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The Art of Solidarity
Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor and Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas
University of Texas Press
Examining artistic production in solidarity movements throughout the Cold War era, this multidisciplinary anthology reveals the tremendous role that art and performance have played in the quest for social justice in the Americas.
Leaving the Gay Place
Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society
University of Texas Press
The award-winning author of The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion traces the cultural upheavals of mid-century America through the life of Billy Lee Brammer, author of the classic political novel The Gay Place.
Houston Rap Tapes
An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop
By Lance Scott Walker; Foreword by Willie D
University of Texas Press
Portraying a vibrant, but often overlooked, music scene, this amplified edition of Houston Rap Tapes includes new interviews of Scarface, Slim Thug, Lez Moné, B L A C K I E, Lil’ Keke, and Sire Jukebox of the original Ghetto Boys, as well as many addition
The Neoliberal Diet
Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People
University of Texas Press
Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.
The Iranian Diaspora
Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations
Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher
University of Texas Press
Original essays by leading scholars of diaspora offer the first comparative overview of the worldwide migration of Iranians since the revolution and the challenges they have faced in assimilating into new societies.
On Story—The Golden Ages of Television
University of Texas Press
Award-winning television creators and writers discuss the evolution of TV storytelling in these lively conversations from the acclaimed PBS series On Story.
A Mile Above Texas
University of Texas Press
Stunning aerial photographs taken during a 3,822 mile-circumnavigation of Texas offer fresh views of the beauty and diversity of the state’s natural and human landscapes.
Why the Ramones Matter
By Donna Gaines
University of Texas Press
Why the Ramones Matter compellingly makes the case that the Ramones gave us everything; they saved rock and roll, modeled DIY ethics, and addressed our deepest collective traumas, from the personal to the historical.
Why the Beach Boys Matter
By Tom Smucker
University of Texas Press
This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys’ art and career as a whole and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politics—and why they still grab our attention.
Bird on a Blade
By Rosanne Cash
University of Texas Press
The legendary musician Rosanne Cash joins acclaimed artist Dan Rizzie to create fifty pairings of lyrics and images that speak to the experiences of love and loss, fear and faith, and the everyday hope that propels our lives.
The Television Code
Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry
University of Texas Press
Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, this book recounts the development of the Television Code, the TV counterpart to the Hays Motion Picture Production Code.
The Book of Merlyn
The Conclusion to The Once and Future King
University of Texas Press
Featuring a new foreword by Gregory Maguire, the bestselling author of Wicked, this long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King was a New York Times bestseller and has sold 150,000 copies.
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
University of Texas Press
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.
Slavery and Utopia
The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
University of Texas Press
Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
University of Texas Press
The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William Langewiesche
University of Texas Press
The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.
Night Moves
University of Texas Press
The revolutionary culture critic delivers an edgy, exhilarating tribute to her beloved Chicago, recalling the gritty clubs and ramshackle neighborhoods where she found her voice a decade ago.
Dawoud Bey
Seeing Deeply
By Dawoud Bey
University of Texas Press
With images ranging from street photography in Harlem to a commemoration of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey.
Frida Kahlo
An Illustrated Life
By María Hesse; Translated by Achy Obejas
University of Texas Press
Now available in English, this internationally acclaimed graphic novel biography of iconic artist Frida Kahlo recounts her life’s journey in a first-person story illustrated with striking reimaginings of her famous paintings.
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
University of Texas Press
This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.
Homer in Performance
Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters
Edited by Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis
University of Texas Press
Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines both the rhapsodes who performed the poems and the narrators and characters within them.
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
University of Texas Press
Examining the works of writers and artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Fernando Botero, Pablo Larraín, and Alejandro Zambra, this pathfinding book challenges postdictatorial aesthetics by focusing on the concept of aesthetic autonomy as a critique of economic inequality.
The Design of Protest
Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space
By Tali Hatuka
University of Texas Press
Presenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between institutional power.
The Comedy Studies Reader
Edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz
University of Texas Press
Surveying comedic texts and performers from The Jack Benny Program to Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, and Stephen Colbert, this classroom-ready anthology offers a first-ever overview of the field of comedy studies.
Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown
By Wyatt McSpadden; Introduction by Aaron Franklin
University of Texas Press
A decade after he celebrated traditional, wood-smoked ’cue in Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden captures the new urban BBQ scene epitomized by Franklin Barbecue, as well as small-town favorites such as Snow’s in Lexington.
A Library for the Americas
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
Edited by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo
University of Texas Press
This splendidly illustrated volume presents the treasures of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin—one of the world’s great libraries for the study of Latin America and Latinas/os in the United States.
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
Edited by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
University of Texas Press
Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.
Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
By Nadia Yaqub
University of Texas Press
Bringing to light the origins of an important national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long 1970s, and how it sustained a revolution and continues to inspire in a new century.
Chicana Movidas
New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking anthology brings together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women’s organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement.
Red State
An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics
University of Texas Press
With a wealth of data on historical trends and tendencies in Texas elections and voting behavior, this book analyzes how a once solidly Democratic state has become a Republican stronghold without changing its essential ideological perspective or public po
Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites
New Edition
University of Texas Press
Country Music USA
50th Anniversary Edition
By Bill C. Malone and Tracey E. W. Laird
University of Texas Press
The essential companion to the 2019 Ken Burns documentary on country music, in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Country Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium.
What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law
University of Texas Press
Back in print and completely updated, this practical, easy-to-understand guide covers the most common areas of law that affect young adults, including driving, employment, renting, relationships, and minor criminal offenses.
As Far as You Can See
Picturing Texas
By Kenny Braun; Introduction by S. C. Gwynne
University of Texas Press
One of the few photography books that portrays the full range of Texas’s natural landscapes, this volume presents fresh, often unexpected views of the state’s scenic beauty by one of its leading outdoor photographers.
Words of Passage
National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
University of Texas Press
This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of national belonging of nonmigrants.
Walmart in the Global South
Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
University of Texas Press
With empirical case studies of Walmart’s entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world’s largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions.
The Senses of Democracy
Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
University of Texas Press
Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.
Public Pages
Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape
University of Texas Press
The first broad survey of contemporary print culture in Latin America, this study demonstrates how public reading programs invite civic participation and promote social integration as the region becomes increasingly democratic.
Red Line
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by James Galvin
University of Texas Press
Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center.
Desierto
Memories of the Future
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press
A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.
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