American Studies Association 2023
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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2024 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback
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Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall
- Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi Elin Anna Labba 2023 Fall
- The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
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Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall
- How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
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The Colonial Construction of Indian Country Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law Eric Cheyfitz 2023 Fall
- A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America
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What We Teach When We Teach DH Digital Humanities in the Classroom Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors 2023 Fall
- Exploring how DH shapes and is in turn shaped by the classroom
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Cash, Clothes, and Construction Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy Kate Maclean 2023 Fall
- A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country’s radical transformation under Evo Morales
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The Needle and the Lens Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock ’n’ Roll to Synthwave Nate Patrin 2023 Fall
- How the creative use of pop music in film—think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now—has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s
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Queer Networks Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art Miriam Kienle 2023 Fall
- How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
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The Switch An Off and On History of Digital Humans Jason Puskar 2023 Fall
- From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
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The Cactus Hunters Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade Jared D. Margulies 2023 Fall
- An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it
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A Song over Miskwaa Rapids A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2023 Fall
- A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history
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Ugly White People Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America Stephanie Li 2023 Fall
- Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness
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Boundary Images Giselle Beiguelman, Melody Devries, Winnie Soon and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver 2023 Spring
- How are images made, and how should we understand their limits, capacities, and forces in digital media?
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Border Tunnels A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground Juan Llamas-Rodriguez 2023 Fall
- A comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border
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Masculinity in Transition K. Allison Hammer 2023 Fall
- Locating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture
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No More Fossils Dominic Boyer 2024 Spring
- Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization
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Trauma Sponges Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response Jeremy Norton 2023 Spring
- Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the significant toll of emergency response
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Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall
- A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall
- The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
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The New American War Film Robert Burgoyne 2023 Fall
- A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
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Terrorism on Trial Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Nicole Nguyen 2023 Fall
- A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts
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In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall
- Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
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Blood in the Tracks The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik 2023 Spring
- The story of the Minneapolis musicians unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album
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The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall
- Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
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Asians on Demand Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism Feng-Mei Heberer 2023 Fall
- Does media representation advance racial justice?
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The Solidarity Economy Jean-Louis Laville 2023 Spring
- Questioning the boundaries between politics and economics
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Opening Ceremony Inviting Inclusion into University Governance Kathryn J. Gindlesparger 2023 Fall
- Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers Rosemary Hennessy 2023 Spring
- Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own
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On the Digital Humanities Essays and Provocations Stephen Ramsay 2023 Fall
- A witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities
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The Shape of Utopia The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Irene Cheng 2023 Fall
- How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society
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Gramsci at Sea Sharad Chari 2023 Fall
- Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Michael Schumacher 2023 Spring
- Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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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
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Nothing Permanent Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan 2023 Spring
- A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
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Town Ball The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek 2023 Spring
- Relive the golden era of Minnesota’s town team baseball from 1945 to 1960
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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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Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next William G. Franklin, Editor 2023 Spring
- A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota
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Crip Negativity J. Logan Smilges 2023 Spring
- Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion
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The Comic Self Toward Dispossession Timothy C. Campbell and Grant Farred 2023 Spring
- A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself
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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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White Burgers, Black Cash Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2023 Spring
- The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
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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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The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
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Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall
- Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives David Mura 2022 Fall
- Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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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
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall
- The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
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Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall
- What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?
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Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall
- Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet
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Lesbian Death Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer Mairead Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity
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The Silence of the Miskito Prince How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized Matt Cohen 2022 Fall
- Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies
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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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Statelessness On Almost Not Existing 2022 Fall
- A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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The Mandorla Letters for the hopeful Nicole Mitchell Gantt 2022 Fall
- Afrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
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Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall
- Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
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Queer Silence On Disability and Rhetorical Absence J. Logan Smilges 2022 Fall
- Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness
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Isherwood on Writing The Complete Lectures in California Christopher Isherwood James J. Berg, Editor 2022 Fall
- Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time in this updated edition
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The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda LeGarde Grover 2022 Fall
- A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems
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Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
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Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
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South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America
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The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
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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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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring
- Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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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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Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
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Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
- Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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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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Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring
- How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state
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Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring
- Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
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Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
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Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
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Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring
- The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring
- A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
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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
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall
- A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
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The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2021 Fall
- The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era
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Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring
- How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world
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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?
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Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall
- Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion
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Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
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Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring
- A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse
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Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring
- An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
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Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall
- More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring
- A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring
- A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
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Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring
- Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017 Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini, Editors 2021 Spring
- A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region
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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
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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
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille
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Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall
- A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
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Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time
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Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall
- The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation
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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
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Editors 2021 Fall
- A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
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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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An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
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Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall
- A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
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Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall
- Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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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
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Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall
- A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface
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Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
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Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
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Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall
- A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print
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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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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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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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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall
- Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter
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Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring
- Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration
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Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall
- A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
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Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall
- A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
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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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Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring
- Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
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The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
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Outward Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes Ed Pavlić 2021 Spring
- The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring
- A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
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The Contest The 1968 Election and the War for America’s Soul Michael Schumacher 2021 Spring
- A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history
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Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
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Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring
- Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
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Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring
- Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
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Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
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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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The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring
- Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
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The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
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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
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The Children of Lincoln White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876 William D. Green 2021 Spring
- How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans
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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring
- A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
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Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall
- The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom
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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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Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring
- As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring
- The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
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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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Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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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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The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall
- A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century
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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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The Range Eternal Louise Erdrich 2020 Fall
- The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country’s most distinguished and beloved authors, now back in print
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring
- The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community
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In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall
- Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
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Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring
- New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
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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
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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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News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring
- A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel
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An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring
- A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
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What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
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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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Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
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Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
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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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Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring
- The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present
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The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
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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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Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall
- Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall
- Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
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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
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Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring
- Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall
- An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
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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
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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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Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
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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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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
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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
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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
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Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
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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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Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
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Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
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Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall
- Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
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Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall
- How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
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The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
- How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
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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
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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
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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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Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall
- A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
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Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring
- A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
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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
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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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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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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
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The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring
- Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
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Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
- How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
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Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall
- A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall
- A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema
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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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Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Crystal Parikh 2017 Fall
- Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall
- Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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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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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
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Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
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Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
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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
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Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall
- Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
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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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Living for Change An Autobiography Grace Lee Boggs 2016 Fall
- A remarkable life on the American Left.
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The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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Farm Worker Futurism Speculative Technologies of Resistance Curtis Márez 2016 Spring
- How one of America’s key social movements led the way in using new media for justice
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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
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Claiming Place On the Agency of Hmong Women Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs and Ma Vang, Editors 2016 Spring
- A field-defining book that illustrates how Hmong scholarship might progress
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Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring
- Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
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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
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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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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
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The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring
- How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty
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Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring
- Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
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Life Support Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora 2015 Spring
- How global capitalism has turned human beings into a new form of biocapital
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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
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Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring
- Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
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The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring
- A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
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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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Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring
- Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
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The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, Editors 2014 Spring
- From the front lines of the war on academic freedom, linking the policing of knowledge to the relationship between universities, militarism, and neoliberalism
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Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring
- How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality
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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
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The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
- A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
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Debating the End of History The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life David W. Noble 2012 Fall
- Why the global marketplace doesn’t—and can’t—provide the utopian world it promises
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War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall
- Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work
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The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring
- How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”
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The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall
- Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire
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Suspended Apocalypse White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition Dylan Rodríguez 2009 Fall
- Examines the Filipino American as a product of conquest, white supremacy, and racial empire
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The Amalgamation Waltz Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o 2009 Spring
- Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference?
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Forced Passages Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime Dylan Rodríguez 2005 Fall
- Uncovers the growing intellectual and political impact of post-1970s U.S. prison culture
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Aberrations in Black Toward a Queer of Color Critique Roderick A. Ferguson 2003 Fall
- A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture
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Disidentifications Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics José Esteban Muñoz 1999 Spring
- An important new perspective on the ways outsiders negotiate mainstream culture.
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The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
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The Celebrity Persona Pandemic P. David Marshall 2016 Fall
- Making sense of public identities, online and offline