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Photo of Diné people, with household items and a cat, among scrub trees. Title in black and terra cotta, all on white background.

Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon

Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

Louise Siddons
A half globe at bottom, mapped with vibrant green isobars, appears against a rich blue background. Main title in white and subtitle in green above.

Machine and Sovereignty

For a Planetary Thinking

Yuk Hui
Black and white image of interior of assembly hall of United Nations Building, podium at right. Title in teal at top, subtitle and author in white.

Assembly by Design

The United Nations and Its Global Interior

Olga Touloumi
Blue cutout silhouettes of two students among shelves in a red-hued library below. Title and author name divided between two speech bubbles above.

Knowing Silence

How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School

Ariana Mangual Figueroa
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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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Speculative Whiteness

Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

Jordan S. Carroll
Cover Page for Futures of the Sun featuring a series design with a yellow background

Futures of the Sun

The Struggle over Renewable Life

Imre Szeman
Series design with a purple background, white title text, and yellow author name

The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood

Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Gray background with white title text adorned with red rules, suggestive of Pee-wee’s suit.

I Know You Are, but What Am I?

On Pee-wee Herman

Cait McKinney
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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.
Warmly lit room show two upholstered accent chairs in front of a large library of well-used books.
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
Large overlapping quotation marks in green and blue with silhouettes of faces hidden within; title above against white background.

Philosophy after Friendship

Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae

Gregg Lambert
Title over Lorna Simpson’s “Head on Ice #5,” where a newsprint image of a black woman’s face is obscured by white ink and melting down around her.

Black Bourgeois

Class and Sex in the Flesh

Candice M. Jenkins
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