American Studies
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring
- New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
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Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
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Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring
- The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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