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The Ideal of the Practical
Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite
University of Texas Press
A study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical.
Sandino's Communism
Spiritual Politics for the Twenty-First Century
By Donald C. Hodges; Introduction by Napoleón Chow
University of Texas Press
An interpretation of the politics and philosophy of Augusto C. Sandino, the intellectual progenitor of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution.
Democratizing Texas Politics
Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002
University of Texas Press
A senior scholar of Latino political action examines the intriguing incongruities in post–WWII Texas politics, particularly the curious flourishing of Latino leadership during the state’s simultaneous transition to conservatism.
Visualizing Guadalupe
From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
University of Texas Press
Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.
One Hundred Love Sonnets
Cien sonetos de amor
By Pablo Neruda; Translated by Stephen Tapscott
University of Texas Press
Beautifully redesigned as a gift edition, this bilingual Spanish-English volume, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies, presents the joyfully erotic love poetry of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.
Automotive Prosthetic
Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art
University of Texas Press
An in-depth examination of the use of the car, the driver, and the road in a variety of forms of creative expression, ranging from works by Robert Rauschenberg and Martha Rosler to those of Dan Graham, John Cage, and Dennis Hopper.
Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico
The Illusion of Eden
University of Texas Press
In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works.
When Mexicans Could Play Ball
Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945
University of Texas Press
This inspiring story of a high school basketball team’s unlikely journey to victory in segregated WWII-era San Antonio sheds light on Mexican American cultural identity formation through sports and education and exposes stereotypes that are still held tod
The Panza Monologues
University of Texas Press
With the full performance script and a wealth of materials for producing, teaching, and using the play to build community, The Panza Monologues reveals important truths about women and body image, as well as Chicana cultural production and its material re
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
University of Texas Press
Offering a pioneering interpretation of the “crowned nun” portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation at a time when the colonial Church instituted major reforms that radically changed the face of New Spain’s co
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque
Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation
Edited by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills
University of Texas Press
Investigating over forty key concepts from the perspectives of both Spain and Spanish America, this groundbreaking work of scholarship opens a vast new understanding of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that defined the transatlantic Spa
Kawsay Vida
A Multimedia Quechua Course for Beginners and Beyond
University of Texas Press
This innovative course book and multimedia DVD offer beginner-to-advanced level instruction in the Quechua of southern Peru and Bolivia (spoken by an estimated five million people) in its social and cultural context.
Curating at the Edge
Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border
By Kate Bonansinga; Introduction by Lucy Lippard
University of Texas Press
Capturing a place and time that are unique in American art history, a former museum director traces the curatorial process and artistic lineages linked to intriguing artists during significant shifts in the sociopolitical climate at the U.S.–Mexico border
Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture
University of Texas Press
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
University of Texas Press
An eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.
Recollections of a Tejano Life
Antonio Menchaca in Texas History
Edited by Timothy M. Matovina and Jesus F. de la Teja
University of Texas Press
The first complete, annotated publication of the reminiscences of San Antonio native and Battle of San Jacinto veteran José Antonio Menchaca, with commentary that contextualizes and debates Menchaca’s claims while delivering a rich portrait of Tejano life in the nineteenth century.
Kuna Art and Shamanism
An Ethnographic Approach
By Paolo Fortis
University of Texas Press
The first book to study woodcarving and its relation to shamanism among Kuna people from the San Blas Archipelago, providing a rich new lens for understanding the Kuna worldview.
Blossoms and Blood
Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
By Jason Sperb
University of Texas Press
Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr
Theorizing Art Cinemas
Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
University of Texas Press
Ranging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury
University of Texas Press
Blending perspectives from geography and political ecology, this pioneering essay collection probes the recent resurgence of global investment in mineral and hydrocarbon extraction in Latin America, examining the environmental and social consequences thro
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