Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- Listening to students—especially the most marginalized.
- BY GILDA L. OCHOA Professor of sociology and Chicana/o–Latina/o studies, Pomona College Twenty years after I graduated from high school, I returne ...
- Nationalist Heterosexuality and Migrants' (Il)Legal Status
- The Irish asylum process in the early years of the millennium. By Eithne Luibhéid Associate professor of gender and women's studies at the Unive ...
- Syria: Traditions of Protest and the Reconfiguration of Baathist Authoritarianism
- This post is excerpted from the essay "Syria" by Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, which appears in Dispatches from the Arab Spring (UMP, 2013). ------- A ...
- Telling true stories about the past
- In 1972, Julie L. Davis and her grandmother discuss the merits of good storytelling. BY JULIE L. DAVIS Associate professor of history at the Coll ...
- On cultivating culturally responsive architecture while designing for modern needs
- Courtyard of the Place of Hidden Waters, Tacoma, Washington. This is the first tribal building to be certified LEED Platinum. BY ...
- Not capitalism 2.0 or 3.0, but a whole new operating system
- This illustration by Adam Turnbull is featured in Take Back the Economy. By J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy ...
- Social Death and the Criminalization of Resistance in the California Prison Hunger Strikes
- BY LISA GUENTHER Associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners across California launched the lar ...
- Race relations and our everyday lives: An excerpt from Albert Memmi's "Racism"
- The dynamics of race and prejudice in a gated community in Florida resonate throughout the world because they are, in fact, global and human condition ...
- The way scholarship works today
- In a blog post for Inside Higher Ed , college librarian Barbara Fister considers University of Minnesota Press director Doug Armato's January blog po ...
- How the suburban U.S. shopping mall reimagined the city and undergirded architectural modernization
- Victor Gruen's Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully indoor shopping mall in the world. Photo credit: Bobak Ha'Eri via Creative Co ...