American Studies

The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring

Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies

Hope in the Struggle A Memoir Josie R. Johnson 2021 Spring

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment

Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity

Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall

The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom

How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring

The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2020 Fall

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry

The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall

A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed

Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall

A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations

Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall

Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare

The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall

A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century

Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall

An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today

Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall

A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures

Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall

Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2020 Fall

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

Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring

The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community

Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring

New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall

Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable

Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration

News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring

A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel

An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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