American Studies

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

The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring

Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality

The Ford Century in Minnesota Brian McMahon 2016 Fall

How the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota over the past 100 years

Good Morning Blues The Autobiography of Count Basie Count Basie 2016 Fall

The riveting autobiography of Count Basie

California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall

How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts

Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall

Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine

Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall

Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence

Brown Threat Identification in the Security State Kumarini Silva 2016 Fall

Revealing a post-9/11 America in which a dubious identity concept has become a dragnet for the “deviant”

First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall

Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state

For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall

Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state

Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier Rebecca J. Kinney 2016 Fall

What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?

Restaurant Republic The Rise of Public Dining in Boston 2016 Fall

From plain food to luxury dining— the rise of eating out in the early Republic

The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall

How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America

The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall

An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but

Living for Change An Autobiography Grace Lee Boggs 2016 Fall

A remarkable life on the American Left.

Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall

The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

The Servant Class City Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego David J. Karjanen 2016 Fall

Exposes a dark side of the sunny city that has enticed workers and tourists for decades

Dharma Lion A Biography of Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher 2016 Spring

The expansive, authoritative biography of a Beat Generation leader—now with two new chapters

The Fighting Frenchman Minnesota’s Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux 2016 Spring

He battled boxing’s elite, but the real story lies in the way this Minnesota Rocky lived

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