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Available now, THE RACIAL ENVIRONMENTAL STATE by Keith K. Miyake delivers a bold rethinking of how race, environment, and state power are entangled—from the racial politics of public housing in 1970s New York to the construction of US-Mexico border walls. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
We're thrilled to see two UW Press books among these finalists, both #OpenAccess via @manifoldscholar.bsky.social.
KERNELS OF RESISTANCE by Liza Grandia: uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/ker...
UPLAND GEOPOLITICS by Michael B. Dwyer: uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/upl...
On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social discusses A VOLATILE PICTURE (June 16)—on Tamil photographic practices in Sri Lanka and the making and moving of images across borders, communities, and generations. Listen to the interview:
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‘A Volatile Picture’ month at last!
The book is shipping out in the US via @uwapress.uw.edu (summer sale on now! ) / UK distributor @livunipress.bsky.social Out in the world on the 16th of June uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... | liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Chicana curator Elizabeth Ferrer made the decision to remove a portrait of Cesar Chavez from her exhibition “Chicano Camera Culture.” She explains why at the link below.
Last week marked the 46th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Biologist & author Eric Wagner reflects on how the return of wildlife shows "how a community can assemble and reassemble itself in the aftermath of tremendous cataclysm."
Enjoy this sneak peek of our Summer 2026 issue!
Tamiko Nimura’s A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake is an inventive memoir that explores how rejection from academia helped launch her into ancestral research, and ultimately a visit to the site of one of the worst Japanese American internment camps.
In association with CSPN, @uwapress.uw.edu publishes the Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography which features scholarly and general-interest books on the peoples and issues that have defined and shaped the North American West.
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The decision to remove a portrait of the labor leader from “Chicano Camera Culture” at The Cheech was not one I took lightly.
Due to loud construction noises in my home, I had to have this conversation with Tamiko Nimura, author of the new memoir A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake, in my bathroom with...
Tamiko Nimura faces the past head-on as she shares coming to terms with her family's experiences while incarcerated during World War II and her father's death.
Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!
Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD
Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences
Our Summer Book Sale is on now! Save 40% and enjoy free domestic shipping on *all* books on our website—including preorders. Use code WARM26 at checkout. uwapress.uw.edu/summer-readi...
