Open Arizona includes six original essays by contemporary scholars. The works provide commentary and reflections about some of the once out-of-print works that are part of the original thirty-two titles published in Open Arizona.

Here are the essays:

Reflecting on Shirley Achor’s 'Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio Forty Years Later'
By Lydia R. Otero

Deliberate Acts: Peter M. Whiteley’s Hopi Hermeneutics and the “Collaborative Road”
By Thomas E. Sheridan

Ourselves Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist: Then and Now
By Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

Spanish Colonial Tucson: Shifting the Paradigms of Borderlands History
By Yvette J. Saavedra

Reflections on Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest, edited by María Herrera-Sobek
By Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

Reflections on The Social Organization of the Western Apache and Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache: Letters from the Field
By Maurice Crandall