American Studies
- UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring
- A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
- Fats Waller Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese 2017 Fall
- The exuberant life and times of a jazz giant with an unmatched zest for life and music
- A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall
- How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States
- Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall
- Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
- 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?