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Gold Dust on the Air
Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture
University of Texas Press
How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.
Memory in Fragments
The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures
University of Texas Press
An exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures.
Building Little Saigon
Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs
University of Texas Press
An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Transgressing the Frame
By James Scorer
University of Texas Press
How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.
France and Algeria
A History of Decolonization and Transformation
University of Texas Press
An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.
Juneteenth Rodeo
By Sarah Bird; Afterword by Demetrius Pearson
University of Texas Press
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.
Invisibility and Influence
A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
University of Texas Press
A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.
Grief is a Sneaky Bitch
An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
By Tara López
University of Texas Press
An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
Unruly Domestication
Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru
University of Texas Press
How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
University of Texas Press
The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.
William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border
Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State
By John Weber
University of Texas Press
An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas.
Visible Ruins
The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution
University of Texas Press
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.
Rick Perry
A Political Life
University of Texas Press
How Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state’s longest serving governor.
Oil Cities
The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930
University of Texas Press
How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
By Kathryn E. O'Rourke and Ben Koush
University of Texas Press
Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.
Creating the Viewer
Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry.
Playing the Percentages
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
By Derek Long
University of Texas Press
A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices.
Loose of Earth
A Memoir
University of Texas Press
An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.
The Jaguar Within
Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
University of Texas Press
An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
By Aria Fani
University of Texas Press
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
By Mary Jane Appel and Douglas Brinkley
University of Texas Press
More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
Conditionally Accepted
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
Edited by Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut
University of Texas Press
Demonstrates the role of Beirut’s postwar graffiti and street art in transforming the cityscape and animating resistance.
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
University of Texas Press
A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa.
Portraits of Persistence
Inequality and Hope in Latin America
Edited by Javier Auyero
University of Texas Press
Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
University of Texas Press
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
By David Ponton
University of Texas Press
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
By Tara Dudley
University of Texas Press
A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.
Paid to Care
Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture
University of Texas Press
An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
University of Texas Press
A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
University of Texas Press
A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives.
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
University of Texas Press
How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art.
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
University of Texas Press
An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
By Bryce Henson
University of Texas Press
How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.
The City Aroused
Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco
By Damon Scott
University of Texas Press
A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
By Paloma Duong
University of Texas Press
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
Borrowed Time
Survivors of Nazi Terezín Remember
University of Texas Press
Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.
Llamas beyond the Andes
Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.
Breaking the Gender Code
Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
University of Texas Press
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
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