University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
by Larry Millett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The year is 1896, and St. Paul’s magnificent Winter Carnival is under way when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city’s most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man disappears on the eve of his wedding—and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After...
No More Nice Girls
Countercultural Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: “a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life.” Moving between scholarly and down-to-earth activist writing styles,...
The Anime Ecology
A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
With the release of author Thomas Lamarre’s field-defining study The Anime Machine, critics established Lamarre as a leading voice in the field of Japanese animation. He now returns with The Anime Ecology,...
Listening In
Radio and the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Few inventions evoke such nostalgia, such deeply personal and vivid memories as radio—from Amos ’n’ Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. Listening In is the first in-depth history of how radio culture and content have kneaded and expanded the American psyche.But Listening...
Represent and Destroy
Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal...
Carceral Humanitarianism
Logics of Refugee Detention
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on...
Being Together in Place
Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites—the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by technoscientists, artists, humanists, and social scientists....
Governance Feminism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you...
Food Justice Now!
Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly....
Reinventing Citizenship
Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles...
Saint Genet
Actor and Martyr
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Saint Genet is Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic biography of Jean Genet—thief, convict, and great artist—a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Bringing together two of the century’s greatest minds and artists, Saint Genet is at once a compelling psychological...
The War Came Home with Him
A Daughter’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
During his years as a POW in North Korea, “Doc” Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. Men who refused to eat starved; his children would clean their plates. Men who were weak died; his children would develop character. They would also learn to fear...
Living Cargo
How Black Britain Performs Its Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged...