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Playing the Percentages
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
By Derek Long
University of Texas Press
A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices.
Loose of Earth
A Memoir
University of Texas Press
An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.
The Jaguar Within
Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
University of Texas Press
An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
By Aria Fani
University of Texas Press
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
By Mary Jane Appel and Douglas Brinkley
University of Texas Press
More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
Conditionally Accepted
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
Edited by Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut
University of Texas Press
Demonstrates the role of Beirut’s postwar graffiti and street art in transforming the cityscape and animating resistance.
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
University of Texas Press
A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa.
Portraits of Persistence
Inequality and Hope in Latin America
Edited by Javier Auyero
University of Texas Press
Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
University of Texas Press
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
By David Ponton
University of Texas Press
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
By Tara Dudley
University of Texas Press
A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.
Paid to Care
Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture
University of Texas Press
An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
University of Texas Press
A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
University of Texas Press
A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives.
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
University of Texas Press
How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art.
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
University of Texas Press
An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
By Bryce Henson
University of Texas Press
How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.
The City Aroused
Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco
By Damon Scott
University of Texas Press
A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
By Paloma Duong
University of Texas Press
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
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