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Tootsie Tomanetz, Snow’s BBQ, Lexington, from Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown by Wyatt McSpadden
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Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century, Perlman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 As Far as You Can See, Braun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92–95 Banking on Beauty, Arenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40–43 The Black Trilogy, Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–19 Chicana Movidas, Espinoza et al., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72–73 CinemaTexas Notes, Black & Swords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68–69 The Comedy Studies Reader, Marx & Sienkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Country Music USA (50th anniversary edition), Malone & Laird . . . . . . . . . . . . 20–21 Depositions, Seavitt Nordenson. . . . . . . . . . 36–39 Desierto (reissue), Bowden . . . 15 The Design of Protest, Hatuka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Dolph Briscoe (new in paper), Briscoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Educator’s Guide to Texas School Law: Ninth Edition, Walsh et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Eugenics in the Garden, López-Durán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 72, McCann & North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Harvey Penick (new in paper), Robbins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30–31 Homer in Performance, Ready & Tsagalis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 How to Suppress Women’s Writing (reissue), Russ . . . . 44–45 A Library for the Americas, Gilland & Montelongo . . . . .78–79 Life in Oil, Cepek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Making Plans, Steiner. . . . . . . . . . 57 The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz, Palmer & Pomerance . . . . . . 62–63 The Mechanical Horse (new in paper), Guroff . . . . 46–47 No Depression: Spring 2018, FreshGrass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 No Depression: Summer 2018, FreshGrass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites (new edition), Parent. . . . . . . . . . 102–103 Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution, Yaqub . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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B o ok s f o r th e Trad e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–51
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Trade Backlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23–25, 48–49
B o o ks f o r S cho l a rs
Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87–89
Scholars Backlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59, 61, 75
Series Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Texas Backlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107–109
Te xa s o n Te xa s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90–106
Tower B o o k s
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Jo u r nals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114–123
S a l e s I nf o r mati o n
S ta ff L i st
S al e s Re p re se ntati ve s
Words of Passage, Dick. . . . . . . . 84
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before, Mafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law, Wallace & Cypert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
A War Remembered, Updegrove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Walmart in the Global South, Bank Muñoz et al., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The Vanishing Frame, Di Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
A Thirsty Land, McGraw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–11
There All the Honor Lies, Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Texas Wildflowers (new edition), Loughmiller & Marcus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100–101
Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown, McSpadden, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96–99
I nde x by Au th o r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
A Place of Darkness, Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Promiscuous Power, Nesvig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Public Pages, Schwartz . . . . . . . . 85 Recovering Inequality, Kroll-Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The Red Caddy, Bowden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–13 Red Hot Mama, Sklaroff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27 Red Line (reissue), Bowden. . . 14 REMEX, Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 São Paulo, Correa . . . . . . . . . 32–35 Screening Stephen King, Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 The Senses of Democracy, Masiello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76–77 Speaker Jim Wright, Flippen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28–29 A Spy in the House of Loud, Stamey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, Dyer . . . . 6–9
Copyright © 2017 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Front cover photo: Mary Ellen Mark from The Black Trilogy by Ralph Gibson. Back cover photo: Aaron Franklin, Franklin Barbecue, Austin from Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown by Wyatt McSpadden. Catalog design by Simon Renwick.
Photo from Days at Sea in The Black Trilogy by Ralph Gibson
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| p h o t o g r a p h y | Collections and Criticism
In the tradition of John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, award-winning author Geoff Dyer writes one hundred essays about one hundred photographs, including previously unpublished color work, by renowned street photographer Garry Winogrand
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | SPRING 2018
Garry Winogrand—along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander—was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronoGarry Winogrand, 1967. Photo by Jonathan Brand. logical and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eyeopening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing.
The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand BY GEOFF DYER
G E O F F DY ER Los A ngeles, Ca lifor ni a Dyer’s many books include The Ongoing Moment (winner of the International Center of Photography’s prestigious Infinity Award for Writing/Criticism), But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer Rage (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award). His latest book is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. Dyer is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.
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1960, New York
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PRAISE FOR THE STREET PHILOSOPHY OF GARRY WINOGRAND “I can’t think of any other book quite like this one: an entirely new, and quite unfamiliar, take on Winogrand and a welcome addition to the work on this iconic photographer. I found the book to be a terrifically good read, as well as a refreshing and innovative take on an artist whose work I thought I knew well.” —COREY KELLER curator of photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“Dyer has cracked open a window on Winogrand that’s always been there but never been opened.” — J E F F R E Y F RA E N K E L Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
“Geoff Dyer is so open to every aspect of art that when he turns his eyes and heart to the photography of Garry Winogrand we get the full benefit of his education, his insight, and the transparency of his prose, and we cherish the fact that his voice lives in our head for a moment to intensify and elucidate—but never explain—why these images mean so much.” — M AT T H E W W E I N E R creator of Mad Men
“Geoff Dyer has created a kind of Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Winogrand . . . how Winogrand becomes Winogrand. This book is a revelatory pleasure from beginning to end, a lesson in the pleasure of seeing. It is a smart book, but it’s a wise book, too.” —ALEX HARRIS
“This handsome collection amounts to an extensive tour of Winogrand’s photographs conducted by a savvy, observant, and highly entertaining guide. No longer still, Winogrand’s images are animated here by the turns and jumps of Geoff Dyer’s lively commentary.” — B I L LY C O L L I N S
Duke University, coeditor of Arrivals and Departures: The Airport Photographs of Garry Winogrand
former Poet Laureate of the United States
1961, New York
1980–1983, Santa Monica
1968, New York
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| history | Environmental History
Joining the debates begun by Cadillac Desert and Water Is For Fighting Over, A Thirsty Land ranges from epic struggles over water usage in the face of climate change and population growth to innovative technologies for increasing the supply
A Thirsty Land
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“America’s Future Is Texas,” a recent New Yorker article by Lawrence Wright proclaimed. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea? Is it in the nature of Americans to adapt to nature in flux? The most comprehensive—and comprehensible—book on contemporary water issues, A Thirsty Land delves deep into the challenges faced not just by Texas but by the nation as a whole, as we struggle to find a way to balance the changing forces of nature with our own ever-expanding needs. Part history, part science, part adventure story, and part travelogue, this book puts a human face on the struggle to master that most precious and capricious of resources, water. Seamus McGraw goes to the taproots, talking to farmers, ranchers, businesspeople, and citizen activists, as well as to politicians and government employees. Their stories provide chilling evidence that Texas—and indeed the nation—is not ready for the next devastating drought, the next catastrophic flood. Ultimately, however, A Thirsty Land delivers hope. This deep dive into one of the most vexing challenges facing Texas and the nation offers glimpses of the way forward in the untapped opportunities that water also presents.
The Making of an American Water Crisis BY SE AMUS MCGR AW
S E A M U S M CGRAW Northeastern Pennsylvania McGraw is the author of The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone and Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change. His award-winning writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Playboy, Popular Mechanics, and Reader’s Digest.
Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
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From the book
This is a book about water. And Texas. But it’s more than that. If Texas is unique—and it is—that is not because the challenges it faces are necessarily peculiar to Texas. What makes Texas unique is the fact that virtually all the maddeningly complicated elements in an increasingly complex and unstable world can be found there, from its parched deserts and its overburdened rivers, to the high plains in danger of running out of groundwater, to its storm-prone coastal lowlands. Those challenges seem clearer in Texas, perhaps, because it is a place of extremes, a place where it’s often hard to ignore the whims of nature. And the lessons that can be learned from that go way beyond Texas as well. Texans have always struggled to rise to that challenge, sometimes succeeding, often failing, but usually doing it first, while the rest of the nation takes notes. . . . And so, this book is about much more than water, and much more than Texas. It’s about dwindling resources and the battle over them in a world that is growing by leaps and bounds. But mostly, this is a book about us.
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Also by Seamus McGraw
Betting the Farm on a Drought
Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change
ISBN 978-0-292-75661-8
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ISBN 978-1-4773-0383-2
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CHARLES BOWDEN THE RED CADDY Into the Unknown with
EDWARD ABBEY Foreword by
LUIS ALBERTO URREA
| literature | Biography/Memoir
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer
The C har le s B ow d en Pub lishi ng Project
The Red Caddy Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey BY CHARLES BOWDEN
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A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.”
For e wor d by Lu is A l berto Urr e a
C H A R L ES B OWDEN (1945–2014) Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, Bowden was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice. He wrote The Red Caddy in 1994.
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From the book
It’s very depressing to know and like someone and then have them die and be made into a saint. It is like watching them being buried alive. . . . And people start asking strange questions. What did he eat? And you say
testily, food. Where did he live? In a house. . . . I order a coffee and fall back into my dour mood. I feel some kind of . . .
guilt? sin? I can’t put my finger on it. They want to know what can be known but they do not want to know what can’t be known. They want anecdotes, little intimacies, clues to habits and dress, pieces of the True Beer Can or
True Old Pickup Truck. But they do not want to know who he really was, that core part each of us carries that others can only guess at and never really comprehend or possess—that we ourselves cannot fully understand.
The most important part of a person remains unknown even to the person. . . . Where the light comes from and why. Why this book? And after that, why that book? Why the books at all?
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Why all this effort and pain? That is the part we seldom if ever get to know about ourselves. We are usually afraid to ask, but should we be of unusual courage, our questioning will normally avail us very little. It is much easier to find out who someone slept with than to discover what animated their waking hours and rode roughshod through the dreams that filled their nights. Such things almost always remain mysteries for a very simple reason. We do not know in any very convincing fashion why we are alive or why life itself exists.
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BACK IN PRINT
Red Line BY CHARLES BOWDEN for e wor d by Ja mes Ga lv i n “At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.”
| literature |
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“Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.” — J I M H A R R I S O N
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— DAV I D R I E F F Los Angeles Times Book Review
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C H AR L ES B OW D EN
Desierto
Memories of the Future
F O R E W O R D B Y W I L L I A M de B U Y S
Desierto
Memories of the Future
BY CHARLES BOWDEN
for e wor d by Wil l i a m deBu ys
BACK IN PRINT
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“In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican border with saints and sinners, but his enduring hero is the desert itself.” — K I R K U S R E V I E W S
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“A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and —LOS ANGELES TIMES Indian feuds.”
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| p h o t o g r a p h y | Fine Art
This volume reissues iconic photographer Ralph Gibson’s acclaimed “Black Trilogy”—
The Somnambulist (1970), Deja-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1974)—radically innovative books
that created a new model for the photobook genre
The Black Trilogy BY RALPH GIBSON Te x t by Gil l es Mor a
An iconic American fine art photographer renowned for his highly surrealist vision, Ralph Gibson is a master of the photography book, which he considers an art form in its own right. In 1970, he founded Lustrum Press, a publishing house dedicated to photography books, and inaugurated it with three volumes—The Somnambulist (1970), Deja-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1974)—that showcased his own work in an uncompromisingly radical and demanding way. These books came to be known as Gibson’s “Black Trilogy” and are now considered classics of the twentieth-century photobook genre. Making a clean break with the prior conventions of the photography book, “The Black Trilogy” created a new visual syntax—page layouts, the pairing of photographs face-to-face, graphic and thematic echoes—that provided a unique language for photographic communication. It soon became the model for a generation of young photographers, including Larry Clark, Danny Seymour, Mary Ellen Mark, Yves Guillot, and Arnaud Claass. “The Black Trilogy” volumes went out of print long ago and have become highly collectible. This reissue, with a new essay by the distinguished photographer and curator Gilles Mora, includes all three books in a single volume.
From The Somnambulist (1970)
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RALPH GIBSON
New Yor k , New Yor k
Gibson’s photography has won numerous honors, including the Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the French Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Leica Medal of Excellence, and the Photographic Society of Japan “150 Years of Photography” Award. His work has been collected by 150 museums internationally.
G ILLE S M O RA
Mon tpellier, Fr a nce
Mora is the photographer/author of the photobook Antebellum. Currently he is the director of the city of Montpellier’s Pavillon Populaire. He was awarded the Nadar Prize for The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies.
Copublished with Editions Hazan
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1626-9
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From Deja Vu (1973)
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“Ralph Gibson’s Lustrum Press trilogy of the mid-1970s was immensely popular and influential. . . . Many of the pictures are amongst the most recognizable from the time . . . a surreal dreamscape, gently erotic, with a frisson of danger.”
From Deja Vu (1973)
— F R O M T H E P H O T O B O O K : A H I S T O R Y, V O L U M E 1 by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger
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Also by Ralph Gibson
ISBN 978-1-4773-0994-0
Political Abstraction
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Country Music USA 50th Anniversary Edition
B Y B I L L C. M A L O N E A N D T R A C E Y E . W. L A I R D The essential companion to the 2019 Ken Burns documentary on country music in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Country Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium. Malone has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.
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| m u s i c | American Studies
“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.”
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1537-8
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1534-7
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1535-4
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Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
Laird is the author or editor of four books, including Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River, and Austin City Limits: A Monument to the Music, the latter coauthored with Brandon W. Laird.
Atl a n ta, Georgi a
T RAC E Y E . W. L AIR D
In 2008, Malone received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music. His recent books include Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music.
M a dison, Wisconsin
B I LL C . M ALO N E
Country Music: An American Family Story
—KEN BURNS AND DAYTON DUNCAN,
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Considered the definitive history of American country music.”
from In a Narrow Grave
“If anyone knows more about the subject than [Malone] does, God help them.” —LARRY MCMURTRY
“With Country Music USA, Bill Malone wrote the Bible for country music history and scholarship. This groundbreaking work, now updated, is the definitive chronicle of the sweeping drama of the country music experience.”
—CHET FLIPPO former editorial director, CMT: Country Mu sic Television and CMT.com
“Country Music USA is the definitive history of country music and of the artists who shaped its fascinating worlds.”
—WILLIAM FERRIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
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A cofounder of the dB’s, Chris Stamey re-creates the music scene in late 1970s New York City,
| m u s i c | Biography/Memoir
have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris,
A diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country music artists who
| music |
R E C E N T LY P U B L I S H E D
recalling the birth of punk and other new streams of electric music as well as the making of the cult
Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Swift
“Truly stunning.”
— PA S T E
“Best Music Books of the Fall”
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—HENRY CARRIGAN No Depression
“In unexpected, enduring ways, the essays in this collection illustrate powerful truth.”
—SALON.COM 30 Must-Read Music Books This Fall
“The deeply personal pieces often feel like the authors are cracking open a secret chest, sharing treasured glimpses into their true selves.”
— P U B L I S H E R S W E E K LY
—PEOPLE
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to see Who’s Reading Woman Walk the Line:
turn the page
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Jessica Hopper, David Menconi, and Oliver Wang, Editors
American Music Series
“A rhapsodic, moving look at music’s transformative power.”
“Each of the twenty-seven essays focuses on the experience of when music was a savior, an inspiration, or an acknowledgement of a deep and personal truth.” — A S S O C I A T E D P R E S S
E D I T E D B Y H O L LY G L E A S O N
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Woman Walk the Line
albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion
A Spy in the House of Loud
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Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely coopted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery’s CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were rewriting the rules. Just twenty years old and newly arrived from North Carolina, Stamey immersed himself in the action, playing a year with Alex Chilton before forming the dB’s and recording the albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion, which still have an enthusiastic following. A Spy in the House of Loud vividly captures the energy that drove the music scene as arena rock gave way to punk and other new streams of electric music. Stamey tells engrossing backstories about creating in the recording studio, describing both the inspiration and the harmonic decisions behind many of his compositions, as well as providing insights into other people’s music and the process of songwriting. Photos, mixer-channel and track assignment notes, and other inside-the-studio materials illustrate the stories. Revealing another side of the CBGB era, which has been stereotyped as punk rock, safety pins, and provocation, A Spy in the House of Loud portrays a southern artist’s coming-of-age in New York’s frontier abandon as he searches for new ways to break the rules and make some noise.
New York Songs and Stories BY CHRIS S TAME Y
C H R IS STAMEY Chapel Hill, North Carolina Stamey has participated in indie music of all stripes since the 1970s, as both a musician and a producer. His recent albums include Lovesick Blues and Euphoria, as well as Falling Off the Sky with the dB’s. As a producer, he has worked with Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Flat Duo Jets, Skylar Gudasz, Tift Merritt, Le Tigre, and Yo La Tengo.
American Music Series Jessica Hopper, David Menconi, and Oliver Wang, Editors
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| h i s t o r y | American Studies; Film, Media, and Popular Culture
This entertaining biography of the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” reveals how Sophie Tucker became
one of the most powerful women in show business, blazing a trail for performers such as Judy Gar-
land, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler
Red Hot Mama
The Life of Sophie Tucker
BY L AUREN REBECCA SKL AROFF
The “First Lady of Show Business” and the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” Sophie Tucker was a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, song-belting stage performer, she entertained audiences for sixty years and inspired a host of younger women, including Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler. Tucker was a woman who defied traditional expectations and achieved success on her own terms, becoming the first female president of the American Federation of Actors and winning many other honors usually bestowed on men. Dedicated to social justice, she advocated for African Americans in the entertainment industry and cultivated friendships with leading black activists and performers. Tucker was also one of the most generous philanthropists in show business, raising over four million dollars for the religious and racial causes she held dear. Drawing from the hundreds of scrapbooks Tucker compiled, Red Hot Mama presents a compelling biography of this larger-thanlife performer. Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff tells an engrossing story of how a daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants set her sights on becoming one of the most formidable women in show business and achieved her version of the American dream. More than most of her contemporaries, Tucker understood how to keep her act fresh, to change branding when audiences grew tired and, most importantly, how to connect with her fans, the press, and entertainment moguls. Both deservedly famous and unjustly forgotten today, Tucker stands out as an exemplar of the immigrant experience and a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry.
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L AURE N R EBE C CA S KLA R OF F
Colu mbi a, Sou th Ca rolina
A leading scholar of American cultural history, Sklaroff is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era and the recipient of an NEH public scholars fellowship.
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| h i s t o r y | United States, Texas, Biography, Politics
Drawing on the author’s unprecedented access to Jim Wright before his death, this biography reveals how the former US House majority leader and speaker shaped the political culture of Congress that endures today, some three decades after his fall from power
Speaker Jim Wright Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics
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Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and he was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A Democrat representing Texas’s twelfth district (Fort Worth), Wright served in the US House of Representatives from the Eisenhower administration to the presidency of George H. W. Bush, including twelve years (1977–1989) as majority leader and speaker. His long congressional ascension and sudden fall in a highly partisan ethics scandal spearheaded by Newt Gingrich mirrored the evolution of Congress as an institution. Speaker Jim Wright traces the congressman’s long life and career in a highly readable narrative grounded in extensive interviews with Wright and access to his personal diaries. A skilled connector who bridged the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic party while forging alliances with Republicans to pass legislation, Wright ultimately fell victim to a new era of political infighting, as well as to his own hubris and mistakes. J. Brooks Flippen shows how Wright’s career shaped the political culture of Congress, from its internal rules and power structure to its growing partisanship, even as those new dynamics eventually contributed to his political demise. To understand Jim Wright in all his complexity is to understand the story of modern American politics.
BY J. BRO OKS F LIPPEN
J . B R OOK S FL I PPEN Dur a n t, Ok l a hom a Flippen is a professor of history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. His previous books are Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right, Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism, and Nixon and the Environment.
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N E W I N PA P E R B A C K This biography of legendary golf pro Harvey Penick, which won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, reveals how he distilled a lifetime of coaching on and off the course into the best-selling sports book of all time, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book
Harvey Penick The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf BY KEVIN ROBBINS
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Millions of people were charmed by the homespun golf advice dispensed in Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, which became the best-selling sports book of all time. Yet, beyond the Texas golf courses where Penick happily toiled for the better part of eight decades, few people knew the self-made golf pro who coaxed the best out of countless greats—Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Betsy Rawls, Mickey Wright—all champions who considered Penick their coach and lifelong friend. In Harvey Penick, Kevin Robbins tells the story of this legendary steward of the game. From his first job as a caddie at age eight, to his ascendance to head golf pro at the esteemed Austin Country Club, to his playing days when he competed with Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, to his mentorship of some of golf’s finest players, Penick studied every nuance of the game. Along the way, he scribbled his observations and anecdotes, tips and tricks, and genuine love of the sport in his little red notebook, which ultimately became a gift to golfers everywhere. An elegy to golf’s greatest teacher and an inquiry into his simple, influential teachings, as well as a history of golf over the past century, Harvey Penick is an exquisitely written sports biography.
For e wor d by Ben Cr ensh aw
K E V I N RO BB I N S Austin, Te x a s Robbins is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. He spent over two decades as a writer for daily newspapers, including the Austin American-Statesman, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His work has appeared in Sports on Earth, the New York Times, espnW, and Texas Monthly and has been twice listed in The Best American Sports Writing.
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— B E N C R E N S H A W, two-time Masters Tournament champion
“Harvey Penick was a rare gentleman whose legacy deserves this book. Kevin Robbins has revealed through extensive and caring research the aspects of Penick’s life that made him the endearing man he was. Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf opens wide a window into the soul of someone whose story transcends the game.”
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Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
author of Men in Green and To the Linksland
“Harvey Penick led an exceptional golfing life, and Kevin Robbins has written an exceptional account of it. His book is transporting. I have a whole new understanding of Penick, his writings, and how Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite, Betsy Rawls, and all the others under his tutelage became the people they became. What a life, captured here beautifully.” —MICHAEL BAMBERGER,
“Finally, the book that explains how Harvey Penick’s humble, humane life led to an incomparable treasure trove of golf wisdom and insight. Kevin Robbins’s work is an important contribution to golf history.”
—BILL PENNINGTON, author of Billy Martin and On Par
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| a r c h i t e c t u r e | Latin America
This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the
physical development of Brazil’s largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming
its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts
São Paulo
A Graphic Biography BY FELIPE CORREA
While the history of São Paulo dates back more than 450 years, most of its growth took place after World War II as the city’s major economic engine shifted from agriculture to industry. Today, as São Paulo evolves into a service economy hub, Felipe Correa argues, the city must carefully examine how to better integrate its extensive inner city post-industrial land into contemporary urban uses. In São Paulo: A Graphic Biography, Correa presents a comprehensive portrait of Brazil’s largest city, narrating its fast-paced growth through archival material, photography, original drawings, and text. Additional essays from scholars in fields such as landscape architecture, ecology, governance, and public health offer a series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the city’s history and development. Beyond presenting the first history of Paulista urban form and carefully detailing the formative processes that gave shape to this manufacturing capital, São Paulo shows how the city can transform its post-industrial lands into a series of inner city mixed-use affordable housing districts. By reorienting how we think about these spaces, the volume offers a compelling vision of a much-needed urban restructuring that can help alleviate the extreme socioeconomic divide between city center and periphery. This twenty-first century urban blueprint thus constitutes an impressive work of research and presents a unique perspective on how cities can imagine their future.
Aerial view of São Paulo showing rail and mobility infrastructure as a major dividing element in the city. Photo by Felipe Correa
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F ELI PE C O R RE A
New Yor k Cit y a nd Ca mbr idge, M a ssachuset ts
Correa is an associate professor of urban design and Director of the Urban Design Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. An architect and urbanist, he has developed numerous international projects through his practice, Somatic Collaborative. His previous books are Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America, Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography, and A Line in the Andes, which won first prize in the Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism Category at the 2014 Pan American Architecture Biennale.
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Plan of S達o Paulo showing new commercial and residential construction by decade in relation to multiple urban economies (1930-2016). Drawing by Felipe Correa / Igsung So.
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Top: Aerial view of S達o Paulo showing the vertical growth of its hyper-center. Photo by Felipe Correa. Left: Exploded axonometric drawing showing the layered components that make up the water management system for the S達o Paulo metropolitan region. Drawing by Felipe Correa / Gary Hon. Right: Map of South America visualizing continental rain patterns and their effect on the S達o Paulo metropolitan region. Drawing by Felipe Correa / Gary Hon.
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| a r c h i t e c t u r e | Latin America
Depositions Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship B Y C AT HER INE SE AV I T T N O R D EN S O N
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx’s “depositions,” this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country’s military dictatorship
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Roberto Burle Mar x (1909–1994) is internationally known as one of the preeminent modernist landscape architects. He designed renowned public landscapes in Brazil, beginning with small plazas in Recife in the 1930s and culminating with large public parks in the early 1960s, most significantly the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Depositions explores a pivotal moment in Burle Marx’s career—the years in which he served as a member of the Federal Cultural Council created by the military dictatorship in the mid-1960s. Despite the inherent conflict and risk in working with the military regime, Burle Marx boldly used his position to advocate for the protection of the unique Brazilian landscape, becoming a prophetic voice of caution against the regime’s policies of rapid development and resource exploitation. Depositions presents the first English translation of eighteen environmental position pieces that Burle Marx wrote for the journal Cultura, a publication of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and
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Roberto Burle Marx at the Sítio Santo Antônio da Bica, Barra de Guaratiba, ca. 1970
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Plan of the Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro
Culture, from 1967 through 1973. Catherine Seavitt Nordenson introduces and contextualizes the depositions by analyzing their historical and political contexts, as well as by presenting pertinent examples of Burle Marx’s earlier public projects, which enables a comprehensive reading of the texts. Addressing deforestation, the establishment of national parks, the place of commemorative sculpture, and the unique history of the Brazilian cultural landscape, Depositions offers new insight into Burle Marx’s outstanding landscape oeuvre and elucidates his transition from prolific designer to prescient counselor.
“Burle Marx created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design.”
— L AU R O C AVA L C A N T I , quoted in the New York Times
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Top: Roberto Burle Marx, gouache perspective of the Suspended Path Garden, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, 1953; bottom: Roberto Burle Marx, trellised garden veranda at the Palácio do Itamaraty, Brasília, ca. 1968
C AT HER IN E S E AVIT T N OR DE N S O N
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A registered architect and landscape architect, Seavitt Nordenson is an associate professor at the City College of New York. She coauthored On the Water: Palisade Bay and coedited Waterproofing New York.
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Millard Sheets Studio with sculptures by John Edward Svenson, Anaheim branch, completed 1970
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American Studies
| h i s t o r y | Architecture,
ADAM ARENSON
BANKING ON BEAUTY
Banking on Beauty
Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California
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Expansively researched and illustrated, this lively history recounts how the extraordinary partnership of financier Howard Ahmanson and artist Millard Sheets produced outstanding mid-century modern architecture and art for Home Savings and Loan
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“I wa nt buildings that will be exciting sevent y-five years from now,” financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control of design, subject, decoration, and budget for his Home Savings and Loan branch offices. The partnership between Home Savings—for decades, the nation’s largest savings and loan—and the Millard Sheets Studio produced more than 160 buildings in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri over the course of a quarter century. Adorned with murals, mosaics, stained glass, and sculptures, the Home Savings (and Savings of America) branches displayed a celebratory vision of community history and community values that garnered widespread acclaim.
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A DA M AREN SON New Yor k , New Yor k Arenson is an associate professor of history and director of the urban studies program at Manhattan College. He has written or coedited three previous books on the history of the American West and the politics and culture of US cities, including the award-winning The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.
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Banking on Beauty presents the first history of this remarkable building program. Drawing extensively on archival materials, site visits, and oral history interviews, Adam Arenson tells a fascinating story of how the architecture and art were created, the politics of where the branches were built, and why the Sheets Studio switched from portraying universal family scenes to celebrating local history amid the dramatic cultural and political changes of the 1960s. Combining urban history, business history, and art and architectural history, Banking on Beauty reveals how these institutions shaped the corporate and cultural landscapes of Southern California, where UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | SPRING 2018
many of the branches were located. Richly illustrated and beautifully written, Banking on Beauty builds a convincing case for preserving these outstanding examples of Midcentury Modern architecture, which currently face an uncertain future.
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Clockwise from left: Millard Sheets Studio, with John Edward Svenson sculpture, West Portal branch, completed 1977; Betty Davenport Ford, Mountain Cats sculpture, and Tony Sheets, grille, for Encino branch expansion, completed 1977; Millard Sheets Studio mosaics and griffin highlighted on Ahmanson Bank and Trust, opening brochure, 1960
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REISSUE A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write
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Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique.
Wi t h a n e w for e wor d by Jessa Crispi n
BY JOANNA RUSS
How to Suppress Women’s Writing
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| l i t e r a t u r e | Essays and Criticism
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Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series
Crispin is the founder and editor of Bookslut.com. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project and Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.
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Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Russ was a widely respected feminist science fiction writer best known for the novel The Female Man. She was also a professor of English at the University of Washington.
(1937–2011)
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—JESSA CRISPIN, from the foreword
“What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ’s book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there’s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit.”
—MARGE PIERCY
“A book of the most profound and original clarity. Like all clear-sighted people who look and see what has been much mystified and much lied about, Russ is quite excitingly subversive. The study of literature should never be the same again.”
—ADRIENNE RICH
“Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.”
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The Mechanical Horse
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In this lively cultural history, the journalist Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life.
BY MARGARE T GUROFF
How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
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— W E E K LY S T A N D A R D
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Guroff does an admirable job reminding us of the bicycle’s lasting influence. . . . Like them or loathe them, cyclists are reprising their initial role as adopters of disruptive technology. And Margaret Guroff ’s book provides a colorful and helpful map of where we’ve been and where we all might go from here.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
“A bright, enthusiastic cultural history.”
“Good stories abound in Guroff ’s account.”
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1587-3
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Mark Crispin Miller, Series Editor
Discovering America
Guroff is a magazine editor. She is also the editor and publisher of Power Moby-Dick, an online annotation of Herman Melville’s classic novel. She teaches writing at the Johns Hopkins University.
Wa shington, DC
M AR GA RE T GURO F F
“Guroff has penned a fascinating account of how such a seemingly simple invention could have such a global impact.” — B A LT I M O R E M A G A Z I N E
“[A] dazzling cultural history of the bicycle . . . . Along the ride, Guroff peppers these historical accounts with lively quotes from primary documents and her own sharp, modern insight. As she makes plain, it’s not just cyclists who have bicycles to thank for the way they get around— it’s everybody. And that makes The Mechanical Horse worth a read for the most avowed drivers, too.” — C I T Y L A B
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Dopers in Uniform
Being Watched in Modern America
Under Surveillance
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R E C E N T LY P U B L I S H E D
The Hidden World of Police on Steroids
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BY RANDOLPH LEWIS
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BY JOHN HOBERMAN
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ISBN 978-1-4773-1398-5 $29.95 e-book
Tackling one of today’s most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society. ISBN 978-0-292-75948-0 $29.95 | £24.99 hardcover
Breaking down the “Blue Wall of Silence,” Hoberman investigates the widespread, illegal use of anabolic steroids in major urban police departments and how it contributes to excessive violence in American policing.
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The Roots Music TheQuarterly QuarterlyJournal Journalofof Roots Music
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ISBN 978-0-9994674-0-4
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Fall 2017 Foremothers
This issue digs into the deep roots of the women who laid the foundation for American roots music, from the perspective of No Depression’s finest writers, as well as musicians themselves.
$18.00
ISBN 978-0-9973317-7-6
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Winter 2017 Singer-Songwriters
This issue traces the evolution of the singer-songwriter, exploring the influence of the pioneers and the ways that younger folks are at once carrying on the tradition and pulling it into another century.
ISBN 978-0-9973317-8-3 $18.00 paperback
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NO DEPRESSION DEPRESSION Spring 2018 Appalachia
The Appalachian range stretches from Central Alabama all the way to Newfoundland and is among the oldest geological formations on earth. While these mountains tie together variant cultures and landscapes, they have also delivered some of the most remarkable, truly American music. This issue of No Depression will dig into the various music traditions that have dotted the Appalachian landscape, as told by the artists who grew up in the shadow of these mountains.
Summer 2018 Rivers, Roads, and Trails
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As people head outside for the summer, No Depression is dedicating an issue to some of the most time-honored American scenery: rivers, roads, and trails. After all, the way folks have moved around the continental United States is one of the most consistent themes in American roots music. This issue will explore the highways and backroads that have inspired generations of songwriters to make new music and resurrect old songs. It will also consider the musicians and music towns that have sprung up along the Mississippi, Missouri, Hudson, and other major rivers. All of this will be explored via in-depth interviews and deeply researched long features with some of the best songwriters and artists in contemporary roots music.
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books for scholars
Map of Atitlán, 1585. Relaciones Geográficas of Mexico and Guatemala, 1577–1585. From A Library for the Americas, edited by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo.
| a r c h i t e c t u r e | Latin America
The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the “science” of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization
Eugenics in the Garden Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
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As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and forth between France, Brazil, and Argentina, Fabiola López-Durán uncovers the complicity of physicians and architects on both sides of the Atlantic, who participated in a global strategy of social engineering, legitimized by the authority of science. In doing so, she reveals the ideological trajectory of one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier, who deployed architecture in what he saw as the perfecting and whitening of man. The first in-depth interrogation of eugenics’ influence on the construction of the modern built environment, Eugenics in the Garden convincingly demonstrates that race was the main tool in the geopolitics of space, and that racism was, and remains, an ideology of progress.
B Y FA B I O L A L Ó P E Z- D U R Á N
FABIOLA LÓPEZ-DURÁN Houston, Te x a s López-Durán is an assistant professor of modern art and architectural history at Rice University.
Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices Felipe Correa and Bruno Carvalho, Series Editors
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Announcing a New Series
Lateral Exchanges
Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
F E L I P E C O R R E A A N D B R U N O C A R VA L H O , SERIES EDITORS
Lateral Exchanges is devoted to architecture and urban-
ism in the context of international development and glo-
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temporary issues in design and the built environment,
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several interrelated fields, including architecture, envi-
ronmental humanities, history, landscape architecture,
media and visual studies, planning, and urban studies.
Above all, the series will investigate the role of architects
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models; and the ways that the concepts and techniques of
architecture and planning have instigated cultural and
intellectual exchanges beyond disciplinary boundaries
and in the context of persistent global asymmetries. In
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rich intellectual, social, and technical contributions that
architects and architecture have made to an increasingly globalized world.
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the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between
Presenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of
| a r c h i t e c t u r e | Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American Studies
leading experts in the field
of Texas campus offers a practical primer on community and regional planning by one of the
This frank, first-person account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University
| architecture |
Making Plans
institutional power and everyday life
The Design of Protest
MAKING PLANS
frederick r. steiner
HOW TO ENGAGE WITH LANDSCAPE, DESIGN, AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
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Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
Steiner is dean of the School of Design and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has more than four decades of planning experience throughout the world. His many books include Design for a Vulnerable Planet.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
F RE DE RI C K R . ST E IN E R
Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space
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“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places for us and other species to live. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capacity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy and materials. In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on planning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and the university. As he walks readers through the planning processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demonstrates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the affected communities.
BY FREDERICK R. S T EINER
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Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the political and social aspects of protest have been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to the physical spaces in which protests happen. Yet place is a crucial aspect of protests, influencing the dynamics and engagement patterns among participants. In The Design of Protest, Tali Hatuka offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a design: that is, a planned event in a space whose physical geometry and symbolic meaning are used and appropriated by its organizers, who aim to challenge sociospatial distance between political institutions and the people they should serve. Presenting case studies from around the world, including Tiananmen Square in Beijing; the National Mall in Washington, DC; Rabin Square in Tel Aviv; and the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Hatuka identifies three major dimensions of public protests: the process of planning the protest in a particular place; the choice of spatial choreography of the event, including the value and meaning of specific tactics; and the challenges of performing contemporary protests in public space in a fragmented, complex, and conflicted world. Numerous photographs, detailed diagrams, and plans complement the case studies, which draw upon interviews with city officials, urban planners, and protesters themselves.
BY TALI HAT UK A
TA L I H AT U KA Tel Av i v, Isr a el An architect and urban planner, Hatuka founded and directs the Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments.
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RECOVERING INEQUALITY
Steve Kroll-Smith
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
| sociology |
This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies
Recovering Inequality Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
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A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished. These striking similarities in the impacts of cataclysms separated by a century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to look for commonalities in how the cities recovered from disaster. In Recovering Inequality, he builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable. Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and recovery in New Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar pattern. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding and the firestorm, social boundaries were disordered and the communities came together in expressions of unity and support. But these were quickly replaced by other narratives and actions, including the depiction of the poor as looters, uneven access to disaster assistance, and successful efforts by the powerful to take valuable urban real estate from vulnerable people. Kroll-Smith concludes that inexorable market forces ensured that recovery efforts in both cities would reestablish the patterns of inequality that existed before the catastrophes. The major difference he finds between the cities is that, from a market standpoint, New Orleans was expendable, while San Francisco rose from the ashes because it was a hub of commerce.
B Y S T E V E K R O L L- S M I T H S T E V E K ROL L-SMI T H Greensboro, North Carolina Kroll-Smith is currently a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was formerly a research professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. He is the coauthor of Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods.
The Katrina Bookshelf Kai Erikson, Series Editor
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Palestinian Studies
| m i d d l e e a s t e r n s t u d i e s | Film, Media, and Popular Culture;
Bringing to light the origins of an important national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long 1970s and how it sustained a revolution and continues to inspire in a new century
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Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps, the Jordanian and Lebanese civil wars, and Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, attempting to create a cinematic language consonant with the revolution and its needs. They experimented with form both to make effective use of limited material and to process violent events and loss as a means of sustaining active engagement in the Palestinian political project. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution presents an indepth study of films made between 1968 and 1982, the filmmakers and their practices, the political and cultural contexts in which the films were created and seen, and their afterlives among Palestinian refugees and young filmmakers in the twenty-first century. Nadia Yaqub discusses how early Palestinian cinema operated within emerging public-sector cinema industries in the Arab world, as well as through coproductions and solidarity networks. Her findings aid in understanding the development of alternative cinema in the Arab world. Yaqub also demonstrates that Palestinian filmmaking, as a cinema movement created and sustained under conditions of extraordinary precarity, offers important lessons on the nature and possibilities of political filmmaking more generally.
Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution B Y N A D I A YAQ U B
N A D IA YAQU B Chapel Hill, North Carolina Yaqub is an associate professor of Arabic language and culture and chair of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She coedited Bad Girls of the Arab World with Rula Quawas.
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“Using Life is a riotous novel . . . [Naji] confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian regime that is in the process of tearing itself apart.” —ZADIE SM I T H, The New York Review of Books
Ahmed N aji
USING LIFE
Benjamin Koerber
T R A N S L AT E D B Y
I L L U S T R AT E D B Y
Ayman Al Zorkany
Recently Published
Bad Girls of the Arab World
e d i t e d by n a d i a ya q u b a n d r u l a q uawa s
This interdisciplinary collection of writings by and about Arab women is the first that focuses explicitly on Arab women’s oftenfraught engagement with the boundaries that shape their lives in the twenty-first century.
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Using Life
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Illustrations by Ayman Al Zorkany Translated by Benjamin Koerber
Internationally acclaimed Egyptian author Ahmed Naji won the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award after his imprisonment on charges of “violating public morals” with this dystopian novel of life in modern Cairo.
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The Mexican Mahjar
Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate
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Drawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks.
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| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u lt u r e | Directors & Stars
Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
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Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical Hollywood—Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz made around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: action, biopics, melodramas/film noir, musicals, and westerns. But his important contributions to the history of American film have been overlooked because his broadly varied oeuvre does not present the unified vision of filmmaking that canonical criticism demands for the category of “auteur.” Exploring his films and artistic practice from a variety of angles, including politics, gender, and genre, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz sheds new light on this underappreciated cinematic genius. Leading film studies scholars offer fresh appraisals of many of Curtiz’s most popular films, while also paying attention to neglected releases of substantial historical interest, such as Noah’s Ark, Night and Day, Virginia City, Black Fury, Mystery of the Wax Museum, and Female. Because Curtiz worked for so long and in so many genres, this analysis of his work becomes more than an author study of a notable director. Instead, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz effectively adds a major chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, including its internationalism and the significant contributions of European émigrés.
ED I T ED B Y R. BA R T O N PA L M ER A ND M U R R AY P O M ER A N CE
R . B A R T O N PAL MER Atl a n ta, Georgi a Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and author or editor of many books, including Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America and After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, Intertextuality.
M U R RAY PO ME RAN CE Toron to, On ta r io Pomerance is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance, and The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect. He is also the editor or coeditor of several book series in film studies.
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Images from Curtiz films (from top to bottom): Mildred Pierce (1945); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939).
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edited by
The Comedy Studies Reader Nick Marx & Matt Sienkiewicz
| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u l t u r e | Genre
Surveying comedic texts and performers from The Jack Benny Program to Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, and Stephen Colbert, this classroom-ready anthology offers a first-ever overview of the field of comedy studies
The Comedy Studies Reader
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From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media—the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field—first, comedy’s development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a “comedy zeitgeist”; and second, comedy studies’ new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in “serious” discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.
EDI T ED BY NICK M A R X AND M AT T SIENKIE W ICZ
N IC K MARX Fort Collins, Color a do Marx is an assistant professor of media studies at Colorado State University.
M AT T S I EN K IE WI CZ Chest n u t Hill , M a ssachuset ts Sienkiewicz is an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College.
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Race, Gender & Sexuality, Genre
| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u lt u r e |
With in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pio-
neering volume spotlights black female charac-
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Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
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Mafe is an associate professor of English at Denison University. She is the author of Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines.
Gr a n v ille, Ohio
D IA N A A DE SO LA MA F E
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
BY DIANA ADESOLA MAFE
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television—a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema’s history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency. Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American and British speculative film and television, including 28 Days Later, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Children of Men, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Firefly, and Doctor Who: Series 3. Each of these has a subversive black female character in its main cast, and Mafe draws on critical race, postcolonial, and gender theories to explore each film and show, placing the black female characters at the center of the analysis and demonstrating their agency. The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex in AVP and Zoë in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.
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motion and critical reception, this book reveals
Analyzing films from La manoir du Diable to Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as their pro-
| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u l t u r e | Genre
cupations and industrial contexts of the horror genre in film and TV since the seventies
lution of King’s “brand” to the changing preoc-
Surveying adaptations of Stephen King’s work across four decades, this volume links the evo-
| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u l t u r e | Genre
BY SIMON BROWN
Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer’s work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media—and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of King film and television adaptations. Simon Brown first examines the reasons for King’s literary success and then, starting with Brian De Palma’s Carrie, explores how King’s themes and style have been adapted for the big and small screens. He looks at mainstream multiplex horror adaptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV works from Salem’s Lot to Under the Dome. Through this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror genre in film and TV.
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Brown is an associate professor of film and television at Kingston University. His previous books include Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899–1911.
K ingston Upon Th a mes, United K ingdom
S IM O N B R OW N
Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television
Screening Stephen King
how tales of horror are intimately bound to questions of nationhood and national identity
A Place of Darkness The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
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Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.
BY KENDALL R. PHILLIPS
K E N DA LL R. PH I L L I PS Sy r acuse, New Yor k Phillips is a professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University. He is author of several books, including Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture and Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film.
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| f i l m , m e d i a , a n d p o p u l a r c u lt u r e |
Written to accompany movies screened by the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas, the CinemaTexas Notes open a fascinating window on the early Austin film scene and the rise of film studies
CinemaTexas Notes The Early Days of Austin Film Culture
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Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of RadioTelevision-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.
EDITED BY LOUIS BL ACK WITH COLLINS SWORDS
LO U I S B L A C K Austin, Te x a s Black was one of the original writers of the CinemaTexas Program Notes. He cofounded The Austin Chronicle, where he was the editor for thirty-six years, and SXSW, where he is a director, and was a founding board member of the Austin Film Society. He has written extensively on film, music, and politics. In 2016, he and Karen Bernstein directed the documentary Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, which made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
C O L LIN S SWORDS Austin, Te x a s A recent MA graduate of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, Swords is a creative assistant to Louis Black, with whom he works in project development, promotion, outreach, editing, and archival research.
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exactly what they were getting. People screamed and fainted and continued to go to the theaters. Part of the advertising campaign for the original Frankenstein (1931) announced that there would be a nurse in the lobby. Having oneself scared half to death can be a surprisingly pleasurable experience. The society changed and the film form with it. There was World War II and Nazis and ovens with people mass-murdering other people. The ritualization of war that allowed us to cope with disguised genocide broke down and we were forced to confront a new kind of horror. Still there is the scene in Roger Corman’s Bloody Mama where the crowd arrives with picnic baskets to watch the police slaughter the Barker family. It is an image replicating the scene at the first battle of Bull Run, where the Washington DC elite drove out from the city with picnic baskets to watch the anonymous boys in blue slaughter the anonymous boys in grey. But when the tables were turned the elite hurried home. They didn’t really want to be involved; they only wanted to watch. Audiences are allowed such privileges. We are the audience with those privileges, fascinated by watching humans slaughtering humans. We are the audience watching Alain
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
RE ASONS WH Y I DON’T WAN T TO SEE
1. Avoidance of pain has always been one of my major priorities. Massacre is not so much gross as terrifying and not so much hor rible as agonizing. It may not be the quintessence of pain, but it comes real close.
TWENTY-FIVE REASONS WHY I DON’T WANT TO SEE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
What’s it like to have a nightmare from which you can’t wake up? There have been films that explored nightmares (The Manchurian Candidate, for one), but they always let up when things get rough. Texas Chainsaw does not let up—it just keeps on getting worse. What’s more, it captures nightmare syntax with astonishing fidelity. Fine photography and editing, and an amazing electronic score, add to the impact. Last year the Museum of Modern Art Film Library put on a special screening of Texas Chainsaw. They were right. | michael goodwin, Take One, Vol. V, No.1
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Avoidance of pain has always been one of my major priorities. Like one of the characters in the film, I like meat. Like the gas station attendant, killing is not something I get much pleasure from. I’m afraid of the dark. I dislike cutting myself. Dead bodies bother me. It’s hard to reason with a homicidal maniac. I don’t know for sure what goes into sausage. I have a very vivid imagination, and I don’t need fresh material. After about ten minutes I got a little tired of hearing a girl scream hysterically. No one will convince me that “it’s just a movie” is any kind of real comfort.
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HOM ER
in Perfor mance Rhapsodes, Narrators & Characters
e di t e d b y Jonathan L. Ready & Christos C. Tsagalis
plinary volume examines both the rhapsodes who performed the poems and the narrators and
Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisci-
| c l a s s i c s | Literature and Language
for the ongoing relevance of teaching Greek law
including fresh assessments of key debates, new methodological approaches, and an argument
Eleven essays by leading scholars chart new directions for the study of ancient Greek law,
| c l a s s i c s | Law and Oratory
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The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into extant legal, forensic, and historical texts for evidence of the law in action. From such study has arisen the field of ancient Greek law as a scholarly discipline within classical studies, a field that has come into its own since the 1970s. This edited volume charts new directions for the study of Greek law in the twenty-first century through contributions from eleven leading scholars. The essays in the book’s first section reassess some of the central debates in the field by looking at questions about the role of law in society, the notion of “contracts,” feuding and revenge in the court system, and legal protections for slaves engaged in commerce. The second section breaks new ground by redefining substantive areas of law such as administrative law and sacred law, as well as by examining sources such as Hellenistic inscriptions that have been comparatively neglected in recent scholarship. The third section evaluates the potential of methodological approaches to the study of Greek law, including comparative studies with other cultures and with modern legal theory. The volume ends with an essay that explores pedagogy and the relevance of teaching Greek law in the twenty-first century.
ED I T ED B Y PAU L A PER L M A N
Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century
characters within them
Homer in Performance Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters
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Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.
EDI T ED BY JONAT HAN L. RE ADY AND CHRIS T OS C. T SAGALIS J O N AT H AN L . RE ADY Bloomington, Indi a na Ready is an associate professor of classical studies at Indiana University. His books include The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia.
C H R IS T O S C. T SAGA L I S Thessa lonik i, Gr eece Tsagalis is a professor of Greek at Aristotle University. His books include Early Greek Epic Fragments: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic.
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EDITED BY
Paula Perlman
Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century
PAULA PERLMAN
Austin, Te x a s
Perlman is a professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books are The Laws of Ancient Crete, c.650–400 BCE, coauthored with Michael Gagarin, and City and Sanctuary in Ancient Greece: The Theorodokia in the Peloponnese.
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DIONNE ESPINOZA
EDITED BY MARÍA EUGENIA COTERA
MAYLEI BLACKWELL
CHICANA NEW NARRATIVES of ACTIVISM and FEMINISM in the MOVEMENT ERA
MOVIDAS
| l a t i n a s t u d i e s | Chicana Studies, History
This groundbreaking anthology brings together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women’s organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement
Chicana Movidas New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
Ester Hernández, Lydia Mendoza, Ciudad Juárez, México, 1937 (1987)
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With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement
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narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana Movidas offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.
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D IO N N E ES PI N O ZA
Los A ngeles, Ca lifor ni a
Espinoza is a professor in the Department of Liberal Studies and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
M AR Í A EUG EN I A C O T ERA
A n n A r bor, Michiga n
Cotera is an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and American Culture and the Program in Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan.
M AY LEI B LAC KW ELL
Los A ngeles, Ca lifor ni a
Blackwell is an associate professor in the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ester Hernández, Immigrant Woman’s Dress (1997)
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REMEX
Latin American Studies
| l a t i n a / o s t u d i e s | Art and Visual Studies, Border Studies,
Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural production—from body art to theater, photography, and architecture—draws on extensive primary research to trace more than two decades of social and political response in the aftermath of NAFTA
Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
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REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the most fantastical inter-American allegory of the turn of the millennium. Carroll organizes her interpretations of performance, installation, documentary film, built environment, and body, conceptual, and Internet art around three key coordinates—City, Woman, and Border. She links the rise of 1990s Mexico City art in the global market to the period’s consolidation of Mexico– US border art as a genre. She then interrupts this transnational art history with a sustained analysis of chilanga and Chicana artists’ remapping of the figure of Mexico as Woman. A tour de force that depicts a feedback loop of art and public policy—what Carroll terms the “allegorical performative”—REMEX adds context to the long-term effects of the post-1968 intersection of D.F. performance and conceptualism, centralizes women artists’ embodied critiques of national and global master narratives, and tracks post-1984 border art’s “undocumentation” of racialized and sexualized reconfigurations of North American labor pools. The book’s featured artwork becomes the lens through which Carroll rereads a range of events and phenomenon from California’s Proposition 187 to Zapatismo, US immigration policy, 9/11 (1973/2001), femicide in Ciudad Juárez, and Mexico’s war on drugs.
BY AMY SARA CARROLL A M Y SA RA CARRO L L Ith aca, New Yor k Carroll, a 2017–2018 Society Fellow in Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, is the author of two poetry collections, SECESSION and FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, chosen by Claudia Rankine for Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Prize. This book is a part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture publication initiative, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place
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Class and Culture on the South Texas Border | Revised Edition
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Now thoroughly revised and updated, this classic account reveals how the borderlands have been transformed by NAFTA, population growth and immigration crises, and increased drug violence.
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Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change
The Senses of Democracy Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
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In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis: when the discourse on democracy is altered—when nations fall into crisis or the increased weight of modernity tests minds and nerves—the representation of our sensing bodies plays a crucial role in explaining order and rebellion, cultural innovation, and social change. Taking a wide arc of materials—periodicals, memoirs, political proclamations, and travel logs, along with art installations and fiction—and focusing on the technologies that supplement and enhance human perception, Masiello looks at the evolution of what she calls “sense work” in cultural texts, mainly from Latin America, that wend from the heights of romantic thought to the startling innovations of modernism in the early twentieth century and then to times of posthuman experience when cyber bodies hurtle through globalized space and human senses are reproduced by machines. Tracing the shifting debates on perceptions, The Senses of Democracy offers a new paradigm with which to speak of Latin American cultural history and launches a field for the comparative study of bodies, experience, pleasure, and pain over the continental divide. In the end, sense work helps us to understand how culture finds its location.
BY FRANCINE R. MASIELLO
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FRANC I NE R. M AS IE LLO Ber k eley, Ca lifor ni a Masiello is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor Emerita of Spanish and Comparative Literature and professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley. Her many books include Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina and The Art of Transition: Latin
American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis, which were both awarded the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding book in the field of Hispanic studies, and El cuerpo de la voz (poesía, ética, cultura), which received the Latin American Studies Association Southern Cone Prize for best book in the humanities.
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Asiel timor dei, Demian Schopf (2002). From the series La revolución silenciosa.
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| l at i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | Latina/o Studies, Art and Visual Studies
This sumptuously illustrated volume presents the treasures of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin—one of the world’s great libraries for the study of Latin America and Latinas/os in the United States
The Un ive r s ity of Te xa s L ibra ries
A Library for the Americas The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
Richard Duardo, Four Fridas, 2003
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Founded in 1921, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin has become one of the world’s great libraries for the study of Latin America, as well as the largest university library collection of Latin American materials in the United States. Encompassing all areas of the Western Hemisphere that were ever part of the Spanish or Portuguese empires, the Benson Collection documents Latin American history and culture from the first European contacts to the current activities of Latinas/os in the United States. Scholars, students, and members of the public from around the world regularly use the multifaceted, multimedia resources of the Benson. Showcasing the incredible depth, diversity, and history of the Benson Collection, A Library for the Americas presents rare books and manuscripts, maps, photographs, music, oral histories, art and objects dating from around 1500 to the present. Images of and captions for these materials are paired with a series of essays and reflections by distinguished scholars of Latin American and Latina/o studies, who describe
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Joya Hairs, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, undated
Austin, Te x a s
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the role that the Benson Collection has played in the research and intellectual contributions that have defined their careers. As a whole, the book celebrates the remarkable place for learning that is the Benson Collection, while not shying away from larger questions about what it means to have a monumental library and archive devoted to Latin America in the United States.
JULI AN NE GI LLAN D
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Montelongo is the Mexican studies librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection.
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E U G ENI O CL AU DI O DI ST EFANO
THE VAN I S HI N G F RAM E
L AT I N A M E R I CA N C U LT U R E A N D T H EOR Y I N T HE P OS T D I CTAT OR I A L E R A
Larraín, and Alejandro Zambra, this pathfinding book challenges postdictatorial aesthetics by
Examining the works of writers and artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Fernando Botero, Pablo
| l a t i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | Literature, Art and Visual Studies
order in the Americas
colonized Mexico, this iconoclastic book reveals the inherent difficulties of imposing a colonial
Using the rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories of the local officials and settlers who first
| l a t i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | History
BY MARTIN AUSTIN NESVIG
Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents—magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others—who knew little and cared less about the goals of their superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Through a case study of the province of Michoacán in western Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses on the prosaic agents of colonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting view of the complexities of making empire at the ground level. Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the archives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of Michoacán were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened by the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and thoroughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His findings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which asserts that the royal state and the institutional church colluded to produce a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig finds that Michoacán—typical of many frontier provinces of the empire—became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical control and formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law, jurisprudence, and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of decentralized rule.
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Nesvig is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. He is the author of Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico and editor of three volumes on religion in Mexico, including Religious Culture in Modern Mexico and Forgotten Franciscans: Writings from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy.
Mi a mi, Flor ida
M AR T IN AUS TI N N E SV IG
An Unorthodox History of New Spain
Promiscuous Power
focusing on the concept of aesthetic autonomy as a critique of economic inequality
The Vanishing Frame Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
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In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiences of torture or disappearance, they also ignore the injustice of economic inequality and exploitation. By examining how artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra, and Fernando Botero not only reject an aesthetics of experience (and the politics it entails) but also insist on the work of art as a point of departure for an anticapitalist politics, this new reading of Latin American cultural production offers an alternative understanding of recent developments in Latin American aesthetics and politics that puts art at its center and the postdictatorship at its end.
B Y E U G E N I O C L A U D I O D I S T E FA N O
E U GE N IO CL AU DI O D I S T E FA NO Om a h a, Nebr a sk a Di Stefano is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Border Hispanisms Jon Beasley-Murray, Alberto Moreiras, and Gareth Williams, Series Editors
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chain operations to meet local conditions
reveals how the world’s largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply
With empirical case studies of Walmart’s entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book
| l a t i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | Sociology, Politics and Economics
the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry
extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at
Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is
| l a t i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | Anthropology, Environment
Life in Oil
Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
Walmart in the Global South Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
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Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán nation. Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the Cofán watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their bodies succumbed to new illnesses. In 1993, they became plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that aims to compensate them for the losses they have suffered. Yet even in the midst of a tragic toxic disaster, the Cofán have refused to be destroyed. While seeking reparations for oil’s assault on their lives, they remain committed to the survival of their language, culture, and rainforest homeland. Life in Oil presents the compelling, nuanced story of how the Cofán manage to endure at the center of Ecuadorian petroleum extraction. Michael L. Cepek has lived and worked with Cofán people for more than twenty years. In this highly accessible book, he goes well beyond popular and academic accounts of their suffering to share the largely unknown stories that Cofán people themselves create—the ones they tell in their own language, in their own communities, and to one another and the few outsiders they know and trust. Their words reveal that life in oil is a form of slow, confusing violence for some of the earth’s most marginalized, yet resilient, inhabitants.
BY MICHAEL L. CEPEK Photogr a phs by Be a r Gu err a
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As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart must confront and adapt to diverse policies and practices pertaining to regulation, economy, history, union organization, preexisting labor cultures, and civil society in every country into which it enters. This transnational aspect of the Walmart story, including the diversity and flexibility of its strategies and practices outside the United States, is mostly unreported. Walmart in the Global South presents empirical case studies of Walmart’s labor practices and supply chain operations in a number of countries, including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. It assesses the similarities and differences in Walmart’s acceptance into varying national contexts, which reveals when and how state regulation and politics have served to redirect company practice and to what effect. The volume’s contributors show how and why foreign workers have successfully, though not uniformly, driven changes in Walmart’s corporate culture. This makes Walmart in the Global South a practical guide for organizations that promote social justice and engage in worker struggles.
E D I T E D B Y C A R O L I N A B A N K M U Ñ O Z , B R I D G E T K E N N Y, AND ANTONIO STECHER C A R O LI N A B ANK MU ÑO Z is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. B R I D GE T K EN N Y is an associate professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. A N T O NI O ST E CH ER is a professor and dean of the School of Psychology at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. r e l ea s e dat e | may 6 x 9 inches, 280 pages, 5 b&w photos ISBN 978-1-4773-1568-2 $29.95* | £24.99 | C$44.95
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M I CHA EL L . CE PE K
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Cepek is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a board member of the Cofán Survival Fund, a US nonprofit that supports the Fundación Sobrevivencia Cofán, a Cofán-directed environmental and human rights organization, and the author of A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics.
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WORDS PA S S A G E
OF
NATIONAL LONGING AND THE IMAGINED LIVES OF MEXICAN MIGRANTS
HILARY PARSONS DICK
sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of
This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a
| l a t i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s | Anthropology, Latina/o Studies
the region becomes increasingly democratic
strates how public reading programs invite civic participation and promote social integration as
The first broad survey of contemporary print culture in Latin America, this study demon-
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BY MARCY SCHWAR T Z
Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, the reading programs all use public space, distribute creative writing to a mass public, foster collective rather than individual reading, and provide access to literature in unconventional arenas. The first international study of contemporary print culture in the Americas, Public Pages reveals how recent cultural policy and collective literary reading intervene in public space to promote social integration in cities in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. Marcy Schwartz looks at broad institutional programs such as UNESCO World Book Capital campaigns and the distribution of free books on public transportation, as well as local initiatives that produce handmade books out of recycled materials (known as cartoneras) and display banned books at former military detention centers. She maps the connection between literary reading and the development of cultural citizenship in Latin America, with municipalities, cultural centers, and groups of ordinary citizens harnessing reading as an activity both social and literary. Along with other strategies for reclaiming democracy after decades of authoritarian regimes and political violence, as well as responding to neoliberal economic policies, these acts of reading collectively in public settings invite civic participation and affirm local belonging.
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Reading along the Latin American Streetscape
Marcy Schwartz
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Schwartz is the chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Her previous books include Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction and Invenciones urbanas: ficción y ciudad latinoamericanas.
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Reading along the Latin American Streetscape
Public Pages
national belonging of nonmigrants
Words of Passage National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
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Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants that range from hardworking family people to dangerous lawbreakers. These imagined lives have real consequences, however, because they help to determine who can claim the resources that facilitate economic mobility, which range from state-sponsored development programs to income earned in the North. Words of Passage is the first full-length ethnography that examines the impact of migration from the perspective of people whose lives are affected by migration, but who do not themselves migrate. Hilary Parsons Dick situates her study in the small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato. She analyzes the discourse that circulates in the community, from state-level pronouncements about what makes a “proper” Mexican to working-class people’s talk about migration. Dick shows how this migration discourse reflects upon and orders social worlds long before—and even without—actual movements beyond Mexico. She demonstrates that migration is not the result of the failure of the Mexican state but rather an essential part of nation-state building.
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H I LA R Y PARSON S DI C K Glenside, Pen nsy lva ni a Dick is an associate professor of international studies at Arcadia University. She investigates MexicoUS migration from the perspectives of discourse analysis; the political economies of language; and gender, class, and ethno-racial relations.
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The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 72 Humanities
of area studies.”
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geographic areas of the world. . . . The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches
“The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
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Entre Guadalupe y Malinche
Tejanas in Literature and Art
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The Teabo Manuscript
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Captivity Beyond Prisons
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Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940
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Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border
Up Against the Wall
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Mountain Mist, near Alpine (2014) from As Far As You Can See by Kenny Braun
Cosmos, McDonald Observatory, Davis Mountains (2015)
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As Far as You Can See
Picturing Texas
BY KENNY BRAUN
For e wor d by S. C. Gw y n n e
One of the few photography books that portrays the full range of Texas’s natural landscapes, this
volume presents fresh, often unexpected views of the state’s scenic beauty by one of its leading outdoor photographers
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Texas continually awes and surprises with its natural beauty. Within the state’s quarter-million square miles are scenic landscapes as varied as the rugged desert mountains of the Big Bend country, cypress swamps and old-growth forests in the piney woods, ocean beaches and dunes along the Gulf Coast, and stretches of the Great Plains that spread as widely over the earth as the skies above. Kenny Braun has traveled the length and breadth of Texas photographing its vast lands. In As Far as You Can See, he presents a portfolio of stunning images that capture the natural splendor of the entire state. From sweeping landscape shots to detailed close-ups, Braun’s photographs offer fresh, lovely views of Texas. He has a keen eye for the unexpected scene, and even when he photographs iconic spots such as Enchanted Rock or Caddo Lake, Braun finds new perspectives that allow viewers to see these familiar places as if for the first time. Accompanying the images is a foreword by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times best-selling author S. C. Gwynne. This winning combination of photographs and words makes this a musthave book to own and to give.
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K E N N Y B RAU N Austin, Te x a s Braun is the photographer/author of Surf Texas. He is a fine art, editorial, and commercial photographer whose work has been featured in Texas Monthly, Garden and Gun, This Old House magazine, and more.
S . C . G WY NN E Austin, Te x a s Gwynne is the best-selling author of Empire of the Summer Moon, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Rebel Yell. He has also written extensively for Texas Monthly, where he was executive editor from 2000 to 2008.
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Top: Blackland Prairie, Greenville (2017); bottom Peach Crates, Stonewall (2003)
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Pecos River, Comstock (2010)
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Essay by D A N I E L V A U G H N
Fo re w o rd b y A A R O N F R A N K L I N
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| texas | Photography, Food
A decade after he celebrated traditional, wood-smoked ’cue in Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden captures the new urban BBQ scene epitomized by Franklin Barbecue, as well as small-town favorites such as Snow’s in Lexington
Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown PH O T O G R A PH S B Y W YAT T M C SPA D D EN
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In Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden immortalized the barbecue joints of rural Texas in richly authentic photographs that made the people and places in his images appear as timeless as barbecue itself. The book found a wide, appreciative audience as barbecue surged to national popularity with the success of young urban pitmasters such as Austin’s Aaron Franklin, whose Franklin Barbecue has become the most-talked-about BBQ joint on the planet. Succulent, wood-smoked “old school” barbecue is now as easy to find in Dallas as in DeSoto, in Houston as in Hallettsville. In Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown, Wyatt McSpadden pays homage to this new urban barbecue scene, as well as to top-rated country joints, such as Snow’s in Lexington, that were under the radar or off the map when Texas BBQ was published. Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown presents crave-inducing images of both the new—and the old—barbecue universe in almost every corner of the state, featuring some two dozen joints not included in the first book. In addition to Franklin’s and Snow’s, which have both occupied the
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top spot in Texas Monthly’s barbecue ratings, McSpadden portrays urban joints such as Dallas’s Pecan Lodge and Cattleack Barbecue and small-town favorites such as Whup’s Boomerang Bar-B-Que in Marlin. Accompanying his images are barbecue reflections by James Beard Award–winning pitmaster Aaron Franklin and Texas Monthly’s barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn. Their words and McSpadden’s photographs underscore how much has changed—and how much remains the same—since Texas BBQ revealed just how much good, old-fashioned ’cue there is in Texas. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | SPRING 2018
WYAT T MC SPAD D EN
Austin, Te x a s
AA R O N F RA N K L I N
The barbecue editor of Texas Monthly since 2013, Vaughn is the author of The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue.
Austin, Te x a s
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Chuck Dalchau, Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que, Llano
Austin, Te x a s
Widely regarded as one of the most influential pitmasters in the country, Franklin is the coauthor of Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto and owner and chief pitmaster of Franklin Barbecue. He received the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southwest in 2015.
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The photographer/author of Texas BBQ, McSpadden has been shooting pictures of Texas barbecue joints for more than twenty-five years. He is a contributing photographer for Texas Monthly, in which he has published images of virtually every aspect of life in Texas.
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| t e x a s | Nature and Environment
Our best-selling field guide has been completely reorganized by flower colors for easier use— every wildflower is presented with a large color photo and an identifying description
Texas Wildflowers A Field Guide New Edition B Y C A M PB E L L A N D LY N N LO U G H M I L L E R
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With more than 175,000 copies sold, Texas Wildflowers has established itself as the go-to guide for identifying the state’s roadside flowers. This new edition has been completely reorganized by flower colors (and within each color section, by flowering season) to make it even easier to identify the flowers you see as you travel through Texas. Every wildflower is illustrated with a beautiful fullcolor photograph—over 250 of which are new to this edition. All of the descriptive identifying information is presented in a consistent format—common and botanical names, plant and leaves, flowers and fruit, flowering season, habitat and range, and notes. What hasn’t changed is the book’s sturdy binding, which will hold up through years of active use, and its wealth of information, which has been thoroughly updated by the expert staff of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: • 300 species descriptions, including engaging comments about the plants’ natural histories, landscape uses, edible or medicinal properties, and folklore A map of Texas’s vegetational areas Glossaries that define and illustrate botanical terms A bibliography of books for learning more about wildflowers Indexes to common and botanical plant names, as well as plant families, that distinguish between native and non-native species • • • •
Updat ed by Joe M a rcus, L a dy Bir d Joh nson Wil dfl ow er Cen t er For e wor d to t he fir st edi t ion by L a dy Bir d Joh nson
C A M P B E L L A ND LYNN LO U G H M I L L E R The Loughmillers were pioneering conservationists who coauthored four books.
J O E M ARCU S Austin, Te x a s Marcus is the program coordinator for the Native Plant Information Network at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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along the Red River to Wichita County. It is native across the Southeast and in the southern Midwest. The yellow-flowered botanical variety, Aesculus pavia var. flavescens, is endemic to
birds, and Red Buckeye is among the species critical to the
flowers of this species are favored by humming-
the Edwards Plateau. COMMENTS:" The
birds’ survival, flowering at the time of their arrival from their
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with the attending floral leaves,
Indian Paintbrush leaves are unlobed.
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energy-depleting spring return trip from Central and South America. Castilleja indivisa
Texas Indian Paintbrush, Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush is an unbranched
scrophulariaceae (figwort family)
crown. The plant grows to 6 to 16 inches tall. Leaves are 1 to 4
but multistemmed annual or biennial growing from a single
PLANT"AND"LEAVES:" Texas
inches long, alternate, and with plain or sometimes wavy margins. Unlike the leaves of most other Castilleja species, Texas
called bracts, grow around the upper 2 to 7 inches of the stem.
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Lupinus havardii
Bend Bluebonnet is a multistemmed
Big Bend Bluebonnet, Chisos Bluebonnet
fabaceae (pea family)
a stately 3 or even 4 feet in height, it is the tallest of Texas’s
herbaceous annual growing from a winter rosette." Reaching
PLANT"AND"LEAVES:" Big
Bluebonnet species. Like other lupines, its leaves are palmately
may extend a foot or more
compound, each usually having seven leaflets.
red as they age. An occasional lavender- or white-flowered
purple, with white blotches that turn lemon yellow and then
above the foliage. The flowers are very showy, deep bluish
FLOWERS"AND"FRUIT:" Inflorescences
specimen is seen.
into April. The floral display usually peaks in March. Big Bend
FLOWERING:" Flowering begins in early" February and may continue
and in nearby areas. Its native range extends south across the
only in west Texas and there, naturally, only in the Big Bend
species has a limited range, occurring
Bluebonnet flowers earlier than the other Texas bluebonnet
species.
RANGE"AND"HABITAT:" This
Rio Grande River into Chihuahua, Mexico.
Shafter to Boquillas Canyon, over 100 road miles. It was mixed
area, where we have seen it blooming continuously from
COMMENTS:" Big Bend Bluebonnet is" very common in the Big Bend
ers the slopes and hillsides, presenting a magnificent picture
Huisache, Sweet Acacia
with Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata), making both more Vachellia farnesiana appealing than either would be alone. In favorable years it cov-
against the desert background. Like the other native Texas fabaceae (pea family) bluebonnet species, for garden use its seeds should be sown Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, Acacia smallii
between early summer and early fall.
shrubs, but in south Texas arroyos and creek bottoms it makes
Plants growing along the coast are mostly multistemmed
PLANT!AND!LEAVES:! Huisache is a perennial, woody shrub or tree.
a spreading tree 20 to 30 feet tall. The plant’s branches are
armed with pairs of whitish needle-like thorns, up to 2 inches
long, at each leaf node. The leaves are bipinnate; that is, they
are twice-divided compound leaves. Leaves are 1 to 3 inches
403 long with a gland about midway of the petiole. Each leaf has
two to six pairs of pinnae, each bearing 10 to 20 pairs of small,
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diameter, and borne in clusters from the leaf axils along the
heads of many orange or yellow flowers, about ½ inch in
plant’s inflorescences are spherical
oblong leaflets. The leaves remain green on the tree until a
hard frost.
FLOWERS!AND!FRUIT:! The
plant’s stems. Each flower’s petals are very short and almost
concealed by the many stamens, which are the same color. The
flowers are sweetly scented and perfume the air around them.
occurs in February and March. In some
The fruit is a fat legume, 1 to 3 inches long, dark brown or black
at maturity.
its early buds.
is common across all of south
years, the plant may flower as late as April if a freeze has killed
FLOWERING:! Flowering
Arizona, and southern California in the United States. Its na-
Texas to the Big Bend. It is also native to Louisiana, Florida,
RANGE!AND!HABITAT:! Huisache
tive range extends south throughout much of Latin America.
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by honeybees, which make excellent honey from its nectar.
COMMENTS:! The flowers are quite fragrant and are worked heavily
The intense red-orange color for which the plant is noted is
coloration of its floral bracts, which almost hide the incon-
spicuous cream-colored flowers. White- and yellow-bracted
in sandy soil, especially in fields
occurs from March to May, with the best
forms are uncommon but not rare.
displays in April.
FLOWERING:" Flowering
RANGE"AND"HABITAT:" Common
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Camping on the shore of Espiritu Santo Bay at Matagorda Island Wildlife Management Area
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| t e x a s | Nature and Environment
The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites, which has sold over 50,000
copies, has been completely redesigned and revised to include eight new parks, updated
information for every park, and many beautiful new photographs
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Parent is a freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, nature, and travel subjects. His work has appeared in Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, Texas Parks and Wildlife, National Geographic Traveler, Sierra, Natural History, Outside, Backpacker, Men’s Journal, Travel and Leisure, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Additionally, he has been the photographer and/or author of more than forty books.
Wimber ley, Tex a s
L AURE N C E PA R EN T
Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites New Edition B Y L AU R EN CE PA R EN T
The natural or historical attractions of the park Types of recreation offered Camping and lodging facilities Addresses and phone numbers Magnificent color photographs
Since it was first published in 1996, Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites has become Texans’ one-stop source for information on great places to camp, fish, hike, backpack, swim, ride horseback, go rock climbing, view scenic landscapes, tour historical sites, and enjoy almost any other outdoor recreation. Freshly redesigned, this revised edition includes eight new state parks and historical sites, completely updated information for every park, and beautiful new photographs for most of the parks. The book is organized by geographical regions to help you plan your trips around the state. For every park, Laurence Parent provides all of the essential information: • • • • •
So if you want to watch the sun set over Enchanted Rock, fish in the surf on the beach at Galveston, or listen for a ghostly bugle among the ruins of Fort Lancaster, let this book be your complete guide. Don’t take a trip in Texas without it.
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nearly 95,000 copies
Now updated, here is the standard legal resource for Texas educators, which has sold
| t e x a s | Law, Legal Reference, Education
most common areas of law that affect young adults, including driving, employment, renting,
Back in print and completely updated, this practical, easy-to-understand guide covers the
| t e x a s | Law, Reference
U P DAT E D E D I T I O N
What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law
relationships, and minor criminal offenses
The Educator’s Guide to Texas School Law
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Cypert is an elected municipal court judge.
Ga inesv ille, Te x a s
C HR IS T O PHER F. C Y PE RT
The late Jean Wallace was an attorney with the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services in Austin.
L . JEA N W ALLA C E
B Y L . J E A N W A L L A C E A N D C H R I S T O P H E R F. C Y P E R T
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What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law is the only single-source guide for accurate, easy-to-understand information about most areas of civil law in Texas. L. Jean Wallace drew on years of experience as a students’ attorney at Texas Tech University to inform young adults about the areas of law that affect them most: driving and car ownership, pranks and crimes (including alcohol and drug offenses), personal relationships, employment and consumer concerns, and living on their own. She illustrated her points with true, sometimes humorous, stories of young adults’ encounters with the law. For this new edition, municipal judge Christopher F. Cypert has completely updated the book to reflect the current state of the law. He covers specific topics that are now mandated to be taught in schools, including the proper way to interact with peace officers during traffic stops and other in-person encounters, as well as internet-era misbehaviors such as sexting and cyberbullying. Like Wallace, Cypert has helped many young people navigate the sometimes confusing processes of the legal world, often loaning earlier editions of this book to young offenders in his court. Both authors’ real-world experience and legal expertise ensure that What Every Teen Should Know about Texas Law is indeed a complete and practical guide for assuming the responsibilities of adulthood—as well as a good refresher course for all legal-age Texans.
Ninth Edition
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Much has changed in the area of school law since the first edition of The Educator’s Guide was published in 1986. The ninth edition offers an authoritative source on all major dimensions of Texas school law through the 2017 legislative sessions. Intended for educators, school board members, interested attorneys, and taxpayers, the ninth edition explains what the law is and what the implications are for effective school operations. It is designed to help professional educators avoid expensive and time-consuming lawsuits by taking effective preventive action. It is an especially valuable resource for school law courses and staff development sessions. The ninth edition begins with a review of the legal structure of the Texas school system. Successive chapters address attendance, the instructional program, service to students with special needs, the rights of public school employees, the role of religion, student discipline, governmental transparency, privacy, parent rights, and the parameters of legal liability for schools and school personnel. The book includes discussion of major federal legislation, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Every Student Succeeds Act. On the state level, the book incorporates new laws pertaining to cyberbullying and inappropriate relationships between students and employees.
BY JIM WAL SH, L AURIE MANIOT IS, AND FR ANK KEMERER J IM W A L SH is a cofounder of Walsh, Gallegos, Trevino, Russo & Kyle, P.C. and a director of the National Council of School Attorneys. LAU RI E MA NI O T I S is a former education law attorney and current senior employment investigator for the City of Fort Worth. F RA N K KEME RER is Regents Professor-Emeritus of Education Law and Administration at the University of North Texas. r e l ea s e dat e | au gu st 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ inches, 552 pages ISBN 978-1-4773-1531-6 $29.95* | £24.99 | C$44.95
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N E W I N PA P E R B A C K Dolph Briscoe
B R I S C O E
As told to Don Carleton
D O L P H
My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics B Y
| t e x a s | Biography, Politics
Now with a foreword by the historian Dolph Briscoe IV, here is the autobiography of former Texas governor Dolph Briscoe, who played a crucial role in restoring public confidence in the integrity of state government
Dol ph Briscoe Cen t er for A merica n History
Dolph Briscoe My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics BY DOLPH BRISCOE AS TOLD TO DON CARLE TON
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Dolph Briscoe, governor of Texas from 1973 until 1979, was the largest individual landowner and rancher in a state famous for its huge ranches. He was one of the most respected businessmen in Texas, with a portfolio that included banks, agribusinesses, cattle, and oil and gas properties. His philanthropy provided much-needed support to a wide range of educational, medical, scientific, and cultural institutions. As a member of the state legislature in the decade following World War II, Briscoe was the author of major legislation that improved the daily lives of farmers and ranchers throughout Texas. As an activist leader of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Briscoe played a significant role in the successful effort to eliminate the screwworm, an age-old scourge of the livestock industry. As a friend and associate of a number of major American political figures, he was an eyewitness to history. And as a governor who assumed office following one of the most far-reaching corruption scandals in Texas history, Briscoe played a crucial role in restoring public confidence in the integrity of state government. Don Carleton, executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, conducted a series of lengthy oral history interviews with Governor Briscoe to produce this book.
Ne w for e wor d by Dol ph Briscoe I V
D O L P H B RI SCO E (1923–2010) Briscoe served as Texas governor from 1973 to 1979. He led a distinguished career in public service, business, and ranching.
D O N C ARL ET ON Austin, Te x a s Carleton is Executive Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Distributed for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
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When former president Lyndon B. Johnson opened the LBJ Presidential Library in May 1971, he proclaimed, “It’s all here, the story of our time—with the bark off.” Accordingly, he wanted his library to reflect not only the triumphs of his administration, but the failures, too—and he wanted us to learn from them to build a better future for our country. In keeping with President Johnson’s vision, the LBJ Library took a substantive, unvarnished look at the Vietnam War, with the goal to shed new light on the war and the lessons it provides. The passage of years offers greater perspective on the complexities of a war that altered not only our history but our perception of ourselves as a nation. The result was the Vietnam War Summit, an intensive three-day conference in April 2016 that brought together policy makers, scholars, reporters, photographers, musicians, and importantly, those who were on the front lines of the war and the antiwar movement. In conjunction with the conference, the library displayed a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Twice each day during the summit, ceremonies recognized Vietnam War veterans. A War Remembered features photographs and documentation from the Vietnam War Summit, but also includes a number of historic photographs from both the LBJ Library and the Briscoe Center for American History, offering a diverse perspective on the conflict that defined a generation.
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