Geography Sale: Race
Virtual space for attendees and those interested in the American Association of Geographers. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNAAG23. Code expires June 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
GEOGRAPHY // ANTHROPOLOGY // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
RACE // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // ENVIRONMENT
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY // POSTHUMANITIES
ETHNOGRAPHY // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // GLOBALIZATION
HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS
GLBT AND GENDER STUDIES // ECONOMY // DIGITAL CULTURE
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN // HENRI LEFEBVRE
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American Indians and the American Dream Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota Kasey R. Keeler 2023 Spring
- Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities
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Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
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Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring
- Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
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The Quiet Violence of Empire How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan Wesley Attewell 2023 Spring
- How the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development
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Natives against Nativism Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France Olivia C. Harrison 2023 Spring
- Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
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Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
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African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall
- An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
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All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring
- The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
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Meaningless Citizenship Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet 2022 Fall
- A searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation
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Afro-Sweden Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country Ryan Thomas Skinner 2022 Fall
- A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diaspora
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall
- Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession
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The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall
- Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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The Alienated Subject On the Capacity to Hurt James A. Tyner 2022 Spring
- A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy
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Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
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Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall
- How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
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Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring
- Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
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Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall
- A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations
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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall
- A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed
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Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall
- Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair
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Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall
- Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
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Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring
- This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
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Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
- The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
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Queering Colonial Natal Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa T. J. Tallie 2019 Fall
- How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?
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Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
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Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall
- A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
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Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
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Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring
- Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
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The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall
- An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
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Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
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Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring
- A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
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With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
- Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
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Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring
- Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
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The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
- An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
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Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
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Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
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Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall
- Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
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Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier Rebecca J. Kinney 2016 Fall
- What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?
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A Curriculum of Fear Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools Nicole Nguyen 2016 Fall
- Winner: American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
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The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring
- Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
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DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring
- When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
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Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
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The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
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Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring
- What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
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Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
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Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall
- Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance
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Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring
- How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
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Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA