Books

States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity States of Exception Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity Keya Ganguly 2000 Fall
Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community.
States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration States of Grace Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration Donald Martin Carter 1997 Fall
Considers what this community tells us about immigration in Europe today.
Status Status Bryan S. Turner 1989 Spring
Clarifies the concept of status from the thesis that economic, political, and cultural inequalities can only be understood from a conflict-sociology perspective.
Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race Staying the Course A Runner’s Toughest Race Dick Beardsley and Maureen Anderson 2005 Spring
The gripping memoir of a record-holding marathoner
Stealing Thunder Stealing Thunder Mary Casanova 2014 Fall
The gripping tale of a young girl’s desperate attempt to save the horse she loves
Step by Step: Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project Step by Step Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project Jean-François Augoyard 2007 Spring
A classic work of French urban sociology—now available in English.
Stephen Crane - American Writers 76: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Stephen Crane - American Writers 76 University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Jean Cazemajou 1969 Spring
Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era Stirrings in the Jug Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era Adolph Reed Jr. 1999 Fall
A penetrating look at the state of racial politics by one of our nation’s most important writers on the subject.
Stomping the Blues Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall
The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2015 Spring
A beautifully written account of stone’s intimacy to what it means to be human
Stopping the Presses: The Murder of Walter W. Liggett Stopping the Presses The Murder of Walter W. Liggett Marda Liggett Woodbury 1998 Spring
An in-depth exploration of corruption and a notorious murder in 1930s Minneapolis.
Stories from Jonestown Stories from Jonestown Leigh Fondakowski 2023 Spring
The story of Jonestown and Peoples Temple told through extensive interviews with the survivors
Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory Storm from Paradise The Politics of Jewish Memory Jonathan Boyarin 1992 Spring
”An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin’s essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the ‘other’ and, conversely and recently, with ‘othering’ is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture.” --Marianne Hirsch
Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction Story and Situation Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction Ross Chambers 1984 Spring
Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Strategic Alliances: Coalition Building and Social Movements Strategic Alliances Coalition Building and Social Movements Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon, Editors 2010 Fall
The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions
Strategies for Social Change Strategies for Social Change Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger and Jeff Goodwin, Editors 2012 Spring
Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work
Strategies of Deconstruction: Derrida and the Myth of the Voice Strategies of Deconstruction Derrida and the Myth of the Voice J. Claude Evans 1991 Spring
The first detailed critical study of Derrida’s interpretation and critique of Husserl.
Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Street Scenes Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Esther Romeyn 2008 Fall
Negotiates the complex relationship between modern urban culture and immigrant identity
Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2024 Spring
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
Strindberg’s Dramaturgy Strindberg’s Dramaturgy Göran Stockenström, Editor None None