American Studies

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

Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump

Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life

Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring

An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century

The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring

A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance

Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 2018 Fall

Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print

Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2018 Fall

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals

Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children

Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall

Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print

Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall

How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality

Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall

An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema

The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall

Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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