American Studies

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?

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

What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring

Examining the personal library and the making of self

Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color

Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring

A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames

Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring

The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota

LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring

Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States

Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring

The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present