Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : where is the color in Colorado? / Arturo J. Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka -- Pictorial narratives of San Luis, Colorado : legacy, place, and politics / Suzanne P. MacAulay -- Santiago and San Acacio, foundational legends of conquest and deliverance : New Mexico, 1599, and Colorado, 1853 / Enrique R. Lamadrid -- Music of Colorado and New Mexico's R�io Grande / Lorenzo A. Trujillo -- Representations of nineteenth-ventury Chinese prostitutes and Chinese sexuality in the American West / William Wei -- Religious architecture in Colorado's San Luis Valley / Phillip Gallegos -- Dearfield, Colorado : Black farming success in the Jim Crow era / George H. Junne Jr., Osita Ofoaku, Rhonda Corman, and Rob Reinsvold -- Racism, resistance, and repression : the creation of Denver gangs, 1924-1950 / Robert J. Dur�an -- The influence of Marcus Mosiah and Amy Jacques Garvey on the rise of Garveyism in Colorado / Ronald J. Stephens -- A quiet campaign of education : equal rights at the University of Colorado, 1930-1941 / David M. Hays -- Journey to boulder : the Japanese American instructors at the Navy Japanese Language School, 1942-1946 / Jessica N. Arntson -- So they say : Lieutenant Earl W. Mann's World War II Colorado Statesman columns / William M. King -- Latina education and life in rural Southern Colorado, 1920-1945 / Bernadette Garcia Galvez -- Recruitment, rejection, and reaction : Colorado Chicanos in the twentieth century / David A. Sandoval -- Ay que lindo es Colorado : Chicana musical performance from the Colorado Borderlands / Peter J. Garcia -- When Geronimo was asked who he was, he replied, I am an Apache / Helen Gir�on -- Institutionalizing curanderismo in Colorado's cmmunity mental health system / Ramon Del Castillo -- Finding courage : the story of the struggle to retire the Adams State Indian / Matthew Jenkins -- Pedagogical practices of liberation in Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado's movement poetry / Miriam Bornstein-G�omez -- (Re)constructing Chicana movimiento narratives at CU Boulder, 1968-1974 / Elisa Facio -- Running the gauntlet : Francisco "Kiko" Mart�inez and the Colorado martyrs / Adriana Nieto -- Toward a critical theory of the African American West / Reiland Rabaka.

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