I feel that people don’t always appreciate what the “smaller” or less marquee university presses are doing and publishing especially in the South

it’s odd and actually harmful that we don’t really have much top-flight radical regional weeklies and monthlies, but it’s another but very nice oddity that we do have state-level presses doing some amazing work

Randomly this study out from UGA on the communists in the first half of the 20th century https://www.amazon.com/Red-Black-White-Communist-1930-1950/dp/0820356174

I have on my shelf a fascinating book on the political ecology of agriculture contrasting indigenous, Black, and white settler farming from U Oklahoma

Or that this book which is the best edited collection I’ve read recently is from the same press https://www.oupress.com/books/15107980/indigenous-food-sovereignty-in-the-united-sta

To say nothing of UNC histories of Black radicalism (UNC doesn’t count as ‘not prominent’ in the same way but I think maybe non-USians might not appreciate the work it does)

/ not a coincidence that UNC publishes these two relatively underkniwn books by one of the best historians of foreign relations currently alive

I forgot about Richard Drinnon’s Facing West which was a relatively early book to fuse the study of US ‘domestic’ & foreign racism, imperialism, and settler-colonialism in ways which speak to current debates (also U Oklahoma)

also where I learned about settlers fleeing settler society

This is a nice piece about university presses https://twitter.com/derekkrissoff/status/1046918586487517185?s=21 https://twitter.com/derekkrissoff/status/1046918586487517185

& there’s also epistemological and political stakes here: politics is local. Even more so ecologies are local, land is local. This is reflected in that a good chunk of the smaller u presses have lists on the local experiences of native dispossession and resistance

You need local production of knowledge to document a local history of struggle & oppression and inform/form contemporary and ecologically appropriate resistance