American Studies
- The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring
- How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”
- Observation Points The Visual Poetics of National Parks Thomas Patin, Editor 2012 Spring
- A new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identity
- Corn Palaces and Butter Queens A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture Pamela H. Simpson 2012 Spring
- A celebration of corn palaces, crop art, and butter sculpture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago Preston H. Smith II 2012 Spring
- How a black elite fighting racial discrimination reinforced class inequality in postwar America
- We Are All Moors Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities Anouar Majid 2012 Spring
- An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together
- From Fields to Fairways Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota Rick Shefchik 2012 Spring
- The first history of Minnesota’s celebrated golf clubs and courses, including rarely seen photographs and long-lost details about the game’s most famous architects
- I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams Mark Dery 2014 Spring
- A head-spinning thrill ride through contemporary American culture
- Samurai among Panthers Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life Diane C. Fujino 2012 Spring
- The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
- Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Erica R. Edwards 2012 Spring
- How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
- Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy Stone 2012 Spring
- From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures
- A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle The Life of Harry Haywood Harry Haywood 2012 Spring
- An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
- A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring
- How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
- Diane Arbus’s 1960s Auguries of Experience Frederick Gross 2012 Spring
- Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s
- West of Center Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, Editors 2011 Fall
- Recovering the art and lifestyle of the counterculture in the American West in the 1960s and ’70s
- Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring
- Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
- Represent and Destroy Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism Jodi Melamed 2011 Fall
- A stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalisms
- Governing the Wild Ecotours of Power Stephanie Rutherford 2011 Fall
- Shows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural world
- Freud in Oz At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Kenneth B. Kidd 2011 Fall
- Shows how the acceptance of psychoanalysis owes a notable debt to the rise of “kid lit”
- Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall
- Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States
- Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall
- The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice