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THE BIOPOLITICS OF BREAST CANCER: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism
Maren Klawiter
University of Minnesota Press | 408 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5107- 8 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-5108- 5 | paperback | $25.00
Maren Klawiter analyzes the breast cancer movement to show the broad social impact of how diseases come to be medically managed and publicly administered. Examining surgical procedures, early detection campaigns, and discourses of risk, Klawiter demonstrates that these practices initially inhibited, but later enabled, collective action. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer ultimately challenges our understanding of the origins, politics, and future of the breast cancer movement.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ K/klawiter_ biopolitics. html
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A lively look at Bollywood music's global impact
GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, editors
University of Minnesota Press | 352 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-4578- 7 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4579- 4 | paperback | $25.00
This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle. Examining the reception of Bollywood music in places as diverse as Indonesia and Israel, the essays highlight the cultural influence of Hindi film music from its origins to today.
"A sophisticated and altogether groundbreaking study within the rapidly developing area of Indian film studies, Global Bollywood offers exactly what this emerging field needs and deserves." -Corey K. Creekmur
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ G/gopal_global. html
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Challenges the role of the "race card" in contemporary politics
THE NEW NATIVISM: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration
Robin Dale Jacobson
University of Minnesota Press | 224 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5027- 9 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-5028- 6 | paperback | $19.95
Examining the dynamics of the Proposition 187 political battle, The New Nativism questions racism as the motivating factor for political action both at the time and in the high-stakes, hotly contested immigration debates of today. Moving beyond inflammatory headlines and polarizing rhetoric, Jacobson reveals that it is not so much prejudice but the very act of defining race that lies at the center of modern
American politics.
"Robin Dale Jacobson has produced a subtle, brilliantly argued account of how California's Proposition 187 was enacted and came, despite its main measures being found unconstitutional, to exercise a profound influence on the legal, economic, cultural, and political dimensions of U.S. citizenship. It is a major achievement. " -Desmond King, University of Oxford
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ J/jacobson_ new.html
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An unconventional- and critical-examinatio n of "the city with no past" THE DALLAS MYTH: The Making and Unmaking of an American City Harvey J. Graff
University of Minnesota Press | 416 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5269- 3 | hardcover | $34.95
Harvey J. Graff presents a novel interpretation of Dallas, a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past. Revealing the power of myths that have defined it for so long, Graff presents a new understanding of Dallas that both deepens our knowledge of America's urban landscape and enables us to envision a more equitable, humane, and democratic future for all.
"Harvey Graff begins by telling us that living in Dallas challenged all that he knew about cities. This richly-researched and beautifully- written book does the same for the rest of us. Its provocative historical analysis of space, growth, economics, politics, culture, and memory offers an uncommonly lucid account of inequality, segregation, and their denial." -Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White
"The Dallas Myth is an entertaining and meditative reflection on history and the imagination, written with the clear, grounded intelligence of a leading historian at the top of his game." -Michael Frisch, author of Portraits in Steel
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ G/graff_dallas. html
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A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality
TAXIDERMIC SIGNS: Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5055- 2 | paperback | $22.50
ISBN 9 78-0-8166-5054- 5 | hardcover | $67.50
In Taxidermic Signs, Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates "animality" and
"aboriginality" within colonial narratives of extinction.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ W/wakeham_ taxidermic. html
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