From a Three Cornered World (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Mitsui, James Masao

Poetry

University of Washington

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Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Olympic Rain Forest

'The Olympic Rain Forest' evokes the forest's beauty and intricacy while summarizing scientific understanding of its components and interactions, and will be welcomed by resident Northwesterners and travelers as well as by all who are interested in nature. Its prose is both readable and scientifically sound. More than 100 pictures catch the variety and grandeur of this magnificent forest.

History

Kirk, Ruth / Namkung, Johsel

Americas

Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice

From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole. Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming and from popular games such as World of Warcraft and Tomb Raider, Woke Gaming examines resistance to problematic spaces of violence, discrimination, and microaggressions in gaming culture. The contributors of these essays seek to identify strategies to detox gaming culture and orient players and gamers toward progressive ends. From Anna Anthropy's Keep Me Occupied to Momo Pixel's Hair Nah, video games can reveal the power and potential for marginalized communities to resist, and otherwise challenge dehumanizing representations inside and outside of game spaces. In a moment of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and efforts to transform current political realities, Woke Gaming illustrates the power and potential of video games to foster change and become a catalyst for social justice.

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

Review This important and timely study of Indian Muslims and, in particular, Muslims of Gujarat, fills an urgent need for literature on how Muslims in India view themselves. -- Farhana Ibrahim, author of From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian BorderRemarkable and pioneering. The impact of communal violence on the ghettoization of the Muslims of India is assessed quantitatively and accounted for qualitatively. -- Christophe Jaffrelot, coeditor of Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of MarginalisationThis closely-observed, beautifully-written ethnography takes up the question of how communities learn to live together after episodes of significant violence. The answer is that, in some cases, former victims remake and reorient what have been marginal spaces into hubs of empowerment. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how spaces become places and of how insiders experience them quite differently than outsiders. It is an essential tool for academics, planners, and policymakers alike. -- Peggy Levitt, author of Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display Product Description In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such dramatic displacement, the town emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. For its residents and transnational visitors, Anand's Muslim area is not just a site of marginalization; it has become an important focal point and regional center from which they can participate in the wider community of Gujarat and reimagine society in more inclusive terms.This compelling ethnography shows how in Anand the experience of residential segregation led not to estrangement or closure but to distinctive forms of mobility and exchange that embed Muslim residents in a variety of social networks. New Lives in Anand moves beyond established notions of ghettoization to foreground the places, practices, and narratives that are significant to the people of Anand.New Lives in Anand is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749655 Book Description Investigates how a rural town became a site of community-making, mobility, and identity formation About the Author Sanderien Verstappen is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Vienna.

New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India (Global South Asia)

Verstappen, Sanderien

Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars, economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword, this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is essential to understanding the history and present of the largest black community in the Pacific Northwest.

The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

Taylor, Quintard

Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State

Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy." Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failures of the state within countries of the Global South.

Business & Money

Fernandes, Leela

Economics

In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Upland Geopolitics uses the case of Chinese agribusiness investment in northern Laos to study the unbalanced geography of the new global land rush. Connecting the current rubber plantation boom to a longer trajectory of foreign intervention in the region, Upland Geopolitics reveals how legacies of Cold War conflict continue to pave the way for transnational enclosure in a socially uneven landscape.\nUpland Geopolitics is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Indiana University.\nDOI: 10.6069/9780295750507

Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Dwyer, Michael B

Asia

Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin

World

Since its original publication in 1945, this small classic has acquired a new audience concerned with living in harmony with the environment and interested in the particularly intimate relationship of Native Americans to the land. This survey of the use of plants by Native Americans in western Washington describes the ways in which more than 150 species served as food and medicine, and were used for the manufacture of clothes and other objects.

Ethnobotany of Western Washington: The Knowledge and Use of Indigenous Plants by Native Americans

Science & Math

Gunther, Erna

Biological Sciences

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