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I Am My Own Path
Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos
Edited by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
University of Texas Press
A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets.
Somos Tejanas!
Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
Edited by Jody A. Marín and Norma E. Cantú
University of Texas Press
An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.
Undoing Modernity
Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.
The Interior
Recentering Brazilian History
Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc
University of Texas Press
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.
Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
University of Texas Press
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain
Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives
University of Texas Press
Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.
Arretium (Arezzo)
Edited by Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Cristiana Zaccagnino
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
A Comparative Approach
Edited by Nahum Karlinsky
University of Texas Press
A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.
The Great Texas Stamp Collection
How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World's Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World's M
University of Texas Press
Seasoned with intrigue, mystery, and adventure, this history of rare, Civil War–era Texas stamps and those seeking to collect them offers a lively and insightful read for any philatelist or collector of Texana.
The Earth That Modernism Built
Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design
By Kenny Cupers
University of Texas Press
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.
Prohibition in Turkey
Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
University of Texas Press
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
From Film Noir to the Director's Chair
University of Texas Press
An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Texian Exodus
The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
University of Texas Press
A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.
Revolting Indolence
The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture
University of Texas Press
How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.
It's All in the Delivery
Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy
University of Texas Press
How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights.
The Taste of Nostalgia
Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru
By Amy Cox Hall
University of Texas Press
An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.
Ancient Maya Teeth
Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica
By Vera Tiesler
University of Texas Press
A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.
Rehab on the Range
A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West
University of Texas Press
The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.
City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
University of Texas Press
How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
University of Texas Press
A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.
Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán
By Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams
University of Texas Press
The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán.
Brazil's Sex Wars
The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo
By Jay Sosa
University of Texas Press
An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.
Bordering on War
A Social and Political History of Khuzestan
University of Texas Press
A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.
For the Bees
A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping
By Tara Dawn Chapman; Illustrated by Caroline Brown
University of Texas Press
A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.
Ay Tú!
Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros
Edited by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.
Books Are Made Out of Books
A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
University of Texas Press
A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy’s final works.
Finding Caspicara
Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito
University of Texas Press
An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.
The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde
Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
University of Texas Press
How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
University of Texas Press
How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.
Constructing Cuban America
Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945
By Andrew Gomez
University of Texas Press
How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida.
Arrival
By David Roche
University of Texas Press
A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.
Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
University of Texas Press
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.
The Burning Plain
By Juan Rulfo; Translated by Douglas Weatherford
University of Texas Press
A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77
Social Sciences
University of Texas Press
A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.
Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites
New Edition
University of Texas Press
The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites.
Civil Rights in Bakersfield
Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
University of Texas Press
A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.
Clicas
Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film
By Frank García
University of Texas Press
How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.
American Tacos
A History and Guide
University of Texas Press
The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations.
Modernism’s Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
University of Texas Press
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
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