American Studies

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall

Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion

Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall

More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall

An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship

Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall

A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice

Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall

The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation

Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall

Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor

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

Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall

A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it

Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall

Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i

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

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

Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter

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

Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall

A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest

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

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

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

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

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

A bold new indictment of the racialization of science

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