Contents
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction: Where Is the Color in the Colorado Borderlands?
Part I: Early Struggles
1: Pictorial Narratives of San Luis, Colorado
2: Santiago and San Acacio, Foundational Legends of Conquest and Deliverance
3: Music of Colorado and New Mexico’s Río Grande
4: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Chinese Prostitutes and Chinese Sexuality in the American West
5: Religious Architecture in Colorado’s San Luis Valley
6: Dearfield, Colorado
Part II: Pre-1960s Colorado
7: Racism, Resistance, and Repression
8: The Influence of Marcus Mosiah and Amy Jacques Garvey
9: “A Quiet Campaign of Education”
10: Journey to Boulder
11: So They Say”
12: Latina Education and Life in Rural Southern Colorado, 1920–1945
Part III: Contemporary Issues
13: Recruitment, Rejection, and Reaction
14: "Ay Que Lindo es Colorado”
15: When Geronimo Was Asked Who He Was, He Replied, I am an Apache
16: Institutionalizing Curanderismo in Colorado’s Community Mental Health System
17: Finding Courage
18: Pedagogical Practices of Liberation in Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado’s Movement Poetry
19: (Re)constructing Chicana Movimiento Narratives at CU Boulder, 1968–1974
20: Running the Gauntlet
21: Toward a Critical Theory of the African American West
Contributors
Index