It is in UT Press’s mission statement to be “a focal point where the life experiences, insights, and specialized knowledge of writers converge to be disseminated in both print and digital formats”; with that goal, we have pulled together a list that is reflective of our commitment to intersectional scholarship and our celebration and elevation of Black voices and stories.
Please enjoy this specially curated Black Studies list that has been selected in alignment with our mission, and the space these titles and their authors serve in helping us fulfill it.
To receive a discount on our Black History Month book recommendations, use the code UTXAAIHS for 50% off ebooks and 30% off print books. Our ebook discount is a limited time offer, expiring February 28, 2023, but the 30% discount for print books is our standing discount for the African American Intellectual History Society and does not expire.
Through the month of February, we are also offering Dr. Leonard Moore’s book Teaching Black History to White People as a free ebook download. Enter code UTXBHM during checkout to read Dr. Moore’s provocative and urgently needed text without charge.
Black History Month Books We Recommend
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
How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
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
