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Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
Setting the Tent Against the House
University of Texas Press
Continuing the conversation she began in ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora, O’Reilly Herrera interviews artists who have participated in the ongoing exhibition CAFÉ: The Journeys of Cuban Artists to discover how these artists preserve and transform t
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
University of Texas Press
Using a wide variety of archaeological and archival evidence of indigenous clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles, scholars trace the history of costume in Ecuador from prehistory to the twentieth century.
Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands
A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay
By John C. Dyes
University of Texas Press
John C. Dyes presents a year in the life of the birds on the Texas Coast.
The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States
University of Texas Press
The first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it.
Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants
A Texas History
University of Texas Press
A timely exploration of the political and cultural impact of U.S. naturalization laws on Mexicans in Texas, from early statehood years to contemporary controversies.
How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk
Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity
University of Texas Press
Challenging established views about the development of a secular Turkish national identity, this history explores how the Turkish people used print media to incorporate their Islamic heritage into Turkish nationalism following World War II.
Flames after Midnight
Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community, Revised Edition
By Monte Akers
University of Texas Press
Now updated with a shocking deathbed confession and a touching account of reconciliation, here is the engrossing story of a 1922 lynching followed by a racially motivated reign of terror and the devastating effects both had on a small Texas town.
Damselflies of Texas
A Field Guide
By John C. Abbott; Illustrated by Barrett Anthony Klein
University of Texas Press
Here is the first field guide to the damselflies of Texas—which include more than half of all damselfly species found in North America—richly illustrated with digitally created images that show amazing details, as well as photos taken in the wild.
Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas
By Cristóbal de Molina; Introduction by Brian S. Bauer
University of Texas Press
Based on eyewitness accounts of rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule, this is a key document that provides an unparalleled account of the prayers and religious celebrations of the Inca in a context of rapidly changing cultural practices.
In the Company of Scholars
The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education
University of Texas Press
In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today.
The Lizard Man Speaks
University of Texas Press
Eric Pianka recounts more than thirty years of adventures in reptile studies.
Crucifixion by Power
Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944–1966
University of Texas Press
The result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author’s fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in which it found itself in the 1960s—and still finds itself today.
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Revised Edition
By Robert S. Carlsen; Introduction by Davíd Carrasco
University of Texas Press
This classic study of cultural continuity and change in an indigenous Guatemalan community is now updated to reveal how the forces of globalization are shredding the very fabric of communal and religious life.
Satire in Colonial Spanish America
Turning the New World Upside Down
University of Texas Press
This study explores the work of eight satirists of the colonial period and shows how their literary innovations had a formative influence on the development of the modern Latin American novel, essay, and autobiography.
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López
University of Texas Press
An anthology of vibrant responses to Alma López’s controversial print Our Lady, exploring critical issues of censorship, religion, and the female body.
Of Space and Mind
Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction
University of Texas Press
Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of “persistence” and “transformation” in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Véa, and Helena María Viramontes.
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
University of Texas Press
Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.
From the Mines to the Streets
A Bolivian Activist’s Life
University of Texas Press
An extraordinary portrait of Bolivia’s turbulent rise from military rule during the last half century, told through the eyes of a miner, union activist, and political prisoner.
Design for a Vulnerable Planet
University of Texas Press
Spotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet’s eco
Bridging
How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own
Edited by AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López
University of Texas Press
Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.
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