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Looking for Carrascolendas
From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
By Aida Barrera
University of Texas Press
In this engagingly written memoir, creator-producer Aida Barrera describes how the mythical world of Carrascolendas grew out of her real-life experiences as a Mexican American child growing up in the Valley of South Texas.
Homesteads Ungovernable
Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860
University of Texas Press
Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823–1860).
Telling Stories, Writing Songs
An Album of Texas Songwriters
University of Texas Press
In this collection of thirty-four interviews with Texas songwriters, Kathleen Hudson pursues the stories behind the songs, letting the singers' own words describe where their songs come from and how the diverse, eclectic cultures, landscapes, and musical
Prehistory of the Rustler Hills
Granado Cave
University of Texas Press
This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of the little-known prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Northeastern Trans-Pecos region.
Mexican Suite
A History of Photography in Mexico
By Olivier Debroise; Translated by Stella de Sá Rego
University of Texas Press
The English translation of the first comprehensive history of photography in Mexico.
Max Ernst and Alchemy
A Magician in Search of Myth
By M. E. Warlick; Introduction by Franklin Rosemont
University of Texas Press
Taking a wholly different perspective on Max Ernst and alchemy, the author persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.
La Gran Línea
Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857
By Paula Rebert
University of Texas Press
This book documents the accomplishments of both the U.S. and the Mexican Boundary Commissions that mapped the boundary between 1849 and 1857.
Intercultural Communication
A Practical Guide
University of Texas Press
An authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following "the rules" that govern cultures, with a demonstration of how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico.
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable memoir, Bernard Gordon tells a engrossing insider’s story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era.
Blood in the Arena
The Spectacle of Roman Power
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the Roman amphitheater as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces.
Bandits, Peasants, and Politics
The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
University of Texas Press
A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.
A Poetics for Screenwriters
By Lance Lee
University of Texas Press
A thorough overview of all the dramatic elements of screenplays.
The Lieutenant Nun
Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
University of Texas Press
This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed.
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
By Betty De Shong Meador; Introduction by Judy Grahn
University of Texas Press
Translations of the oldest written literature to have a known author: the Inanna poems by the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna.
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
By Gerald Horne
University of Texas Press
This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the Conference of Studio Unions strike and the resulting lockout of 1946.
Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
A B-Novel
By Caio Fernando Abreu; Translated by Adria Frizzi
University of Texas Press
In this novel, a forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna is called upon to write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier.
Joyce and the Two Irelands
University of Texas Press
This book fully explores James Joyce’s complex response to the Irish Revival and his extensive treatment of the relationship between the "two Irelands" in his letters, essays, book reviews, and fiction.
How Cities Work
Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
University of Texas Press
A hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.
Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive description and analysis of gender and power relations in prehispanic Mesoamerica.
Warm Springs Millennium
Voices from the Reservation
University of Texas Press
Stories from a Native American reservation, giving the voices of a living and viable people.
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