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The Art of Solidarity
Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor and Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas
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.
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.
Houston Rap Tapes
An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop
By Lance Scott Walker; Foreword by Willie D
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
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.
The Iranian Diaspora
Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations
Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher
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.
On Story—The Golden Ages of Television
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.
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.
Why the Ramones Matter
By Donna Gaines
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.
Why the Beach Boys Matter
By Tom Smucker
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.
Bird on a Blade
By Rosanne Cash
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.
The Television Code
Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry
University of Texas Press
Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, this book recounts the development of the Television Code, the TV counterpart to the Hays Motion Picture Production Code.
The Book of Merlyn
The Conclusion to The Once and Future King
University of Texas Press
Featuring a new foreword by Gregory Maguire, the bestselling author of Wicked, this long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King was a New York Times bestseller and has sold 150,000 copies.
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
University of Texas Press
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.
Slavery and Utopia
The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
University of Texas Press
Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
University of Texas Press
The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William Langewiesche
University of Texas Press
The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.
Night Moves
University of Texas Press
The revolutionary culture critic delivers an edgy, exhilarating tribute to her beloved Chicago, recalling the gritty clubs and ramshackle neighborhoods where she found her voice a decade ago.
Dawoud Bey
Seeing Deeply
By Dawoud Bey
University of Texas Press
With images ranging from street photography in Harlem to a commemoration of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey.
Frida Kahlo
An Illustrated Life
By María Hesse; Translated by Achy Obejas
University of Texas Press
Now available in English, this internationally acclaimed graphic novel biography of iconic artist Frida Kahlo recounts her life’s journey in a first-person story illustrated with striking reimaginings of her famous paintings.
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
University of Texas Press
This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.
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