American Studies
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Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring
- A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film
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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
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The Ford Century in Minnesota Brian McMahon 2016 Fall
- How the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota over the past 100 years
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Good Morning Blues The Autobiography of Count Basie Count Basie 2016 Fall
- The riveting autobiography of Count Basie
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California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
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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
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Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall
- Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
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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”
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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Living for Change An Autobiography Grace Lee Boggs 2016 Fall
- A remarkable life on the American Left.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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