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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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Llamas beyond the Andes

Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World

An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Breaking the Gender Code

Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States

A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Pink Gold

Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Black Feminist Constellations

Dialogue and Translation across the Americas

A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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I'm Not There

An examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan biopic.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Quantum Justice

Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Friedrichsburg

A Novel

First published in Germany in 1867, this fascinating autobiographical novel of German immigrants on the antebellum Texas frontier provides a trove of revelations about the myriad communities that once called the Hill Country home.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Claremont Run

Subverting Gender in the X-Men

By J. Andrew Deman; Introduction by Jay Edidin

A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Unheard Witness

The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Reckoning with Harm

The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia

An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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A Curious Mix of People

The Underground Scene of '90s Austin

A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Narcomedia

Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs

Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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