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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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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
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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
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Building Antebellum New Orleans

Free People of Color and Their Influence

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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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
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Imagining the Method

Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

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A Body of One's Own

A Trans History of Argentina

A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives.

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Voices in Aerosol

Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico

How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art.

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The History of a Periphery

Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands

An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.

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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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