Collection: Education Research 2023

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HIGHER EDUCATION // K-12

RACE // GENDER // CHILDHOOD STUDIES // ART // LAW

PUBLIC POLICY // HUMAN RIGHTS // ETHNOGRAPHY

DISABILITY STUDIES // SOCIOLOGY

Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2023 Fall: The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
Expelling Public Schools How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark John Arena 2023 Spring: Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system
The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall: How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
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
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
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
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
Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring: A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring: How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education Tyson Lewis and Peter B. Hyland 2022 Fall: What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?
People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall: An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall: How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall: The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring: Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring: A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring: Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
Hope in the Struggle A Memoir Josie R. Johnson 2021 Spring: How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment
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
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
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?
Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall: A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall: Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring: Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall: A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring: A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring: Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring: Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall: How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring: A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall: A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
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
Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall: Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
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
Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring: An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring: An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring: Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring: An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall: A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring: Original artwork and materials explore children’s literature and its impact in society and culture over time Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Back to the Sandbox Art and Radical Pedagogy Jaroslav Anděl, Editor 2019 Spring: An international group of artists and scholars reflects on the nature and significance of education in contemporary society, introducing new perspectives on learning and creativity
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall: How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall: An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
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
Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring: “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring: Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring: An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall: How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall: A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions
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
UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring: A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall: Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring: A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year
Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring: Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring: Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall: Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall: Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall: An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age
First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall: Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
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
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue Sohail Daulatzai 2016 Fall: A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world
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
The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall: The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring: The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent Joseph J. Fischel 2016 Spring: Exposing the fault lines underlying our regulation of sex
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring: If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring: Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring: Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Akira Mizuta Lippit 2016 Spring: Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity
American by Paper How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy Kate Vieira 2016 Spring: A richly enlightening look at literacy as lived experience
Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring: The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
Our Gang A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 2015 Fall: Behind the scenes of The Little Rascals and the America that made them
Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring: Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life
Multiple Autisms Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Jennifer S. Singh 2016 Spring: Investigates the ever-expanding meanings of autism to those who study the disorder and to those who live with it
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
The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall: How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change
A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall: How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall: Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism
Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall: How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall: Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
The Geek’s Chihuahua Living with Apple Ian Bogost 2015 Spring: The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices
Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring: Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship Stacy Clifford Simplican 2015 Spring: An unprecedented look at democratic theory’s disability exclusion and today’s self-advocacy movement
Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring: Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring: Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters
No Speed Limit Three Essays on Accelerationism Steven Shaviro 2015 Spring: Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe
Civil Rights Childhood Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Katharine Capshaw 2014 Fall: The unexpected and evocative role of children’s photographic books in cultural transformation and social change