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The Type V City

Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America

University of Texas Press
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Radiophonic Feminisms

Latina Voices in the Digital Age of Broadcasting

University of Texas Press

How Latina voices in commercial radio and podcasting subvert cultural norms and bring feminism to the fore of their work.

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Tarab

Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

University of Texas Press

How the concept of ṭarab has impacted music and culture across the Islamic world.

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Sideways Selves

Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas

University of Texas Press

How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. 

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Culinary Mestizaje

Racial Mixing and Foodways across the United States

University of Texas Press

How cross-racial and ethnic communities have created new culinary traditions and food cultures in the United States.

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The Mountain Embodied

Head Shaping and Personhood in the Ancient Andes

University of Texas Press

A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations.

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Out of the Gutters

Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

University of Texas Press

How comics and graphic novels use obscenity and other taboos to shed light on important issues.

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The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii

University of Texas Press

A study of women’s lives in the public sphere of the ancient city of Pompeii.

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Lineages of the Global City

Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy

University of Texas Press

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early-twentieth-century global city.

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I Am My Own Path

Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos

University of Texas Press

A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets.

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Texas Takes Shape

A History in Maps from the General Land Office

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.

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Decolonial Environmentalisms

Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production

University of Texas Press

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.

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The Mobile Image

Prints and the Shaping of Devotional Networks from Lima to the Andes and Beyond

University of Texas Press

A study of the production and movement of prints in colonial South America.

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The Social Life of Indianism

Politics and Indigeneity in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia

University of Texas Press

A sophisticated analysis of an influential Indigenous political ideology.

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Dos X

Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture

University of Texas Press

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing.

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I'd Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee

Uncovering Racialized Desire in the Star Wars Galaxy

University of Texas Press

How the Star Wars trilogies and their fandoms have engaged with and mirrored American beliefs about race and gender.

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Bridging Sonic Borders

Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature

University of Texas Press

How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers’ identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.

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The Intimacy of Images

Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca

University of Texas Press

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other “special dead.”

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Spanish-Language Television

Cultural and Industrial Transformations

University of Texas Press

How Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape.

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Objects of Empire

The Ceramic Tradition of the Imperial Inca State

University of Texas Press

A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.

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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

University of Texas Press

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.

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The Architecture of the Playing Field

Shaping Space in Sport

University of Texas Press

A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes’ creativity and spectators’ evolving experiences of sport.

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New Directions in Israeli Media

Film, Television, and Digital Content

Edited by Yaron Peleg
University of Texas Press

A comprehensive analysis of the major trends and developments in contemporary Israeli media.

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War in Syria and the Middle East

A Political and Economic History

University of Texas Press

A wide-ranging examination of the causes of war in Syria and the Middle East.

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Landscaping Indigenous Mexico

The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands

University of Texas Press

A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes.

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Iranians in Texas

Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity

University of Texas Press

An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the present day.

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Mezcal in Oaxaca

A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace

University of Texas Press

An ethnography of mezcal and how it has become a global, "artisanal" good.

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Why Alanis Morissette Matters

University of Texas Press

The first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill.

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Culinary Palettes

The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art

University of Texas Press

How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico.

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Screen to Screen

The Poster Art of Austin City Limits

University of Texas Press

Limited edition posters celebrating the artists and artwork of Austin City Limits.

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Somos Tejanas!

Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas

University of Texas Press

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.

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The Interior

Recentering Brazilian History

University of Texas Press

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

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Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain

Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives

University of Texas Press

Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

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Texian Exodus

The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy

University of Texas Press

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur

From Film Noir to the Director's Chair

University of Texas Press

An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Undoing Modernity

Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan

University of Texas Press

An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.

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Sports through the Lens

Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

University of Texas Press

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.

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Arretium (Arezzo)

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.

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Ancient Maya Teeth

Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica

University of Texas Press

A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.

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