University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Changs Next Door to the Díazes
Remapping Race in Suburban California
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
U.S. suburbs are typically imagined to be predominantly white communities, but this is increasingly untrue in many parts of the country. Examining a multiracial suburb that is decidedly nonwhite, Wendy Cheng unpacks questions of how identity—especially racial identity—is shaped by place. She offers...
Mothers United
An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must...
by Chela Sandoval
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.
What...
Comparative Textual Media
Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media in...
The Language of Plants
Science, Philosophy, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding...
by Amanda Boetzkes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art movement has sought to make visible the elusive presence of nature. Though most often associated with monumental land-based sculptures, earth art encompasses a wide range of media, from sculpture, body art performances, and installations to photographic...
Prismatic Ecology
Ecotheory beyond Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the ocean’s turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations?...
Jewels of the Plains
Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native plant enthusiasts and horticulturists, it captures the unique beauty, resilience, and variety of wildflowers...
The Language of Nature
Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural philosophy. Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive...
The Universe of Things
On Speculative Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead’s work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this...
Insect Media
An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect forms...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Video games have developed into a rich, growing field at many top universities, but they have rarely been considered from a queer perspective. Immersion in new worlds, video games seem to offer the perfect opportunity to explore the alterity that queer culture longs for, but often sexism and discrimination...
Meaning Of Wilderness
Essential Articles and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2001
Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982) was one of the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. A conservation activist and popular writer, Olson introduced a generation of readers to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association and...
With Stones in Our Hands
Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
After September 11, 2001, the global War on Terror has made clear that Islam and Muslims are central to an imperial system of racism. Prior to 9/11,...