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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
Ben-Day dot image of an Asian woman eating Spam from the tin using chop sticks; title above in white against black background.

Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film

Beenash Jafri
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Solidarity Cities

Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak
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Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing

Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, Caterina Bernardini
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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, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange.
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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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Futures of the Sun

The Struggle over Renewable Life

Imre Szeman
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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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Sepia toned image showing a cobblestone street populated by pedestrians in nineteenth-century garb. An ornate, domed building presides in the background before other similar structures.

Creole Medievalism

Colonial France and Joseph Bédier’s Middle Ages

Michelle R. Warren
A collage with a man standing on a bench holding a measuring stick with a compass illustrating his field of vision. Sketches and mathematical equations appear before him.

Architecture of Life

Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

Alla Vronskaya
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Philosophy after Friendship

Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae

Gregg Lambert
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Black Bourgeois

Class and Sex in the Flesh

Candice M. Jenkins
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