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Civil Racism The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout Lynn Mie Itagaki 2016 Spring

Examines how the preservation of civility comes at the expense of racial reconciliation and justice

Claiming Place On the Agency of Hmong Women Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs and Ma Vang, Editors 2016 Spring

A field-defining book that illustrates how Hmong scholarship might progress

Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring

Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter

Our Gang A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 2015 Fall

Behind the scenes of The Little Rascals and the America that made them

The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall

How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change

Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall

Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism

Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall

How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one

Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties Molly Geidel 2015 Fall

How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas

The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall

How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity

Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall

A major new history of scientific racism in the United States

Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall

How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys

Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall

Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?

Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring

What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?

Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2015 Spring

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

Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring

Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia

A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring

The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society

Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring

Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people

Life Support Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora 2015 Spring

How global capitalism has turned human beings into a new form of biocapital

Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring

Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos

Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2015 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