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Maisam Alomar,
Carceral Care

How care and criminalization became entangled--and why abolition medicine matters Medicine likes to tell an altruistic story. Maisam Alomar shows how that story masks an enduring partnership with racism a…

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Arnold Aronson, Gwynedd Cannan
Aronson, A: Architect of Dreams

Previous research on Joseph Urban (1872-1933) has focused on his architectural career; yet after moving from Vienna to the U.S. in 1912, he devoted much of his energies to the stage, especially production…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Monica Patrice Barra
Good Sediment

When saving wetlands imperils Black futures, restoration demands reimagination Coastal Louisiana is losing land at an unprecedented rate, and in response, scientists and policymakers have turned to massiv…

lieferbar ab 26.5.2026.

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Ramona Bennett Bill
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the NorthwestA relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwes…

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Peter Blecha
Stomp and Shout

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction Parking lot rumbles, teen dance riots, and the rise of the Northwest Sound Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Nort…

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Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinera…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, re…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya,
A Volatile Picture

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

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Vindhya Buthpitiya
A Volatile Picture

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Sarah N Chasse, Lan Morgan
Gathering

A lavishly illustrated book highlighting some of the best works of contemporary studio glassThe Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, is the oldest continually operating museum in the United…

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Yve Chavez,
Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestra…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Tomas Cole
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Lisa Gail Collins
Stitching Love and Loss

Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University of M…

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Susan Conway
Tai Magic

Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this volume opens a window into the rich supernatural traditions of the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia. Centered on manuscripts, textiles, and talismans, it expl…

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Meghan Crnic,
The Beach Cure

How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coastFor centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the Un…

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily life What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anth…

lieferbar ab 2.6.2026.

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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez,
Caring for Caregivers

A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and privat…

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