Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.
Before Writing, Vol. I
From Counting to Cuneiform
- Copyright year: 1992
Cinema's Original Sin
D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.
- Copyright year: 2022
Fatherhood in the Borderlands
A Daughter's Slow Approach
A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.
- Copyright year: 2022
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
Living Death in Latinx Narratives
- Copyright year: 2022
Siblings of Soil
Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions
After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.
- Copyright year: 2022
Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
Building a Community Archive
A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.
- Copyright year: 2022
You're with Stupid
kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Color Pynk
Black Femme Art for Survival
A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu.
- Copyright year: 2022
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture
In the postwar era, the police procedural series Dragnet informed Americans on the workings of the criminal justice system and instructed them in their responsibilities as citizens.
- Copyright year: 2022
Undocumented Motherhood
Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
An intimate portrayal of the hardships faced by an undocumented family navigating the medical and educational systems in the United States.
- Copyright year: 2022
Oaxaca in Motion
An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration
An expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2022
Maybe We'll Make It
A Memoir
- Copyright year: 2022