Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
by la paperson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary...
Hikikomori
Adolescence without End
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society,...
Fast Policy
Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas that work,” are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in remarkably short order....
Answer the Call
Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What happens over time to Indians who spend their working hours answering phone calls from Americans—and acting like Americans themselves? To find out, the authors of Answer the Call conducted long-term interviews with forty-five agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs at call centers in Bangalore and...
Compound Solutions
Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Claiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are uninterested in developing better drugs for the disease. Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships...
Cairo Pop
Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian...
Postcolonial Automobility
Car Culture in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures,...
Student Activism in Asia
Between Protest and Powerlessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressed—most famously in China’s...
Bamako Sounds
The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical...
Chicago Hustle and Flow
Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper...
Compulsory
Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison.” In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons...
This Is Where I Am
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prison is where Zeke Caligiuri is. Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis, dubbed “Murderapolis” the year he turned eighteen, is where he comes from. It was the same neighborhood his father grew up in but had changed dramatically by the early 1990s. Yet in Zeke’s family, father and mother and grandmother...
Beautiful Wasteland
The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now it’s back....
Norway To America
A History of the Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1980
This book tells the story of the migration as it affected both countries and investigates the reasons for “American Fever.” The story ends with a discussion of the ways in which Norwegian-Americans retain their ties to Norway. The book was first published in Norway as Dröm og Dad (Dream and Deed),...