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The Ideal of the Practical
Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite
University of Texas Press
A study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical.
Sandino's Communism
Spiritual Politics for the Twenty-First Century
By Donald C. Hodges; Introduction by Napoleón Chow
University of Texas Press
An interpretation of the politics and philosophy of Augusto C. Sandino, the intellectual progenitor of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution.
Democratizing Texas Politics
Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002
University of Texas Press
A senior scholar of Latino political action examines the intriguing incongruities in post–WWII Texas politics, particularly the curious flourishing of Latino leadership during the state’s simultaneous transition to conservatism.
Visualizing Guadalupe
From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
University of Texas Press
Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.
One Hundred Love Sonnets
Cien sonetos de amor
By Pablo Neruda; Translated by Stephen Tapscott
University of Texas Press
Beautifully redesigned as a gift edition, this bilingual Spanish-English volume, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies, presents the joyfully erotic love poetry of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.
Automotive Prosthetic
Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art
University of Texas Press
An in-depth examination of the use of the car, the driver, and the road in a variety of forms of creative expression, ranging from works by Robert Rauschenberg and Martha Rosler to those of Dan Graham, John Cage, and Dennis Hopper.
Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico
The Illusion of Eden
University of Texas Press
In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works.
When Mexicans Could Play Ball
Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945
University of Texas Press
This inspiring story of a high school basketball team’s unlikely journey to victory in segregated WWII-era San Antonio sheds light on Mexican American cultural identity formation through sports and education and exposes stereotypes that are still held tod
The Panza Monologues
University of Texas Press
With the full performance script and a wealth of materials for producing, teaching, and using the play to build community, The Panza Monologues reveals important truths about women and body image, as well as Chicana cultural production and its material re
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
University of Texas Press
Offering a pioneering interpretation of the “crowned nun” portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation at a time when the colonial Church instituted major reforms that radically changed the face of New Spain’s co
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque
Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation
Edited by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills
University of Texas Press
Investigating over forty key concepts from the perspectives of both Spain and Spanish America, this groundbreaking work of scholarship opens a vast new understanding of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that defined the transatlantic Spa
Kawsay Vida
A Multimedia Quechua Course for Beginners and Beyond
University of Texas Press
This innovative course book and multimedia DVD offer beginner-to-advanced level instruction in the Quechua of southern Peru and Bolivia (spoken by an estimated five million people) in its social and cultural context.
Curating at the Edge
Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border
By Kate Bonansinga; Introduction by Lucy Lippard
University of Texas Press
Capturing a place and time that are unique in American art history, a former museum director traces the curatorial process and artistic lineages linked to intriguing artists during significant shifts in the sociopolitical climate at the U.S.–Mexico border
Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture
University of Texas Press
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
University of Texas Press
An eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.
Recollections of a Tejano Life
Antonio Menchaca in Texas History
Edited by Timothy M. Matovina and Jesús F. de la Teja
University of Texas Press
The first complete, annotated publication of the reminiscences of San Antonio native and Battle of San Jacinto veteran José Antonio Menchaca, with commentary that contextualizes and debates Menchaca’s claims while delivering a rich portrait of Tejano life in the nineteenth century.
Kuna Art and Shamanism
An Ethnographic Approach
By Paolo Fortis
University of Texas Press
The first book to study woodcarving and its relation to shamanism among Kuna people from the San Blas Archipelago, providing a rich new lens for understanding the Kuna worldview.
Blossoms and Blood
Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
By Jason Sperb
University of Texas Press
Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr
Theorizing Art Cinemas
Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
University of Texas Press
Ranging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury
University of Texas Press
Blending perspectives from geography and political ecology, this pioneering essay collection probes the recent resurgence of global investment in mineral and hydrocarbon extraction in Latin America, examining the environmental and social consequences thro
On Anger
Race, Cognition, Narrative
By Sue J. Kim
University of Texas Press
Opening a stimulating dialogue between cognitive studies and cultural studies, On Anger uses narratives such as the film Crash, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and the HBO series The Wire to argue that race is central to our conceptions and experiences of anger.
Drawing with Great Needles
Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America
Edited by Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
University of Texas Press
Leading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.
Califia Women
Feminist Education against Sexism, Classism, and Racism
University of Texas Press
A dynamic exploration of the Califia Community, a long-running Los Angeles-based grassroots alternative education group formed in the mid-1970s, whose richly diverse membership offered a compelling array of responses to feminism’s key issues.
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
University of Texas Press
Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic
The Ecology of the Barí
Rainforest Horticulturalists of South America
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of the human ecology of the Barí, drawing on more than forty years of field research to examine relations with natural and social environments, reactions to depredations and warfare, and belief in the possibility that a child can have dual paternity.
Dream West
Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies
University of Texas Press
With paradigm-shifting readings of dozens of Westerns, from Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to No Country for Old Men, this book challenges us to rethink the genre as a supposed purveyor of conservative political and religious values.
Authentic Texas
People of the Big Bend
University of Texas Press
Interviews with several dozen residents of the Big Bend offer the most complete, contemporary portrait of life in this remote region where authentic Texans still exemplify the state’s independence and community spirit.
Waltercio Caldas
By Waltercio Caldas, Blanton Museum of Art, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Richard Shiff, and Robert Storr; Introduction by Simone Wincha
University of Texas Press
Lavishly illustrated with more than eighty works, including drawings and sculptures, objects and installations, this catalog of the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of Waltercio Caldas offers insight into his entire artistic production to date, one of
Two Prospectors
The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
University of Texas Press
A compelling portrait of a complex, decades-long friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we will ever get into the life, personal philosophy, and creative process of America’s leading dramatist.
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft
Edited by Barbara Morgan and Maya Perez; By Austin Film Festival
University of Texas Press
Renowned, award-winning screenwriters, including John Lee Hancock, Peter Hedges, Lawrence Kasdan, Whit Stillman, Robin Swicord, and Randall Wallace, discuss their craft from concept to completion in these lively conversations transcribed from the acclaime
Progressive Country
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An examination of the turbulent, transformative 1970s through the lens of central Texas’s counterculture, from the cosmic cowboys of the Armadillo World Headquarters to Américo Paredes and the performance folklore movement.
Performing Piety
Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival
University of Texas Press
Tracing the Islamization of Egyptian celebrities and their fans and the emergence of an Islamic aesthetics, this book offers a unique history of the religious revival in Egypt through the lens of the performing arts.
I Ask for Justice
Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944
By David Carey
University of Texas Press
This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.
The Dissenting Voice
The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985
University of Texas Press
How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.
Ancient Architecture of the Southwest
By William N. Morgan; Introduction by Rina Swentzell
University of Texas Press
This study presents a comprehensive architectural survey of ancient structures in the region ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico.
Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
University of Texas Press
This examination of Tunisia’s ruling family between 1700 and 1900 reveals the significance of the palace and the crucial political and economic roles women played in the family’s relationship with the imperial government.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
University of Texas Press
Now updated with an extensive afterword that reveals how the bank failures of 2008 resulted from the lack of regulatory oversight discussed in this book, here is the acclaimed insider’s account of how financial super predators brought down an industry by
Literature and Social Justice
Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism
By Mark Bracher
University of Texas Press
Drawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.
Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
By Delena Tull
University of Texas Press
Now expanded to cover more plants of New Mexico and Arizona, here is the most complete guide to edible and useful Southwestern plants, including recipes, teas and spices, natural dyes, medicinal uses, poisonous plants, fibers, basketry, and industrial uses.
Color
American Photography Transformed
By John Rohrbach, Sylvie Pénichon, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art
University of Texas Press
The first book that addresses color in photography from the beginning of the medium to the present, this landmark copublication with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art explores how color transformed photography into today’s dominant artistic form.
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