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Go Ahead in the Rain

Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

University of Texas Press

The first chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest—the visionary, award-winning group whose jazz-infused records and socially conscious lyrics revolutionized rap in the early 1990s.

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Andy Summers

A Certain Strangeness

University of Texas Press

Andy Summers, guitarist of the rock band The Police, presents the visual equivalent to his musical work in this career-spanning collection of photographs, accompanied by essays from Summers and prominent French photographer and critic Gilles Mora.

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Recipes for Survival

University of Texas Press

Reminiscent of the work of James Agee and Walker Evans, John Berger and Jean Mohr, this volume presents a searing photo documentary of life in southern Brazil by the award-winning artist and activist Maria Thereza Alves.

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Keith Carter: Fifty Years

University of Texas Press

Celebrating a lifetime of exploring humanity’s landscape through an artistic lens, the legendary photographer Keith Carter collects more than 250 of his most compelling images, ranging from the deeply personal to the universal, accompanied by essays from

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Breaking the Frames

Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies

University of Texas Press

Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.

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Believing Women in Islam

A Brief Introduction

University of Texas Press

This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women’s equality.

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Universal Citizenship

Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity

University of Texas Press

This rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.

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Politics after Violence

Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru

University of Texas Press

In this collection of original essays, leading international scholars offer the first wide-ranging, nuanced assessment of the political and social legacies of the violence that roiled Peru between 1980 and 1994.

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The Enlightened Army

University of Texas Press

With nods to Miguel de Cervantes and Marcel Schwob, this award-winning novel by one of Latin America’s leading contemporary writers presents an allegorical noir history of Mexico’s vision of the United States.

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Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily

University of Texas Press

Examining patterns of urban settlement and abandonment across several centuries, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of Sicily’s strategic importance to ancient Rome and broader Mediterranean-wide networks.

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The Codex Mexicanus

A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain

University of Texas Press

This groundbreaking book offers the first scholarly analysis of the entire Codex Mexicanus, an enigmatic sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript, and shows how it helped the Aztec adapt to life in colonial Mexico

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Portraying the Aztec Past

The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin

University of Texas Press

Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.

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Moving In and Out of Islam

University of Texas Press

With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.

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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Navigating the Margins of Respectability

University of Texas Press

Combining vivid stories of love affairs with classic anthropological theories of kinship, gift-giving, and honor, this rich ethnography documents how ideals of relationships and respectability clash with the reality of life in modern Cairo.

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No Alternative

Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico

University of Texas Press

Contrasting the birthing practices of upper-class and indigenous women, this ethnography of the alternative birth movement in Mexico offers new understandings of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture.

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Managed Migrations

Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

University of Texas Press

Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.

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Hollywood in San Francisco

Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.

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Beyoncé in Formation

Remixing Black Feminism

University of Texas Press

In this enthralling, empowering “mixtape” memoir, a visionary feminist scholar retraces her personal journey while reflecting on the painful legacies and exhilarating liberations that permeate Beyoncé’s game-changing Lemonade album.

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São Paulo

A Graphic Biography

Edited by Felipe Correa
University of Texas Press

This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil’s largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.

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The Devil's Fork

By Bill Wittliff; Illustrated by Edward Carey
University of Texas Press

In this engrossing conclusion to The Devil’s Backbone and The Devil’s Sinkhole, the young man Papa and his cowboy amigo Calley Pearsall encounter relentless enemies and supernatural helpers as their escapades drive them toward the Devil’s Fork.

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The Art of Solidarity

Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America

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.

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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.

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Houston Rap Tapes

An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop

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

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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.

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The Iranian Diaspora

Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations

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.

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On Story—The Golden Ages of Television

Edited by Maya Perez and Barbara Morgan; Introduction by Noah Hawley; By Austin Film Festival
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.

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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.

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Why the Ramones Matter

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.

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Why the Beach Boys Matter

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.

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Bird on a Blade

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.

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