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A Curious Mix of People

The Underground Scene of '90s Austin

University of Texas Press

A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.

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Narcomedia

Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs

University of Texas Press

Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.

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Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

University of Texas Press

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

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The Entablo Manuscript

Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru

University of Texas Press

A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.

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In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

University of Texas Press

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

University of Texas Press

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music.

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Why Mariah Carey Matters

University of Texas Press

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,

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The New Public Art

Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s

University of Texas Press

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive biography of one of Texas’s most important female writers—made complete with examples of her work, excerpts from her private papers, and eighteen previously unpublished letters from her mentor, H. L. Mencken.

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Pastures of the Empty Page

Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

Edited by George Getschow
University of Texas Press

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life

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Ghostlight

University of Texas Press

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.

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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

University of Texas Press

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

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Duchess of Palms

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.

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The Empire of Effects

Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism

University of Texas Press

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.

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Danger Pay

Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

University of Texas Press

An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.

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