University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Gaming
Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2006
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts...
The Architecture of Madness
Insane Asylums in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an...
A Call for Heresy
Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in one of the most inflammatory issues of the twenty-first century: the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Moving beyond simplistic answers, Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both...
A Shadow over Palestine
The Imperial Life of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had “a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East,” comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might...
Global Bollywood
Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western...
Stupendous, Miserable City
Pasolini’s Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini—but it’s not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal
Over the past three...
Fashioning the Nineteenth Century
Habits of Being 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, fashion—once the province of the well-to-do—began to make its way across class lines. At once a democratizing influence and a means of maintaining distinctions, gaps in time remained between what the upper classes wore and what the lower classes...
by Adrienne Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2001
Introduction by Werner SollorsAdrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people’s lives, Kennedy’s plays express poetic alienation, transcending...
Like a Loaded Weapon
The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the...
Red On Red
Native American Literary Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
An entertaining and enlightening proposal for a new way to read Native American literature.
Gold Experience
Following Prince in the '90s
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist—and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully,...
by Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial...
The Jobless Future
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William...