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Filming Difference
Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film
Edited by Daniel Bernardi
University of Texas Press
Reflecting diverse voices in film and television, more than a dozen industry professionals explore how their works represent complex identities.
Dividing the Isthmus
Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Texas Press
The first comparative study in English of transnational Central American literatures and cultures.
Blockading the Border and Human Rights
The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of Operation Blockade and its impact on human rights in the border region.
Morning Star
surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia
By Michael Löwy; Introduction by Donald LaCoss
University of Texas Press
The luminary critical theorist dismisses the limited notion of surrealism as a purely artistic movement, repositioning surrealism as a force in radical political ideologies.
Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents
The Public Sculpture of El Tajín
By Rex Koontz
University of Texas Press
The first extensive treatment in over thirty years of the iconography displayed on public monuments in an important Mesoamerican city in Veracruz, Mexico.
Hollywood's Tennessee
The Williams Films and Postwar America
University of Texas Press
A vibrant examination of Tennessee Williams’s role beyond the stage and the lasting impact of his films in postwar American culture.
Healing Dramas
Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
University of Texas Press
An ethnographic study of Puerto Rican brujería and the capacity of people to experience the transcendental in corporeal ways.
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
A Novel
University of Texas Press
A powerful story of losses, triumphs, and the strong ties that bind a working-class Tejano family in the Texas panhandle.
Walking Nature Home
A Life's Journey
University of Texas Press
A beautifully written, moving memoir about how the diagnosis of a terminal illness led to a perilous journey of self-awareness that not only restored the author’s health but also taught her the healing power of love and of our connection to the natural wo
The Power of the Texas Governor
Connally to Bush
By Brian McCall; Introduction by William P. Hobby
University of Texas Press
A revealing look at the personal factors that have allowed many Texas governors to wield significant political power despite holding an office with limited authority.
And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers
University of Texas Press
At last available in English—the acclaimed Mexican novel whose protagonist, like a contemporary Leopold Bloom, takes a day-long tour of his city, exploring magnificent landmarks and grimy bars in pursuit of an elusive history.
Fritz Henle
In Search of Beauty
By Fritz Henle
University of Texas Press
The catalogue of the first major retrospective exhibition of the life and career of master photographer Fritz Henle staged by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in honor of the centennial of Henle’s birth.
Vital Enemies
Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life
University of Texas Press
A pioneering study of the enslavement of Amerindians by Amerindians in tropical America, outside the realm of colonial agents.
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
University of Texas Press
A comparative reading of literature by Mexicanas and Chicanas, including Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Carmen Boullosa, and Helena María Viramontes, that raises compelling questions about the very nature of cultural constructs in literature.
To Be Like Gods
Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of evidence from epigraphy, iconography, style, and architectural analysis, Looper offers the first extensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society.
The Hogg Family and Houston
Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal
University of Texas Press
The stirring story of the legendary Hogg family’s philanthropic contributions to Texas, and the pivotal trends of urban growth and civic support exemplified in their lives.
Sex Work and the City
The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico
University of Texas Press
A revealing study of the sex trade in Tijuana (where approximately one thousand registered prostitutes work quasi-legally) and its effects on public health, economics, and the local culture of sexuality.
Remarkable Plants of Texas
Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives
University of Texas Press
Going well beyond typical field guides, this extensively illustrated book presents the remarkable natural and cultural history of eighty of Texas’s most fascinating native plants.
Hijos del Pueblo
Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850
University of Texas Press
An extraordinary window into the colonial world of Mexico’s Tenango del Valle, bringing to life the daily interactions of a fascinating rural community.
Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia
University of Texas Press
A provocative, interdisciplinary examination of Colombia’s devastating drug trade, with data-driven recommendations for other countries facing violent insurgencies.
Greek Sport and Social Status
By Mark Golden
University of Texas Press
A noted authority on ancient sport discusses various ways in which the ancient Greeks, as well as people today, used sports to achieve social status.
Death and the Classic Maya Kings
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of ancient Maya death rites in twenty years.
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador
University of Texas Press
An important baseline study of ceramics and material culture in southern Ecuador, which establishes the region’s artistic and trade connections with better-known areas of the prehistoric Andes.
Walls of Empowerment
Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of its kind, charting recurrent imagery of a fragmented past in Chicana/o murals throughout Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche
An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast
Edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones
University of Texas Press
A state-of-the-art overview of prehistoric Moche culture by an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research.
Temples of the Earthbound Gods
Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
University of Texas Press
In this groundbreaking tale of two cities, a geography scholar and soccer aficionado delivers a fascinating tour of the sport's hallowed grounds.
Neo-Confederacy
A Critical Introduction
University of Texas Press
An interdisciplinary team examines the mainstreaming of the New Dixie movement, whose calls range from full secession to the racist exaltation of “Celtic” Americans and whose advocates can be found far north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Native Speakers
Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
University of Texas Press
The first book-length comparative analysis of three intellectual women of color working in the academic mainstream in the early twentieth century.
Kiowa Ethnogeography
University of Texas Press
An enlightening study of more than 300 place names and geographical features that reveal a rich trove of findings related to Kiowa culture and history.
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
A Brief Romance
By Yaron Peleg
University of Texas Press
An intriguing portrait of Israel’s “Generation X,” and the perceived decline in Zionism among contemporary urban Israeli youth between the Palestinian uprisings that began in 1987 and 2000
Border Bandits
Hollywood on the Southern Frontier
University of Texas Press
An examination of how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about U.S. dominance in the Western hemisphere.
William Wayne Justice
A Judicial Biography
University of Texas Press
Now in paperback—the acclaimed biography of one of Texas’s most influential and controversial judges, with a new epilogue that traces William Wayne Justice’s impact and legacy.
The Tira de Tepechpan
Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
University of Texas Press
An interpretive analysis of a sixteenth-century Aztec painted history from a provincial city in Central Mexico.
The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Voices from the Ottoman Harem
University of Texas Press
Three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924 describe the lifeways of the imperial family, dispelling Western stereotypes of harem debauchery.
Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda
By François Burgat; Translated by Patrick Hutchinson
University of Texas Press
A provocative rethinking of the war on terror that exposes the dangers of Western blindness to colonial Middle Eastern history and breaks the deadlock of geopolitics and religious identity.
Harry Huntt Ransom
Intellect in Motion
By Alan Gribben
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive biography of the visionary university chancellor who propelled the University of Texas at Austin to lasting levels of stature and established one of the world’s finest cultural archives, the Harry Ransom Center.
Gabriel García Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes
University of Texas Press
A new political history that addresses five major themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history through the life and times of Ecuador’s most controversial politician.
For Glory and Bolívar
The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz
By Pamela S. Murray; Introduction by Fredrick B. Pike
University of Texas Press
A sweeping biography of Simón Bolívar’s most passionate revolutionary, the Colombian precursor to Eva Perón.
Conquistadores de la Calle
Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
University of Texas Press
A stirring ethnography of Guatemala City’s juvenile street vendors and the surprising economies of power they construct.
Understanding Indian Movies
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
University of Texas Press
A cultural-cognitive analysis of Indian cinema intended to increase understanding and appreciation of Indian films in the English-speaking world.
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