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Reading across Borders

Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism

University of Texas Press

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

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American Coal

Russell Lee Portraits

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.

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Conditionally Accepted

Navigating Higher Education from the Margins

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

University of Texas Press

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.

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Building Antebellum New Orleans

Free People of Color and Their Influence

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Emergent Quilombos

Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

University of Texas Press

How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.

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The City Aroused

Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco

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.

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Portable Postsocialisms

New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Pink Gold

Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico

University of Texas Press

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.

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Black Feminist Constellations

Dialogue and Translation across the Americas

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.

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I'm Not There

University of Texas Press

An examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan biopic.

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Quantum Justice

Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

University of Texas Press

How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.

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Friedrichsburg

A Novel

University of Texas Press

First published in Germany in 1867, this fascinating autobiographical novel of German immigrants on the antebellum Texas frontier provides a trove of revelations about the myriad communities that once called the Hill Country home.

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The Claremont Run

Subverting Gender in the X-Men

By J. Andrew Deman; Introduction by Jay Edidin
University of Texas Press

A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.

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Unheard Witness

The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

University of Texas Press

Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.

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Reckoning with Harm

The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia

University of Texas Press

An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.

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A Curious Mix of People

The Underground Scene of '90s Austin

University of Texas Press

A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.

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Narcomedia

Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs

University of Texas Press

Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.

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