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The Little Database

A Poetics of Media Formats

Daniel Scott Snelson
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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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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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The Racial Cage

Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M’charek, Anne Pollock
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Proposals for a Caring Economy

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
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Ungendering Menstruation

Ela PrzybyƂo
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Humanities in the Time of AI

Laurent Dubreuil
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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 BĂ©dier’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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