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The Television Code

Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry

University of Texas Press

Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, this book recounts the development of the Television Code, the TV counterpart to the Hays Motion Picture Production Code.

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The Book of Merlyn

The Conclusion to The Once and Future King

By T.H. White; Introduction by Gregory Maguire; Illustrated by Trevor Stubley
University of Texas Press

Featuring a new foreword by Gregory Maguire, the bestselling author of Wicked, this long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King was a New York Times bestseller and has sold 150,000 copies.

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Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing

Living in the Future

University of Texas Press

The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.

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Slavery and Utopia

The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer

University of Texas Press

Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.

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Blues for Cannibals

The Notes from Underground

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
University of Texas Press

The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.

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Blood Orchid

An Unnatural History of America

University of Texas Press

The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.

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Night Moves

University of Texas Press

The revolutionary culture critic delivers an edgy, exhilarating tribute to her beloved Chicago, recalling the gritty clubs and ramshackle neighborhoods where she found her voice a decade ago. 

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Dawoud Bey

Seeing Deeply

University of Texas Press

With images ranging from street photography in Harlem to a commemoration of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey.

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Frida Kahlo

An Illustrated Life

By María Hesse; Translated by Achy Obejas
University of Texas Press

Now available in English, this internationally acclaimed graphic novel biography of iconic artist Frida Kahlo recounts her life’s journey in a first-person story illustrated with striking reimaginings of her famous paintings.

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Recovering Inequality

Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

University of Texas Press

This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.

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