University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous...
by Kent Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father’s death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.
Transnational LGBT Activism
Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human rights advocates do on a day-to-day basis and for whom?...
Middlebrow Queer
Christopher Isherwood in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating...
Exposed
Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Opening with the statement “The anthropocene is no time to set things straight,” Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow.From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, Exposed...
Vilém Flusser
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of his accomplishments come to light, clearly establishing Flusser as a key thinker. An accessible and thorough introduction to Flusser’s thought, this...
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive...
Conspiracy Theories
Secrecy and Power in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Two years after Mark Fenster first published Conspiracy Theories, the attacks of 9/11 stirred the imaginations...
Cesar Chavez
Autobiography of La Causa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Mexican-American civil rights and labor activist Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) comes to life in this vivid portrait of the charismatic and influential fighter who boycotted supermarkets and took on corporations, the government, and the powerful Teamsters Union. Jacques E. Levy gained unprecedented access...
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an...
Letters From The Promised Land
Swedes in America, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs—a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.
by AbdouMaliq Simone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving...
Scandinavian Feasts
Celebrating Traditions throughout the Year
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2001
Drawing upon her rich knowledge of Scandinavian cuisine and culture, expert chef and veteran writer Beatrice Ojakangas presents a multitude of delicious yet remarkably simple recipes in this cookbook classic, available in paperback for the first time. Scandinavian Feasts features the cuisine of Denmark,...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems...