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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.

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton’s music and story.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Capitalist and the Critic

J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skillful and fascinating retelling of the often testy relationship between J. P. Morgan and Roger Fry, two men who did more to establish the preeminence of the Metropolitan Museum of Art than any collector and curator before or since.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law

Tenth Edition

The standard legal resource for Texas educators.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Choreographing Mexico

Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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T Bone Burnett

A Life in Pursuit

This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Designing Pan-America

U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Texas Takes Wing

A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State

This book celebrates the aviators, astronauts, airline executives, and other innovators who have made Texas an influential world leader in the aerospace industry over the past century.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Plagues and Pencils

A Year of Pandemic Sketches

By Edward Carey; Foreword by Max Porter

A remarkable collection of words and illustrations documenting the first year of the pandemic.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Apostles of Change

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

Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Hope and Hard Truth

A Life in Texas Politics

A stirring memoir of liberal politics and personal reflection through years in Texas public service.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Conjured Bodies

Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad

This study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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