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The Texanist
Fine Advice on Living in Texas
By David Courtney and Jack Unruh
University of Texas Press
The first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh’s work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly’s back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them.
Frankie and Johnny
Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
University of Texas Press
With chapters on Lead Belly, Thomas Hart Benton, John Huston, Mae West, and Sterling Brown, this innovative book presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.
Breakfast in Texas
Recipes for Elegant Brunches, Down-Home Classics, and Local Favorites
University of Texas Press
The author of the James Beard Cookbook Award finalist Texas on the Table presents nearly one hundred recipes for breakfast and brunch, including favorites from some of Texas’s most popular restaurants, along with menus for entertaining and delightful culinary notes.
The Quality of Life Report
A Novel
By Meghan Daum; Introduction by Curtis Sittenfeld
University of Texas Press
A New York Times notable book, The Quality of Life Report is the critically acclaimed first novel by Meghan Daum, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction.
Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
Mapping a Chicano/a Art History
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of the Royal Chicano Air Force maps the history of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective, which used art and cultural production as sociopolitical activism.
Eddie Adams
Bigger than the Frame
By Eddie Adams; Introduction by Don Carleton
University of Texas Press
This career-spanning collection of both iconic and rarely seen images celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, whose potent visual storytelling ran the gamut from the horrors of war to the lives of the famous and powerful
Chrissie Hynde
A Musical Biography
By Adam Sobsey
University of Texas Press
With new insights into her life and music and fascinating details about the making of all of her albums, this is the first book about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Chrissie Hynde, the leader of The Pretenders.
Rebellious Bodies
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
University of Texas Press
Exploring the body politics surrounding stars Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne Cox, this book reveals how non-normative celebrity bodies address cultural anxieties about pressing social and political issues.
Jazz and Cocktails
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
University of Texas Press
With insightful analyses of the contributions of jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Chico Hamilton, and John Lewis, this book considers the complex roles of jazz and race in classic film noir.
Project 258
Making Dinner at Fish & Game
By Zak Pelaccio
University of Texas Press
From the James Beard Award–winning chef Zakary Pelaccio—this cookbook celebrates the local foods movement with an enticing selection of seasonal recipes from his renowned restaurant Fish & Game.
This Land
An American Portrait
By Jack Spencer
University of Texas Press
Created across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand miles, this startlingly fresh photographic portrait of the American landscape shares artistic affinities with the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt.
The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory
University of Texas Press
Using examples from all of the Athenian orators, this innovative book considers forensic speeches as one of the premier performance genres of Classical Athens, in which vision and visuality played a central role in convincing a jury.
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
University of Texas Press
Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
Haunting Bollywood
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
By Meheli Sen
University of Texas Press
The first wide-ranging look at horror and the supernatural in Bollywood films made since 1949, this interdisciplinary study examines how gender and genre intersect in cinematic tales of unproductive love, abominable creatures, and unspeakable appetites.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
University of Texas Press
Spanning the 1920s to the presidency of Evo Morales, this history traces how resource nationalism has pitted ordinary Bolivians against conservative Bolivian leaders, US officials, and foreign investors in a struggle to control the country’s natural wealt
Mano Dura
The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador
By Sonja Wolf
University of Texas Press
A preeminent authority on El Salvador’s street gangs reports on three nongovernmental organizations that, advocating for human rights, have attempted to reform the country’s gang policy—only to be stifled by sweeping, politically popular Mano Dura (Iron F
Cattle in the Backlands
Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics
University of Texas Press
Bringing much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the impacts of ranching in the tropics, this book explores how cattle raising transformed a remote region of Brazil economically, socially, and environmentally.
At the Crossroads
Diego Rivera and his Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts
University of Texas Press
Offering a unique look at the controversies surrounding Diego Rivera’s mural Man at the Crossroads, this book examines how Rivera’s artwork represented conflicting ideas during the 1930s and how art is leveraged to enact change.
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
University of Texas Press
Learning from Bogotá illuminates how a former “drug capital” has been transformed into a “pedagogical city,” where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens
Picturing the Proletariat
Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940
By John Lear
University of Texas Press
Spanning the late Porfiriato to the end of the Cardenista reforms, this is a multifaceted exploration of the production of visual narratives that offered competing interpretations of gender, class, nationalism, and internationalism that came to define modern Mexican identity.
Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
University of Texas Press
This aesthetic reading of politics, society, and culture during and after the Mexican Revolution illuminates how culture mediates power and, rather than uniting a people, collects heterogeneous communities into a diverse archive of memory.
The Making of Hillary Clinton
The White House Years
University of Texas Press
These revealing, never-before-published photographs from the Clinton White House chronicle Hillary Clinton’s transformation into a national policymaker and foreshadow her unprecedented role as a trailblazer for women in presidential politics.
The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
University of Texas Press
Presenting the first English translation and analysis of a recently discovered late colonial Maya Christian manuscript, this volume opens important new insights into how the Maya made sense of Christianity within their own worldview.
Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean
A Subaltern History
Edited by Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar
University of Texas Press
This book presents key moments from the lives of mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean world at the turn of the twentieth century, showing how their nonconformity forced those around them to rethink basic values and mores.
Spectacular Wealth
The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
By Lisa Voigt
University of Texas Press
Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power.
Sacred Consumption
Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
University of Texas Press
Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.
Midwives and Mothers
The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation
University of Texas Press
Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status.
The White Shaman Mural
An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
By Carolyn E. Boyd and Kim Cox
University of Texas Press
A landmark in the study of rock art, this extensively illustrated volume reveals that prehistoric hunter-gatherers in southwest Texas painted one of the earliest known pictorial creation narratives in North America.
Industrial Sexuality
Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
By Hanan Hammad
University of Texas Press
With fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial Egyptian factory town reveals how industrialization transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality.
Caere
Edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Lisa Pieraccini
University of Texas Press
The inaugural volume in the Cities of the Etruscans series, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Lisa Pieraccini, this book presents a comprehensive study of the city of Caere by an international group of scholars.
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora
Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts
University of Texas Press
Spanning seven centuries and four continents, this comprehensive survey of the Portuguese diaspora connects literary and artistic expression (including film) with the sociopolitical and economic factors that drove population migrations.
About Antiquities
Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
By Zeynep Çelik
University of Texas Press
Masterfully examining the competing claims and aspirations of museums, government officials, archaeologists, and excavation laborers, this book sheds new light on the role of archaeology in empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century.
Theatre for Youth II
More Plays with Mature Themes
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer
University of Texas Press
This substantially updated edition of the classic anthology of plays for young audiences presents contemporary plays that treat more mature, realistic themes while still encouraging youth to embrace life and follow their dreams.
Notions of Genre
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Edited by Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz
University of Texas Press
With articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, this anthology is the only single-volume source for important early writing on genre films.
Flatbed Press at 25
University of Texas Press
A visual feast for connoisseurs of contemporary printmaking, this lavishly produced volume presents a twenty-five-year retrospective of one of America’s premier artists’ printshops and the prominent and emerging artists who have worked there.
Connecting with the Enemy
A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
University of Texas Press
Surveying the initiatives of more than five hundred groups across the past century, this timely book reveals how thousands of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians have worked together to end violence and forge connections between their peoples.
Houston on the Move
A Photographic History
By Steven R. Strom; By (photographer) Bob Bailey Studios
University of Texas Press
Presenting over two hundred previously unpublished images from the city’s largest and most comprehensive photographic archive, this volume chronicles Houston’s transformation into a city of international importance.
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
University of Texas Press
The first study in English of Latin American graphic narrative, this book explores the genre’s Argentine and Brazilian traditions, illuminating the different social, political, and historical conditions from which they emerged.
The Burden of the Ancients
Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.
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