American Studies

Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring

How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom

The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring

A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain

Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring

How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring

Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion

Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring

The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall

More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring

How media shapes our actions and feelings about race

Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment

People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall

An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship

Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall

A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice

Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall

Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor

Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring

A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world

Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall

The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation

An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall

An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious

Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall

A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it

Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall

Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i

Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall

How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population

Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall

An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century

Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter

University of Minnesota Press

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