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Heather Skinner: Publicist and Assistant Marketing Manager; presspr@umn.edu; Phone: (612) 301-1932; [vCard ]
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Press Releases

University of Minnesota Press Announces New Partnership with Sales Group Parson Weems Jun 29, 2022: Weems Publisher Services will cover the Mid-Atlantic region: Washington DC, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Black Lives Matter: Free Antiracist Reading Apr 13, 2021: We must all be a part of dismantling white supremacy in its many forms, including and especially racial profiling.
The University of Minnesota Press is in sympathy and solidarity with the grieving family of Daunte Wright, killed by police during a traffic stop near Minneapolis on Sunday, April 11, 2021, and acknowledges the trauma and fear experienced by the Black members of our community today and every day. In order for our world to be more equitable and just, we must all be a part of dismantling white supremacy in its many forms, including and especially racial profiling. In the shadow of the Derek Chauvin trial, we affirm, once again and always: BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Announcing the publication of the MMPI-3 Nov 02, 2020: The MMPI-3 is the first full revision of the test since the late 1980s.
The University of Minnesota Press is pleased to announce the publication of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3). This is the first full revision of the test since the late 1980s and features a new, nationally representative normative sample, selected to match the 2020 US census projections for race and ethnicity, education, and age.

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Kirkus Review of MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND Aug 17, 2022: Whitehead is a lyric poet writing in prose, proudly declaring himself to be “transgressive [and] punk”—and, very clearly, a survivor. An elegiac and elegant book of revelations, confessions, and reverberations.
Publishers Weekly: Joshua Whitehead asks moving questions without resorting to simple answers Aug 10, 2022: Fans of the personal essay will relish Whitehead’s evocative, rich prose.
Washington Post: New books set the record straight on the Democratic Republic of Congo Aug 06, 2022: Every few years, scholars of Congolese politics collectively sigh as yet another news outlet publishes a poorly informed “analysis” of the country and its problems. Whether it’s an argument that government authority is so weak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the country “does not exist,” a claim that rebels fight for no discernible reason but banditry, or the idea that celebrity engagement can change the region’s trajectory, questionable claims abound.