Books published by University of Texas Press

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

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.

Illustrated with evocative drawings by artist Alice Leora Briggs, this glossary uses the vocabulary created by the violence in Juarez, Mexico, to tell the stories of the people who live there.

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

As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.

Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system.

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection that combines images of type from the collection with a history of the origin of nineteenth-century wood type designs.

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.

The only book in English that recounts how the Islamic Movement in Israel originated and developed into a popular grassroots organization focused on protecting the Palestinian people, their land, and their religious sites.

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.

From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.

An inspiring account of how the Dell Medical School came into being at the University of Texas at Austin more than 125 years after the campus was established.

This history sheds new light on Egypt's involvement in World War I by telling the story of the Egyptian Labor Corps and how the treatment of these primarily rural workers influenced the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.

The true story of how a Dallas TV reporter accidentally spent his life sharing the stories of people no one has ever heard of on Texas Country Reporter, told by the show's creator and host, Bob Phillips.

The first comprehensive publication featuring the art and lives of brothers Scott and Stuart Gentling, two visionary Texas artists whose lifelong creative output captured an amazing array of subjects.

This resource guide is the only color-illustrated work devoted to polypores of eastern and central North American--the first of its kind to be published since Gilbertson & Ryvarden's 1987 North American Polypores.

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.

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.