University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Human Cost of Food
Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost...
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
Five Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Mexican women writers have moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining...
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier...
Xicoténcatl
An anonymous historical novel about the events leading up to the conquest of the Aztec empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
As Spain's New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, an anonymous author looked back on the earlier struggle of native Americans against the Spanish conquistadores and penned this novel, Xicotncatl. Writing from a decidedly anti-Spanish perspective, the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various...
Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building, Junior Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer onginal mnemonic rimes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire...
Big Bend
A Homesteader's Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
To the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. O. Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in search of health and a home. High on a bluff overlooking the spot where Tornillo Creek pours its waters into the turbulent Rio Grande, the Langfords built their home,...
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid...
by Rosemary A. Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the...
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Conversations with Writers and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil...
Drugs, Thugs, and Divas
Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas—telenovelas—have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-dramas...
Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian...
Errant Journeys
Adventure Travel in a Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Tourism is becoming one of the world's most important economic activities. There is hardly a place on earth, no matter how inaccessible, that has not been visited by some traveler seeking adventure, enlightenment, or simply change from the familiar world back home. In this pathfinding book, David...
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and...