Cultural Criticism

Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring

Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration

Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism

Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall

Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis

As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring

How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism

Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring

As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here

Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall

A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care

Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring

Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience

The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring

Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors

Queering Colonial Natal Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa T. J. Tallie 2019 Fall

How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?

The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall

Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans

This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States

Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline

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

The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall

A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print

Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring

“A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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