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The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall

Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history

Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall

An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century

Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth

Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter

Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring

Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration

Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall

A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs

The Streel A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue 2021 Fall

From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood

Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall

A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest

Media and Management Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, Melissa Gregg and Marc Steinberg 2021 Spring

An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor

Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible

Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring

A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory

Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver James D. Paruk 2021 Spring

The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird

Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2021 Spring

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design

Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui 2020 Spring

In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?

Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring

Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions

The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring

Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism

Citizen Swain Tales from a Minnesota Life Tom H. Swain 2021 Fall

An entertaining personal history of the state, told by one of its leading citizens

Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall

A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins

Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall

An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living

University of Minnesota Press

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