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In Against the American Grain, Gary Paul Nabhan—cultural ecologist, environmental historian, Franciscan Brother, and lyrical poet of the American Southwest—has illuminated the outlines of a history too long in the shadows. Whether they were Indigenous, LatinX, Catholic priests and nuns, Quakers, or cross-cultural chameleons, it has been the resisters, performance artists, grassroots organizers, nomads, and spiritual leaders from the desert margins of society who constantly reshape the faces and fabric of America. Their stories are rarely told, let alone woven into a cohesive fabric. They are the ones who have recolored and recovered the future of North America by outrageous acts of resistance against all odds.
After reading the stories of María de Ágreda, Joaquin Murrieta, Teresita de Cábora, Coyote Iguana, Woody Guthrie, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, John Steinbeck, and others, we can never think about America in the same way. In Nabhan's magisterial, radical recounting, cross-cultural collaborations have changed the grain of American life to one that is many-colored, flourishing with fragrance, faith, and fecund ideas.
Contents
Introduction
A Note (or Apology) About Changing Names, Dialects, and Local Idioms
Chapter One. Resistance: Indigenous Elders Walking the Line
Chapter Two. Metamorphosis: Mustafa al-Zemmouri and Cabeza de Vaca
Chapter Three. Volition: Maria de Ágreda, Jumanos Captain Tuerto, and Enrique Madrid
Chapter Four. Abyss: Francisco Garcés and Salvador Palma
Chapter Five. Indigenous Nationhood: Juan de Banderas and Padre Pedro Leyva
Chapter Six. Race: Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova
Chapter Seven. Rebellion: Joaquín Murrieta Orozco and Alfredo Acosta Figueroa
Chapter Eight. Revolution: Teresita de Cábora and Lauro Aguirre
Chapter Nine. Dust: Woody Guthrie and Tim Z. Hernandez
Chapter Ten. Steinbeck and Ricketts: Broken Men Breaking Through
Chapter Eleven. Reies López Tijerina and Arturo Sandoval
Chapter Twelve. Boycott: César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Fred Ross
Chapter Thirteen. Huelga en General: Lalo Guerrero and Danny and Luis Valdez
Chapter Fourteen. Sanctuary: Jim Corbett, Ramón Dagoberto Quinones, and John Fife
Acknowledgments
Further Reading and Cited Literature
