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An individual stands in front of a cement block wall under purple flowers hanging above her head, smiling, wearing black pants, a blue shirt, and a plaid jacket
Bitaniya Giday selected as Truman Scholar
LaShawnDa, centered in the photo, is sitting on a couch wearing a gray shawl over a black shirt and is talking with an African American grandmother
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Shared in Chicago Tribune Article
Elmer Dixon Book
Author Elmer Dixon Presents Die Standing Book Release Event
Marc-Robinson
Dinner & Discussion book event.
AES Dawg Daze walking tour Fall 2023
Dawg Daze AES Walking Tour Fall 2023
Jang Wook Huh Photo
Jang Wook Huh Wins the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize
Book Cover: The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora
Black History Month
A Message from the Chair
Publicity photo of Memphis Minnie
Sonnet Retman Wins Publication Award 
Bruce Harrell, Seattle’s mayor-elect, during his campaign.
Prof. Connie So Cited in the International Examiner
Langston Hughes review, 2021-09-01, Vol.27 (2)
New Publication -- "Our Temples for Tomorrow": Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea
Black faculty from UW Seattle and Tacoma
Profs. Alexes Harris and LaShawnDa Pittman Host the Black Faculty Collective Welcome Reception
Book Cover: Black Intellectual Tradition
AFRAM Challenges Common Assumptions
Emancipation Day celebration in Austin, Texas, on June 19, 1900
An occasion for unapologetic Black joy, community connection, and reeducation’: LaTaSha Levy discusses Juneteenth
New NEH Grant Recipients
Jang Wook Huh Awarded NEH Fellowship, 2021-2022
Humanities Washington
Dr. La TaSha Levy joins a special panel, "Law and Disorder: Police Violence and Race in America," sponsored by Humanities Washington
Journal of Korean Studies; October 2020
Prof. Jang Wook Huh has published an essay in the Journal of Korean Studies, “The Student’s Hand: Industrial Education and Racialized Labor in Early Korean Protestantism.”  
Assistant Professor LaShawnda Pittman
Black Voices: What the UW has gotten right
Faculty Search:  Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Opinion: Black Life Disrupted
For Asian Americans, Solidarity with Black Lives Requires a New Movement
UW Abolition Institute - September 2020
2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium: Culture, Race and Equity, Immigration