American Studies
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The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall
- Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
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Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring
- How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state
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Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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