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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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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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Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Entablo Manuscript

Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru

A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music.

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Why Mariah Carey Matters

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,

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The New Public Art

Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

The first comprehensive biography of one of Texas’s most important female writers—made complete with examples of her work, excerpts from her private papers, and eighteen previously unpublished letters from her mentor, H. L. Mencken.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Pastures of the Empty Page

Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

Edited by George Getschow

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ghostlight

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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