The Jaguar Within
Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
Conditionally Accepted
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Portraits of Persistence
Inequality and Hope in Latin America
Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
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
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
Paid to Care
Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture
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
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
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
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
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
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
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
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
Black Feminist Constellations
Dialogue and Translation across the Americas
I'm Not There
Quantum Justice
Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry
How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.
Friedrichsburg
A Novel
The Claremont Run
Subverting Gender in the X-Men
Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
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.
Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.
A Curious Mix of People
The Underground Scene of '90s Austin
A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
Narcomedia
Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs
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.
Harvesting Haiti
Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.
The Entablo Manuscript
Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru
A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
Why Mariah Carey Matters
The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,
The New Public Art
Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s
Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.
Winifred Sanford
The Life and Times of a Texas Writer
Pastures of the Empty Page
Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life