University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Jennifer S. Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Kevin M. Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in...
Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House
Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions...
Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community
Power, Conflict, and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some now fear that the status they have gained by...
From Time Immemorial
Indigenous Peoples and State Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Around the globe, people who have lived in a place "from time immemorial" have found themselves confronted by and ultimately incorporated within larger state systems. During more than three decades of anthropological study of groups ranging from the Apache to the indigenous peoples of Kenya, Richard...
Pretty/Funny
Women Comedians and Body Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology is...
The Struggle for Peace
Israelis and Palestinians
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The determination of ordinary people to end regional and global conflicts is powerful despite the forces opposing them. The Struggle for Peace explores how average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worked for peace in the late twentieth century. Essays by noted scholars are juxtaposed...
Barrio-Logos
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Ral Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying...
Profiles in Power
Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Profiles in Power offers concise biographies of fourteen twentieth-century Texans who wielded significant political power and influence in Washington, D.C. First published in 1993 by Harlan Davidson, it has been revised and updated with new chapters on John Nance Garner and Henry Gonzalez and expanded...
Understanding Misunderstandings
A Practical Guide to More Successful Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Have you ever meant one thing, but said another? Reacted angrily when no offense was intended? Wished that the earth would open up and swallow you? Understanding Misunderstandings will help you get out and stay out of these difficulties. Robert L. Young explains why many common types of misunderstandings...
Citizens and Sportsmen
Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, played every four years, draws an audience of more than a billion people and provides a global platform...
Delirious New Orleans
Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From iconic neighborhoods such as the French Quarter and the Garden District to more economically modest but no less culturally vibrant areas, architecture is a key element that makes New Orleans an extraordinary American city. Delirious New Orleans began as a documentary project to capture the idiosyncratic...
Tampico
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Four old men—John, Gino, Larry, and Frank—have been warehoused at "the Manor," a long-eroded home for the forgotten. The men take turns telling stories, stalling death as they relive pivotal parts of their pasts. Outside, the cliff crumbles and a lighthouse slips toward the sea.John, in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production...