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Autism in Film and Television
On the Island
Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.
Border Land, Border Water
A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
University of Texas Press
A 150-year history of the border region between the United States and Mexico, told through the fences and barriers, the river engineering projects, and the surveillance infrastructure that have reshaped the natural landscape.
Chicanx Utopias
Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible
By Luis Alvarez
University of Texas Press
Exploring race, politics, Chicanx history, and social movements, this book offers a broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated.
The Pecan
A History of America's Native Nut
University of Texas Press
This lively history by the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating follows the pecan from primordial Southern groves to the contemporary Chinese marketplace to reveal how a nut with a very limited natural range has become a global commodi
Abecedario de Juárez
An Illustrated Lexicon
By Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs
University of Texas Press
Illustrated with evocative drawings by artist Alice Leora Briggs, this glossary uses the vocabulary created by the violence in Juárez, Mexico, to tell the stories of the people who live there.
The Islamic Movement in Israel
By Tilde Rosmer
University of Texas Press
The only book in English that recounts how the Islamic Movement in Israel originated and developed into a popular grassroots organization focused on protecting the Palestinian people, their land, and their religious sites.
Rethinking Zapotec Time
Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico
University of Texas Press
As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.
Rethinking the Inka
Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes
University of Texas Press
Leading researchers offer a dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu, a conquered region largely absent from existing English-language scholarship.
Image Encounters
Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History
By Lisa Trever
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of Moche mural art, this landmark book develops a methodology of archaeo art history to examine image-making and visual experience in an era of ancient Peruvian history before the use of writing.
Gothic Sovereignty
Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
University of Texas Press
Contributes to current conversations about Central American security crises and immigration stemming from gang violence by tracing the evolution of Honduran gangs from small, neighborhood groups to members of violent cartels.
Selling Black Brazil
Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia
University of Texas Press
This book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.
Making Levantine Cuisine
Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
University of Texas Press
From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Edited by Max Sherman
University of Texas Press
A collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.
Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts
University of Texas Press
A holistic study of five key texts of Athenian oratory, this book unravels the complex cultural constructions of sexual labor in classical Athens and offers a new perspective on the history of sex laborers in ancient Greece.
Inventing Indigenism
Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru
University of Texas Press
A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.
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