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José Martí

A Revolutionary Life

University of Texas Press

Thoroughly researched, written from a nonpartisan perspective, and as lively as a novel, this is the definitive biography of the revered Cuban patriot and martyr whose revolutionary movement eventually ended the Spanish colonial domination of Cuba.

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The Florida Project

University of Texas Press

An in-depth look at the production of the 2017 film The Florida Project and the unique filmmaking style of its director, Sean Baker.

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Downtown Juárez

Underworlds of Violence and Abuse

University of Texas Press

An intimate look at the normalization of violence in the lives of sex workers, drug dealers, barflies, and drug addicts in downtown Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

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Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Edited by Max Krochmal and Todd Moye
University of Texas Press

Drawing on hundreds of new interviews from grassroots activists in every corner of Texas, Civil Rights in Black and Brown tells the stories of the state’s intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggles.

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Resisting Garbage

The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities

University of Texas Press

Resisting Garbage presents an empirically grounded explanation for what meaningful change in waste management could look like and why that change is so difficult.

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No Color Is My Kind

Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston

University of Texas Press

A new edition of this important book that places its uncommon chronicle of two men—one African American and one Jewish—within the context of America’s current struggles with race.

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Roller Derby

The History of an American Sport

University of Texas Press

The dynamic and culturally complex story of roller derby, the only full-contact sport in the United States that has embraced women as equal competitors since its inception.

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Woman Walk the Line

How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

Edited by Holly Gleason
University of Texas Press

In this collection of personal essays, a diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country artists who have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Swift.

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Who Got the Camera?

A History of Rap and Reality

University of Texas Press

An illuminating cultural study arguing that, in the late 1980s, the reality TV of Cops and the reality rap of “Fuck tha Police” were two sides of the same coin, redefining popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.

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Another Year Finds Me in Texas

The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens

University of Texas Press

One of few women’s diaries from Civil War–era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner, this previously unpublished journal offers a unique perspective on daily life and the ties that transcended sectional loyalties during America’s most divisive conflict.

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Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America

University of Texas Press

This resource guide is the only color-illustrated work devoted to polypores of eastern and central North American--the first of its kind to be published since Gilbertson & Ryvarden’s 1987 North American Polypores.

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Teaching Black History to White People

University of Texas Press

A personally and pedagogically generous book, Teaching Black History to White People outlines how to teach and engage with Black history on college campuses and beyond.

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On the Porch

Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas

University of Texas Press

Timely, wide-ranging, and exhaustively researched, On the Porch tells the surprising story of music in Terlingua, a tiny but remarkably musical border town in the remote desert of West Texas.

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Where the Devil Don't Stay

Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers

University of Texas Press

In the first full-length book on the Drive-By Truckers, Deusner examines the southern spaces that shaped the band’s ideas of what music can say and do while also discovering how their music shifted the way we view the modern South.

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A Good Long Drive

Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter

University of Texas Press

The true story of how a Dallas TV reporter accidentally spent his life sharing the stories of people no one has ever heard of on Texas Country Reporter, told by the show’s creator and host, Bob Phillips.

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Playing with Things

Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

University of Texas Press

Challenging common approaches to archaeology and sexuality studies, this book explores, in part by physically interacting with the artifacts, how Moche ceramics reveal ancient Indigenous ways of thinking about and experiencing sex.

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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

University of Texas Press

The little-known history of William S. Burroughs's impact on some of the biggest names in music, from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect of the rock 'n' roll genre itself.

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Guitar King

Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues

University of Texas Press

This first comprehensive biography of the late, great Michael Bloomfield brings to life a dazzling electric-guitar virtuoso who transformed rock ’n’ roll in the 1960s and made a lasting impact on the blues genre.

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Monsters and Monarchs

Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

University of Texas Press

This captivating study uses stories from classical antiquity to show that serial killers were almost as prevalent in ancient society as they are today, challenging the belief that such killers are an artifact of modern society.

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Egypt’s Football Revolution

Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

University of Texas Press

A detailed account of the entanglement of Egyptian football with surging nationalist politics as the sport’s appeal waxed and waned before and after the 2011 Revolution.

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