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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.
The Florida Project
By J. J. Murphy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who Got the Camera?
A History of Rap and Reality
By Eric Harvey
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Good Long Drive
Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter
By Bob Phillips
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.
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.
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
By Casey Rae
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.
Guitar King
Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
By David Dann
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.
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.
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
By Carl Rommel
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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