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Swedish-American Borderlands
New Histories of Transatlantic Relations
Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors
2021 Spring
Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration
Visibility Interrupted
Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming
Carly Thomsen
2021 Fall
A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
Ambivalent Childhoods
Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child
Jacob Breslow
2021 Spring
Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
The Black Reproductive
Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood
Sara Clarke Kaplan
2021 Spring
How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
Romi Crawford, Editor
2021 Spring
A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
Training for Catastrophe
Fictions of National Security after 9/11
Lindsay Thomas
2021 Spring
A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
Sweetness in the Blood
Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes
James Doucet-Battle
2021 Spring
A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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 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
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