Refugee Policy in Central America During the Salvadoran Civil War
From the outbreak of civil war in El Salvador in 1979 through its conclusion in 1992, some 1.5 million Salvadorans fled the violence. This book focuses on the displaced Salvadorans who remained in Central America, seeking refuge in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Their story has been almost entirely overshadowed by ......
Through a comprehensive analysis of relations between Europe and China during the Cold War, this volume reveals how those interactions quietly reconfigured the global balance of power, helping to forge the contemporary international order. Rooted in a rich array of multi-archival sources, the book brings together an international group of ......
Down in the Dirtchronicles more than fifty years of multidisciplinary artist Terry Allen's printmaking and visual storytelling. Rooted in West Texas yet reaching far beyond, Allen's work fuses image, text, music, and performance into layered narratives shaped by memory, geography, and personal mythologies. The book, anchored by the 2021-22 ......
Arms control is eroding amid a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain security environment. In addition to a spate of treaty withdrawals and demises that have occurred since 2002, major powers are militarizing space, and private actors are developing technologies at lightning speed. Thus, there is an urgent need for arms control agreements ......
Arms control is eroding amid a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain security environment. In addition to a spate of treaty withdrawals and demises that have occurred since 2002, major powers are militarizing space, and private actors are developing technologies at lightning speed. Thus, there is an urgent need for arms control agreements ......
Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
2024 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies 2025 Honorable Mention, Norris & Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association 2025 The Ambassador Julian Nava Best Ethnic Studies Book, International Latino Book Awards A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker ......
Nominated Best Nonfiction Book for 2004 by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and smashed into Mississippi's twenty-six miles of coastline. Winds were clocked at more than 200 miles per hour, tidal waves surged to nearly 35 feet, and the barometric pressure of ......
Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martin analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity, which obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. Instead, San Martin argues that Jaar's work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of ......
Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martin analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity, which obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. Instead, San Martin argues that Jaar's work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of ......
