American Studies

The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring

Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police

Finding Turtle Farm My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture Angela Tedesco 2022 Spring

The story of starting and running an organic farm—told by the woman who owned one of the first Community Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest

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

Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring

How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state

Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring

An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging

Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring

How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom

Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring

Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive

The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring

A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain

Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring

How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring

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

Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment

Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring

The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring

How media shapes our actions and feelings about race

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2022 Spring

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

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

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