John Bellamy Foster is editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College.
The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.
A Personal Memoir of Seattle’s Asian American Community
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“My Unforgotten Seattle” by Ron Chew (University of Washington Press)
Third-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian American and social justice causes in Seattle. In this deeply personal memoir, he documents the tight-knit community he remembers, describing small family shops, chop suey restaurants, and sewing factories now vanished.
He untangles the mystery of his extended family’s journey to America during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Intimate profiles of his parents a waiter and garment worker and leaders like Bob Santos, Ruth Woo, Al Sugiyama, Roberto Maestas, and Kip Tokuda are set against the familiar backdrop of local landmarks such as Sick’s Stadium, Kokusai Theatre, Shorey’s Bookstore, Higo Variety Store, Hong Kong Restaurant, and Chubby &Tubby.
Political advocacy organizations could learn from our city’s long tradition of organizing and occupation.
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Hundreds of demonstrators march through downtown Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, to call for racial justice, Black liberation, the protection of all people, and for all votes in the 2020 Election to be counted. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut)
For much of this year, city politics have been inescapable. As with residents of “liberal” cities all over the country, more and more Seattleites are confronting the disparities between the stories we have told ourselves about what we value in our city and the entrenched power structures that shape our day-to-day lives.