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.
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
- Copyright year: 2024
Conditionally Accepted
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
- Copyright year: 2024
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut
- Copyright year: 2024
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
- Copyright year: 2024
Portraits of Persistence
Inequality and Hope in Latin America
Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2024
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