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Nuevo South
Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place
University of Texas Press
This unique comparative study of Latina/o and Asian immigration to the American South investigates how migrants, immigrants, and refugees—and reactions to them—are transforming regional understandings of race and place.
Framing a Lost City
Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu
By Amy Cox Hall
University of Texas Press
Drawing on science and technology studies, this book explores how photography transformed an Incan archaeological ruin into “Machu Picchu,” a world heritage site and crown jewel of Peruvian national patrimony.
Ghostnotes
Music of the Unplayed
By B+
University of Texas Press
This mid-career retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer offers a unique visual mix tape of hip-hop artists, producers, and record dealers from the West Coast to the global African musical diaspora.
Weather in Texas
The Essential Handbook
University of Texas Press
Filled with fascinating stories and statistics, this is the essential guide for understanding all of Texas’s weather phenomena, including climate change, and staying safe during hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, winter storms, and heat waves.
The Independent Republic of Arequipa
Making Regional Culture in the Andes
University of Texas Press
This anthropological history traces the development of a distinctive regional culture in Peru’s second largest city, which constitutes one of the earliest central Andean examples of the emergence of a broadly mestizo identity.
Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium
Edited by Cynthia Lucia and Rahul Hamid
University of Texas Press
Collecting some of the most frequently requested articles from one of the most influential publications on film, this volume explores the paradoxical ways that digital technology and the Internet have transformed film criticism, programming, and preservat
Substance and Seduction
Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
Edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck
University of Texas Press
This interdisciplinary anthology reveals how the consumption of seductive ingestibles, such as chocolate, pulque, and peyote, illuminates key linkages between colonization and commodification in Mesoamerica.
Delirious Consumption
Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
University of Texas Press
Looking at several of the leading figures in postwar Latin American letters and art, this volume offers an enlarged understanding of the way art is produced in, and responds to, the age of consumer culture.
Under Surveillance
Being Watched in Modern America
University of Texas Press
Tackling one of today’s most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society.
Souls Against the Concrete
By Khalik Allah
University of Texas Press
This volume presents a gallery of raw and beautiful portraits created in Harlem by the acclaimed young photographer Khalik Allah, producer of the award-winning documentary Field Niggas.
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