The University of Minnesota Press is a

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that is part of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. It had annual revenues of just over $8 million in fiscal year 2018. Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its books in

social theory Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.Seidman, S., 2016. Contested knowledge: Social theory today. John Wiley & Sons. A tool used by social scientists, social theories re ...

and cultural theory,

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, race and

ethnic studies Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by indivi ...

, urbanism,

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criticism, and

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. The University of Minnesota Press also publishes a significant number of translations of major works of European and Latin American thought and scholarship, as well as a diverse list of works on the cultural and natural heritage of the state and the upper Midwest region.

Journals

The University of Minnesota Press's catalog of academic journals totals thirteen publications: *''Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum'' *''Critical Ethnic Studies'' *'' Cultural Critique'' *''Environment, Space, Place'' *'' Future Anterior'' *''Journal of American Indian Education'' *'' Mechademia: Second Arc'' *''The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists'' *''Native American and Indigenous Studies'' *''Norwegian-American Studies'' *''Preservation Education and Research'' *''Verge: Studies in Global Asias'' *'' Wíčazo Ša Review''

Controversies

University of Minnesota Press joined The

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trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.

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