To kick off a month of rich history, culture, and celebration, we at UT Press have picked our books, past and present, that we think best reflect our mission and serve as a reminder that #BlackHistoryIsNow. Find some of our Black History Month picks for this year below, read an excerpt from David Ponton III’s new book Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History on our blog here, and stay tuned for more featured books on our Instagram throughout the month of February!
Racial Mixing and Foodways across the United States
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
Art, Medicine, and Disability
The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture
Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945
Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
Dialogue and Translation across the Americas
Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry
Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Black Femme Art for Survival
Listening for Revolutions
Learning from Katrina
Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art
A Life in Slow Revolution
Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Civil Rights in Black and Brown
Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas
Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston
The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin
A Retrospective
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Remixing Black Feminism
Seeing Deeply
The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
The First African Americans in the Space Program
Stages of Struggle and Celebration
A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas
Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity
Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
A Long Walk Home
Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Plays by African American Texans
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
The Living History of African American Texans
Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
A Sourcebook
150 Years of Trial and Triumph
