Law & Society: Race
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89400. Code expires September 15, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY // ENVIRONMENT
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // ECONOMY // ETHNOGRAPHY
GOVERNMENT // PUBLIC POLICY // FOOD // EDUCATION // LAW
GENDER // RACE // HISTORY // GLOBALIZATION // URBAN STUDIES
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS // HUMAN RIGHTS // LABOR
ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall
- How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
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Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall
- A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed
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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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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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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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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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Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall
- A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
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Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
- The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
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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
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Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
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Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall
- A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
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Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
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The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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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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With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
- Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
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Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring
- Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification