University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Shareveillance
The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In an era of open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to “share”? This book argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed. Drawing on Jacques...
Wiping the War Paint off the Lens
Native American Film and Video
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways,...
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens
The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants...
The Dance That Makes You Vanish
Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large...
Educated in Whiteness
Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary...
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't
Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic...
Degraded Work
The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have led to income inequality and rising numbers of low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. In Degraded Work, Marc Doussard demonstrates that this decline...
Worlds of Autism
Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects...
Those About Him Remained Silent
The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a half century after cofounding the NAACP. Five years after his death, residents of Great Barrington, the small Massachusetts town where Du Bois was born in 1868, proposed...
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
by Donna J. Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion...
Loving Animals
Toward a New Animal Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members—animal lovers outside the fray—extremist positions in which all human–animal interaction is suspect often discourage...
Zoo Renewal
White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human...
Mirror Affect
Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
For decades, contemporary artworks with reflective properties have stimulated public forms of spectatorship. According to Cristina Albu, these artworks, which can include elements such as mirrors, live video feedback, or sensors, draw attention to affective interdependence and mechanisms of social control. In...