American Studies

Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall

A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print

A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring

Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine

Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring

Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras

So Famous and So Gay The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein Jeff Solomon 2017 Spring

How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?

White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring

A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland

Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring

A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film

The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring

Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality

The Ford Century in Minnesota Brian McMahon 2016 Fall

How the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota over the past 100 years

Good Morning Blues The Autobiography of Count Basie Count Basie 2016 Fall

The riveting autobiography of Count Basie

California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall

How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts

Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall

Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine

Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall

Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence

Brown Threat Identification in the Security State Kumarini Silva 2016 Fall

Revealing a post-9/11 America in which a dubious identity concept has become a dragnet for the “deviant”

First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall

Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state

For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall

Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state

Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier Rebecca J. Kinney 2016 Fall

What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?

Restaurant Republic The Rise of Public Dining in Boston 2016 Fall

From plain food to luxury dining— the rise of eating out in the early Republic

The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall

How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America

The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall

An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but

Living for Change An Autobiography Grace Lee Boggs 2016 Fall

A remarkable life on the American Left.

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