American Studies

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

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

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”

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

Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence

University of Minnesota Press