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The Medium of the Video Game
Edited by Mark J. P. Wolf; Introduction by Ralph H. Baer
University of Texas Press
The first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium.
Tejano South Texas
A Mexican American Cultural Province
University of Texas Press
How Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region.
Once Upon a Time in Texas
A Liberal in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, David Richards remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought significant gains in civil rights, voter rights, labor law, and civil liberties to the people of Texas from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology
Religion and Justice
University of Texas Press
This first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse.
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
University of Texas Press
A chronicle of the explosive growth of the Texas oil industry, from the first commercial production at Corsicana in the 1890s through the vital role of Texas oil in World War II.
Messages from the Wild
An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History
University of Texas Press
A composite, day-by-day almanac of the life cycles of a semiwild natural island in the midst of urban Texas.
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
University of Texas Press
The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya
A Guide
University of Texas Press
This field guide highlights nearly 100 species of plants and animals that were significant to the ancient Maya and that continue to inhabit the Maya region today.
William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
Valley Interfaith and School Reform
Organizing for Power in South Texas
University of Texas Press
How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America’s most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.
The Road to El Cielo
Mexico's Forest in the Clouds
University of Texas Press
The story of a conservation effort in Mexico's cloud forest.
Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator
By Patrick L. Cox; Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth biography of a Texas senator.
Clovis Blade Technology
A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
By Michael B. Collins and Marvin Kay
University of Texas Press
This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology.
Among Women
From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World
Edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger
University of Texas Press
This book explores a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
University of Texas Press
The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.
Translating the Garden
University of Texas Press
In this book, Ghanoonparvar allows readers to watch him in the process of translating Shahrokh Meskub’s Goftogu dar Bagh (Dialogue in the Garden) from Persian into English.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Edited by Seth L. Wolitz
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
University of Texas Press
Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich
By Sabine Hake
University of Texas Press
An overview of Third Reich cinema through the lens of national cinema studies.
Killer Books
Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
University of Texas Press
How Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing’s relation to violence and about their own relation to writing.
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen
University of Texas Press
How major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed to national identity formation.
Brought to You By
Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream
University of Texas Press
How television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture.
Stoppard's Theatre
Finding Order amid Chaos
By John Fleming
University of Texas Press
John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Tom Stoppard’s work in nearly a decade.
Cultural Logics and Global Economies
Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
University of Texas Press
Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how
Behind the Mexican Mountains
University of Texas Press
This colorful account of an anthropologist's fieldwork among the Tarahumara in 1930 provides a compelling description of the landscape, people, traditions, language, and archaeology of the Tarahumara region.
Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community
The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán
University of Texas Press
A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.
Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos
University of Texas Press
This comparative look at vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos brings the mythical image of the American cowboy into focus and detail and honors the regional and national variations.
The Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
University of Texas Press
Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.
Tales of the Wild Horse Desert
University of Texas Press
This book tells the stories of the vaqueros of the Wild Horse Desert for fourth- through eighth-grade students.
Mesoamerican Healers
Edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom
University of Texas Press
Essays on traditional Mesoamerican healers and medical practices, from precolonial times to the present.
After Revolution
Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
How Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared since the Sandinista revolution.
Quiché Rebelde
Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
University of Texas Press
What happened when a religious movement came to a Guatemalan town.
The Making of the Mexican Border
The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910
University of Texas Press
In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico.
Zapotec Science
Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems
Skywatchers
A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
University of Texas Press
An introduction to archaeoastronomy, focusing on Mesoamerica.
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
The Différance of Desire
By Earl E. Fitz
University of Texas Press
This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector’s writing,
Naturally . . . South Texas
Nature Notes from the Coastal Bend
By Roland H. Wauer; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
In this book, Ro Wauer describes a typical year in the natural life of South Texas.
Making Faces, Playing God
Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
University of Texas Press
In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills the fundamental human fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the othe
Latin American Politics
A Theoretical Approach
University of Texas Press
Di Tella draws on the work of Montesquieu, Burke, Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in formulating his explanatory theories, which are then tested against crucial events in Latin American history, from the rebellions of the eighteenth century to the
Imagining Literacy
Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature
University of Texas Press
An examination of the biases inherent in the idea of "cultural literacy".
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