Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press

Nils Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2021 Spring

A loving tale of a boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy while also embracing his Norwegian heritage

Minnesota’s Natural Heritage Second Edition John R. Tester, Susan M. Galatowitsch, Rebecca A. Montgomery and John J. Moriarty 2021 Spring

The definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology—updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five years

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

Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring

An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects

Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring

How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences

Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain

Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring

An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke

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

The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring

Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies

Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring

From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War

The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring

A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity

Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring

A bold new indictment of the racialization of science

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

Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring

The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies

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

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

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

The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring

Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization

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

Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring

A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity

Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring

Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data

Waterfall A Novel Mary Casanova 2021 Spring

Trinity Baird’s hope for independence is tenuous, especially when her family has the final say—and the power to lock her away

Fates of the Performative From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism Jeffrey T. Nealon 2021 Spring

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept

The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring

A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles

The Perennial Kitchen Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future Beth Dooley 2021 Spring

Recipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food, farming, and humankind

Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States

Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring

An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature

Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring

A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers

Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring

A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem

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

Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2021 Spring

The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound

Begin with a Bee Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root 2021 Spring

Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world

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

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

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

Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring

A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners

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

B. J. O. Nordfeldt American Internationalist Gabriel Weisberg, Editor 2021 Spring

This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles

A Private Wilderness The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd F. Olson 2021 Spring

The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer

The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring

On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre

The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring

A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image

Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring

How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space

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

The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring

How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life

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

Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring

Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions

Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2021 Spring

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design

Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver James D. Paruk 2021 Spring

The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird

The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring

A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory

Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

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

Media and Management Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, Melissa Gregg and Marc Steinberg 2021 Spring

An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor

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

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

Upcoming Events

DISCOMFORT FOOD virtual event with the University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities, the Lawrence Public Library, and Marni Kessler Apr 28, 2021 07:30 PM
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YANG WARRIORS virtual event at Wordplay with Kao Kalia Yang May 03, 2021 09:00 AM
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NOOPIMING virtual event at Wordplay with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson May 03, 2021 07:00 PM
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FOR THE LOVE OF COD virtual launch with Moon Palace Books and Eric Dregni May 06, 2021 07:00 PM
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WATERFALL virtual event with Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery and Mary Casanova May 13, 2021 07:00 PM
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