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Capell Family Endowment for Social Justice Books

The Capell Family Endowment supports books that deepen the understanding of social justice through historical, cultural, and environment studies.

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Settler Cannabis

Settler Cannabis

From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

By Kaitlin Reed

Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion....

ISBN: 9780295751566

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New Women of Empire

New Women of Empire

Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America

By Chrissy Yee Lau

Strong, bold, and vivacious—Japanese American young women were leaders and heroines of the Roaring Twenties. Controversial to the male immigrant elite for their rebellion against gender norms, these women made indelible changes in the community,...

ISBN: 9780295750521

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Pushed Out

Pushed Out

Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West

By Ryanne Pilgeram

What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill...

ISBN: 9780295748696

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Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet

Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet

Eating with the World in Mind

By Nico Slate

Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed...

ISBN: 9780295744964

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School Photos in Liquid Time

School Photos in Liquid Time

Reframing Difference

By Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even...

ISBN: 9780295746548

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Stars for Freedom

Stars for Freedom

Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement

By Emilie Raymond

From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn’t always the case. As...

ISBN: 9780295742670

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Chinook Resilience

Chinook Resilience

Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River

By Jon D. Daehnke. Foreword by Tony A. Johnson

The Chinook Indian Nation—whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river’s mouth—continue to reside near traditional lands. Because of...

ISBN: 9780295742267

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Sanctuary and Asylum

Sanctuary and Asylum

A Social and Political History

By Linda Rabben

The practice of sanctuary—giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger—may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history...

ISBN: 9780295999135

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Enclosed

Enclosed

Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders

By Liza Grandia. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the...

ISBN: 9780295991665

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A Principled Stand

A Principled Stand

The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States

By Gordon K. Hirabayashi. With James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's...

ISBN: 9780295994321

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Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village

By Lynda V. Mapes. Foreword by Frances Charles

In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock...

ISBN: 9780295988788

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Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors

Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors

Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions

By Charlotte Cote. Foreword by Micah McCarty

Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of...

ISBN: 9780295990460

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