American Studies Association Virtual Exhibit

We are pleased to exhibit at the 2023 meeting of the American Studies Association in Montreal, Québec from November 2-5, 2023, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books in American Studies. Browse our list of new and recent titles, visit us at Booth #15 to chat with editor Sarah McGavick, and enjoy a great discount!

Apply the discount code UTXASA during checkout to receive 30% off the full list price of any book for domestic orders, plus free domestic shipping. Offer valid through November 30, 2023. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included. Browse featured books below!

Below is a schedule of our authors presenting their work:

PanelTimeLocation
Robert Irwin, Caring More for One Another than for Nation-States: Love and Solidarity Against Deportation Regimes11/2, 2:00 PMLe Centre Sheraton Montreal Salon 3 (Level 2)
Jason Ruiz, A Passion for American Studies: Attracting Majors, Encouraging our Students11/3, 10:00 AMLe Centre Sheraton Montreal Salon Hemon (Level A)
Celeste González de Bustamante, Migration and Solidarity: U.S., Mexico, and Central America11/3, 2:00 PMLe Centre Sheraton Montreal Salon 2 (Level 2)
Bryce Henson, Reading Against Power: Liminality, Critical Fabulation, and Disidentification11/5, 8:00 AMLe Centre Sheraton Montreal Suite 716 (Level 7)

Border Policing

A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America

Holly M. Karibo, George T. Díaz

Building Antebellum New Orleans

Free People of Color and Their Influence

Tara Dudley

Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

David Ponton III

A Body of One's Own

A Trans History of Argentina

Patricio Simonetto

Imagining the Method

Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

Justin Owen Rawlins

Emergent Quilombos

Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

Bryce Henson

The City Aroused

Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco

Damon Scott

Portable Postsocialisms

New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History

Paloma Duong

Breaking the Gender Code

Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States

Georgina Hickey

Black Feminist Constellations

Dialogue and Translation across the Americas

Christen A. Smith, Lorraine Leu

I'm Not There

Noah Tsika

Quantum Justice

Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

Crystal Leigh Endsley

Narcomedia

Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs

Jason Ruiz

Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

Myriam J. A. Chancy

The Sports Revolution

How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

Frank Andre Guridy

Making The Best Years of Our Lives

The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation

Alison Macor

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Sonia Hernández, John Morán González

The Value Gap

Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere

Courtney Brannon Donoghue

Super Bodies

Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact

Jeffrey A. Brown

Astros and Asterisks

Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained

Jonathan Silverman

Labors of Fear

The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work

Aviva Briefel, Jason Middleton

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

Reclaiming the Americas

Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

Tatiana Reinoza

Supersex

Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero

Anna Peppard

Managed Migrations

Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Cristina Salinas

A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

Paul Youngquist

Texas Lithographs

A Century of History in Images

Ron Tyler

Before Lawrence v. Texas

The Making of a Queer Social Movement

Wesley G. Phelps

Cinema's Original Sin

D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture

Paul McEwan

Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

Domino Renee Perez

Visible Borders, Invisible Economies

Living Death in Latinx Narratives

Kristy L. Ulibarri

Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge

Building a Community Archive

Robert Irwin

The Color Pynk

Black Femme Art for Survival

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Only the Names Have Been Changed

Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture

Claudia Calhoun

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Maybe We'll Make It

A Memoir

Margo Price

Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

Francesca T. Royster

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Lynn Melnick

Choreographing Mexico

Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Manuel R. Cuellar

T Bone Burnett

A Life in Pursuit

Lloyd Sachs

Designing Pan-America

U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

Robert Alexander González, Robert Rydell

Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

Philis Barragán Goetz

Apostles of Change

Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

Felipe Hinojosa

Conjured Bodies

Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad

Laura Grappo

Crossing Waters

Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art

Marisel C. Moreno

Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho

The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music

Yolanda Broyles-González, Francisco González, Rafael Figueroa Hernández

Black Panther

Scott Bukatman

The Continuing Storm

Learning from Katrina

Kai Erikson, Lori Peek

DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution

Lance Scott Walker

Blue Architecture

Water, Design, and Environmental Futures

Brook Muller

John Prine

In Spite of Himself

Eddie Huffman

Autism in Film and Television

On the Island

Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer

Chicanx Utopias

Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible

Luis Alvarez

Women's Lives, Women's Voices

Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples

Brenda Longfellow, Molly Swetnam-Burland

Resisting Garbage

The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities

Lily Baum Pollans

Roller Derby

The History of an American Sport

Michella M. Marino

Who Got the Camera?

A History of Rap and Reality

Eric Harvey

Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly

Razabilly

Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene

Nicholas F. Centino

Why Bushwick Bill Matters

Charles L. Hughes

Grandmothers on Guard

Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border

Jennifer Johnson

Why Solange Matters

Stephanie Phillips

Brown Trans Figurations

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

Francisco J. Galarte

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Viva George!

Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border

Elaine A. Peña

Mainstream Maverick

John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema

Holly Chard

Walker Evans

No Politics

Stephanie Schwartz

Border Policing

A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America

Holly M. Karibo, George T. Díaz

Sunbelt Diaspora

Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando

Patricia Silver

Glitter Up the Dark

How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Sasha Geffen

Recipes for Survival

Maria Thereza Alves, Michael Taussig

Universal Citizenship

Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity

R. Andrés Guzmán

Beyoncé in Formation

Remixing Black Feminism

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

The Neoliberal Diet

Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People

Gerardo Otero

Night Moves

Jessica Hopper

The Comedy Studies Reader

Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz

The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance

Chicana Movidas

New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell

Country Music USA

50th Anniversary Edition

Bill C. Malone, Tracey E. W. Laird

Red Hot Mama

The Life of Sophie Tucker

Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

A Place of Darkness

The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema

Kendall R. Phillips

Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before

Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV

Diana Adesola Mafe

Screening Stephen King

Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television

Simon Brown

They Came to Toil

Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression

Melita M. Garza

Banking on Beauty

Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California

Adam Arenson

Misinformation and Mass Audiences

Brian G. Southwell, Emily A. Thorson, Laura Sheble

The New Gay for Pay

The Sexual Politics of American Television Production

Julia Himberg

Pushing in Silence

Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

Isabel M. Córdova

Hysterical!

Women in American Comedy

Linda Mizejewski, Victoria Sturtevant, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

Power Moves

Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

Kyle Shelton

REMEX

Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

Amy Sara Carroll

Monitoring the Movies

The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America

Jennifer Fronc

Nuevo South

Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place

Perla M. Guerrero

Under Surveillance

Being Watched in Modern America

Randolph Lewis

Spectatorship

Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media

Roxanne Samer, William Whittington

Dopers in Uniform

The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

John Hoberman

Why Harry Met Sally

Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love

Joshua Louis Moss

Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani

Make Ours Marvel

Media Convergence and a Comics Universe

Matt Yockey

Frankie and Johnny

Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America

Stacy I. Morgan

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

Ella Maria Diaz

Rebellious Bodies

Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics

Russell Meeuf

Jazz and Cocktails

Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir

Jans B. Wager

Connecting The Wire

Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore

Stanley Corkin

Arresting Development

Comics at the Boundaries of Literature

Christopher Pizzino

Practicing Transnationalism

American Studies in the Middle East

Eileen T. Lundy, Edward J. Lundy

Graphic Borders

Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González

Beyond Machismo

Intersectional Latino Masculinities

Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha

Captivity Beyond Prisons

Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants

Martha D. Escobar

Trying to Get Over

African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986

Keith Corson

Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

Tejanas in Literature and Art

Inés Hernández-Ávila, Norma E. Cantú

Independent Stardom

Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System

Emily Carman

Cuban Underground Hip Hop

Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

Tanya L. Saunders

The Jemima Code

Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

Queer Brown Voices

Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Invisible in Austin

Life and Labor in an American City

Javier Auyero, Loïc Wacquant

Portable Borders

Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984

Ila Nicole Sheren

Race on the QT

Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino

Adilifu Nama

Americans in the Treasure House

Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire

Jason Ruiz