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"One of the strengths of Asaka’s book is the way it writes “history from below,” digging up information about ordinary, struggling, marginalized people who don’t leave records or interest standard historians. The result is a book that is full of insights, characters, and new story lines...This brave book is well-written and bracing."

* Post Alley *

"Asaka deftly foregrounds the experiences of transient and surveilled workers to tell the story of Seattle’s intercultural commerce and communities. [Her] tour de force offers lessons and strategies for local mobilization today."

* The Stranger *

"Asaka's book provides a model for how to examine other cities in our collective work to address structural racism in the U.S."

* Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *

"[An] instant classic. . . . Stunningly original in the way she mines elusive sources, Asaka’s exhaustive research demonstrates the persistent thorniness of telling “histories from below” due to archival preferences for elite and middle-class stories."

* Western Historical Quarterly *

Seattle from the Margins

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9780295751863, 978-0295751863
      ISBN10: 029575186X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "One of the strengths of Asaka’s book is the way it writes “history from below,” digging up information about ordinary, struggling, marginalized people who don’t leave records or interest standard historians. The result is a book that is full of insights, characters, and new story lines...This brave book is well-written and bracing."

      * Post Alley *

      "Asaka deftly foregrounds the experiences of transient and surveilled workers to tell the story of Seattle’s intercultural commerce and communities. [Her] tour de force offers lessons and strategies for local mobilization today."

      * The Stranger *

      "Asaka's book provides a model for how to examine other cities in our collective work to address structural racism in the U.S."

      * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *

      "[An] instant classic. . . . Stunningly original in the way she mines elusive sources, Asaka’s exhaustive research demonstrates the persistent thorniness of telling “histories from below” due to archival preferences for elite and middle-class stories."

      * Western Historical Quarterly *

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