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Planning the Family in Egypt
New Bodies, New Selves
University of Texas Press
How Egyptian family planning policies navigate between the Westernized state and traditional Islamic groups.
Narrative Threads
Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton
University of Texas Press
In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?
Mixing Race, Mixing Culture
Inter-American Literary Dialogues
Edited by Monika Kaup and Debra Rosenthal
University of Texas Press
An examination of the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas.
Latino Images in Film
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
University of Texas Press
In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture
Delirio—The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel
The Buried History of Nuevo León
University of Texas Press
How the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in "legitimate" histories of the region.
Deconstructing the American Mosque
Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
University of Texas Press
The history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950.
Geometry in Architecture
Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today
By Clovis Heimsath; Foreword by Louis Kahn; Photographs by Maryann Heimsath; Other adaptation by Lisa Hardaway
University of Texas Press
The Early Poetry of Robert Graves
The Goddess Beckons
University of Texas Press
In this study of Graves’s early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality: reason and predictability.
Driving Visions
Exploring the Road Movie
University of Texas Press
This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasizing it as an "independent genre" that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels.
Brown Tide Rising
Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
University of Texas Press
Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, bur
Before the Volcano Erupted
The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America
Edited by Payson D. Sheets
University of Texas Press
Complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén, "the Pompeii of the New World".
Antiphon the Athenian
Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
University of Texas Press
This book convincingly argues that Antiphon the orator and Antiphon the Sophist were the same person.
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
University of Texas Press
How this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women—the author's grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself.
Remembering the Alamo
Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol
University of Texas Press
How the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
University of Texas Press
How recent Mexican cinema has focused on Mexico City as a protagonist in its own right.
The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
University of Texas Press
To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six rem
Staying Sober in Mexico City
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Mexico City.
States of Nature
Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
University of Texas Press
This book traces the history of the intersections between nature, economy, and nation in the Spanish Caribbean through a history of the agricultural and botanical sciences.
School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
University of Texas Press
An overview of the issues in school choice.
Latin Politics, Global Media
Edited by Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord
University of Texas Press
Thirteen well-known media experts examine how the intersection of globalization and democratization has transformed media systems and policies throughout Latin America.
The Medium of the Video Game
Edited by Mark J. P. Wolf; Introduction by Ralph H. Baer
University of Texas Press
The first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium.
Tejano South Texas
A Mexican American Cultural Province
University of Texas Press
How Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region.
Once Upon a Time in Texas
A Liberal in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, David Richards remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought significant gains in civil rights, voter rights, labor law, and civil liberties to the people of Texas from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology
Religion and Justice
University of Texas Press
This first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse.
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
University of Texas Press
A chronicle of the explosive growth of the Texas oil industry, from the first commercial production at Corsicana in the 1890s through the vital role of Texas oil in World War II.
Messages from the Wild
An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History
University of Texas Press
A composite, day-by-day almanac of the life cycles of a semiwild natural island in the midst of urban Texas.
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
University of Texas Press
The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya
A Guide
University of Texas Press
This field guide highlights nearly 100 species of plants and animals that were significant to the ancient Maya and that continue to inhabit the Maya region today.
William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
Valley Interfaith and School Reform
Organizing for Power in South Texas
University of Texas Press
How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America’s most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.
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