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Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
University of Texas Press
How engaged citizens have worked to improve education in inner-city schools.
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Power from Below
By Lynn Stephen
University of Texas Press
This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women’s grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile.
Voices from the Wild Horse Desert
The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches
By Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley; Introduction by Carolina Castillo Crimm and Stephen J. “Tio” Kleberg
University of Texas Press
Stories of the men and women who make ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert.
The Fragmented Novel in Mexico
The Politics of Form
University of Texas Press
This book examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects the social and political fissures within modern Mexican society and introduces readers to a more participatory reading of texts.
The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz
University of Texas Press
In this book, the author examines the character of Mexico City and, through it, the Mexican national character that shaped and was shaped by the capital city.
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.
From Can See to Can’t
Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies
By Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley
University of Texas Press
An insider’s view of Texas cotton farming in the late 1920s.
The Maghrib in Question
Essays in History and Historiography
Edited by Michel Le Gall and Kenneth Perkins
University of Texas Press
This book provides a "state of the field" survey of postcolonial Maghribi historiography.
LBJ and Mexican Americans
The Paradox of Power
University of Texas Press
This book explores the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between LBJ and Mexican Americans.
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians
Excursion a los indios ranqueles
By Lucio V. Mansilla; Translated by Mark McCaffrey
University of Texas Press
A vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.
The Bear and His Sons
Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
University of Texas Press
How two men tell common Hispanic folktales, and how their stories present different ways of being a man in their respective cultures.
Simple Things Won't Save the Earth
University of Texas Press
In this provocative book, J. Robert Hunter asserts that using catchy slogans and symbols to sell the public on environmental conservation is ineffective, misleading, and even dangerous.
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
Edited by Edward R. Burian; Introduction by Ricardo Legoretta
University of Texas Press
A critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects.
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts
The Geopolitics of South America
By Philip Kelly
University of Texas Press
In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique geopolitical stru
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
By Norma Iglesias Prieto; Translated by Michael Stone and Gabrielle Winkler; Introduction by Henry A. Selby
University of Texas Press
Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Play of Mirrors
The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
By Sylvia Caiuby Novaes; Translated by Izabel Murat Burbridge
University of Texas Press
Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.
Public Policy and Community
Activism and Governance in Texas
Edited by Robert H. Wilson
University of Texas Press
Six case studies about how low-income citizens have successfully affected public policy.
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains
By Vance T. Holliday; Introduction by Thomas R. Hester
University of Texas Press
Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation.
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