Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
First Strike
Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity, it also has one of the largest prison populations in the United States and consistently ranks on the bottom of education indexes. Taking a unique, multifaceted insider’s perspective,...
Black on Both Sides
A Racial History of Trans Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments...
Precarious Prescriptions
Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective...
Lifeblood
Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don’t we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits—Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire—Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew...
The Road to Botany Bay
An Exploration of Landscape and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul...
by Stig Dagerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country’s brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of...
Transhumanism
Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous...
Unlearning the City
Infrastructure in a New Optical Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in...
Human Programming
Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do our ways of talking about contemporary terrorism have a history in the science, technology, and culture of the Cold War? Human Programming explores this history in a groundbreaking work that draws connections across decades and throughout American culture, high and low. Scott Selisker argues that...
More Than Shelter
Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants’ active engagement in shaping public housing into communities....
Multiple Autisms
Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out—and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become—no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder...
Vikings in the Attic
In Search of Nordic America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit, colored marshmallows, and pretzels) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain...
Rifftide
The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists AssociationThe things that I have, I’ll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones—or as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones....