Our new book, Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado, is now available from University Press of Colorado!  Edited by Department of Ethnic Studies professors Arturo Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka, it is the first book to address the borderlands of Colorado and the Chicana/o, African American, and Asian American people who inhabit it.

Available for purchase directly from the University Press of Colorado (http://www.upcolorado.com/book/_welcome/Enduring_Legacies_Paperback) or at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Enduring-Legacies-Cultures-Colorado/dp/1607320509).

Publisher’s Description

Traditional accounts of Colorado’s history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado’s establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado’s past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region.

Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado—a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities—this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans.

Contributors include: Suzanne P. MacAulay, Enrique R. Lamadrid, Lorenzo A. Trujillo, William Wei, Phillip Gallegos, Dr. George H. Junne, Jr., Dr. Osita Ofoaku, Dr. Rhonda Corman and Dr. Rob Reinsvold, Robert Durán, Ronald Stephens, David M. Hays, Jessica N. Arnotson, William M. King, Bernadette Garcia, David Sandoval, Peter J. Garcia, Helen Girón, Ramon del Castillo, Matthew Jenkins, Miriam Bornstein-Somoza, Adriana Nieto, and Reiland Rabaka

Arturo Aldama is associate chair and associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda and Reiland Rabaka are associate professors of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.