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Designing Pan-America
U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere
By Robert Alexander González; Introduction by Robert Rydell
University of Texas Press
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
Texas Takes Wing
A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
This book celebrates the aviators, astronauts, airline executives, and other innovators who have made Texas an influential world leader in the aerospace industry over the past century.
Plagues and Pencils
A Year of Pandemic Sketches
By Edward Carey; Foreword by Max Porter
University of Texas Press
A remarkable collection of words and illustrations documenting the first year of the pandemic.
Apostles of Change
Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio
University of Texas Press
Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement.
Hope and Hard Truth
A Life in Texas Politics
University of Texas Press
A stirring memoir of liberal politics and personal reflection through years in Texas public service.
Conjured Bodies
Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad
By Laura Grappo
University of Texas Press
This study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.
A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
From Nationalism to Protest
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of Brazilian documentary filmmaking, offering a sweeping look at more than a century of cinematic journalism, propaganda, and artistry.
The Continuing Storm
Learning from Katrina
By Kai Erikson and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.
Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music
University of Texas Press
The regional and transnational impact of the Son Jarocho musical tradition.
Crossing Waters
Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art
University of Texas Press
An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean.
The Essential Isocrates
University of Texas Press
The foundational writings of Isocrates, newly translated and placed in historical context.
Black Panther
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the artistic and political importance of a pioneering film.
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection
A History and Catalog
University of Texas Press
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection that combines images of type from the collection with a history of the origin of nineteenth-century wood type designs.
More City than Water
A Houston Flood Atlas
Edited by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett
University of Texas Press
Writers explore a city’s relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding.
From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging
University of Texas Press
A meticulous survey of US media treatments of Central Americans.
Taking Form, Making Worlds
Cartonera Publishers in Latin America
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America.
Last Gangster in Austin
Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia
University of Texas Press
A true-crime showdown that takes readers back to the grittier and weirder Austin of the 1970s.
Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring
University of Texas Press
An account of the Amazigh people who took advantage of the Arab Spring to press political demands.
Why Patti Smith Matters
By Caryn Rose
University of Texas Press
A meditation on the artistry and influence of Patti Smith.
Women's Voices in Digital Media
The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes
University of Texas Press
An examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media.
The Running Kind
Listening to Merle Haggard
University of Texas Press
A new and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters.
Blue Architecture
Water, Design, and Environmental Futures
By Brook Muller
University of Texas Press
A guide to water-focused and climate-resilient architectural and urban design.
Riot and Rebellion in Mexico
The Making of a Race War Paradigm
By Ana Sabau
University of Texas Press
Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system.
Autism in Film and Television
On the Island
Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.
Border Land, Border Water
A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
University of Texas Press
A 150-year history of the border region between the United States and Mexico, told through the fences and barriers, the river engineering projects, and the surveillance infrastructure that have reshaped the natural landscape.
Chicanx Utopias
Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible
By Luis Alvarez
University of Texas Press
Exploring race, politics, Chicanx history, and social movements, this book offers a broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated.
The Pecan
A History of America's Native Nut
University of Texas Press
This lively history by the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating follows the pecan from primordial Southern groves to the contemporary Chinese marketplace to reveal how a nut with a very limited natural range has become a global commodi
Abecedario de Juárez
An Illustrated Lexicon
By Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs
University of Texas Press
Illustrated with evocative drawings by artist Alice Leora Briggs, this glossary uses the vocabulary created by the violence in Juárez, Mexico, to tell the stories of the people who live there.
Agent of Change
Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive biography of a formidable civil rights activist and feminist whose grassroots organizing in Texas made her an influential voice in the fight for equal rights for Mexican Americans.
The Islamic Movement in Israel
By Tilde Rosmer
University of Texas Press
The only book in English that recounts how the Islamic Movement in Israel originated and developed into a popular grassroots organization focused on protecting the Palestinian people, their land, and their religious sites.
Rethinking Zapotec Time
Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico
University of Texas Press
As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.
Rethinking the Inka
Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes
University of Texas Press
Leading researchers offer a dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu, a conquered region largely absent from existing English-language scholarship.
Image Encounters
Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History
By Lisa Trever
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of Moche mural art, this landmark book develops a methodology of archaeo art history to examine image-making and visual experience in an era of ancient Peruvian history before the use of writing.
Gothic Sovereignty
Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
University of Texas Press
Contributes to current conversations about Central American security crises and immigration stemming from gang violence by tracing the evolution of Honduran gangs from small, neighborhood groups to members of violent cartels.
Selling Black Brazil
Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia
University of Texas Press
This book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.
Making Levantine Cuisine
Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
University of Texas Press
From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Edited by Max Sherman
University of Texas Press
A collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.
Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts
University of Texas Press
A holistic study of five key texts of Athenian oratory, this book unravels the complex cultural constructions of sexual labor in classical Athens and offers a new perspective on the history of sex laborers in ancient Greece.
Inventing Indigenism
Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru
University of Texas Press
A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.
The Egyptian Labor Corps
Race, Space, and Place in the First World War
University of Texas Press
This history sheds new light on Egypt’s involvement in World War I by telling the story of the Egyptian Labor Corps and how the treatment of these primarily rural workers influenced the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.
Paths to Excellence
The Dell Medical School and Medical Education in Texas
By Kenneth I. Shine and Amy Shaw Thomas
University of Texas Press, University of Texas Health Press
An inspiring account of how the Dell Medical School came into being at the University of Texas at Austin more than 125 years after the campus was established.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 75
Social Sciences
Edited by Tracy North
University of Texas Press
The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.
Women's Lives, Women's Voices
Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples
Edited by Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland
University of Texas Press
The first book to focus exclusively on material evidence such as frescos, graffiti, and inscriptions to explore the lives of Roman women from all social classes in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder
Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean
University of Texas Press
An enlightening study of griffin cauldrons in the pre-classical Mediterranean, uncovering the origins of illusionism in Greek art and exploring the social significance of a changing visual culture.
José Martí
A Revolutionary Life
University of Texas Press
Thoroughly researched, written from a nonpartisan perspective, and as lively as a novel, this is the definitive biography of the revered Cuban patriot and martyr whose revolutionary movement eventually ended the Spanish colonial domination of Cuba.
The Florida Project
By J. J. Murphy
University of Texas Press
An in-depth look at the production of the 2017 film The Florida Project and the unique filmmaking style of its director, Sean Baker.
Downtown Juárez
Underworlds of Violence and Abuse
University of Texas Press
An intimate look at the normalization of violence in the lives of sex workers, drug dealers, barflies, and drug addicts in downtown Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
Civil Rights in Black and Brown
Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas
Edited by Max Krochmal and Todd Moye
University of Texas Press
Drawing on hundreds of new interviews from grassroots activists in every corner of Texas, Civil Rights in Black and Brown tells the stories of the state’s intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggles.
Resisting Garbage
The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities
University of Texas Press
Resisting Garbage presents an empirically grounded explanation for what meaningful change in waste management could look like and why that change is so difficult.
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