Books published by University of Texas Press

An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.

The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America.

An account of the Amazigh people who took advantage of the Arab Spring to press political demands.

An examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media.

A true-crime showdown that takes readers back to the grittier and weirder Austin of the 1970s.

A new and expanded biography of one of country music's most celebrated singer-songwriters.

What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America's native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree's natural home. This book explores the history of America's most important commercial nut.

Leading researchers offer a dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu, a conquered region largely absent from existing English-language scholarship.

A personally and pedagogically generous book, Teaching Black History to White People outlines how to teach and engage with Black history on college campuses and beyond.

In this collection of personal essays, a diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country artists who have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Swift.

The first comprehensive study of Moche mural art, this landmark book develops a methodology of archaeo art history to examine image-making and visual experience in an era of ancient Peruvian history before the use of writing.

Drawing on hundreds of new interviews from grassroots activists in every corner of Texas, Civil Rights in Black and Brown tells the stories of the state's intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggles.

An illuminating cultural study arguing that, in the late 1980s, the reality TV of Cops and the reality rap of "Fuck tha Police" were two sides of the same coin, redefining popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.

The dynamic and culturally complex story of roller derby, the only full-contact sport in the United States that has embraced women as equal competitors since its inception.