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

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.

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

A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.

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.

Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.

An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.

A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.

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.

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

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

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.

An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.

An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.

An exploration of the understudied sculpture of the Maya frontier.

How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.