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Drama of Democracy

Political Representation in Mumbai

Lisa Björkman
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The Little Database

A Poetics of Media Formats

Daniel Scott Snelson
Bearded man sits among dried grasses before a roofless ruin, the scene captured by a movie camera in the foreground. Title vertical on left.

Dreaming Down the Track

Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema

William Lempert
Children on sunny urban street skipping Double Dutch with jump ropes made of braided plastic waste. Title in large multicolored letters above.

Hustle Urbanism

Making Life Work in Nairobi

Tatiana Thieme
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Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film

Beenash Jafri
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Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing

Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, Caterina Bernardini
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Solidarity Cities

Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, et al.
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Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon

Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

Louise Siddons

Prizewinners

These recent University of Minnesota Press titles have earned recognition from some of the world’s leading scholarly organizations.

The Silence of the Miskito Prince

How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized

Matt Cohen

Sensory Futures

Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

Michele Ilana Friedner

Cut/Copy/Paste

Fragments from the History of Bookwork

Whitney Trettien

Sounds from the Other Side

Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music

Elliott H. Powell

Forerunners: Ideas First

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, and the synergy of academic exchange.
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Three Economies of Transcendence

Andrea Righi
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The Racial Cage

Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M’charek, et al.
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Proposals for a Caring Economy

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
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Ungendering Menstruation

Ela Przybyło
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Humanities in the Time of AI

Laurent Dubreuil
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Coralations

Melody Jue
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Nonbinary Jane Austen

Chris Washington
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Speculative Whiteness

Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

Jordan S. Carroll
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Rediscoveries

Rediscoveries presents books of continuing scholarly importance, originally published by Minnesota over the past two decades, in new open-access editions.
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Native Intelligence

Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature

Deepika Bahri
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In Search of a New Image of Thought

Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism

Gregg Lambert
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Creole Medievalism

Colonial France and Joseph Bédier’s Middle Ages

Michelle R. Warren
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Architecture of Life

Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

Alla Vronskaya
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Critical Ethnic Studies

Edited by Neel Ahuja, Iyko Day, and Rana Jaleel, Critical Ethnic Studies explores the guiding question of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association: how do the histories of colonialism and conquest, racial chattel slavery, and white supremacist patriarchies and heteronormativities affect, inspire, and unsettle scholarship and activism in the present? By decentering the nation-state as a unit of inquiry, focusing on scholarship that expands the identity rhetoric of ethnic studies, engaging in productive dialogue with indigenous studies, and making critical studies of gender and sexuality guiding intellectual forces, this journal appeals to scholars interested in the methodologies, philosophies, and discoveries of this new intellectual formation.

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Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 9, No., 1
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Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 8, No., 2

Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 8, No., 1

Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 7, No., 2

Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 7, No., 1

Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 6, No., 2

Critical Ethnic Studies

Vol., 6, No., 1
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International Journal of Surrealism

Welcome to IJS Online, the open-access online section of the International Journal of Surrealism. This journal creates a welcome space for critical ideas and debate centered on Surrealism, its international history, and its ongoing worldwide influence on contemporary culture. IJS seeks to document, celebrate, and interrogate the intellectual and aesthetic repercussions of the Surrealist movement across a wide array of fields: literature and literary theory; painting, sculpture, and photography; performance, film, and music; and philosophy, political thought, and new media. IJS upholds the mission of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), serving as a platform for Surrealist studies in the contemporary moment and for the digital age.

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International Journal of Surrealism

Vol., 2, No., 1
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International Journal of Surrealism

Vol., 1, No., 2
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International Journal of Surrealism

Vol., 1, No., 1
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