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.
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.
- Copyright year: 2024
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.
- Copyright year: 2024
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
- Copyright year: 2021
Paid to Care
Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture
An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.
- Copyright year: 2023
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
A Body of One's Own
A Trans History of Argentina
Voices in Aerosol
Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands
Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.
- Copyright year: 2023
The City Aroused
Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco
A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.
- Copyright year: 2023
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
Borrowed Time
Survivors of Nazi Terezín Remember
Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.