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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
The Alchemy of Meth
A Decomposition
Jason Pine
2019 Fall
Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
Suspect Communities
Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror
Nicole Nguyen
2019 Fall
The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields
Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony
Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors
2019 Spring
A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
Black Bourgeois
Class and Sex in the Flesh
Candice M. Jenkins
2019 Fall
Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives
Beyond Education
Radical Studying for Another World
Eli Meyerhoff
2019 Fall
A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
Burgers in Blackface
Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
2019 Fall
A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Translated Nation
Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte
Christopher Pexa
2019 Spring
How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019
Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors
2019 Spring
The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
The Decorated Tenement
How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age
Zachary J. Violette
2019 Spring
A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
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