American Studies

The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring

Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation

The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring

An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it

The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring

An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project

Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall

A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities

Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall

Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day

The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall

The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands

When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall

An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities

Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Crystal Parikh 2017 Fall

Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights

Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall

The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”

Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall

The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists

UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring

A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning

Fats Waller Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese 2017 Fall

The exuberant life and times of a jazz giant with an unmatched zest for life and music

A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall

How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States

Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall

Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine

Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall

A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print

A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring

Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine

Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring

Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras

So Famous and So Gay The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein Jeff Solomon 2017 Spring

How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?

White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring

A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland

Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring

A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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