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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.
Human Programming
Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom
Scott Selisker
2016 Fall
The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
The Servant Class City
Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego
David J. Karjanen
2016 Fall
Exposes a dark side of the sunny city that has enticed workers and tourists for decades
Dharma Lion
A Biography of Allen Ginsberg
Michael Schumacher
2016 Spring
The expansive, authoritative biography of a Beat Generation leader—now with two new chapters
The Fighting Frenchman
Minnesota’s Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux
2016 Spring
He battled boxing’s elite, but the real story lies in the way this Minnesota Rocky lived
Farm Worker Futurism
Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Curtis Márez
2016 Spring
How one of America’s key social movements led the way in using new media for justice
Murray Talks Music
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Albert Murray
2016 Spring
Rare and previously unpublished work from an influential critic, cultural theorist, and champion of jazz
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016
Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors
2016 Spring
If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
Blood Sugar
Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Anthony Ryan Hatch
2016 Spring
How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
John Vassos
Industrial Design for Modern Life
Danielle Shapiro
2016 Spring
The first biography of a renowned industrial designer and illustrator who shaped the look of modern technology
DIY Detroit
Making Do in a City without Services
Kimberley Kinder
2016 Spring
When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
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