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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

University of Minnesota Press

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