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 Contents List of Figures  |  ix Foreword  |  xi Acknowledgments  |  xv Editors’ Introduction: Where Is the Color in the Colorado Borderlands?  |  1 Arturo J. Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka Part I: Early Struggles 1. Pictorial Narratives of San Luis, Colorado: Legacy, Place, and Politics  |  23 Suzanne P. MacAulay 2. Santiago and San Acacio, Foundational Legends of Conquest and Deliverance: New Mexico, 1599, and Colorado, 1853  |  35 Enrique R. Lamadrid 3. Music of Colorado and New Mexico’s Río Grande  |  51 Lorenzo A. Trujillo 4. Representations of Nineteenth-Century Chinese Prostitutes and Chinese Sexuality in the American West  |  69 William Wei vi contents 5. Religious Architecture in Colorado’s San Luis Valley  |  87 Phillip Gallegos 6. Dearfield, Colorado: Black Farming Success in the Jim Crow Era  |  101 George H. Junne Jr., Osita Ofoaku, Rhonda Corman, and Rob Reinsvold Part II: Pre-1960s Colorado 7. Racism, Resistance, and Repression: The Creation of Denver Gangs, 1924–1950  |  121 Robert J. Durán 8. The Influence of Marcus Mosiah and Amy Jacques Garvey: On the Rise of Garveyism in Colorado  |  139 Ronald J. Stephens 9. “A Quiet Campaign of Education”: Equal Rights at the University of Colorado, 1930–1941  |  159 David M. Hays 10. Journey to Boulder: The Japanese American Instructors at the Navy Japanese Language School, 1942–1946  |  175 Jessica N. Arntson 11. “So They Say”: Lieutenant Earl W. Mann’s World War II Colorado Statesman Columns  |  195 William M. King 12. Latina Education and Life in Rural Southern Colorado, 1920–1945  |  219 Bernadette Garcia-Galvez Part III: Contemporary Issues 13. Recruitment, Rejection, and Reaction: Colorado Chicanos in the Twentieth Century  |  239 David A. Sandoval 14. “Ay Que Lindo es Colorado”: Chicana Musical Performance from the Colorado Borderlands  |  257 Peter J. Garcia 15. When Geronimo Was Asked Who He Was, He Replied, I am an Apache  |  273 Helen Girón 16. Institutionalizing Curanderismo in Colorado’s Community Mental Health System  |  291 Ramon Del Castillo [18.219.28.179] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 08:02 GMT) contents vii 17. Finding Courage: The Story of the Struggle to Retire the Adams State “Indian”  |  309 Matthew Jenkins 18. Pedagogical Practices of Liberation in Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado’s Movement Poetry  |  327 Miriam Bornstein-Gómez 19. (Re)constructing Chicana Movimiento Narratives at CU Boulder, 1968–1974  |  347 Elisa Facio 20. Running the Gauntlet: Francisco “Kiko” Martínez and the Colorado Martyrs  |  365 Adriana Nieto 21. Toward a Critical Theory of the African American West  |  379 Reiland Rabaka List of Contributors  |  401 Index  |  407 ...

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