Through an analysis of twenty-first-century films created in Latin America, this book makes the case that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and that their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region.

Written for movement professionals, this book is packed full of research and practices that take a whole body approach to working with pregnant clients.

A comprehensive guide to the many extraordinary works of public art available on the UT-Austin campus.

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies

Undocumented in the U. S. South is a rare look into the everyday realities of undocumented youth in K-12 public schools. In an anti-immigrant policy context, youth and their families navigate historical and current legacies and realities of segregation, racial discrimination and inequality. With a deep three-year ethnographic study, hundreds of hours of observational research, interviews, and policy analysis, Rodriguez traces the lives of undocumented youth across multiple public school settings, calling for policies that are humanizing and rooted in youth experience.

A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children’s literature

An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film

A comprehensive history of Mississippians struggling to define freedom after the Civil War

A new edition of a classic book telling the history of all of Mississippi’s peoples