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Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

University of Texas Press

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

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Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

University of Texas Press

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán.

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Brazil's Sex Wars

The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo

University of Texas Press

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.

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Bordering on War

A Social and Political History of Khuzestan

University of Texas Press

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.

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For the Bees

A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping

University of Texas Press

A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.

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Ay Tú!

Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

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Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

University of Texas Press

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy’s final works.

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Finding Caspicara

Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito

University of Texas Press

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.

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The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

University of Texas Press

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.

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Searching for Feminist Superheroes

Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

University of Texas Press

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

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Constructing Cuban America

Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945

University of Texas Press

How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida.

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Arrival

University of Texas Press

A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.

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Band People

Life and Work in Popular Music

University of Texas Press

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.

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The Burning Plain

University of Texas Press

A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.

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American Tacos

A History and Guide

University of Texas Press

The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations.

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Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites

New Edition

University of Texas Press

The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites.

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Civil Rights in Bakersfield

Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

University of Texas Press

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

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Clicas

Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film

University of Texas Press

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

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Modernism’s Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital

University of Texas Press

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

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