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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
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