Western Political Science Association: Race
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MNWPSA23. Code expires June 1, 2023.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Foucault in Iran Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 2016 Fall
- A groundbreaking reassessment of Foucault’s writings on one of the greatest political upheavals of our time
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DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring
- When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
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Desis Divided The Political Lives of South Asian Americans Sangay K. Mishra 2016 Spring
- From taxi drivers to CEOs and Indian American governors Haley and Jindal—how distinctions strain solidarity in the politics of South Asian (or Desi) Americans
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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
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Border Walls Gone Green Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America John Hultgren 2015 Fall
- Why anti-immigration environmentalists need to reconsider their motives
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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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Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Davide Panagia 2016 Fall
- Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics