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The Royal Scrapbook
By Jenna Hays McEachern and Edith Royal
University of Texas Press
This extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, football ephemera, and recollections reveals the private man behind the UT football legend who will always be “The Coach,” Darrell K Royal.
Andy Coolquitt
University of Texas Press
Covering Coolquitt’s full range of work over the past twenty-five years, this is the first comprehensive monograph on an artist who is receiving national and international acclaim for using scavenged objects to create artwork that facilitates conversation and community.
A Journey Around Our America
A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
University of Texas Press
With a discernment of the American character that recalls Alexis de Tocqueville, this riveting account of the author’s 8,500-mile bicycle journey around the United States offers a unique firsthand perspective on how Latino immigrants are changing the face of our country.
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
University of Texas Press
Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the revolutions—military, social, and feminist—that shaped th
The Cultural Life of the Automobile
Roads to Modernity
University of Texas Press
Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th
City of Suppliants
Tragedy and the Athenian Empire
University of Texas Press
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
Wild Tongues
Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An innovative application of four social types—the downtrodden Peladita/Peladito and the zoot-suited Pachuca/Pachuco—that illuminates working-class subjects in a broad spectrum of Mexican and Mexican American cultural production.
Lowrider Space
Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars
By Ben Chappell
University of Texas Press
The first ethnographic book devoted to lowrider custom car culture puts a new spin on an aesthetic and mechanical achievement through which Mexican Americans alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society.
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
University of Texas Press
An innovative ethnographic study of tourist art markets in Oaxaca, Mexico, where making and selling replicas of pre-Hispanic archaeological pieces is sometimes met with disdain, despite the artisanal quality and rich heritage associated with the practice
Fighting Words
Independent Journalists in Texas
University of Texas Press
Fighting Words profiles five journalists who published the truth as they saw it, no matter how their reporting angered politicians, social and religious leaders, or other journalists.
Prophets of Agroforestry
Guaraní Communities and Commercial Gathering
University of Texas Press
How an indigenous Paraguayan people have maintained themselves as a distinct society and culture, in large part through their practice of commercial agroforestry
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace
Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998
By David R. Mares and David Scott Palmer
University of Texas Press
An examination of the border war between Peru and Ecuador reveals new approaches to Latin American leadership and a transformed power structure that integrates domestic and international factors.
Nathan Lyons
Selected Essays, Lectures, and Interviews
Edited by Jessica S. McDonald
University of Texas Press
Nathan Lyons is the first comprehensive examination of this visionary photographer, curator, theorist, and educator, one of the most important voices in American photography and a central force in the explosive growth of the field over the past five decad
Displaced
Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
This moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast inaugurates The Katrina Bookshelf, a new series of books that will probe the long-term consequences of America’s worst natural disaster.
Dangerous Gifts
Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece
University of Texas Press
Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.
Conversations Across Our America
Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States
University of Texas Press
This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves.
Cognitive Literary Studies
Current Themes and New Directions
Edited by Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon
University of Texas Press
A dynamic array of top scholars from the sciences and the humanities present new perspectives on the mind and its literary quests, ranging from Hamlet to Kafka to Barrie’s Peter Pan.
The Political Economy of Brazil
Public Policies in an Era of Transition
Edited by Lawrence S. Graham and Robert H. Wilson
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking study of late twentieth-century Brazilian issues from a policy perspective.
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
University of Texas Press
Taking an unprecedented, counterintuitive look at America’s conflict over sexuality, Naked Truth reveals how the attack on the exotic dance industry by the activist Christian Right threatens the separation of church and state and undermines our civil libe
Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States
Edited by John Tutino
University of Texas Press
Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States—Hispanic capitalism, patriarchy, and mestizaje, or ethnic blending.
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