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Mexican Americans and the Question of Race
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies and identifications and how they choose to present them to others.
Man and Beast
Photographs from Mexico and India
University of Texas Press
This remarkably engaging, occasionally unsettling photo essay by the internationally acclaimed photographer of Seen Behind the Scene, Exposure, Falkland Road, and Ward 81 presents powerful images, most never before published, that probe the humanity of an
Pretty/Funny
Women Comedians and Body Politics
University of Texas Press
Focusing on star writer/performer comedians—Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres—Pretty/Funny demonstrates that women’s comedy has become a prime site of feminism in the twenty-first century.
Pillar of Salt
An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
University of Texas Press
Written with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico’s foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and “living dangerously” as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.
Islands of Empire
Pop Culture and U.S. Power
University of Texas Press
Examining a broad range of pop culture media—film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature—Fojas explores the United States as an empire and how it has narrated its relationship to its island territories.
Red Scare
Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas
By Don Carleton; Introduction by John Henry Faulk
University of Texas Press
Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle be
Killer on the Road
Violence and the American Interstate
University of Texas Press
By the author of the acclaimed Inventing Niagara . . . True crime meets cultural history in this fascinating story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity—for serial killers.
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
University of Texas Press
Refuting claims from both the political right and left, this dynamic narrative history brings to life the long-forgotten founding struggles over American finance, economics, and taxes and reveals their immense and startling relevance to political struggle
Conspiracy Theory in America
University of Texas Press
Asking tough questions and connecting the dots across decades of suspicious events, from the Kennedy assassinations to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, this book raises crucial questions about the consequences of Americans’ unwillingness to suspect high gove
City on Fire
The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
University of Texas Press
First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of most catastrophic disasters in American history.
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