s English Bookshop. This book details efforts to craft the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, establish Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, protect Cienega Ranch, and create the Malpai Borderlands Group. It will appeal to anyone interested in grassroots efforts to protect the vital ecosystems of the western United States. Copies the book will be available to purchase.
This event is open to the public. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased here.
About the book:
Forging a Sustainable Southwest introduces readers to four conservation efforts that provide insight into how diverse groups of citizens have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonized sometimes conflicting ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs. Through the voices of more than seventy individuals involved in these efforts, we learn how they’ve developed plans for protecting, restoring, and stewarding lands sustainably; the management and funding tools they’ve used; and their perceptions of the challenges that remain and how to meet them.
Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
Time: 12 p.m., CST
Where: Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA and via livestream
Meena Khandelwal, author of Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women’s Technology in India, will speak at the Iowa City Public Library on “Climate Change, Gender and Biomass Cookstoves in India.” The event is sponsored by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC) and presented in partnership with The University of Iowa Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. The event is free and open to the public and will also be available via livestream. Doors open at 11 a.m., and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP here for in-person event by March 5, 2025.
About the book:
Based on anthropological research in Rajasthan, Cookstove Chronicles argues that the supposedly obsolete chulha persists because it offers women control over the tools needed to feed their families. Their continued use of old stoves alongside the new is not a failure to embrace new technologies but instead a strategy to maximize flexibility and autonomy. The chulha is neither the villain nor hero of this story. It produces particulate matter that harms people’s bodies, leaves soot on utensils and walls, and accelerates glacial melting and atmospheric warming. Yet it also depends on renewable biomass fuel and supports women’s autonomy as a local, do-it-yourself technology.
Meena Khandelwal employs critical social theory and reflections from fieldwork to bring together research from a range of fields, including history, geography, anthropology, energy and environmental studies, public health, and science and technology studies (STS). In so doing she not only demystifies multidisciplinary research but also highlights the messy reality of actual behavior.
The University of Arizona Press
