University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Lemon Jail
On the Road with the Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’...
Escape from New York
The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social...
Claiming Place
On the Agency of Hmong Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling process
The role of scientific modeling in mediation between theories and phenomena is a critical topic within the philosophy of science, touching on issues from climate...
Laurentian Divide
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland **
Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw...
You're Sending Me Where?
Dispatches from Summer Camp
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Welcome! Benvenuti! It’s summertime in northern Minnesota and a bus full of kids is about to arrive at the Italian Concordia Language Village, better known as camp. Inexplicably the chief lifeguard has chosen this moment to conduct a “missing villager drill,” prompting staff to strip to their underwear...
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
“Samantha King explains how, beyond being an all-too-frequent and still-too-lethal disease for many women, breast cancer is a corporate dream come true.” —Herizons
“Fascinating. King’s deft and thoughtful interpretation of the pink ribbon phenomenon is an important wake-up...
A World of Gangs
Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds hope in the contradictory values of outlaw youth—selflessness,...
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members...
by Joan M. Hummel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1996
Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization is a book for people who are forming new nonprofits; thinking about converting an informal, grassroots group into tax-exempt status; reorganizing an existing agency; or currently managing a nonprofit. It provides practical and basic how-to information on...
by Robert A. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that...
Digitizing Race
Visual Cultures of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial...
OurSpace
Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
When reporters asked about the Bush administration’s timing in making their case for the Iraq war, then Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded that “from an marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” While surprising only in its candor, this statement signified the extent...
by Vidar Sundstøl
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave...