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With equal attention to the archives and to what is missing, Lydia R. Otero shows how art, politics, and power are shaped by what we choose to remember or allow to be forgotten. This is Tucson history at its richest: alive with struggle, beauty, and the will to push back against the bulldozers that threatened to erase it. Storied Property should be required reading for anyone who loves Tucson and for anyone who values its stories of survival and belonging. MELANI 'MELE' MARTINEZ, author of The Molino: A Memoir Every city deserves a historian like Lydia R. Otero! In this powerful book, Otero brings to life the story of one of Tucson's oldest homes and the people who lived in and fought for it. In doing so, Otero not only tells a great story but also underscores its importance to the urgent conversations around belonging, displacement, and whose story gets told. SUNAURA TAYLOR, author of Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert

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Lydia R. Otero, born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, revisits an era marked by displacement and sweeping redevelopment to build on themes first explored in ""La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwestern City"" (2010). More than fifteen years later, they return to examine the meanings of property ownership, memory, displacement, and preservation through the lens of a single house. These questions have become more urgent in Tucson, where debates over land, development, and representation remain unsettled, and where celebrations meant to honor local communities and histories are often shaped by economic priorities designed to attract tourists to a city built in the Sonoran Desert.

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