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Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined -- thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex identities for some members of Indian and B...

The Hopi community of Awat'ovi existed peacefully on Arizona's Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700-raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat'ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While little of the pueblo itself remains, five centuries of history lie beneath the low rises of sandstone masonry, and theories about the events of that night are as persistent as the desert win...

An explicit and disturbing look at the dark side of the human psyche, presented through a collection of utterly fascinating abnormal psychology cases. Clinical and research psychologist Miguel Brooks takes us deep into the minds of sexual sadists and predators, psychopaths, obsessive-compulsive and mood-disordered persons, as well as the guilt-burdened, depressed, suicidal, and the twisted weirdoes we all encounter but often fail to understand...

Brooks examines the creation of a widespread system of intercultural slavery between Native Americans and Spanish colonial peoples in the American Southwest between 1500 and 1880.