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Grandmothers on Guard
Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border
University of Texas Press
An incisive portrait of nationalism in the United States, Grandmothers on Guard tells the story of older women who found meaning and community in the Minutemen, an anti-immigrant vigilante movement.
Vital Voids
Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture
University of Texas Press
An innovative study argues that in Mesoamerica, holes were conceived and produced as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
University of Texas Press
This close analysis of Alfonso Cuarón’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban examines how collaborative authorship produced a thematically layered blockbuster film with a distinctively cinematic point of view.
The Myth of the Amateur
A History of College Athletic Scholarships
University of Texas Press
A deft examination of the controversy over paying men and women college athletes, which persuasively argues that, for all the NCAA’s insistence on amateurism today, college sports have never been amateur.
Seeing Sideways
A Memoir of Music and Motherhood
University of Texas Press
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rat Girl, this beautifully written memoir takes readers on an emotional journey through the author’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood.
A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles
A History of Politics and Race in Texas
University of Texas Press
A new look at the last 150 years of Texas’s contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state’s famous, infamous, and unsung figures.
Why Solange Matters
University of Texas Press
A Black feminist punk performer and important new voice recounts the dramatic story of an incandescent musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success on her own terms was far more important than her family name.
Roots of Resistance
A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras
University of Texas Press
A first-of-its-kind study of the working-class culture of resistance on the Honduran North Coast and the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention at the onset of the Cold War, examining gender, race, and place.
Land without Masters
Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government
By Anna Cant
University of Texas Press
A fresh perspective on the way the Peruvian government's major 1969 agrarian reforms transformed the social, cultural, and political landscape of the country.
From a Taller Tower
The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
University of Texas Press
There is no silence on earth deeper than the silence between gunshots; From a Taller Tower faces the depths of that silence, which follows in the wake of the mass shootings that have plagued the United States.
Arrian the Historian
Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire
University of Texas Press
The most comprehensive study to date of Arrian of Nicomedia as a historical thinker, this book enriches broader understandings of the way history is written and sheds new light on intellectual culture in the Roman Empire.
The First New Chronicle and Good Government
On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615
University of Texas Press
An authoritative, annotated English translation from the original manuscript of one of the best sources for understanding the culture of the Incas and the first century of colonial Peru.
Tragedy Plus Time
National Trauma and Television Comedy
University of Texas Press
As the saying goes, “Comedy equals tragedy plus time,” but in the face of tragedies on a national scale, comedy becomes the medium through which audiences untangle accepted understandings of what it means to be American.
Banana Cultures
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
By John Soluri
University of Texas Press
A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became America's most popular fresh fruit and how its popularity has affected the “banana republics” of Central America.
Why Labelle Matters
By Adele Bertei
University of Texas Press
Crafting a legacy all their own, the reinvented Labelle subverted the “girl group” aesthetic to invoke the act’s Afrofuturist spirit and make manifest their vision of Black womanhood.
The Sports Revolution
How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
University of Texas Press
The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.
A Singing Army
Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School
By Kim Ruehl
University of Texas Press
The first biography of activist and musician Zilphia Horton, a woman who inspired thousands of working people and left a legacy that changed the world.
Modernity for the Masses
Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
University of Texas Press
A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.
It Can Be This Way Always
Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival
University of Texas Press
A graceful and searching photographic ode to the people of the Kerrville Folk Festival, who gather annually in the Texas Hill Country to celebrate music and live an idealistic combination of nonconformity and intentional community.
Lone Star Vistas
Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861
By Astrid Haas
University of Texas Press
In the early and mid-nineteenth century, travelers from Mexico, Germany, and the United States wrote vivid accounts of their experiences in Texas, helping to craft a lasting yet contested identity for the territory.
Herodotus and the Question Why
University of Texas Press
An intriguing study of the methods used by the Father of History, providing a new window into ancient historiography and the interwoven nature of scientific and historical discovery.
Promiscuous Power
An Unorthodox History of New Spain
University of Texas Press
Using the rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories of the local officials and settlers who first colonized Mexico, this iconoclastic book reveals the inherent difficulties of imposing a colonial order in the Americas.
Violence in the Hill Country
The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era
University of Texas Press
An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.
This Far and No Further
Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement
University of Texas Press
In This Far and No Further, photographer William Abranowicz delivers more than one hundred contemporary images of the places that shaped the civil rights movement, proving the Edmund Pettus Bridge and other historic sites still have stories to tell.
Brown Trans Figurations
Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
University of Texas Press
One of the first books focused solely on the trans Latinx experience, Brown Trans Figurations describes how transness and brownness interact within queer, trans, and Latinx historical narratives and material contexts.
Renegades and Rogues
The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard
By Todd B. Vick
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive biography of Robert E. Howard, the enigmatic creator of Conan the Barbarian and progenitor of the sword and sorcery genre, who published hundreds of short stories and poems before taking his own life at the age of thirty.
Borderlands Curanderos
The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
University of Texas Press
A historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands, rallied their communities, and challenged institutional powers.
Descendants of Aztec Pictography
The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive examination of Aztec pictorial encyclopedias and their creation, this book explores how indigenous artists documented their ancestral culture in these texts for those outside their community.
J. Frank Dobie
A Liberated Mind
University of Texas Press
Taking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978 An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.
Empire of the Superheroes
America’s Comic Book Creators and the Making of a Billion-Dollar Industry
University of Texas Press
A detailed look at the evolution of superhero comics from cheap pulp products to a billion-dollar film and publishing industry, and the artists' battles for their intellectual property and financial freedom.
Struggle for Justice
Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography
By Don Carleton
University of Texas Press
Struggle for Justice celebrates the legacy of the photographers who helped galvanize public support for the civil rights movement, often at great personal risk.
Kalima wa Nagham
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 1
University of Texas Press
This introductory level textbook presents an innovative Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that uses dialogues and songs to enhance language learning and build cultural awareness.
The Starting Line
Latina/o Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early Education
University of Texas Press
A deeply researched work that sheds light on growing income inequality in Texas and how early education programs, particularly among low-income Latina/o populations, result in varying degrees of success and failure.
Supersex
Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
Edited by Anna Peppard
University of Texas Press
From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.
Her Cup for Sweet Cacao
Food in Ancient Maya Society
Edited by Traci Ardren
University of Texas Press
Presenting new data from leading scholars in the field, this collection uses evidence from archaeology, hieroglyphic texts, chemical analyses, and art to explore the many ways food was integral to Classic Maya society.
Soldiers and Silver
Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest
University of Texas Press
A detailed comparative study of resources and military mobilizations in the ancient Mediterranean, this book examines how Rome achieved hegemony over the region and offers a new understanding of the economy of that time.
Haunting Without Ghosts
Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art
University of Texas Press
An ambitious critical account of "spectral realism," a new, politically charged strain of literature, film, and art that responds to Colombia's drug wars, paramilitary violence, and resulting demands for justice.
Miró Rivera Architects
Building a New Arcadia
By Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera
University of Texas Press
The award-winning work of Miró Rivera Architects is explored through texts, drawings, and original photography; from the Circuit of the Americas to Vertical House, this richly illustrated book offers a unique approach to understanding architecture and urbanism in Texas and beyond.
Lake|Flato
Nature, Place, Craft & Restraint
By Lake|Flato Architects
University of Texas Press
Since 1984 Lake|Flato Architects has been winning awards for its unique buildings committed to sustainability, beauty, and community; this generously illustrated book presents the firm’s most striking creations.
Honky Tonk Hero
By Billy Joe Shaver and Brad Reagan
University of Texas Press
The autobiography of the man Willie Nelson says “may be the best songwriter alive today”.
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