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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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Gold Dust on the Air

Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture

By Molly A. Schneider

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.

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Memory in Fragments

The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures

By Megan E. O'Neil

An exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures.

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Building Little Saigon

Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

By Erica Allen-Kim

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.

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Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century

Transgressing the Frame

By James Scorer

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.

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France and Algeria

A History of Decolonization and Transformation

By Phillip Naylor

An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.

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Juneteenth Rodeo

By Sarah Bird; Afterword by Demetrius Pearson

Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.

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Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

By Regina Marie Mills

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

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Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch

An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss

By Lisa Keefauver

A comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.

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Chuco Punk

Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

By Tara López

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.

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Unruly Domestication

Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

By Kristin Skrabut

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

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Physicians of the Future

Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine

By Rosalynn A. Vega

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.

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William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border

Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

By John Weber

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas.

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