American Studies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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