Against the American Grain
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Against the American Grain

A Borderlands History of Resistance

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  2. English
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Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Against the American Grain

A Borderlands History of Resistance

About this book

A century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought leaders who first shaped American culture. Since then, waves of resistance and disruptive innovation have flooded into the rest of America from the arid, southwestern margins of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Now, in Against the American Grain, Gary Paul Nabhan—cultural ecologist, environmental historian, and lyric poet of the American Southwest—illuminates the outlines of a history too long in the shadows. Whether Indigenous, LatinX, priests, nuns, Quakers, or cross-cultural chameleons, it is the resisters, performers, grassroots organizers, nomads, and spiritual leaders from the desert margins who are constantly reshaping America. They have, against all odds, recolored and recovered the future of North America through outrageous acts of resistance.

After reading the stories of Estevanico el Moro, Maria de Ágreda, Teresita de Cábora, Coyote Iguana, Woody Guthrie, Tim X. Hernandez, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Reyes Lopez Tijerana, Arturo Sandoval, Lalo Guererro, John Fife, Danny and Luis Valdez, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, and many more, we can never think about America the same way again. In Nabhan’s magisterial, radical recounting, cross-cultural collaborations have changed the grain of American life to one that is many-colored, once again flourishing with fragrance, faith, and fecund ideas.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. A Note (or Apology) about Changing Names, Dialects, and Local Idioms
  7. Chapter One. Resistance: Indigenous Elders Walking the Line
  8. Chapter Two. Metamorphosis: Mustafa al-Zemmouri and Cabeza de Vaca
  9. Chapter Three. Volition: Maria de Ágreda, Jumanos Captain Tuerto, and Enrique Madrid
  10. Chapter Four. Abyss: Francisco Garcés and Salvador Palma
  11. Chapter Five. Indigenous Nationhood: Juan de Banderas and Padre Pedro Leyva
  12. Chapter Six. Race: Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova
  13. Chapter Seven. Rebellion: JoaquĂ­n Murrieta Orozco and Alfredo Acosta Figueroa
  14. Chapter Eight. Revolution: Teresita de CĂĄbora and Lauro Aguirre
  15. Chapter Nine. Dust: Woody Guthrie and Tim Z. Hernandez
  16. Chapter Ten. Steinbeck and Ricketts: Broken Men Breaking Through
  17. Chapter Eleven. Reies LĂłpez Tijerina and Arturo Sandoval
  18. Chapter Twelve. Boycott: CĂ©sar ChĂĄvez, Dolores Huerta, and Fred Ross
  19. Chapter Thirteen. Huelga en General: Lalo Guerrero and Danny and Luis Valdez
  20. Chapter Fourteen. Sanctuary: Jim Corbett, Ramón Dagoberto Quiñones, and John Fife
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Further Reading and Cited Literature