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Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
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
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
Olav Audunssøn I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall: The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century
The Magic Bullet A Locked Room Mystery Featuring Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2020 Fall: The thrilling sixth novel in local historian Larry Millett’s renowned mystery series
Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall: A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
Hazel Belvo A Matriarch of Art Julie L’Enfant 2020 Fall: An illustrated art biography of one of Minnesota’s best-known feminist artists
Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall: A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis Jim Walsh 2020 Fall: A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years
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
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
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
Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall: Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall: A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall: Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
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
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
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
Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall: Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall: A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations
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
Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring: How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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
Women Who Make a Fuss The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A vibrant call to reevaluate the heritage of women thinkers inside and outside the academy
Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring: An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
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
José Montoya Ella Maria Diaz 2021 Spring: A generously illustrated account of the life and work of the prominent Chicano artist, educator, and activist
The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2021 Spring: A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history
The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall: A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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
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
Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall: A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
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
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
Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
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
Lost Souls Honoré de Balzac 2020 Fall: The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction
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
Cosmic Trip Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970 Christian A. Peterson 2021 Fall: A trip through Minneapolis rock concert history framed through psychedelic poster art
The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring: Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring: A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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 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
Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall: Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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