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Comin' Right at Ya
How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
By Ray Benson and David Menconi
University of Texas Press
A who’s who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and country fans to Bob Wills–style Western swing.
The Jemima Code
Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
University of Texas Press
Showcasing one of the world’s largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern classics by Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor, this lavishly illustrated collection speaks volumes about America’s food culture.
Modernizing Patriarchy
The Politics of Women's Rights in Morocco
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic study breaks the silence on women’s rights and contemporary development in Morocco, where legal and educational advances are actually leaving some women behind, especially educated, single women.
Los Lobos
Dream in Blue
By Chris Morris
University of Texas Press
From the East Los Angeles barrio to international stardom, Los Lobos traces the musical evolution of a platinum-selling, Grammy Award–winning band that has ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from traditional Mexican
Crescent over Another Horizon
Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
University of Texas Press
In the first book to comprehensively examine the Islamic experience in Latina/o societies—from Columbian voyages to the post-9/11 world—more than a dozen luminaries from nations throughout the Western Hemisphere explore how Islam indelibly influenced the
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
University of Texas Press
In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.
Standing in the Need
Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina
University of Texas Press
This eloquent, in-depth account of an extended African American family’s grueling eight-year recovery from Katrina demonstrates how greater cultural understanding would enable disaster recovery organizations to better serve affected communities.
Queer Brown Voices
Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism
University of Texas Press
Essays chronicling the experiences of fourteen Latina/o LGBT activists present a new perspective on the hitherto-marginalized history of their work in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
Left to Chance
Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
University of Texas Press
With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery.
Is This America?
Katrina as Cultural Trauma
By Ron Eyerman
University of Texas Press
Using cultural trauma theory, this book explores how a wide range of media and popular culture producers have challenged the meaning of Katrina, in which the massive failure of government officials to uphold the American social contract exposed the founda
Invisible in Austin
Life and Labor in an American City
Edited by Javier Auyero; Afterword by Loïc Wacquant
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of America’s most economically segregated cities.
Freddie Steinmark
Faith, Family, Football
By Bower Yousse and Thomas J. Cryan
University of Texas Press
Freddie Steinmark tells the story of a legendary University of Texas football player whose courage on the field and in battling cancer still inspires the Longhorn nation.
Children of Katrina
By Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
Following the lives of seven representative children and teens over several years, this engrossing book offers one of the only long-term studies of how children experience disasters and the personal and structural factors that aid or hinder their recovery
The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
University of Texas Press
Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and analytical plan drawings of urban cores, this is the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico
Portable Borders
Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984
University of Texas Press
In a first-of-its-kind exploration, Ila Sheren examines the contradictory effects of globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border, as witnessed and processed by contemporary artists.
María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo
Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art
University of Texas Press
Taking a comparative approach that facilitates new interpretations of their work, this study explores how the first Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition successfully challenged prevailing discourses about national identity and gender
The Photographs of Lewis Carroll
A Catalogue Raisonné
By Edward Wakeling; Introduction by Elisabeth Mead
University of Texas Press
With nearly 1,000 images, many never before published, this catalogue raisonné presents and describes every surviving photograph taken by Lewis Carroll and confirms his stature as one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and th
Songs that Make the Road Dance
Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya
University of Texas Press
This major collection of courting and fertility songs documents a nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life, revealing significant remnants of the ancient Maya belief system in songs that date back to the early colonial era.
Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights
University of Texas Press
Written for general readers as well as scholars, this book sheds new light on the local activism that propelled the national civil rights movement, as well as on the birth of an organization that has been at the forefront of Mexican American and Latino ci
The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
University of Texas Press
Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.
Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens
University of Texas Press
Settling a debate that has been ongoing since classical times, this book calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to demonstrate what the Athenian citizenry valued most highly.
At Home with the Sapa Inca
Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero
By Stella Nair
University of Texas Press
This major architectural survey and analysis of the Inca royal estate at Chinchero significantly increases our understanding of how the Inca conceived, constructed, and gave meaning to their built environment.
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny
By Ronald A. Messier and James A. Miller
University of Texas Press
Drawing on archaeological discoveries and historical accounts, this book tells the lively story of Morocco’s legendary golden city and its pivotal role in medieval transcontinental trade, the spread of Islam, and the rise of several ruling dynasties.
Picture Cave
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos
Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, and F. Kent Reilly; Introduction by Patty Jo Watson; By (photographer) Alan Cressler
University of Texas Press
This extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric s
LBJ's Neglected Legacy
How Lyndon Johnson Reshaped Domestic Policy and Government
University of Texas Press
Leading experts from many disciplines investigate the extraordinary range and extent of LBJ’s influence on American public policy and administration, a legacy that makes him one of America’s most effective, if controversial, leaders.
The Inka Empire
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by Izumi Shimada
University of Texas Press
Leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inka Empire, the largest political system that ever developed in the ancient New World.
The Best I Recall
A Memoir
University of Texas Press
In this lively, humorous, and often eloquent memoir, a legendary Texas journalist looks back at a career that ranged from sports writing with Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins, and Blackie Sherrod to a twenty-five-year stint as Senior Editor at Texas Monthly.
On the Lips of Others
Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals
University of Texas Press
Examining how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts, this richly interdisciplinary study illuminates the creation of fame and the politics of personhood and portraiture in the Aztec and colonia
Epideictic Rhetoric
Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise
University of Texas Press
An internationally recognized expert on ancient Greek rhetoric provides the definitive history and analysis of the oratory of praise and its social function in the Greco-Roman world.
A Right to Health
Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceará analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil’s universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.
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