Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Stanford University Press AsianAmerican Historical Crossings of Racial
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian America" to an interpenetrating dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a deeper understanding of key issues in American culture, history, and society.Trade Review"Palumbo-Liu's comprehensive study will have lasting value for scholars in this rapidly changing field. . . . Each chapter demonstrates solid historical perspective as well as thoughtful critical analysis and considerable political acumen." -- American Literature"Admirably grounded in history, and displaying a critical rigor in historicizing a contemporary reality." -- Journal of Asian American Studies"Only a true comparativist and interdisciplinary scholar could produce a work of such profound insights and erudition. For those well versed in critical race and ethnic studies, cultural, postcolonial, and postmodern studies, Asian American Studies, American Studies, and East Asian Studies, this book signifies the convergence and exemplifies the culmination of the new scholarship and theories that have emerged from these related fields during the past quarter century." -- Choice“The breadth of Palumbo-Liu’s examination of the encounters between America and East Asia is impressive. While this book will be of obvious interest to students of comparative literature, Asian/American will clearly transcend disciplinary boundaries, as it is highly relevant for both sociology and Asian American studies.”—European Journal of Cultural Studies"This book is a substantial contribution to interdisciplinary Asian American scholarship, especially in the attention Palumbo-Liu pays to the historical split between Asian and American, and in its extensive historical focus." -- Journal of American Studies"The picture on the dustjacket of Palumbo-Liu's study which shows the Statue of Liberty with Asian features remains more riddle than answer. Even as the face of the nation has been racialized, the exact nature of the implication of Asian/Americanness into white America is far from clear or stable. What Palumbo-Liu does in such an intriguing and complex way is to invite us to explore in much more detail and depth the politics of this implication." -- American Studies"A work of consummate scholarship, David Palumbo-Liu's book contributes significantly to American Studies and Asian American Studies, and to a lesser extent, East Asian Studies. . . . Asian/American is remarkable for its elegant prose, its careful attention to historical, social, and cultural contexts, and its author's expertise at harnessing those contexts to produce not only finely nuanced readings of individual texts but also a sustained argument about American modernity." -- New Centennial Review"His grasp of literary theory and method is a model in itself, and his ability to denote these ideas as they appear in applied social context grounds the text, creating an invaluable pedagogical framework for the working instructor." -- Comparative Literature Studies"A model of border-crossing scholarship.... Erudite in its range of scholarship and materials, using theory with critical finesse, and moving with ease across disciplinary and area boundaries, ... it should be of relevance to all scholars engaged in Asian American studies and cultural studies, as well as scholars in American, Asian, and Pacific studies." -- Arif Dirlik * Duke University *"Passionate, wide-ranging, and serious, . . . an assault on our understanding of America's modernity, . . . highly suggestive for redefining the analytical terrain of American studies." -- Aihwa Ong * author of Flexible Citizenship *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Modernity, Asia, America: 1. Pacific America: projection, introjection, and the beginnings of modern Asian America; 2. Rescripting the imaginary; Part II. Bodies and Souls: 3. Written on the face: race, nation, migrancy, and sex; 4. Transacting culture: bodies at the seam of the social; Part III. Modeling the Nation: 5. Citizens and subnations; 6. Disintegrations and reconsolidations; Part IV. Placing Asian America: 7. War, the homeland, and the traces of memory; 8. Demarcations and fissures: reconstructing space; Part V. Mind Readings: 9. Double trouble: the pathology of ethnicity meets white schizophrenia; 10. Asia Pacific: a transnational imaginary; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index.
£35.10
Stanford University Press New Worlds New Lives
Book SynopsisThis ambitious work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by studying their communities in seven countries in the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. It also considers the special case of the many Latin American Nikkei who have returned to Japan in recent decades to seek employment. The contributors draw upon a range of disciplines to present a multifaceted portrait of people of Japanese descent in the Americas, the destination of 90 percent of Japanese emigrants. Thus, for example, the reader is able to view the Peruvian Japanese experience through the eyes of an anthropologist, a demographer/historian, and a journalistall of whom are Peruvians of Japanese descent. Among the main questions explored in New Worlds, New Lives are: What is the historical background and current status of Nikkei society in a given country? Are there any common attributes the Trade Review"This extremely important book marks a definite'breakthrough' in making a comparative analysis of a single nationality group and its descendants in several new countries. No other book encompasses such a broad, yet very detailed, perspective, and all scholars of Japanese immigrants to the Americas will welcome this new direction in immigration history."—Brian Hayashi, Kyoto University"New Worlds, New Lives does a great job of exploring the complex histories, and changing demographics, of the Japanese diaspora in only 384 pages...The volume is definately worth $24.95."—The Hawaii Herald"Its real strength is its view into the contemporary communities of Nikkei in various host nations, and into Japan as host to its descendants wh have become gaijin."—American Ethnologist
£98.60
Stanford University Press Prospects for Peace in South Asia
Book SynopsisProspects for Peace in South Asia addresses the largely hostile, often violent relations between India and Pakistan that date from their independence in 1947. The persistent conflict between the two neighboring countries over Kashmir has defied numerous international attempts at resolution and entered its most dangerous phase when both India and Pakistan became nuclear powers in 1998.The struggle over Kashmir is enduringly rooted in national identity, religion, and human rights. It has also influenced the politicization of Pakistan''s army, religious radicalism, and nuclearization in both countries. This incisive volume analyzes these forces, their impact on relations between the two countries, and alternative roles the United States might play in resolving the dispute. While acknowledging the risks, the book is optimistic about peace in South Asia. The key argument is that many of the domestic concerns (such as territorial integrity in both countries and civilian-miliTrade Review"...the scholarship is impressive and analyses mostly free of bias."—Economic and Political WeeklyTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rowen Pakistan: Politics and Kashmir 2. Islamic Extremism and Regional Conflict in South Asia Vali Nasr 3. Constitutional and Political Change in Pakistan: The Military Governance Paradigm Charles H. Kennedy 4. The Practice of Islam in Pakistan and the Influence of Islam on Pakistani Politics Chris Fair and Karthik Vaidyanathan 5. PakistanAes Relations with Azad Kashmir Rifaat Hussain India: Politics and Kashmir 6. Who Speaks for India? The Role of Civil Society in Defining Indian Nationalism Ainslie Embree 7. Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: Transforming Religion and Politics in India Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 8. Hindu Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, and Secularism: Muslims in the Political Life of the Republic of India Barbara D. Metcalf 9. Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Union: The Politics of Autonomy Chandrasekhar Dasgupta India and PakistanAes Nuclear Doctrines and U.S. Concerns 10. The Stability-Instability Paradox, Misperception, and Escalation Control in South Asia Michael Krepon 11. PakistanAes Nuclear Doctrine Peter R. Lavoy 12. Coercive Diplomacy in a Nuclear Environment: The December 13 Crisis Rajesh M. Basrur 13. United States Interests in South Asia Howard B. Schaffer Index
£112.20
Stanford University Press Prospects for Peace in South Asia
Book SynopsisDossani's book addresses the largely hostile, often violent relations between India and Pakistan that date from their independence in 1947.Trade Review"...the scholarship is impressive and analyses mostly free of bias."—Economic and Political WeeklyTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rowen Pakistan: Politics and Kashmir 2. Islamic Extremism and Regional Conflict in South Asia Vali Nasr 3. Constitutional and Political Change in Pakistan: The Military Governance Paradigm Charles H. Kennedy 4. The Practice of Islam in Pakistan and the Influence of Islam on Pakistani Politics Chris Fair and Karthik Vaidyanathan 5. PakistanAes Relations with Azad Kashmir Rifaat Hussain India: Politics and Kashmir 6. Who Speaks for India? The Role of Civil Society in Defining Indian Nationalism Ainslie Embree 7. Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: Transforming Religion and Politics in India Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 8. Hindu Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, and Secularism: Muslims in the Political Life of the Republic of India Barbara D. Metcalf 9. Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Union: The Politics of Autonomy Chandrasekhar Dasgupta India and PakistanAes Nuclear Doctrines and U.S. Concerns 10. The Stability-Instability Paradox, Misperception, and Escalation Control in South Asia Michael Krepon 11. PakistanAes Nuclear Doctrine Peter R. Lavoy 12. Coercive Diplomacy in a Nuclear Environment: The December 13 Crisis Rajesh M. Basrur 13. United States Interests in South Asia Howard B. Schaffer Index
£28.80
Stanford University Press Five Faces of Exile
Book SynopsisColonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos, and the celebrated Asian American worker-writer Carlos Bulosan.In this first transnational intellectual history of an Asian American group, Espiritu shows that an exploration of those at the margins of the nation, who feel at home neither in the Philippines nor in the United States, raises profound questions about citizenship and national belonging. This beaTrade Review"The book should be essential reading for scholars studying the intersection of Philippine history and the Asian American diaspora in the United States." * Jody Blanco American Historical Review *"[Five Faces of Exile] has much to interest and to provoke readers... present[ed] in refreshingly readable, dutifully documented prose. The book holds a mirror up to the complex situation of the transnational writer, and the faces it reveals are bathed in various shades of light and dark... Espiritu must be credited for making us look and learn." -- Philippine Studies"Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Pacific...Five Faces of Exile firmly grounds its subjects in a century of colonialism, war, independence, and dictatorship." -- Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface 000 Introduction 000 Chapter 1: "Expatriate Affirmation": Carlos P. Romulo 000 Chapter 2: Suffering and Passion: Carlos Bulosan 000 Chapter 3: The Artistic Vanguard: Jose Garcia Villa 000 Chapter 4: Nativism and Negation: N. V. M. Gonzalez 000 Chapter 5: Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos 000 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Asian American Intellectual History 000 Notes Select Bibliography 000 Index
£89.10
Stanford University Press Five Faces of Exile
Book SynopsisColonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos, and the celebrated Asian American worker-writer Carlos Bulosan.In this first transnational intellectual history of an Asian American group, Espiritu shows that an exploration of those at the margins of the nation, who feel at home neither in the Philippines nor in the United States, raises profound questions about citizenship and national belonging. This beaTrade Review"The book should be essential reading for scholars studying the intersection of Philippine history and the Asian American diaspora in the United States." * Jody Blanco American Historical Review *"[Five Faces of Exile] has much to interest and to provoke readers... present[ed] in refreshingly readable, dutifully documented prose. The book holds a mirror up to the complex situation of the transnational writer, and the faces it reveals are bathed in various shades of light and dark... Espiritu must be credited for making us look and learn." -- Philippine Studies"Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Pacific...Five Faces of Exile firmly grounds its subjects in a century of colonialism, war, independence, and dictatorship." -- Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface 000 Introduction 000 Chapter 1: "Expatriate Affirmation": Carlos P. Romulo 000 Chapter 2: Suffering and Passion: Carlos Bulosan 000 Chapter 3: The Artistic Vanguard: Jose Garcia Villa 000 Chapter 4: Nativism and Negation: N. V. M. Gonzalez 000 Chapter 5: Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos 000 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Asian American Intellectual History 000 Notes Select Bibliography 000 Index
£21.59
Stanford University Press Historicizing Online Politics
Book SynopsisThis pioneering work analyzes the impact of telegraphy and the internet on political participation in modern China.Trade Review"Zhou's book is an engaging and important addition to the literary of Chinese media studies." -- New Zealand Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsContents Introduction 000 Part I. Telegraphy 1. Telegraphy, Culture, and Policymaking 000 2. Telegraphy, Newspapers, and Public Opinion 000 3. Telegraphy, Political Participation, and State Control 000 4. Public Telegrams and Nationalist Mobilizations 000 5. Telegraph Power: Textual and Historical Contexts 000 Part II. The Internet 6. China and the Internet: Proactive Development and Control 000 7. Negotiating Power Online: The Party State, Intellectuals, and the Internet 000 8. Living on the Cyber Border: Minjian Online Political Writers in China 000 9. Informed Nationalism: Military Web Sites in Chinese Cyberspace 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
£25.19
Stanford University Press Asian Diasporas
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.Trade Review"The essays reflect a high level of professional skill... the writing is clear and unpretentious, and the scholarship is solid.... These are, simply, very bright and professional scholars doing excellent scholarly work."—Paul Spickard, Journal of American Ethnic History"Asian Diasporas skillfully integrates diverse perspectives from Asian Studies and Asian American Studies into a coherent theme to illuminate sensible understandings of how people of diverse Asian origins experience, imagine, and interpret diasporas across geographical and social spaces in the globalized world."—Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles"Rhacel Parrenas and Lok Siu have created an anthology that bridges diaspora, Asian and Asian American Studies. This is a difficult task, given the range of topics and tensions possible, yet this anthology has engaged with the key debates in the field and enhanced the conversation in extremely fruitful ways. Asian Diasporas is required reading for many disciplines and fields interested in theorizing subjectivities formed out of migration and dispersions."—Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine"Illustrating seemingly porous global borders, Asian Diasporas is a timely collection of rich, well-researched chapters on the lives and experiences of people originating from Asia..."—Journal of International Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Asian Diasporas: New Conceptions, New Formations Rhacel Parre'as and Lok C. D. Siu Chapter 1: Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Evelyn Hu-Dehart Chapter 2: Filipino Sea Men: Identity and Masculinity in a Global Labor Niche Steve McKay Chapter 3: "My Mother Fell in Love with My-Xu'n First": Arranging "Traditional" Marriages across the Diaspora Hung Thai Chapter 4: Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, Nation, and Belonging in Diaspora Lok C. D. Siu Chapter 5: Ritual in Diaspora: Pedagogy and Practice among Hindus and Muslims in Trinidad Aisha Khan Chapter 6: "Our Flavour Is Greater" Sharmila Sen Chapter 7: Asian Bodies Out of Control: Examining the Adopted Korean Existence Tobias Hubinette Chapter 8: Diasporic Politics and the Globalizing of America: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and the 1919 Philadelphia Korean Congress Richard Kim Chapter 9: When Minorities Migrate: The Racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan Takeyuki Tsuda Chapter 10: Legal Servitude and Free Illegality: Migrant "Guest" Workers in Taiwan Pei Chia Lan Commentaries Chapter 11: Asian Diasporas, and Yet ... David Palumbo-Liu Chapter 12: Beyond "Asian Diasporas" Ien Ang List of Contributors Index
£20.89
Stanford University Press Consuming Citizenship
Book SynopsisConsuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship and belonging as Americans through conspicuous consumption.Trade Review"Lisa Park's fascinating foray into the lives of Asian immigrant entrepreneurs' children is at once illuminating and inspiring. Based upon extensive interviews and careful research, Consuming Citizenship challenges superficial stereotypes and provides nuanced portraits. Written with verve, it is an indispensable text for understanding the new generation of Asian Americans." -John Lie,University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Chapter One Consumptive Citizenship 1 Chapter Two Minding the Family Store 000 Chapter Three Searching for a "Normal" Family 000 Chapter Four The Business in Children's Lives 000 Chapter Five The American Narrative of Asian Immigration 000 Chapter Six Consumption Fantasies of Upward Mobility 000 Chapter Seven Consumption, Democracy, and the Good Immigrant 000 @toc4:Appendices 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
£19.94
Stanford University Press Ethnic Nationalism in Korea
Book SynopsisThis book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean peninsula, although some scholars believe it is a myth with little historical basis. Finding both positions problematic and treating identity formation as a social and historical construct that has crucial behavioral consequences, this book examines how such a blood-based notion has become a dominant source of Korean identity, overriding other forms of identity in the modern era. It also looks at how the politics of national identity have played out in various contexts in Korea: semicolonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and globalization.Trade Review"Taken as a whole this book gives a helpful insight into the history of Korean nationalism and its effect on policy and society, thereby providing valuable background information on 20th century Korean social history. It views the history of modern Korea exclusively within the context of ethnic nationalism . . . [T]his book fills an important gap in social sciences and history within Korean studies regarding the development and effect of Korean nationalism. Taking Korea as a case study this work also represents a significant contribution to research on nationalism, showing that a particular ethnic nationalism has contributed partly towards a positive political and social development." -- Hee Seok Park * International Quarterly for Asian Studies *"This compelling empirical study is another important contribution from Gi-wook Shin. The sophisticated, balanced and nuanced treatment he brings to bear . . . will make it a valuable resource for political scientists, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, and, indeed, all who seek to understand the complex and elusive phenomenon that is nationalism." -- New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies"[O]ne of the first scholarly works to scrutinize and historicize the ethnic nationalism that most Koreans, and observers of Korea, usually take for granted. As such, Ethnic Nationalism in Korea is a valuable, critical case study of one of the most ethnically 'pure' nation-states in the world, a study that holds many interesting and useful implications." -- American Journal of Sociology"When the multidisciplinary discussion of nationalism was in its heyday a decade or two ago, I remember some frustration that the Korean instance was not considered more prominently. With Ethnic Nationalism in Korea, Gi-Wook Shin sets out to remedy this situation. The resulting combination of theoretical engagement and broad macro-historical and sociological perspective on the phenomenon of Korean identification based on notions of 'bloodline and shared ancestry' (p. 2) makes the book perhaps the first text to recommend to those students or colleagues with comparative interests." -- Korean StudiesTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Figures and Tables iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction: Explaining the Roots and Politics of Korean Nationalism 1 @toc1:Part I Origins and Development 000 @toc2:1 Pan-Asianism and Nationalism 000 2 Colonial Racism and Nationalism 000 3 International Socialism and Nationalism 000 4 North Korea and "Socialism of Our Style" 000 5 Ilmin Chuui and "Modernization of the Fatherland" 000 @toc1:Part II Contentious Politics 000 @toc2:6 Universalism and Particularism in Nation Building 000 7 Tradition, Modernity, and Nation 000 8 Division and Politics of National Representation 000 9 Nation, History, and Politics 000 @toc1:Part III Current Manifestations 000 @toc2:10 Ethnic Identity and National Unification 000 11 Between Nationalism and Globalization 000 Conclusion: Genealogy, Legacy, and Future 000 @toc4:Appendix 1: Coding Standards on Textbooks 000 Appendix 2: Coding Standards on Magazines 000 Appendix 3: Findings of Statistical Analyses 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
£22.79
Stanford University Press Managing Multicultural Lives
Book SynopsisThis book examines how second generation Asian American professionals bring together contrasting identities in the cultural spaces of daily life, and the implications for theories of immigrant adaptation and stratification.Trade Review"In this thoughtful and well-written work, Dhingra investigates how Indian and Korean Americans in Dallas, Texas, simultaneously distinguish between and reconcile their ethnic, racial, and American identities in daily life In light of the dearth of literature on Korean Americans and especially on Indian Americans in southern cities, Dhingra's perspectives offer fresh insights while expanding upon a growing topic of scholarly interest." -- Uzma Quraishi * University of Houston *"[Managing Multicultural Lives] illustrates how second-generation ethnics do not cast their lot with either their American or ethnic sides; rather, they position themselves according to their circumstances, using their diverse backgrounds as valuable resources . . . Highly recommended." -- CHOICE"Overall, the book offers numerous rich quotes, providing a detailed account of second-generation Indian and Korean American professionals' views. The book is also analytical, incorporating a variety of relevant sources . . . In the midst of debates over whether Asians will eventually be defined as 'white,' this book adds a complex case study." -- American Journal of Sociology"Pawan Dhingra provides a provocative attention to detail, to the multiplicities of identity, social worlds and daily practical challenges that his participants must negotiate. In the process, he offers us insights that are equally useful in the boardroom, the classroom, the neighborhood, and even inside our homes. The result is an inviting look at the kind of boundary work that may well lie at the heart of the American immigrant experience." -- Christina Nippert-Eng * author of Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life *"Pawan Dhingra's study of Korean-American and Indian-American professionals in Dallas charts new ground by juxtaposing two Asian-American communities in the South. It shows through detailed ethnographic study how these upwardly mobile Asian Americans are positioned within a national discourse of liberal democratic citizenship as those who occupy the margins in the mainstream. Their critiques as well as disavowal of racial discrimination, and the cleavages and bonds formed between groups after 9/11, are important to take note of for anyone interested in the paradoxes of neoliberal multiculturalism." -- Sunaina Maira * author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City *"This comparative study delves into the complex and overlapping dynamics of identity among ethnic minority professionals through insightful narratives and reflexive everyday life stories. It is thought-provoking and theoretically engaging on immigrant adaptation, and also fun to read." -- Min Zhou * University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgmentsix 1. Introduction: Opening Up the Margins in the Mainstream000 2. Uncovering Asian Americas: Examining Korean Americans and Indian Americans in Texas000 3. Growing Up Takes (Identity) Work: Developing Ethnic Identities000 4. Model Americans, not Minorities: Racial Identities and Responses to Racism*000 5. Multiculturalism on the Job: The Work Domain000 6. Aspiring to be Authentic: The Home Domain000 7. Becoming Cultural Citizens: Leisure and Civil Society Domains000 8. Conclusion: Reconciling Identities, Recognizing Constraints000 Appendix - questions000 Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000
£19.79
Stanford University Press Legacies of Struggle
Book SynopsisReveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans.Trade Review"Unique and illuminating, this is the first book to examine the political and social service organizations in a multiethnic enclave. It will become a model for future studies of multiethnic enclaves in the post-1965 era, and makes a significant contribution not only to Asian American studies, but also to studies of immigration, ethnic and race relations, and social service organizations." -- Pyong Gap Min * Queens College CUNY, author of Caught in the Middle: Korean Merchants in America's Multiethnic Cities *"This book successfully conveys an important facet of the contemporary dynamic of ethnicity." -- Seungsook Moon * American Journal of Sociology. *"Perceptively attentive to institutional context, collective identities, and individual experiences, Angie Chung shows how "bridging" ethnic organizations carve out a distinctive political space. In illustrating the form and role of two such organizations, she provides an innovative rethinking of how ethnic political solidarity is rearticulated and sustained in the face of the Korean American community's increasing generational differences, class disparities, and residential dispersal." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"Legacies of Struggle is a well-researched, thoughtful study of modern American ethnic dynamics, covering the Korean American immigrant experience, the development of Koreatown, and the examination [of] the racial conflicts and social challenges." -- Korean Quarterly"Chung offers readers an analysis of the role of community-based organizations in the political landscape of the Korean community in the Los Angeles area... This work will be most useful for those studying contemporary ethnic politics, the roles of contemporary ethnic organizations, and Asian American adaptation in the US." -- CHOICETable of ContentsContents List of Tables and Maps Preface 1 Introduction Part One: Burning Bridges 2 The Making of Koreatown, LA 3 Convergent Destinies and the Ethnic Elite 4 The Events That Shook the World 5 The Politics of Incorporation and Marginalization Today Part Two: Building Bridges 6 The Historical Evolution of KYCC and KIWA 7 Giving Back to the Community 8 Doing Politics Without the Politics 9 Organizational Carework and the Women of KYCC and KIWA 10 United We Stand, Divided We Speak List of Organizations Notes Works Cited Index
£18.89
Stanford University Press Asian American Art
Book SynopsisA study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history.Trade Review"...a must-read for specialists in American ethnic history.... It will surely remain a classic work in Asian American studies and—it is to be hoped—in American art history."—Greg Robinson, l'Université du Québec Montréal, Journal of American Ethnic History"Here are artists and work that have long been lost, forgotten, and in some cases deliberately hidden. I was impressed by the comprehensive, thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes provocative approach taken in the essays, but to see the art itself! We see the breadth and range of experience, styles, and obstacles both artistic and personal. What is western? What is eastern? How did citizenship, internment, or discrimination affect these artists? Asian American Art faces these questions and beyond."—Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love"I congratulate the team that has devoted years of work to this remarkable recovery of Asian American art making. Every library in the country should have this art history book on its reference shelves for its names, its biographies, its reproductions, and its fresh and inspirational stories of courage and dedication."—Wanda M. Corn, Professor Emerita, Stanford University"A dazzling collection of images and essays which recuperates a century of Asian American artistic production, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 provides us, at long last, with a comprehensive and foundational work. More than a convenient ìbridge,î the hundreds of images reproduced here explode the static and tired categories of ìWesternî and ìEasternî art. Beyond introducing the art and the artists in depth and in context, the essays in this volume stand as a brilliant exploration into the historical meaning of Asian American art. This book challenges the reader to re-visualize American art and re-imagine American culture."—Robert G. Lee, Brown University"Ground breaking" and "historic" are terms often overused and overstated for the works they purport to describe. Both, however, are appropriate for this outstanding volume, which introduces readers to the breadth and depth of Asian American fine artists. This single work will spur enormous growth in the many fields it directly impacts, including American Studies, Art History, Asian American Studies, and American History. Another overused term: "A must read." In this case, understated. —Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program"To my knowledge, there are few books about Asian American visual art before 1970. Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 brings this art into view, letting readers consider it from various perspectives. This valuable collection will surely stimulate discussion and new research and writing. It brings together many of the scholars best qualified to discuss Asian American art history."—Elaine Kim, Professor Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley"In an organized and heartfelt way, it recognizes art that once 'commanded little respect from any quarter of mainstream American,' as more than simply 'Oriental.'" —Nichi Bei Times
£999.99
Stanford University Press Asian American Art
Book SynopsisA study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history.Trade Review"...a must-read for specialists in American ethnic history.... It will surely remain a classic work in Asian American studies and—it is to be hoped—in American art history."—Greg Robinson, l'Université du Québec Montréal, Journal of American Ethnic History"Here are artists and work that have long been lost, forgotten, and in some cases deliberately hidden. I was impressed by the comprehensive, thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes provocative approach taken in the essays, but to see the art itself! We see the breadth and range of experience, styles, and obstacles both artistic and personal. What is western? What is eastern? How did citizenship, internment, or discrimination affect these artists? Asian American Art faces these questions and beyond."—Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love"I congratulate the team that has devoted years of work to this remarkable recovery of Asian American art making. Every library in the country should have this art history book on its reference shelves for its names, its biographies, its reproductions, and its fresh and inspirational stories of courage and dedication."—Wanda M. Corn, Professor Emerita, Stanford University"A dazzling collection of images and essays which recuperates a century of Asian American artistic production, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 provides us, at long last, with a comprehensive and foundational work. More than a convenient ìbridge,î the hundreds of images reproduced here explode the static and tired categories of ìWesternî and ìEasternî art. Beyond introducing the art and the artists in depth and in context, the essays in this volume stand as a brilliant exploration into the historical meaning of Asian American art. This book challenges the reader to re-visualize American art and re-imagine American culture."—Robert G. Lee, Brown University"Ground breaking" and "historic" are terms often overused and overstated for the works they purport to describe. Both, however, are appropriate for this outstanding volume, which introduces readers to the breadth and depth of Asian American fine artists. This single work will spur enormous growth in the many fields it directly impacts, including American Studies, Art History, Asian American Studies, and American History. Another overused term: "A must read." In this case, understated. —Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program"To my knowledge, there are few books about Asian American visual art before 1970. Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 brings this art into view, letting readers consider it from various perspectives. This valuable collection will surely stimulate discussion and new research and writing. It brings together many of the scholars best qualified to discuss Asian American art history."—Elaine Kim, Professor Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley"In an organized and heartfelt way, it recognizes art that once 'commanded little respect from any quarter of mainstream American,' as more than simply 'Oriental.'" —Nichi Bei Times
£30.40
Stanford University Press Imperial Citizens
Book SynopsisExamines how immigrants acquire American ideas about race, both pre- and post-migration, in light of U.S. military presence and U.S. cultural dominance over their home country, drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations of Koreans in Seoul and Los Angeles.Trade Review"In a compelling analysis of the varied ways that racial categories and racial meanings are formed in both South Korea and the United States, Nadia Kim expands ourunderstanding of how race 'travels.' She demonstrates the global, hegemonic reach of U.S. racial ideology and captures the ways Korean American immigrants position themselves in distinctive racial contexts. Attentive to class, gender, and generational differences, Kim shows us how Korean Americans come to learn, and to resist, dominant patterns of racialization." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"I cannot overstate the many contributions of this book and its elegant treatment of nuanced arguments at the cutting edge of debates in the study of race, immigration, and globalization . . . In sum, Imperial Citizens is a sophisticated yet accessible book and would be excellent material for undergraduate and graduate courses in studies of immigration, race and ethnicity, and globalization. It is fluidly written, meticulously researched, and convincingly argued." -- Miliann Kang * Journal of International Migration and Integration *"A masterful demonstration of the globalization of white racism! Nadia Kim's interviews with Korean immigrants and their children reveal integral links between U.S. global hegemony and immigration. This book depicts the human tragedy of Korean American hyper-conformity in a nation that perpetuates white supremacy: preference for white beauty leading to plastic surgery; women preferring white men who exoticize or abuse them; and Korean internalization of white-racist attitudes toward Americans of color." -- Joe R. Feagin * Texas A&M University *"In the process of analyzing Korean and American racial ideologies, Kim uses a well-developed theoretical framework. . . . Kim's research and analysis offers a fresh perspective within the field and provide a strong reminder of the power that keeps 'racial concepts' firmly tied to the structures of superiority justification." -- Jeong Duk * Asian Anthropology *"Nadia Kim writes cogently and compellingly about Korean and Korean American attitudes, beliefs, and concerns about race, gender, and much more. In providing a transnational and historical perspective, Imperial Citizens is a model of enlightened and engaged scholarship." -- John Lie, University of California * Berkeley *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xxx Note on Terminology xxx Acknowledgments xxx 1 Introduction: Imperial Racialization 1 2 Ethnonationality, "Race," and Color--The Foundation 000 3 Racialization in South Korea 1: Koreans and White America 000 4 Racialization in South Korea 2: Koreans and White-Black America 000 5 Navigating the Racial Terrain of LA and the USA 000 6 Korean Americans Walk the Line of Color and Citizenship 000 7 Visibly Foreign (and Invisible) Subjects: Battling Prejudice and Racism 000 8 Second-Generation "Foreign Model Minorities": Battling Prejudice and Racism 000 9 Transnational Feedback: Racial Lessons from Korean America 000 10 Postlude 000 Appendix 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
£21.59
Stanford University Press Shades of Difference
Book SynopsisShades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups.Trade Review"Skin color and race are often used synonymously in the US. From historical accounts of black beauty pageants to social meanings of color in Brazil to global marketing of skin lightening products, Nakano Glenn presents an array of research from different countries of the world to analyze the meanings and hierarchies of skin-color. The result is a very thought-provoking book that will reshape how scholars think about skin color and race in the contemporary world." -- Bandana Purkayastha * University of Connecticut *"[T]his is an excellent collection with new findings, important ideas, and moving quotations and illustrations. I recommend it highly." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild * Journal of American Ethnic History *"If you think that there is nothing left to write or read about skin color and human societies, Shades of Difference will change your mind and shake you up." -- Nina G. Jablonski * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Shades of Difference is a distinguished collection that broadens the new area of colorism scholarship to include the national and international class dynamics of why skin color matters. Evelyn Nakano Glenn has brought together diverse authors to capture a range of identities shaped by the national and international politics and economics of skin color. A must read for all concerned with critical race studies." -- Mary Romero * Arizona State University *Table of ContentsPart I The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences 7 1 The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil 9 Edward Telles 2 A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women 25 Verna M. Keith 3 The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy 40 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David R. Dietrich Part II Meanings of Skin Color: Race, Gender, Ethnic Class, and National Identity 61 4 Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty 63 Joanne L. Rondilla 5 The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen: Miss Bronze 1961-1968 81 Maxine Leeds Craig 6 Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora 95 Aisha Khan 7 The Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico 114 Christina A. Sue Part III Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification 129 8 Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction 131 Charis Thompson 9 Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials 148 Jyotsna Vaid to Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade 166 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 11 Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self 188 Lynn M. Thomas Part IV Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches 211 12 Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims 213 Taunya Lovell Banks 13 The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims 223 Trina Jones 14 Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color 236 Tanya Kateri Hernandez
£84.15
Stanford University Press Shades of Difference
Book SynopsisShades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups.Trade Review"Skin color and race are often used synonymously in the US. From historical accounts of black beauty pageants to social meanings of color in Brazil to global marketing of skin lightening products, Nakano Glenn presents an array of research from different countries of the world to analyze the meanings and hierarchies of skin-color. The result is a very thought-provoking book that will reshape how scholars think about skin color and race in the contemporary world." -- Bandana Purkayastha * University of Connecticut *"[T]his is an excellent collection with new findings, important ideas, and moving quotations and illustrations. I recommend it highly." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild * Journal of American Ethnic History *"If you think that there is nothing left to write or read about skin color and human societies, Shades of Difference will change your mind and shake you up." -- Nina G. Jablonski * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Shades of Difference is a distinguished collection that broadens the new area of colorism scholarship to include the national and international class dynamics of why skin color matters. Evelyn Nakano Glenn has brought together diverse authors to capture a range of identities shaped by the national and international politics and economics of skin color. A must read for all concerned with critical race studies." -- Mary Romero * Arizona State University *Table of ContentsPart I The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences 7 1 The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil 9 Edward Telles 2 A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women 25 Verna M. Keith 3 The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy 40 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David R. Dietrich Part II Meanings of Skin Color: Race, Gender, Ethnic Class, and National Identity 61 4 Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty 63 Joanne L. Rondilla 5 The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen: Miss Bronze 1961-1968 81 Maxine Leeds Craig 6 Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora 95 Aisha Khan 7 The Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico 114 Christina A. Sue Part III Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification 129 8 Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction 131 Charis Thompson 9 Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials 148 Jyotsna Vaid to Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade 166 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 11 Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self 188 Lynn M. Thomas Part IV Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches 211 12 Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims 213 Taunya Lovell Banks 13 The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims 223 Trina Jones 14 Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color 236 Tanya Kateri Hernandez
£21.59
Stanford University Press Growing Up in America
Book SynopsisInvestigates how race and ethnicity influence the experiences of teens in four key social institutions-family, peer groups, school, and religious communities.Trade Review"Growing Up in America is an eye-opener. In it we intensely experience the lives of teens, and come to see the powerful and often times surprising ways in which race impacts their lives. It is not the case, the authors show us, that white teens have access to the most and best resources. It varies by social institution, by what is valued, and what is needed. This is a wonderfully written, powerful book that enlightens as it engages. We cannot understand the meaning of race without understanding its formation in youth. And this is the very best book written on that subject."—Michael O. Emerson, Rice University"Growing Up in America masterfully shines an incisive light on how experiences in the four most influential contexts of adolescence—family, peers, school, and religion—can vary immensely based on one's racial or ethnic background. By revealing the unique 'capital portfolios' with which African American, white, Latino, and Asian American youth are equipped for adulthood, this book elucidates how uneven the playing field is when it comes to achieving social, emotional, economic, and spiritual success in adulthood. It's a must read for anyone interested in the sources of stratification and inequality in the U.S. or how race truly matters in the lives of American youth."—Lisa D. Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£74.70
Stanford University Press Growing Up in America
Book SynopsisInvestigates how race and ethnicity influence the experiences of teens in four key social institutions-family, peer groups, school, and religious communities.Trade Review"Growing Up in America is an eye-opener. In it we intensely experience the lives of teens, and come to see the powerful and often times surprising ways in which race impacts their lives. It is not the case, the authors show us, that white teens have access to the most and best resources. It varies by social institution, by what is valued, and what is needed. This is a wonderfully written, powerful book that enlightens as it engages. We cannot understand the meaning of race without understanding its formation in youth. And this is the very best book written on that subject."—Michael O. Emerson, Rice University"Growing Up in America masterfully shines an incisive light on how experiences in the four most influential contexts of adolescence—family, peers, school, and religion—can vary immensely based on one's racial or ethnic background. By revealing the unique 'capital portfolios' with which African American, white, Latino, and Asian American youth are equipped for adulthood, this book elucidates how uneven the playing field is when it comes to achieving social, emotional, economic, and spiritual success in adulthood. It's a must read for anyone interested in the sources of stratification and inequality in the U.S. or how race truly matters in the lives of American youth."—Lisa D. Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£17.99
Stanford University Press Democratic Governance in Latin America
Book SynopsisProducing more effective governance is the greatest challenge that faces most Latin American democracies - a challenge that involves not only strengthening democratic institutions but also increasing governmental effectiveness. This book addresses why some policies and some countries have been more successful than others in meeting this challenge.Trade Review"Mainwaring and Scully have assembled an exceptionally distinguished set of scholars, and their contributions do not disappoint. The essays in this volume are original, learned, and lively studies of economic, political, and social achievements in Latin America. They both advance the understanding of human development in the region and provide analyses and conclusions of considerable practical importance and policy relevance." —James McGuire, Wesleyan University"Democratic Governance in Latin America is a great book on an important topic. It helps fill a substantial gap in the scholarly literature: it examines what democracies actually do, rather than what—according to some observers—they should do, and it seeks to advance toward measurement based on actual, observable policy outcomes." —Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin
£26.99
Stanford University Press Envisioning America
Book SynopsisEnvisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens.Trade Review"Envisioning America is an insightful study of the emergence of immigrant Chinese American activists as a new, unheralded political force in the Los Angeles suburbs. Cultural anthropologist Tritia Toyota's compelling story deals with up-to-the-moment issues of race, civil rights, Asian American politics, immigration, language identity, home country political heritage, transnational institutions, new social structures, and political succession. A must read."—Bill Lann Lee, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C."By documenting the complex and changing political dynamics of Chinese Americans in compelling detail, Envisioning America explodes widely held myths about immigrant communities. Toyota's insights on race, ethnicity and movements for positive social change are essential to understanding American democracy and demographics."—Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People"This is a captivating study of the politicization of Chinese American immigrants in Southern California. What is particularly exciting and unique about this fine piece of research is the attention paid to reconstructing the process of dialectical negotiations between the foreign- and the U.S.-born activists for alliance building and strategic planning."—Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
£70.55
Stanford University Press Legacies of Race
Book SynopsisA novel exploration of racial attitudes in contemporary Brazil using large-sample surveys of public opinion.Trade Review"Stanley R. Bailey has written the most accurate and important book on racial attitudes in Latin America. Based on representative data of the Brazilian population and systematic empirical research, Professor Bailey shows us that North American theories of racial identity and racial group interests find little support in Brazil, where the African origin population is nearly three times as large as that of the United States. Anyone interested in understanding race writ-globally should read Legacies of Race." -- Edward E. Telles * Princeton University, author of Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil *"Legacies of Race offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis. ...this book is a necessary and important contribution. It will provide an obligatory reference for understanding racial identication and inequality in Brazil and beyond. Scholars interested in cultural boundaries and in stratication processes will also benet from this book." -- Florencia Torche * American Journal of Sociology *"A highly original and innovative breakdown of the complex dynamics of race in contemporary Brazil. Bailey interrogates the long-standing notion that a denial of racial discrimination is a key ingredient in Brazilian racial common sense. His work will give rise to considerable debate." -- G. Reginald Daniel * University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States *"Legacies of Race takes on two issues of fundamental importance in social and political analysis—false consciousness and the discontinuity between elite and mass politics—and engages both issues in the most relevant contemporary policy context—race. It is a breakthrough contribution." -- Paul Sniderman * Stanford University *
£21.59
Stanford University Press Localising Power in PostAuthoritarian Indonesia
Book SynopsisThis book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralizationeffectively localizing poweras part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench good governance. Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under which the localization of power actually takes place. In the process, he develops a compelling analysis that ties social and institutional change to the outcomes of social conflict in local arenas of power.Using the case of Indonesia, and comparing it with Thailand and the Philippines, Hadiz seeks to understand the seeming puzzle of how local predatory systems of power remain resilient in the face of international and domestic pressures. Forcefully persuasive and characteristically passionate, Hadiz challenges readers while arguing convincingly that local power and politics still matter greatly iTrade Review"Vedi Hadiz's uncompromising expose of decentralization and democracy in post-authoritarian Indonesia has already become something of a classic. With its grim litany of 'predatory interests', 'money politics', 'political thuggery', and 'illiberal democracy', Localising Power has inspired many other accounts of the Reformasi period and provided an important part of their analytical vocabulary" -- David Henley Bijdragen * International Journal of Philosophy *"In a field dominated by deductivism, Vedi Hadiz writes from the ground up, drawing upon cases that involve struggles over institutional reform, decentralization, and local politics in North Sumatra and East Java. Few observers exhibit so intimate a knowledge of these." -- Loren Ryter * Comparatove Studies in Society & History *Hadiz's work "has a theoretically generality that strengthens its appeal to wider audiences. Through the lens of a political economy framework, Hadiz links national and local political change in the wider global context. The work is both original in its ideas and rigorous in its empirical research and offers a trenchant view of the sources of Indonesia's political woes." -- Ehito Kimura * Asia Pacific World *"This book is, to my knowledge, the best work in English on the exceedingly complex and multi-layered internal dynamics between decentralization, democratization, globalization, and the rivalries among national and local political players in Indonesia. It is thoroughly researched, highly topical, and judicious in its analysis . . . Localizing Power is a first-rate work and compulsory reading for anyone who wishes to comprehend the intricacies and complexities of Indonesia's continuing pursuit to build a mature democracy." -- Bernhard Platzdasch * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"In its exposure of corrupt patterns and patronage-driven politics, Hadiz's work is brilliant and so far unrivaled. His evaluation of Indonesian local politics constitutes a crucial counterbalance and corrective to congratulatory descriptions of the country as a role model for newly democratizing states such as Tunisia or Egypt." -- Marcus Mietzner * South East Asia Research *"Critical scholarship at its best, this book is a powerful corrective to those who see decentralization as a one-size-fits-all solution to bad governance. Hadiz convincingly argues that Indonesia's decentralization prompted not the positive outcomes its advocates predicted, but a scramble for local power by corrupt politicians, gangsters and other predators." -- Edward Aspinall * Australian National University *"This is an important synthetic statement on the underlying dynamics of local politics following the end of the New Order in 1998. Arguing against managerialists who expected decentralization and democratization to lead to greater market openness, Hadiz portrays a messy contestation among social forces at different levels of the polity." -- Gerry van Klinken, Research fellow * Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies *"This is a path-breaking book—theoretically-informed, carefully researched, and strongly comparative. It shows Hadiz's remarkable efforts to draw on literatures that span Southeast Asia and beyond. Sure to be widely read, it will stimulate debate and become a standard source for years to come." -- Kevin Hewison * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
£78.30
Stanford University Press Between Race and Reason
Book SynopsisBetween Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice.Trade Review"This thought-provoking work addresses the complex negotiation of race and politics in the contemporary academy, particularly the anti-intellectualism that has emerged not only in right-wing attacks on the university but also from the academy itself. Giroux takes on the contradictions and folly of academic anti-intellectualism in ironic and dialectical fashion, for implicit in her critique is an affirmation of the value of intellectual work. Between Race and Reason brings to the fore a series of repressed terms in the conjunction of race and politics—racial-politics, politics-of-race, and many more—and shows that the effort to banish politics from universities has made them more political than ever, provocatively observing that 'political correctness' has mutated into 'patriotic correctness.'" -- Lewis Ricardo Gordon"Race is changing in our midst and it is crucial that we understand its shifting nature, and the implications for the future of the US as a racialized nation state. A response is in order and Between Race and Reason provides it. We speak of legal citizenship, cultural citizenship, and now, with the advent of this book, we can add intellectual citizenship." -- Zeus Leonardo, University of California"In this highly articulate and cogently argued study, Susan Searls Giroux shows how the politics of higher education, since the Civil Rights Movement victories of the 1960s, have re-fashioned the university into something far removed from the ideal of a haven for independent thought and research." -- Ruth Tait * Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal *
£22.79
Stanford University Press Straitjacket Sexualities Unbinding Asian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through her analysis of films from the 1950s to 2000s, Shimizu excels in critiquing the negative racialization of Asian American male characters and then providing reinterpretations that encourage empowerment and change for the future . . . Overall, Celine Parreñas Shimizu's Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies is a very thought-provoking book, and we highly recommend it to anyone who is interested learning more about Asian American masculinity and how it is portrayed in films."—Jennifer Chang and William Ming Liu, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology"Shimizu assembles an impressive corpus of films—popular, independent, pornographic—to build her case. . . Shimizu develops a provocative, persuasive case for the need for new analytical and critical lenses that go beyond the faulty and ultimately impotent logic of using normative masculinity as the site for racial justice."—Harrod Suarez, Journal of Asian American Studies"[Shimizu's] close reading of Gran Torino is reason enough to read this book . . . [Shimizu] has a keen understanding of the relationship between the genders, and describes several film projects that have attempted to address such issues. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—G. R. Butters Jr., CHOICE"An utterly original examination of Asian American masculinity on the silver screen, Straightjacket Sexualities is a critical tour-de-force that reveals cinema to be an ethical event. It offers a theory of responsibility in the face of vulnerability and persecution to encourage the emergence of new and better forms of manhood."—David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania"An exciting contribution to Asian American, film, and gender and sexuality studies, one which many will find liberatory as well. A perfect sequel to her book on Asian American female sexualities."—David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
£74.70
Stanford University Press The New Entrepreneurs
Book SynopsisWith a focus on a diverse group of Latino entrepreneurs in the Houston area, Valdez explores how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shape Latino entrepreneurs' capacity to succeed in business in the United States.Trade Review"The New Entrepreneurs by Zulema Valdez makes important contributions to exploring these issues, exploring the interconnections between migration, race, labor, gender, and entrepreneurship. . . The research shows that many of those who are most committed to the American dream of entrepreneurship are exactly those who are most excluded from its full realization." -- Radhakrishnan * Contexts *"In a persuasive use of an intersectional framework, Valdez reveals how privilege and disadvantage are reproduced for business owners, finding evidence of cumulative advantage and disadvantage in entrepreneurs' goals and motivations . . . Valdez's robust ethnographic approach . . . prompts her to remix some long-established sociological approaches so that she can account for how the intersecting dynamics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender shape embedded opportunities for success which, when realized, shape entrepreneurs' very understandings of the success they experience." -- Ivy Ken"Drawing on a series of compelling interviews conducted in Houston—a major but under-studied area of immigrant settlement—Valdez addresses the importance of race, gender and class in the creation and functioning of immigrant businesses. Focusing on working class migrants, this creative study contributes much to our understanding Latino self-employment." -- Steven J. Gold * Michigan State University *"In this richly textured and engaging book, Valdez presents us with a fresh and nuanced look at entrepreneurship and a new angle from which to gauge how ethnicity and race matter in shaping people's lives. The embedded market framework she has developed is cutting edge and has great potential to inform future work. Valdez succeeds in debunking myths about 'cultural explanations' in favor of a lens that incorporates structure and agency to demonstrate how differences in social positions lead to divergent life chances." -- Cecilia Menjivar, Professor of Sociology * Arizona State University *"[R]eaders will benefit from how this book contributes to our knowledge of Latinos, a rapidly growing population . . . [and] serves as an important prompt for new longitudinal work on businesses . . . laudable." -- Alfonso Morales
£17.99
Stanford University Press When Half Is Whole
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the significant strengths of this work is its accessibility . . . This timely work will serve to promote a better understanding of how human beings and cultures can transcend the boundaries and limitations placed upon them." -- Gywnn Gacosta * Asian Affairs> *"Exploring the complex issue of identity among mixed-race Asians has been [Murphy-Shigematus's] life work. With subtleness and great empathy he guides us through what he calls 'the borderlands' where transnational and multiethnic identities are formed . . . For the exploding numbers of mixed race Americans, When Half is Whole offers up a wide range of role models, characters who defy societal expectations and forge hybrid identities that empower rather than diminish them." -- Nancy Matsumoto * Discover Nikkei *"Murphy-Shigematsu's background and relationships have allowed him to write a book that is, on one level, a rigorous study of race that spans two continents, but that reads like a memoir. Even as it tackles complex cultural, historical, and psychological issues, it never becomes dry or academic, because it grounds its points firmly in the stories of people's lives. And while the writing is clear, engaging, and deeply personal, it is also incredibly objective and even-handed." -- Ben Hamamoto * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Murphy-Shigematsu explores our exponentially growing Hapa demographic with personal insight and fearless self-examination. Both rigorous and graceful, this book is smart, readable, and very needed." -- Kip Fulbeck * author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa *"What a moving and thought-provoking book! Brilliantly nuanced, searingly honest, and beautifully written, When Half Is Whole raises profound, often uncomfortable questions about race, identity, and the search for human connection. I couldn't put it down." -- Amy Chua * Yale Law School Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall *"When Half Is Whole is a beautiful book, a near-perfect bridge of genres, scholarly in its insights and the knowledge base from which it proceeds, but rich in stories and the voices of mixed-race, complicatedly Asian individuals. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu tells their stories in prose that is like cool water running down hill. I read the book in one sitting. I will surely read it again when I need its wisdom, or when I just want to enjoy the company of Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's unique voice." -- Paul Spickard, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Part memoir, part oral history, and part ethnography, this volume transcends distinctions among literary and social science genres much as its subjects' lives transcend racial, sexual, and national boundaries. This is a deeply moving and groundbreaking work." -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director, Center for Race and Gender, University of California * Berkeley *"When Half Is Whole is a fascinating, constantly-surprising guided journey through the varied, complex worlds of multiethnic Asian Americans. Murphy-Shigematsu writes with a subtle, engaging style that sometimes verges on poetry." -- Carlos E. Cortés * author of Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time *"In this engaging and powerful book, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu skillfully uses his own experience as a biracial individual as a springboard to construct incisive and penetrating narratives that describe how biracial Asian Americans compose their lives and deal creatively with the pains and promises of living within and across borders and boundaries. This is a significant, timely, and needed book that will become an essential reference in the field of race and ethnic studies." -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington * Seattle *"A fascinating and moving portrait of how individuals reflect upon, navigate, and reconcile multiple, and at times contradictory, social identities based on notions of race, ethnicity, and nationality. The individuals profiled here resist existing categories and boundaries by fashioning their own unique hybrid identities—ones that give meaning and purpose to their lives." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"Murphy-Shigematsu's sensitive, revealing inquiry into the multiethnic experience of Asian-Americans succeeds both as a comprehensive ethnic studies volume and an enlightening memoir of pushing back against categorizing humans with singular, rather than multiple identities." -- Publishers Weekly
£70.55
Stanford University Press When Half Is Whole Multiethnic Asian American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the significant strengths of this work is its accessibility . . . This timely work will serve to promote a better understanding of how human beings and cultures can transcend the boundaries and limitations placed upon them." -- Gywnn Gacosta * Asian Affairs> *"Exploring the complex issue of identity among mixed-race Asians has been [Murphy-Shigematus's] life work. With subtleness and great empathy he guides us through what he calls 'the borderlands' where transnational and multiethnic identities are formed . . . For the exploding numbers of mixed race Americans, When Half is Whole offers up a wide range of role models, characters who defy societal expectations and forge hybrid identities that empower rather than diminish them." -- Nancy Matsumoto * Discover Nikkei *"Murphy-Shigematsu's background and relationships have allowed him to write a book that is, on one level, a rigorous study of race that spans two continents, but that reads like a memoir. Even as it tackles complex cultural, historical, and psychological issues, it never becomes dry or academic, because it grounds its points firmly in the stories of people's lives. And while the writing is clear, engaging, and deeply personal, it is also incredibly objective and even-handed." -- Ben Hamamoto * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Murphy-Shigematsu explores our exponentially growing Hapa demographic with personal insight and fearless self-examination. Both rigorous and graceful, this book is smart, readable, and very needed." -- Kip Fulbeck * author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa *"What a moving and thought-provoking book! Brilliantly nuanced, searingly honest, and beautifully written, When Half Is Whole raises profound, often uncomfortable questions about race, identity, and the search for human connection. I couldn't put it down." -- Amy Chua * Yale Law School Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall *"When Half Is Whole is a beautiful book, a near-perfect bridge of genres, scholarly in its insights and the knowledge base from which it proceeds, but rich in stories and the voices of mixed-race, complicatedly Asian individuals. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu tells their stories in prose that is like cool water running down hill. I read the book in one sitting. I will surely read it again when I need its wisdom, or when I just want to enjoy the company of Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's unique voice." -- Paul Spickard, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Part memoir, part oral history, and part ethnography, this volume transcends distinctions among literary and social science genres much as its subjects' lives transcend racial, sexual, and national boundaries. This is a deeply moving and groundbreaking work." -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director, Center for Race and Gender, University of California * Berkeley *"When Half Is Whole is a fascinating, constantly-surprising guided journey through the varied, complex worlds of multiethnic Asian Americans. Murphy-Shigematsu writes with a subtle, engaging style that sometimes verges on poetry." -- Carlos E. Cortés * author of Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time *"In this engaging and powerful book, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu skillfully uses his own experience as a biracial individual as a springboard to construct incisive and penetrating narratives that describe how biracial Asian Americans compose their lives and deal creatively with the pains and promises of living within and across borders and boundaries. This is a significant, timely, and needed book that will become an essential reference in the field of race and ethnic studies." -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington * Seattle *"A fascinating and moving portrait of how individuals reflect upon, navigate, and reconcile multiple, and at times contradictory, social identities based on notions of race, ethnicity, and nationality. The individuals profiled here resist existing categories and boundaries by fashioning their own unique hybrid identities—ones that give meaning and purpose to their lives." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"Murphy-Shigematsu's sensitive, revealing inquiry into the multiethnic experience of Asian-Americans succeeds both as a comprehensive ethnic studies volume and an enlightening memoir of pushing back against categorizing humans with singular, rather than multiple identities." -- Publishers Weekly
£17.99
Stanford University Press Chinese Chicago
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Much of what makes Chinese Chicago novel is its focus on the midwestern metropolis, but Ling also makes numerous contributions to our understanding of the Chinese American experience more broadly . . . Chinese Chicago is an excellent example of a transnational community study, which will appeal to most specialists and Chicago locals." -- Beth Lew-Williams * Journal of American Ethnic History *"By looking at individuals and clans as well as community organizations and relations with other racial and ethnic groups, Ling has provided new insights into the development and evolution of an American Chinese community. It is an extension of her interest in Mid-western Chinese as seen in her book on the Chinese in St. Louis, Missouri, but provides greater details and analyses and demonstrates that many of the older perceptions and generalizations about the Chinese in America are not valid. The general public; university students at all levels of study; and those interested in Asian American studies, ethnic and race relations, urban history, and Chinese history should read this excellent work." -- S. F. Chung * Journal of American Studies *"[Chinese Chicago] helps fill the gap of lack of studies on Chinese immigrants in the Midwest. The book thus makes an important contribution to research on Asian Americans in the Midwest and Chinese history in Illinois . . . With its attention to the divergent and convergent community dynamics and the meticulous details of individual daily lives, the book makes an interesting read and a valuable historical resource for Chinese immigrant lives in Chicago." -- Shanshan Lan * Journal of Illinois History *"In a meticulously researched and clearly written study, Huping Ling offers a remarkably comprehensive examination of Chinese settlement in Chicago spanning the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century." -- Barbara M. Posadas * Chinese Historical Review *"Rich in data and incisive in analysis, this sophisticated and engaging analysis of the Chinese Chicagoans is a unique contribution to the literature on Chinese in the Midwest and a major contribution to the literature on Chinese in America." -- Philip Q. Yang * Journal of Social History *"In Chinese Chicago, Huping Ling helps remedy coastal bias with a close examination of the most important Chinese American community in the Midwest. . . Ling's attention to the details of Chinese American Chicago is remarkable and reveals extensive research. . . This thoroughly researched book is a valuable addition to scholarship on Chinese American communities." -- Charlotte Brooks * The Journal of American History *"This book is an informative and fascinating read. Richly textured details are skillfully drawn against a larger backdrop. Vivid descriptions of architecture and family and community life give the flavor of neighborhoods. . . It tells a complex, coherent story that is at once about Chicago and about the world its Chinese inhabitants left to help build the city, even as they remained connected to China." -- Julia Maria Schiavone Camcho * American Historical Review *"A unique and valuable study, sure to deepen our understanding of extra-national migratory studies in the development of modernity." -- John Kuo Wei Tchen * New York University & Museum of Chinese in America *"Huping Ling, a prolific and leading scholar of Chinese America, gives us yet another refreshingly exciting book. An excellent community study, it offers fascinating stories about various aspects of Chinese America life in the community, ranging from food, laundry-shop work, school life, and family life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chicago. The book situates these stories in larger contexts, specially the Chinese American transnational world, providing extraordinary insights into the connection between the local and the global. It also connects the past to the present by taking an in-depth look at the post-war forces that have transformed and continue to transform Chinese Chicago." -- Yong Chen * author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community *"An insightful interpretation of Chinese community as an integral part of a multiethnic Chicago, Ling's book is a landmark addition to the growing Chinese American transnational historiography." -- Haiming Liu * author of The Transnational History of a Chinese Family *
£999.99
Stanford University Press Race Migrations
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the arrival of Latin American immigrants in the United States shifts racial classifications for newcomers, for the society receiving them, and for the people they leave behind.Trade Review"This insightful ethnographic study of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans provides important clarifications regarding the nature of racial orders in the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean . . . The central contribution of the book is clear. Roth provides a useful conceptual framework for better understanding racial identity and classification . . . The book does well to describe each schema in detail, providing a clear rationale for why each constitutes a specific schema and why her informants use each . . . This book will . . . provoke instructive debates in classrooms and between forthcoming papers and studies, both theoretical and empirical."—Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Social Forces"This is a transformative book that moves the discussion of 'race' to another (fascinating) level. Well researched, with extensive notes to each chapter, and with a clear research design, the work focuses on the question how immigration affects the way people—both in the receiving and the sending countries—think about race and classify themselves and others."—Clara E. Rodriguez, Journal of American Studies"In this well-excuted project, Roth is attentive to the interconnections between the macro and micro, such as how governmental policy, institutions, and people's everyday use of terms affect conceptions of race. . . A strong addition to scholarship, this book will be most useful to scholars and graduate students of race and ethnicity, migration, and American, Latino, and Latin American Studies."—Jessica M. Vasquez American Journal of Sociology"[I]nnovative ethnographic fieldwork . . . Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Roth's superb study transcends the existing literature on migration and race by demonstrating how concepts of race and ethnicity are continually refashioned in a transnational space. Migrants maintain, adopt, and strategically utilize different racial schemas in constant reference to both their countries of origin and settlement. All future studies of how race 'travels' will have to engage the analysis presented here."—Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States"Anyone who believes that the American racial structure is characterized by unmovable white/black boundaries should read this book. Roth deftly analyzes the transformation of identification and categorization systems that have accompanied the accelerated immigration of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the United States, as well as the consolidation of a Latino identity on our shores and abroad. She parses out how new and different schemas are diffused at the micro level across classes. She also uses the tools of cultural sociology to significantly advance our understanding of the dynamics between ethnically and racially-based symbolic and social boundaries. The result is a dynamic and multidimensional analysis of processes of boundary work which should have a considerable impact on the field of immigration, race and ethnicity and on the study of transnationalism."—Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration"Wendy Roth's Race Migrations is rich with insights about one of the great puzzles of contemporary immigration-the impacts of immigration on racial systems and of racial systems on immigrants. With scrupulous research and brisk writing, she traces the transportation and mutation of racial concepts in both directions between origin and destination societies."—Richard Alba, The Graduate Center CUNY, author of Blurring the Color Line"Wendy Roth has produced an important book on how Dominicans and Puerto Ricans transform their own understandings of race with immigration to the United States and, in the process, also transform American racial realities. In addition, our understanding of race as culture reaches a new level in Roth's insightful analysis."—Edward Telles, Princeton University, author of Race in Another America
£81.90
Stanford University Press Race Migrations
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the arrival of Latin American immigrants in the United States shifts racial classifications for newcomers, for the society receiving them, and for the people they leave behind.Trade Review"This insightful ethnographic study of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans provides important clarifications regarding the nature of racial orders in the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean . . . The central contribution of the book is clear. Roth provides a useful conceptual framework for better understanding racial identity and classification . . . The book does well to describe each schema in detail, providing a clear rationale for why each constitutes a specific schema and why her informants use each . . . This book will . . . provoke instructive debates in classrooms and between forthcoming papers and studies, both theoretical and empirical."—Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Social Forces"This is a transformative book that moves the discussion of 'race' to another (fascinating) level. Well researched, with extensive notes to each chapter, and with a clear research design, the work focuses on the question how immigration affects the way people—both in the receiving and the sending countries—think about race and classify themselves and others."—Clara E. Rodriguez, Journal of American Studies"In this well-excuted project, Roth is attentive to the interconnections between the macro and micro, such as how governmental policy, institutions, and people's everyday use of terms affect conceptions of race. . . A strong addition to scholarship, this book will be most useful to scholars and graduate students of race and ethnicity, migration, and American, Latino, and Latin American Studies."—Jessica M. Vasquez American Journal of Sociology"[I]nnovative ethnographic fieldwork . . . Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Roth's superb study transcends the existing literature on migration and race by demonstrating how concepts of race and ethnicity are continually refashioned in a transnational space. Migrants maintain, adopt, and strategically utilize different racial schemas in constant reference to both their countries of origin and settlement. All future studies of how race 'travels' will have to engage the analysis presented here."—Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States"Anyone who believes that the American racial structure is characterized by unmovable white/black boundaries should read this book. Roth deftly analyzes the transformation of identification and categorization systems that have accompanied the accelerated immigration of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the United States, as well as the consolidation of a Latino identity on our shores and abroad. She parses out how new and different schemas are diffused at the micro level across classes. She also uses the tools of cultural sociology to significantly advance our understanding of the dynamics between ethnically and racially-based symbolic and social boundaries. The result is a dynamic and multidimensional analysis of processes of boundary work which should have a considerable impact on the field of immigration, race and ethnicity and on the study of transnationalism."—Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration"Wendy Roth's Race Migrations is rich with insights about one of the great puzzles of contemporary immigration-the impacts of immigration on racial systems and of racial systems on immigrants. With scrupulous research and brisk writing, she traces the transportation and mutation of racial concepts in both directions between origin and destination societies."—Richard Alba, The Graduate Center CUNY, author of Blurring the Color Line"Wendy Roth has produced an important book on how Dominicans and Puerto Ricans transform their own understandings of race with immigration to the United States and, in the process, also transform American racial realities. In addition, our understanding of race as culture reaches a new level in Roth's insightful analysis."—Edward Telles, Princeton University, author of Race in Another America
£19.79
Stanford University Press Aspiring to Home
Book SynopsisAspiring to Home explores South Asian immigrants as they create new ethnic identities through popular cultural works that bind together narratives of multicultural and postcolonial citizenship.Trade Review"It is essential reading for scholars interested in diaspora, immigrant community formation, transnational migration, Asian American studies, and applications of post-colonial theory. . . . I highly recommend the entire book for graduate seminars focusing on migration and diaspora." -- Ishan Ashutosh * International Migration Review *"Working with a truly innovative archive, Mani compellingly argues that merely 'adding on' South Asians to the litany of ethnic and national-origin identifications that circulate under 'Asian America' is thoroughly inadequate to pursuing the study of racialization in ways that take seriously the intimacy and depth of the relationship between the local and the global.—Kandice Chuh, CUNY/The Graduate Center"An elegantly written and trenchantly argued book." -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois * Urbana-Champaign *"An important contribution to the burgeoning field of South Asian American studies, Bakirathi Mani's Aspiring to Home easily traverses a range of cultural practices, moving seamlessly between genres (literature, film, performance) and methodologies (textual analysis, ethnography). Mani compelling transforms our understanding of seemingly transparent assimilationist narratives produced by South Asian Americans in the US. These contradictions, for Mani, point to the ways in which middle class South Asian Americans both collude with and renegotiate dominant notions of belonging in multiple national spaces. Thus Mani argues that we must reconceptualize Asian American studies beyond a familiar mapping of US colonialism in East and South East Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but simultaneously through US and British imperial interests in South Asia." -- Gayatri Gopinath * New York University *
£25.19
Stanford University Press The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic
Book SynopsisA new approach to ethnic mobilization that considers the interplay between global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and the political mobilization of ethnicity.Trade Review"The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization provides a much needed impetus for conceptual debate and clarification and offers a new theoretical perspective on a critically important subject that will be generative of new lines of research. As importantly, it sets a high standard for systematic empirical work in a field that tends to elevate the particular dramas of historically defined ethnic groups over the more general dynamics that shape trajectories of collective challenges in an increasingly integrated world." -- Mobilization"Olzak suggests that the form and magnitude of ethnic mobilization depend on a state's position along the centre-periphery continuum and its embeddedness in the 'world system of organizations.' Her theoretical contribution is a very welcome reminder of the possible impact of global change on local ethnic conflict." -- Journal of Peace Research"This is a rich, provocative, and compelling work of potentially great significance in multiple fields. With this book, Susan Olzak continues her tradition of skillfully combining insights from different disciplines, notably sociology and political science, to illuminate a topic of increasing global importance." -- John Skrentny, University of California * San Diego *"Patiently, precisely, relentlessly, and persuasively, Susan Olzak pursues questions of great weight for contemporary politics across the world: to what extent, under what conditions, and how does religious, ethnic, and racial fragmention drive conflict? One by one she knocks down the easy answers, making the case that location of countries within international webs of politics, economics, and organizations profoundly affects the propensity of their segments to mobilize, rebel, and fight one another." -- Charles Tilly * Columbia University *"A practiced event historian of ethnic conflict in the United States, Susan Olzak has re-emerged as a consummate analyst of the relationship between globalization and ethnic movements in core and periphery. This is a book that world systems theorists, advocates of global civil society and students of social and ethnic movements will all want to read." -- Sidney Tarrow * Cornell University *"This is a rich, provocative, and compelling work of potentially great significance in multiple fields. With this book, Susan Olzak continues her tradition of skillfully combining insights from different disciplines, notably sociology and political science, to illuminate a topic of increasing global importance." -- John Skrentny, University of California * San Diego *Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE World Integration and Centrifugal Forces 1 CHAPTER TWO Definitions and Dynamics of Racial/Ethnic Mobilization 33 CHAPTER THREE Escalation and De-escalation: Trends in the Data 78 CHAPTER FOUR Globalization and Nonviolent Ethnic Protest, 1965-1989 93 CHAPTER FIVE Global Integration and Ethnic Violence, 1965-1989 116 CHAPTER six Group Dynamics of Ethnic Protest and Conflict, 1980-1994 131 CHAPTER SEVEN Globalization in a New Era: Ethnic Violence since 1989 152 CHAPTER EIGHT Democracy, Ethnic Violence, and International War 169 CHAPTER NINE Models Incorporating Endogeneity 196 CHAPTER TEN Conclusions and Future Considerations 212
£21.59
Stanford University Press Racing for Innocence
Book SynopsisInvestigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies.Trade Review"In sum, Racing for Innocence is an important addition to the literature on race, gender, and equal opportunity and expands our knowledge as we contemplate the roots of the backlash against affirmative action." -- David Hamilton Golland * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Interviewing the actual players—those who hire or fire employees—Jennifer Pierce takes a novel approach to understanding how the popular narrative of affirmative action became internalized. This thoughtful book demonstrates how a rather neoconservative template of opinions, metaphors, theories, and beliefs was disseminated into the main stream." -- Charles Gallagher * LaSalle University *"This compelling book brings affirmative action back into the spotlight. Pierce delivers insights into the thought processes of opponents of affirmative action—including white women and white men—and also offers insights into how African American attorneys, both women and men, experience white privilege and the stigma of affirmative action as expressed in the language and behavior of whites." -- Patricia Yancey Martin * Florida State University *"A major contribution to our sociological understanding of the backlash against affirmative action. I know of no other book that examines the issue from so many perspectives. Pierce provides a unique look at the cultural cues that led some white male lawyers to resist affirmative action in the workplace. She also shows how the media's exclusion of gender and white women from the discussion obscured the reality that white women were a major beneficiary of affirmative action even while they continued to experience workplace discrimination." -- Susan E. Chase * University of Tulsa *"A signal contribution to the sociological imagination and to critical whiteness studies at the levels of method, content, and even style. Pierce gives human faces and gendered bodies their places in the attack on affirmative action without losing sight of structural forces that have connected colorblindness and conservatism." -- David Roediger * University of Illinois, and author of How Race Survived U.S. History *"Pierce's book is a welcome look at how the concept of 'whiteness' operates among elites. . . Pierce makes a compelling case that the timing of these [1980s and 90s Hollywood] movies was not coincidental, as affirmative action policies were being attacked nationally and, at the same time, there were many stories circulating about white male innocence and injury. . . Recommended." -- J. M. Richards * CHOICE *"It is the continued controversy surrounding affirmative action that makes Jennifer Pierce's Racing for Innocence an important book for scholars in this field . . . The greatest strength of Pierce's work is its ability to elucidate the opinions and beliefs of an elite group in American society . . . Overall, this is a very good book that raises questions that are not going away no matter how much white America wants to believe that racism is dead." -- Margaret S. Hrezo * Law and Politics Book Review *"Jennifer L. Pierce uses a nuanced qualitative lens to offer valuable insights into the workings of whiteness . . . Pierce is a careful analyst who provides astute insights into the workings of whiteness in these elite spaces. These insights and Pierce's clear, lucid writing will be appreciated by both students and specialists alike." -- Amy C. Steinbugler * American Journal of Sociology *"Considered together, the chapters in Racing for Innocence demonstrate how collective and personal narratives of white male supremacy have buttressed each other—remaking racism and sexism as interpersonal rather than collective and institutional problems (and, conveniently, always someone else's problem) . . . Pierce pulls back the curtain to reveal just how tightly, and in how many ways, elite white men have gripped and consolidated power when faced with pressures to make room for others—and the mental and rhetorical gymnastics they have undertaken to convince themselves and others that they came by their status fairly." -- Katherine Turk * American Studies *
£77.35
Stanford University Press Racing for Innocence
Book SynopsisInvestigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies.Trade Review"In sum, Racing for Innocence is an important addition to the literature on race, gender, and equal opportunity and expands our knowledge as we contemplate the roots of the backlash against affirmative action." -- David Hamilton Golland * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Interviewing the actual players—those who hire or fire employees—Jennifer Pierce takes a novel approach to understanding how the popular narrative of affirmative action became internalized. This thoughtful book demonstrates how a rather neoconservative template of opinions, metaphors, theories, and beliefs was disseminated into the main stream." -- Charles Gallagher * LaSalle University *"This compelling book brings affirmative action back into the spotlight. Pierce delivers insights into the thought processes of opponents of affirmative action—including white women and white men—and also offers insights into how African American attorneys, both women and men, experience white privilege and the stigma of affirmative action as expressed in the language and behavior of whites." -- Patricia Yancey Martin * Florida State University *"A major contribution to our sociological understanding of the backlash against affirmative action. I know of no other book that examines the issue from so many perspectives. Pierce provides a unique look at the cultural cues that led some white male lawyers to resist affirmative action in the workplace. She also shows how the media's exclusion of gender and white women from the discussion obscured the reality that white women were a major beneficiary of affirmative action even while they continued to experience workplace discrimination." -- Susan E. Chase * University of Tulsa *"A signal contribution to the sociological imagination and to critical whiteness studies at the levels of method, content, and even style. Pierce gives human faces and gendered bodies their places in the attack on affirmative action without losing sight of structural forces that have connected colorblindness and conservatism." -- David Roediger * University of Illinois, and author of How Race Survived U.S. History *"Pierce's book is a welcome look at how the concept of 'whiteness' operates among elites. . . Pierce makes a compelling case that the timing of these [1980s and 90s Hollywood] movies was not coincidental, as affirmative action policies were being attacked nationally and, at the same time, there were many stories circulating about white male innocence and injury. . . Recommended." -- J. M. Richards * CHOICE *"It is the continued controversy surrounding affirmative action that makes Jennifer Pierce's Racing for Innocence an important book for scholars in this field . . . The greatest strength of Pierce's work is its ability to elucidate the opinions and beliefs of an elite group in American society . . . Overall, this is a very good book that raises questions that are not going away no matter how much white America wants to believe that racism is dead." -- Margaret S. Hrezo * Law and Politics Book Review *"Jennifer L. Pierce uses a nuanced qualitative lens to offer valuable insights into the workings of whiteness . . . Pierce is a careful analyst who provides astute insights into the workings of whiteness in these elite spaces. These insights and Pierce's clear, lucid writing will be appreciated by both students and specialists alike." -- Amy C. Steinbugler"Considered together, the chapters in Racing for Innocence demonstrate how collective and personal narratives of white male supremacy have buttressed each other—remaking racism and sexism as interpersonal rather than collective and institutional problems (and, conveniently, always someone else's problem) . . . Pierce pulls back the curtain to reveal just how tightly, and in how many ways, elite white men have gripped and consolidated power when faced with pressures to make room for others—and the mental and rhetorical gymnastics they have undertaken to convince themselves and others that they came by their status fairly." -- Katherine Turk
£20.89
Stanford University Press Paint the White House Black
Book SynopsisUses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning.Trade Review"Paint the White House Black was a pleasure to read. I am confident that its accessible prose and beguiling content will ensure that it secures a place on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses (whether political science, cultural studies, or history modules) that tackle race in the U.S., particularly in the post-civil rights era. Jeffries's regular propositions for what could be done in future (such as suggestions for a 'new American nationalism') do not merely provide fascinating food for thought when read in solitude, but will energize classroom discussions to determine racial meaning and injustices."—Josephine Metcalf, Journal of American Studies"An insightful book for academic and general audiences. . . . Highly recommended."—J. R. Feagin, CHOICE"A compelling cultural sociology of political power and state-of-the-art analysis of the Obama presidency and contemporary race relations in the United States. Jeffries draws our attention to the growing chasm between black middle and upper classes and the black underclass, deftly showing how a separate space for black public discussion has largely disappeared. This subtle and sophisticated argument will gain the attention of political theorists and social scientists of American politics."—Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, author of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power"Reading the Obama presidency as a racial Rorschach test, Michael Jeffries offers a highly original, keenly attuned analysis of the social construction of race and the stark realities of racism in the United States. Paint the White House Black is a valuable addition to the critical literature on our so-called 'post-racial' America."—Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination"Paint the White House Black is a breathtaking work that explains how the language and logic of race shape our collective existence. Michael Jeffries brilliantly clarifies the shifting intellectual and social anatomy of our most perplexing national obsession. This creative and courageous book shines a powerful analytical light that can help us do better because, thanks to Jeffries, we now know and think better."—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University, author of Debating Race and Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
£74.70
Stanford University Press Paint the White House Black
Book SynopsisUses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning.Trade Review"Paint the White House Black was a pleasure to read. I am confident that its accessible prose and beguiling content will ensure that it secures a place on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses (whether political science, cultural studies, or history modules) that tackle race in the U.S., particularly in the post-civil rights era. Jeffries's regular propositions for what could be done in future (such as suggestions for a 'new American nationalism') do not merely provide fascinating food for thought when read in solitude, but will energize classroom discussions to determine racial meaning and injustices."—Josephine Metcalf, Journal of American Studies"An insightful book for academic and general audiences. . . . Highly recommended."—J. R. Feagin, CHOICE"A compelling cultural sociology of political power and state-of-the-art analysis of the Obama presidency and contemporary race relations in the United States. Jeffries draws our attention to the growing chasm between black middle and upper classes and the black underclass, deftly showing how a separate space for black public discussion has largely disappeared. This subtle and sophisticated argument will gain the attention of political theorists and social scientists of American politics."—Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, author of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power"Reading the Obama presidency as a racial Rorschach test, Michael Jeffries offers a highly original, keenly attuned analysis of the social construction of race and the stark realities of racism in the United States. Paint the White House Black is a valuable addition to the critical literature on our so-called 'post-racial' America."—Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination"Paint the White House Black is a breathtaking work that explains how the language and logic of race shape our collective existence. Michael Jeffries brilliantly clarifies the shifting intellectual and social anatomy of our most perplexing national obsession. This creative and courageous book shines a powerful analytical light that can help us do better because, thanks to Jeffries, we now know and think better."—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University, author of Debating Race and Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
£18.99
Stanford University Press Voting Together
Book SynopsisThis book examines the paths taken by Hmong Americans towards a participatory citizenship and active engagement in politics in the United States.Trade Review"This book is an important contribution to scholarship in Asian American studies and immigrant politics. To date, there has been no in-depth study of the civic engagement of Hmong Americans. This is a notable gap, given that this group has defied expectations of low participation among groups with low socioeconomic resources. Voting Together skillfully shows how Hmong Americans have beaten the odds, drawing critical attention to factors like geographic context, clan structures, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. The book also provides valuable insights to better understand the future trajectory of this important, yet often overlooked, group." -- Karthick Ramakrishnan * University of California, Riverside *"This is a pioneering work that provides coast-to-coast coverage of the political engagements of 1.5 generation Hmong Americans. Wong legitimates young Hmong trailblazers by placing these newly elected individuals into the context of American history while also highlighting their role as emerging transnational leaders who affect global changes by demanding human and citizenship rights for their fellow co-ethnics in Southeast Asia. This highly readable book is an excellent addition to the field of Hmong studies." -- Mai Na M. Lee * University of Minnesota *"In this lively and illuminating account of Hmong American participation in political life, Carolyn Wong provides a deeper understanding of the interplay between newcomers and the political system. Drawing on interviews of community leaders and everyday people situated in different parts of the country, Voting Together forces readers to reconsider traditional theories of community empowerment and identity formation. This theoretically rich and nuanced account of diversity in America is a must-read for those interested in ethnic politics." -- Janelle Wong * University of Maryland *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Citizenship and Participation chapter abstractChapter One introduces the general argument developed in subsequent chapters. In Hmong American communities, political participation arises and deepens through inter-generational social mechanisms of voting. The process is aided by local institutions that educate newcomers in participatory skills and aid reconstruction of identity narratives. Present-day notions about citizenship rights and a desire for political inclusion are influenced by the Vietnam War experience of the Hmong Americans and their status as stateless refugees after the war. The relatively low levels of social-economic attainment of the Hmong Americans compared to other Asian Americans helps explain the motivation to participate in politics to press for public policy that would address poverty and educational reform 2Reconstructing Identity Narratives chapter abstractChapter Two examines the cultural and political meaning of identity stories as articulated by Hmong Americans, including examples of how freedom and parity are expressed in these narratives. These stories have formed through an amalgam of lived experience and values. The process of construction and telling of the narratives is participatory. The engagement of ordinary people in conversations and creation of interpretive stories and performing art productions is what animates the identity narratives in civic and political life. 3Participation in Local Contexts chapter abstractChapter Three compares local contexts of political and civic participation in several cities – principally, Fresno, California; Saint Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota; Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Hickory, North Carolina. The analysis uses a conceptual framework delineating the nature of parity of participation in society, including the realm of economic distribution and cultural recognition, as articulated by Fraser. The analysis emphasizes the importance of public educational institutions and community based organizations in promoting citizen education. . Interviews of high school students illustrate the importance of cultural recognition in the process of citizen education. 4Views on Politics: From Leadership and the Grassroots chapter abstractChapter Four uses interviews of Hmong American leaders and grassroots community members to examine views on a wide range of questions: the nature and extent of participants' political and civic engagement; sources of political information; attitudes about leadership; relationships to political parties; views about the main problems in the community; concepts of ethnic identity; and views of national policy issues. 5Human Rights Advocacy Across Borders chapter abstractChapter Five presents a case study of the politics of recognition and dignity as expressed in the testimony of Hmong refugees about human rights violations in Thailand, where their relatives' graves were desecrated. A collaborative project led by human rights researchers at the University of Minnesota and Hmong American political leaders explored how the rights claims can be usefully framed in terms of indigenous religious rights. From the work of a newly emerging generation of college-educated Hmong Americans, parts of this story began to find moving expression in a nascent literary and performing arts. 6 Deepening Intergenerational Participation chapter abstractChapter Six concludes with a discussion of future prospects for wider and deeper political participation of the Hmong Americans. The desire to engage in elections is rooted in a belief in the role of government in assisting people poverty to become self-sufficient. Experiencing racial prejudice and economic disadvantage opens opportunities for education about commonality of interest with other racial-ethnic minorities and socially marginalized people. From this ground there is potential to better appreciate the power of collective action in politics and to gain the skills needed in a truly participatory citizenship which extends beyond voting alone. To realize this potential requires imagining collaborative and inter-generational projects of community-based political education.
£55.80
Stanford University Press Neoliberalism Interrupted
Book SynopsisExamines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America.Trade Review"Neoliberalism Interrupted is a timely book on the winds of change sweeping through Latin America. Covering a wide range of countries it provides many important reference points against which the wider phenomenon of the so-called Pink Tide can be viewed an assessed. Usefully, it deals not only with those countries that are often paradigmatically associated with the leading edge of resistance to neoliberalism (Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador) but also those countries where neoliberal socio-economic and political practices have remained firmly entrenched (Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador) or where assessment has been more ambiguous (Argentina) . . . [This] is a highly readable and engaging book for both students and seasoned scholars of Latin America. It deserves to be read widely."—Chris Hesketh, Bulletin of Latin American Research"Neoliberalism, Interrupted is an aptly titled volume that examines the current status of neoliberal economic policy and governmentality in Latin America . . . Fine-grained political analysis and rich empirical detail reveal that while Washington Consensus policies are no longer hegemonic in Latin America, neoliberal governance is entrenched and evolving . . . Each of the eight country case studies offers rich historical and political analysis that is alive to contradiction and complexity . . . [T]he case studies are valuable and clearly grounded in deep engagements with research sites."—Jennifer Goett, Journal of Anthropological Research"Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero's collection offers us a vivid panorama of neoliberalism and its interruption, keeping in mind broader patterns of political economic transformation and civil society struggle. The chapters forcefully demonstrate neoliberalism's investment in violence and regulation, while opening our eyes to civil society's spaces to challenge them. From Buenos Aires to Venezuela, from race to gender, this collection represents an important theoretical and critical engagement with Latin America's current realities."—Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge, author of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism"Neoliberalism, Interrupted makes an important contribution to studying Latin America's rapidly changing socio-political landscape. The volume's authors remind us that the region presents a rich laboratory for experiments that defy existing categories of social and political theory in contradictory, but potentially exciting new ways."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"This book will resonate with all those interested in one of the most important political questions for Latin America today. The authors resist the temptation to provide easy answers—the essays are subtle and effective, their sophistication buttressed by empirical and theoretical rigor."—Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge"This timely collection brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the limits of neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Latin America. The contributors provide fine-grained, ethnographic analysis of alternatives to the 'Washington consensus,' both grandiose and grassroots, revealing in the process the promises and contradictions of 'post-neoliberal' political programs and social projects."—Patrick C. Wilson, University of Lethbridge
£89.10
Stanford University Press Wives Husbands and Lovers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Wives, Husbands, and Lovers] is a very valid reading for all people interested in the demographic and social changes in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan. Also it should be mentioned that despite the number of contributors, the book is not an anthology but a very well organized and internally coherent text leading the reader through the time and space of changes in the marital and sexual behaviors in this part of the world."—Adam Horálek, Chinet"This is a book that should be on everyone's bookshelf. The authors revisit familiar topics—love, sexuality, and marriage—with knowledgeable eyes. Each contributor posits a different set of questions that highlights the normative shifts taking place. The book participates in the new trend of comparing marriage and family life in the Mainland with Hong Kong and Taiwan. In doing so, the book provides a more comprehensive, ethnographic overview of the many changes taking place in Chinese society."—William Jankowiak, Gender & Society"This book opens the Pandora's box of marriage issues in China, offering readers a view of the growing anomalies of familial, sexual, and marital mores and the complexities engendered by deviancies in the three Chinese societies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC . . . The book injects new blood into scholarship on the topic of marriage and sexuality and offers alternative ways of thinking and questioning institutions."—Wang Pan, Pacific Affairs"Wives, Husbands, and Lovers explores how the dramatic changes in sexuality and marriage since the 1980s are currently challenging the fundamentals of family life in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. The authors present vivid descriptions of how increases in premarital sex, premarital cohabitation, divorce, same sex marriage, cross-border sexual and marital relations, and even births outside of marriage have shaken basic assumptions about marriage in all three locales. Even long-time students of East Asia will find much in this book that is surprising and new."—Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University
£84.15
Stanford University Press Money from Nothing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"James' book is a powerful voice that contributes to the increasingly voluble conversation on consumption in a world that has moved beyond Marxist tenets of production, to the generation of income from loaning and borrowing cash based on speculation. How these new economies will affect the future of young nations such as South Africa remains to be discovered. Works such as Money for Nothing promise to shed light on this journey."—Isabel Scarborough, Allegra Laboratory"Partly perhaps because of its history, Africa (southern Africa in particular) has been a fertile region for work by social anthropologists on economic tops. This book is an especially good exemplar . . .The [book] is a highly readable account of the formal and informal institutions of credit and indebtedness - as well as the networks of obligation, reciprocity, and rejection - enlivened throughout by vignettes and analysis derived from her ethnographic fieldwork . . . Highly Recommended."—J.H. Cobbe, CHOICE"[A] new book by Deborah James [...] puts South Africa's debt industry under a microscope . . . James is an an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, so her book, Money From Nothing — Indebtedness and Aspirations in South Africa, present a more nuanced perspective than we're accustomed to getting from bank-employed economists or trade unionists."—Ann Crotty, The Times"Credit, and its flip side, debt, emerges as a fundamental lens to understand the workings of both social mobility and economic disenfranchisement, precariously inter-twined in the New South Africa. James makes complex theory accessible, combining it with page-turning ethnography—utterly captivating!"—Dinah Rajak, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex and author of In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility (Stanford University Press 2011)"South Africa, the most unequal society in the world, has recently launched a consumer credit boom. Property rights have been strengthened, but debtors lack the legal protection that is normal elsewhere. Deborah James's much needed ethnography reveals what it feels like to be on the receiving end of this boom for the banks."—Keith Hart, London School of Economics"Money from Nothing offers the most comprehensive, multi-angled study that we have of new initiatives in credit and debt in a poor population. It will be a key source for all who concern themselves with the debt nexus, as lived."—Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University"James' investigation of the 'credit-debt' revolution in South Africa offers readers a rich account of the new lending economy. At stake, she shows, is not merely the making of a new black middle class, but the remaking of the meaning of class itself in an era of 'neoliberal redistribution.' This path-breaking analysis is an example of economic anthropology at its very best."—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University"In closing, Money from Nothing is an outstanding ethnography which accounts for the relationship between micro and macro political-economy with implications for the everyday social life of money...James's meticulous ethnography and fine scholarship leaves readers with a sense of understanding of the South African economic context amidst the chaos of the dualities that exist in post-apartheid South Africa. I strongly recommend this scholarly work to those engaging in discourse on post-apartheid South Africa, political-economy and cultural-economy."—Hemali Joshi, Anthropology Southern Africa"James is attentive not only to the class dynamics of post-apartheid indebtedness but also to the competitive dynamics of status and distinction . . . [The book] emphasises the complex logics of her informants as they seek to navigate the frustrations of contemporary South Africa . . . Scholarship on the post-apartheid state, and intersection with private capital and its discourses, will benefit considerably from engagement with James's ethnography—as will economic anthropologists working in other parts of the world."—Kevin Donovan, Allegra Laboratory
£89.10
Stanford University Press Wives Husbands and Lovers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Wives, Husbands, and Lovers] is a very valid reading for all people interested in the demographic and social changes in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan. Also it should be mentioned that despite the number of contributors, the book is not an anthology but a very well organized and internally coherent text leading the reader through the time and space of changes in the marital and sexual behaviors in this part of the world."—Adam Horálek, Chinet"This is a book that should be on everyone's bookshelf. The authors revisit familiar topics—love, sexuality, and marriage—with knowledgeable eyes. Each contributor posits a different set of questions that highlights the normative shifts taking place. The book participates in the new trend of comparing marriage and family life in the Mainland with Hong Kong and Taiwan. In doing so, the book provides a more comprehensive, ethnographic overview of the many changes taking place in Chinese society."—William Jankowiak, Gender & Society"This book opens the Pandora's box of marriage issues in China, offering readers a view of the growing anomalies of familial, sexual, and marital mores and the complexities engendered by deviancies in the three Chinese societies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC . . . The book injects new blood into scholarship on the topic of marriage and sexuality and offers alternative ways of thinking and questioning institutions."—Wang Pan, Pacific Affairs"Wives, Husbands, and Lovers explores how the dramatic changes in sexuality and marriage since the 1980s are currently challenging the fundamentals of family life in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. The authors present vivid descriptions of how increases in premarital sex, premarital cohabitation, divorce, same sex marriage, cross-border sexual and marital relations, and even births outside of marriage have shaken basic assumptions about marriage in all three locales. Even long-time students of East Asia will find much in this book that is surprising and new."—Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University
£21.59
Stanford University Press An American Cakewalk
Book SynopsisAn American Cakewalk is a lively and entertaining look at a group of Americans in the arts and sciences who, in the years between the Civil War and the 1970s, challenged this country's artistic and social norms through subtle and not-so-subtle syncopations of its cultural givens.Trade Review"An American Cakewalk is a delight. Once I waded in, I did not want to be called back to shore. Not a cultural history, nor an argument with others, this book is a labor of love, serious in its prose and intentions, abounding with insight, written with verve and grace."—George Cotkin, author of Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby Dick (2012)"The great appeal of this book is its freedom from conventional categories, its charming, at times moving, style of writing, which captures a special rhythm in American popular culture. This is an important book, and literate Americans should read it."—John Dizikes, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz"[The author] provides a new and refreshing glimpse of a cadre of individuals he labels 'syncopators'—slightly offbeat, marginalized people who often marched to the beat of the proverbial 'different drummer'... Highly recommended" —P. D. Travis, Choice"More often than not, the book is more akin to a vividly impressionistic novel than most academic texts....[T]he book is undoubtedly the result of rigorous research, deep engagement and passion for the primary materials it explores. This combination of style and substance is a rare and heady mix that is ultimately far more satisfying as a result."—Adam Burns, History: The Journal of the Historical AssociationTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts0Introduction chapter abstractThe Introduction to the book presents the United States as an open-ended dialogue of voices, classes, races and ethnicity. It introduces the cakewalk as a model for a satiric intervention and opens the possibility of style as a vessel of cultural subversion. 1Ghost Dance chapter abstractChapter one shows the Native American trickster shaman as a cultural model of survival and creative renewal in a hostile world. It gives a brief history of 1890 Ghost Dance and the massacre of its Indian followers and develops the idea of the Ghost Dance songs survival as a symbol of renewal. The chapter concludes with a portrait of United States in 1890 as an introduction to the historical and cultural context in which the cultural innovators taken up in subsequent chapters. 2Valentines chapter abstractChapter Two investigates the life of Emily Dickinson and quiet subversions of her poetry. It emphasizes her manipulation of standard poetic forms and religious expectations and the social platitudes of Victorian American parlor poetry to produce sometimes dangerous but almost always surprising revelations of passion, religious heterodoxy and poetic imagery. 3Cakewalk chapter abstractThis chapter explains the 19th century slave dance the cakewalk and its alliance with the syncopations of ragtime music to create unique place in and reflection of African American life. It explores the cakewalk and ragtime syncopation as satiric comment on the white world and as creative resources. It explores the minstrel show as racial travesty and its role in African American musical and theatrical idiom. 4Monsters chapter abstractChapter three examines world of signs and contingency as developed by Charles Sanders Peirce and exemplified by the work of Stephen Crane. It takes up the characters of Peirce and Crane as reflected in their approach to their separate fields. 5The Soul Shepherd. chapter abstractChapter Five takes up William James as philosopher of the mind. It describes his explorations of the limits of consciousness and his quest for the realms spiritual in both his own life and as a philosopher of religion. It examines his role in the development of the philosophy of pragmatism and that philosophy's relation to his search for religious meaning. Finally, Chapter Five takes up James's open-ended philosophy of radical empiricism. 6The Return of the Novelist chapter abstractThis chapter is built around the novelist Henry James's return to America in 1904 – 05 and his published and private writings about this journey. It develops James's family life and position as an artist between two worlds, Europe and America and how he made use of this position as a writer and social thinker. His thoughts on the American South lead to a comparison to another American social thinker, who found himself between two worlds and two consciousnesses, his brother William's student W. E. B. DuBois. The chapter concludes with James's method of oral composition in the final stage of career and his championing of art as giving meaning to life. 7An Innocent at Cedro chapter abstractChapter Seven takes up Thorstein Veblen and focuses on his anthropological approach to economic theory. It examines his most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class and its examination of conspicuous consumption in the social world of America's wealthy movers and shakers and gives a picture of Veblen as the consummate outsider. It sees his development the instincts of workmanship and what he called idle curiosity as a challenge to the prevailing deterministic ideas of cultural development and concludes with Veblen's unsuccessful tenure as an engaged political and economic partisan. 8The Rise of Abraham Cahan chapter abstractChapter Eight takes up the life of Jewish immigrant, writer and editor of Abraham Cahan from the Old World to the New and his parallel creation of David Levinsky in his seminal novel The Rise of David Levinsky. It investigates the psychological commonalities beneath the socialist Cahan and the successful capitalist Levinsky, and in so doing gives a portrait of the social and psychological world of first generation of Jewish immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In their very different ways successes, Cahan as the long-time editor of The Jewish Daily Forward and his imaginary creation Levinsky as a millionaire clothing manufacture, these two figures exemplify men caught between two worlds, unsatisfied in each, and questioning the very meaning of success in American life 9Beyond Syncopation chapter abstractThis chapter looks at Jelly Roll Morton and his latter-day admirer, Charles Mingus, and the role of race in their lives and in their pioneering jazz innovation. It sees Morton as jazz's "first intellectual," who took jazz from ragtime syncopation to open horizons of improvisation and true composition,. The chapter sees Morton's unconscious as self-parody as a precursor to Charles Mingus's psychological examination of his life as an African-American man and its sexual and social constraints in Beneath the Underdog. Mingus's exploitation of the liberating possibilities of a ferocious vein of satire and avant-garde innovation in his music bring this book to its conclusion.
£18.04
Stanford University Press Money from Nothing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"James' book is a powerful voice that contributes to the increasingly voluble conversation on consumption in a world that has moved beyond Marxist tenets of production, to the generation of income from loaning and borrowing cash based on speculation. How these new economies will affect the future of young nations such as South Africa remains to be discovered. Works such as Money for Nothing promise to shed light on this journey."—Isabel Scarborough, Allegra Laboratory"Partly perhaps because of its history, Africa (southern Africa in particular) has been a fertile region for work by social anthropologists on economic tops. This book is an especially good exemplar . . .The [book] is a highly readable account of the formal and informal institutions of credit and indebtedness - as well as the networks of obligation, reciprocity, and rejection - enlivened throughout by vignettes and analysis derived from her ethnographic fieldwork . . . Highly Recommended."—J.H. Cobbe, CHOICE"[A] new book by Deborah James [...] puts South Africa's debt industry under a microscope . . . James is an an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, so her book, Money From Nothing — Indebtedness and Aspirations in South Africa, present a more nuanced perspective than we're accustomed to getting from bank-employed economists or trade unionists."—Ann Crotty, The Times"Credit, and its flip side, debt, emerges as a fundamental lens to understand the workings of both social mobility and economic disenfranchisement, precariously inter-twined in the New South Africa. James makes complex theory accessible, combining it with page-turning ethnography—utterly captivating!"—Dinah Rajak, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex and author of In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility (Stanford University Press 2011)"South Africa, the most unequal society in the world, has recently launched a consumer credit boom. Property rights have been strengthened, but debtors lack the legal protection that is normal elsewhere. Deborah James's much needed ethnography reveals what it feels like to be on the receiving end of this boom for the banks."—Keith Hart, London School of Economics"Money from Nothing offers the most comprehensive, multi-angled study that we have of new initiatives in credit and debt in a poor population. It will be a key source for all who concern themselves with the debt nexus, as lived."—Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University"James' investigation of the 'credit-debt' revolution in South Africa offers readers a rich account of the new lending economy. At stake, she shows, is not merely the making of a new black middle class, but the remaking of the meaning of class itself in an era of 'neoliberal redistribution.' This path-breaking analysis is an example of economic anthropology at its very best."—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University"In closing, Money from Nothing is an outstanding ethnography which accounts for the relationship between micro and macro political-economy with implications for the everyday social life of money...James's meticulous ethnography and fine scholarship leaves readers with a sense of understanding of the South African economic context amidst the chaos of the dualities that exist in post-apartheid South Africa. I strongly recommend this scholarly work to those engaging in discourse on post-apartheid South Africa, political-economy and cultural-economy."—Hemali Joshi, Anthropology Southern Africa"James is attentive not only to the class dynamics of post-apartheid indebtedness but also to the competitive dynamics of status and distinction . . . [The book] emphasises the complex logics of her informants as they seek to navigate the frustrations of contemporary South Africa . . . Scholarship on the post-apartheid state, and intersection with private capital and its discourses, will benefit considerably from engagement with James's ethnography—as will economic anthropologists working in other parts of the world."—Kevin Donovan, Allegra Laboratory
£21.59
Stanford University Press The Emotional Politics of Racism
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of emotion in contemporary instances of racial violence and discrimination.Trade Review"The Emotional Politics of Racism is a sustained act of ethical witnessing. Paula Ioanide offers fresh insights into the relationship between social order and alienation, showing the interrelation of explanatory and affective modes that perpetuate gendered racial hierarchy. A must read for all students of racial capitalism."—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California"The Emotional Politics of Racism is a tour de force, a powerful, passionate, ethical insistence on thinking carefully and analytically about racial subordination and social justice. Beautifully written and researched, this book makes significant contributions to critical race theory, feminist studies, law, cultural studies, sociology of culture, political theory, and ethnic studies."—Barbara Tomlinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist"Paula Ioanide's deft reading of a series of racialized spectacles explores the complex economy of fears, longings, and fantasies that structure the white public imagination. She persuasively demonstrates the need for a new framework of political analysis centered on shared affect, feelings, and desires."—Daniel Martinez HoSang, University of OregonTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Facts and Evidence Don't Matter Here chapter abstractThe introduction theorizes how and why emotions play a central role in fostering people's investments in oppressive institutional practices in the United States and globally. It argues that hegemonic fears, resentments, and stigmas attached to criminality, terrorism, welfare dependency, and undocumented immigration make beliefs and stereotypes about Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people intransigent. Psychoanalytic and social psychological frameworks help explain how affectively charged ideologies tend to diminish people's receptivity to facts and evidence that challenge their beliefs. The introduction argues that understanding gendered racism through purely cognitive frameworks of racist intent or ignorance limits our ability to account for people's unconscious, unintentional and embodied investments in oppression. Understanding how unconscious affects structure people's ideological fantasies, identities, and political purpose increases our ability to create counter-cultures of ethical witnessing and effective antiracist feminist strategies. Part I: "Criminals" and "Terrorists": The Emotional Economies of Military-Carceral Expansion chapter abstractPart I offers a broad overview of the apparatuses that helped construct public desires for the unprecedented expansion of the military-carceral state since the 1980s. It outlines the national political discourses, media representations and state policies that helped construct emotional economies of fear and aggression about "criminality" and "terrorism." Color-blind and racially coded discourses and representations encouraged U.S. constituents to support forms of punishment and containment that targeted Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people through the War on Drugs, immigrant detentions, and the War on Terror. Part I pays particular attention to socially shared emotional economies attached to the ideological fantasies of law and order and American exceptionalism. These hegemonic emotions reward people who identify with being law abiding (through racial appearance, behavior, style or speech) with an affective sense of superiority over those who are assumed to be criminals and terrorists. 1New York, NY: The Raging Emotions of White Police Brutality chapter abstractChapter 1 investigates the 1997 case of police brutality against Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant. It offers a localized reading of the ways dominant stereotypes and feelings about Haitian immigrants and Black "criminality" in New York City helped structure NYPD police officers' violence toward Louima and other Black residents. Officer Justin Volpe and the other white police officers involved in Louima's brutalization employed historically haunting scripts of anti-Black sexualized violence to recuperate their sense of patriarchal white dominance. This instance of brutality was part of a continuum of police violence and harassment encouraged by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's "zero tolerance" measures, which popularized emotional fears that Black "criminality" and Haitian immigrant "contamination" posed threats to (implicitly white) property, bodies and space. The chapter explores multi-racial alliances that protested police brutality after Louima's case was publicized. 2Abu Ghraib, Iraq: The Evasive Emotions of U.S. Exceptionalism chapter abstractChapter 2 analyzes liberal and conservative responses to the tortures against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The case examines the ways dominant stereotypes and feelings about "Arab terrorism" manifested in sanctioned expressions of sexualized racial violence in the U.S. military. Liberal frames of reception that expressed sympathy, shock, and shame generally continued to remain wedded to orientalist projections and the ideological fantasy of U.S. exceptionalism. Both liberal and conservative American publics expressed affective investments in notions of "justice" predicated on bodily punishment, incarceration and obliteration. The War on Terror extended the logics of domestic mass incarceration and U.S.-Mexico border militarization into the global arenas of the Middle East. The chapter considers how the Abu Ghraib tortures ruptured investments in U.S. exceptionalism and 'benevolent' U.S. imperialism, opening possibilities for ethical solidarities and affinities that challenge the expansion of U.S. militarism. Part II: "Welfare Dependents" and "Illegal Aliens": The Emotional Economies of Social Wage Retrenchment chapter abstractPart II outlines the macro-political, economic and emotional processes that garnered public support for social wage divestment in the post-civil rights era. It outlines how political discourses, media representations, and institutional policies that worked together to popularize resentments and stigmas toward welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants. Colorblind, gendered and racially coded discourses and representations encouraged publics to invest in the ideological fantasy of economic self-reliance and to direct their anxieties about economic, demographic and cultural shifts toward poor Black people and Latino/a immigrants. Projecting these demographics as "taxpayer burdens" encouraged dominant majorities to invest in hostile privatism and defensive localism. Stereotypes about Black and Latina women's "hyper-fertility" and "sexual non-normativity" offered affective rewards to those invested in normative family ideals and sexuality. Such projections and emotional economies supported broader neoliberal privatization and divestment from public goods that worked against most American people's economic interests. 3New Orleans, LA: The Demolishing Emotions of Neoliberal Removal chapter abstractChapter 3 examines the emotional and property interests that led to the 2007 demolition of thousands of public housing units in New Orleans even though Hurricane Katrina had created a crisis in affordable housing. The circulation of racial stereotypes about Black "welfare dependence," "family and sexual deviance," and "criminality" amplified emotional economies that stigmatized and demonized impoverished people. Though liberals and conservatives in New Orleans expressed stereotypes and feelings about public housing differently, they shared affective attachments to white spatial, sexuality, familial, and property ideals. Both liberal and conservative public feelings resulted in housing policies that accelerated the organized abandonment of working and workless people in New Orleans and accelerated neoliberal privatization. Grassroots organizing challenged the paternalist and neoliberal logics that dominated discussions of spatial reconstruction in New Orleans through Africanist blues epistemologies that favored people over property. 4Escondido, CA: The Exclusionary Emotions of Nativist Movements chapter abstractChapter 4 interrogates a municipal ordinance in Escondido, California that sought to deny undocumented immigrants rental housing. It argues that nativist emotional economies encourage exclusionary measures and hostility toward Latino/a immigrants as a way to encourage Latino/a "self-deportation." Projecting Latino/a immigrants as "taxpayer burdens" that cause "overpopulation" in the U.S., nativist organizers reconfigure emotional stigmas attached to Black "welfare dependence" and "hyper-fertility" to Latino/a immigrants. The anti-Latino/a housing ordinances in Escondido and other locales were justified through color-blind arguments about "legality" as well as paleoconservative arguments about "mongrelization" and "Mexican reconquest." Mass pro-immigrant mobilizations in Escondido and across the nation asserted the significance of Latino/a immigrant labor and culture in the U.S. by foregrounding emotional economies that honored workers' dignity and human rights under the banner of "No One Is Illegal."
£81.90
Stanford University Press The Emotional Politics of Racism
Book SynopsisWith stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support colorblindness and racial equality. With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into these contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence. How U.S. publics dominantly feel about crime, terrorism, welfare, and immigration often seems to trump whatever facts and evidence say about these politicized matters.Though four case studiesthe police brutality case of Abner Louima; the exposure of torture at Abu Ghraib; the demolition of New Orleans public housing units following Hurricane Katrina; and a proposed municipal ordinance to deny housing to undocumented immigrants in Escondido, CAIoanide shows how racial fears are perpeTrade Review"The Emotional Politics of Racism is a sustained act of ethical witnessing. Paula Ioanide offers fresh insights into the relationship between social order and alienation, showing the interrelation of explanatory and affective modes that perpetuate gendered racial hierarchy. A must read for all students of racial capitalism."—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California"The Emotional Politics of Racism is a tour de force, a powerful, passionate, ethical insistence on thinking carefully and analytically about racial subordination and social justice. Beautifully written and researched, this book makes significant contributions to critical race theory, feminist studies, law, cultural studies, sociology of culture, political theory, and ethnic studies."—Barbara Tomlinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist"Paula Ioanide's deft reading of a series of racialized spectacles explores the complex economy of fears, longings, and fantasies that structure the white public imagination. She persuasively demonstrates the need for a new framework of political analysis centered on shared affect, feelings, and desires."—Daniel Martinez HoSang, University of OregonTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Facts and Evidence Don't Matter Here chapter abstractThe introduction theorizes how and why emotions play a central role in fostering people's investments in oppressive institutional practices in the United States and globally. It argues that hegemonic fears, resentments, and stigmas attached to criminality, terrorism, welfare dependency, and undocumented immigration make beliefs and stereotypes about Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people intransigent. Psychoanalytic and social psychological frameworks help explain how affectively charged ideologies tend to diminish people's receptivity to facts and evidence that challenge their beliefs. The introduction argues that understanding gendered racism through purely cognitive frameworks of racist intent or ignorance limits our ability to account for people's unconscious, unintentional and embodied investments in oppression. Understanding how unconscious affects structure people's ideological fantasies, identities, and political purpose increases our ability to create counter-cultures of ethical witnessing and effective antiracist feminist strategies. Part I: "Criminals" and "Terrorists": The Emotional Economies of Military-Carceral Expansion chapter abstractPart I offers a broad overview of the apparatuses that helped construct public desires for the unprecedented expansion of the military-carceral state since the 1980s. It outlines the national political discourses, media representations and state policies that helped construct emotional economies of fear and aggression about "criminality" and "terrorism." Color-blind and racially coded discourses and representations encouraged U.S. constituents to support forms of punishment and containment that targeted Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people through the War on Drugs, immigrant detentions, and the War on Terror. Part I pays particular attention to socially shared emotional economies attached to the ideological fantasies of law and order and American exceptionalism. These hegemonic emotions reward people who identify with being law abiding (through racial appearance, behavior, style or speech) with an affective sense of superiority over those who are assumed to be criminals and terrorists. 1New York, NY: The Raging Emotions of White Police Brutality chapter abstractChapter 1 investigates the 1997 case of police brutality against Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant. It offers a localized reading of the ways dominant stereotypes and feelings about Haitian immigrants and Black "criminality" in New York City helped structure NYPD police officers' violence toward Louima and other Black residents. Officer Justin Volpe and the other white police officers involved in Louima's brutalization employed historically haunting scripts of anti-Black sexualized violence to recuperate their sense of patriarchal white dominance. This instance of brutality was part of a continuum of police violence and harassment encouraged by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's "zero tolerance" measures, which popularized emotional fears that Black "criminality" and Haitian immigrant "contamination" posed threats to (implicitly white) property, bodies and space. The chapter explores multi-racial alliances that protested police brutality after Louima's case was publicized. 2Abu Ghraib, Iraq: The Evasive Emotions of U.S. Exceptionalism chapter abstractChapter 2 analyzes liberal and conservative responses to the tortures against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The case examines the ways dominant stereotypes and feelings about "Arab terrorism" manifested in sanctioned expressions of sexualized racial violence in the U.S. military. Liberal frames of reception that expressed sympathy, shock, and shame generally continued to remain wedded to orientalist projections and the ideological fantasy of U.S. exceptionalism. Both liberal and conservative American publics expressed affective investments in notions of "justice" predicated on bodily punishment, incarceration and obliteration. The War on Terror extended the logics of domestic mass incarceration and U.S.-Mexico border militarization into the global arenas of the Middle East. The chapter considers how the Abu Ghraib tortures ruptured investments in U.S. exceptionalism and 'benevolent' U.S. imperialism, opening possibilities for ethical solidarities and affinities that challenge the expansion of U.S. militarism. Part II: "Welfare Dependents" and "Illegal Aliens": The Emotional Economies of Social Wage Retrenchment chapter abstractPart II outlines the macro-political, economic and emotional processes that garnered public support for social wage divestment in the post-civil rights era. It outlines how political discourses, media representations, and institutional policies that worked together to popularize resentments and stigmas toward welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants. Colorblind, gendered and racially coded discourses and representations encouraged publics to invest in the ideological fantasy of economic self-reliance and to direct their anxieties about economic, demographic and cultural shifts toward poor Black people and Latino/a immigrants. Projecting these demographics as "taxpayer burdens" encouraged dominant majorities to invest in hostile privatism and defensive localism. Stereotypes about Black and Latina women's "hyper-fertility" and "sexual non-normativity" offered affective rewards to those invested in normative family ideals and sexuality. Such projections and emotional economies supported broader neoliberal privatization and divestment from public goods that worked against most American people's economic interests. 3New Orleans, LA: The Demolishing Emotions of Neoliberal Removal chapter abstractChapter 3 examines the emotional and property interests that led to the 2007 demolition of thousands of public housing units in New Orleans even though Hurricane Katrina had created a crisis in affordable housing. The circulation of racial stereotypes about Black "welfare dependence," "family and sexual deviance," and "criminality" amplified emotional economies that stigmatized and demonized impoverished people. Though liberals and conservatives in New Orleans expressed stereotypes and feelings about public housing differently, they shared affective attachments to white spatial, sexuality, familial, and property ideals. Both liberal and conservative public feelings resulted in housing policies that accelerated the organized abandonment of working and workless people in New Orleans and accelerated neoliberal privatization. Grassroots organizing challenged the paternalist and neoliberal logics that dominated discussions of spatial reconstruction in New Orleans through Africanist blues epistemologies that favored people over property. 4Escondido, CA: The Exclusionary Emotions of Nativist Movements chapter abstractChapter 4 interrogates a municipal ordinance in Escondido, California that sought to deny undocumented immigrants rental housing. It argues that nativist emotional economies encourage exclusionary measures and hostility toward Latino/a immigrants as a way to encourage Latino/a "self-deportation." Projecting Latino/a immigrants as "taxpayer burdens" that cause "overpopulation" in the U.S., nativist organizers reconfigure emotional stigmas attached to Black "welfare dependence" and "hyper-fertility" to Latino/a immigrants. The anti-Latino/a housing ordinances in Escondido and other locales were justified through color-blind arguments about "legality" as well as paleoconservative arguments about "mongrelization" and "Mexican reconquest." Mass pro-immigrant mobilizations in Escondido and across the nation asserted the significance of Latino/a immigrant labor and culture in the U.S. by foregrounding emotional economies that honored workers' dignity and human rights under the banner of "No One Is Illegal."
£19.79
Stanford University Press Fragile Elite
Book SynopsisChina's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those lucky few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most prestigious universities? How do they feel about having made it to the top of an extremely competitive educational systemâas their parents' only child? What pressures do they face, and how do they cope with the expectations associated with being the best?Fragile Elite explores the contradictions and perplexities of being an elite student through immersive ethnographic research conducted at two top universities in China. Susanne BregnbÃk uncovers the intimate psychological strains students suffer under the pressure imposed on them by parents and state, where the state acts as a parent and the parents reinforce the state. Fragile Elite offers fascinating insights into the intergenerational tensions at work in relation to Trade Review"For elite students in China's top universities, academic success often exacerbates the existential dilemma of achieving personal goals or sacrificing one's own aspirations for the good of one's family or the state. Bregnbaek brilliantly describes how these quandaries are variously experienced and negotiated, throwing new light on changing Chinese conceptions of filial piety, state control, and personal freedom." * Michael Jackson Harvard Divinity School *"Fragile Elite is a beautifully-written ethnography of students at elite Chinese universities. Bregnbaek integrates vivid stories of these students' experiences and perspectives with analysis of the familial, psychological, social, and political factors that fill their lives with anxiety." -- Vanessa L. Fong * author of Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World *"Clear and unassuming in style, Fragile Elite is in fact a sophisticated meditation on Chinese parent-child relationships today, and on the dilemmas faced by China's young people as a result of the country's recent and rapid transformation." -- Charles Stafford * London School of Economics *"This book ultimately offers a fascinating illumination of the lifeworlds of a social group that carries great significance and prestige in Chinese society. Bregnbæk boldly deciphers social issues through the terminology of existential anthropology and opens avenues for intriguing intercultural comparisons. Scholars who are interested in Chinese society, social mobility via education, and the hopes and anxieties of young people will find this book thought-invoking. " -- Gil Hizi * Anthropological Forum *"Throughout, this is an engaging ethnographical work focusing on current youth and their existential dilemmas in China. In framing this in terms of the Oedipal project, Bregnbæk provides insightful analysis of issues related to the impact of parental control and state control on elite students. She exposes the bigger picture of elite higher education in China by illuminating the tension between self-sacrifice and self-realization. In this sense, the book deserves to be read by scholars and students interested in education and contemporary social change in China." -- Chongmin Yang * China Review International *"Susanne Bregnbæk has written a powerful analysis of the pressure and contradictions experienced by Chinese students at two elite universities in Beijing...Bregnbæk's work underlines the need to re-think how the psychology of young people in elite educational institutions is influenced by intertwined histories of the family and the state."––Sol Gamsu, Children's GeographiesTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction starts out by recounting the suicide of a student who jumped from the roof of a university building at Beijing University and the surrounding stories. It provides an introduction to the study of moral dilemmas experienced by Chinese youth, the One Child Policy and its related educational ideals (the education for quality reforms) that lead to two contradictory social imperatives, those of 'self-sacrifice' and 'self-realization'. It outlines its theoretical approach inspired by phenomenology and existentialism as well as the focus on the 'oedipal project', describes as a universal need to experience some degree of separation from parents and the parental state. This discussion is connected to a discussion of the role of Confucianism in Chinese society and the impact of the pact between parents and state, whose efforts go hand in hand in seeking to educate (guan) a high quality child. 2Sculpting in Time chapter abstractThis chapter provides a detailed ethnographic study of a student, Jing Jing from Qinghua University by discussing her family history going back several generations. Avoiding the standard paradigms that contrast collectivism and individualism, it presents Jing Jing, as an actor working through sets of tensions outside of her control. She struggles simultaneously to be a filial daughter who cares for her mother during a terminal sickness and to live out her own dreams of individual fulfillment and self-realization through higher education. The result is strong guilt and remorse when her aspiration to do both continuously fail. The chapter serves as an argument for the general approach that will be undertaken throughout the book. 3Filial Piety and Existential Aporias chapter abstractThis chapter is devoted to inter-generational conflict, with reference to the Oedipal project. The author explains how the oedipal theme differs from Freud's narrow emphasis on lust and competitiveness and it is rephrased as an existential imperative to find a balance between primary bonds and a need to distance oneself from these in order to come into one's own. It is shown how it has been formulated historically in China through the Chinese notion of guan which links the care and control of state and family. After discussing the cultural resonance of the story of Xu Li, famous in China for having killed his mother and integrated into party rhetoric of parental bonds holding back of the nation, it explores six examples of the tension between parents and children who are struggling to establish themselves as autonomous persons. 4Youth and the Party-State chapter abstractThis chapter turns to the ways in which students experience control by the state, with a particular focus on the complexities surrounding the Party's attempts to either become or circumvent the parental figures of students. It illustrates how the state is seen to exercise care and control just as parents do. In fact, informants sometimes 'slipped', using the word 'government' when they meant to say 'parents'. The chapter also provides a portrait of a teacher, who ambiguously mediates the relationship between family and state. This particular teacher is portrayed as a role model for several of the students as she defies her role as an agent of the state. Among other things she does this by supporting students' responses to the closing of the intranet at Qinghua University, an incident which evoked memories of the Tiananmen incident. 5Between Parents, Party and Peers chapter abstractThis chapter is devoted to the relationship of students to the Communist Party. The case studies include students who have tried to imagine the Communist Party as a parent and who have since become disillusioned. Some young people joined the Party, 'marrying the state', while others took a critical stance towards this move and expressed concerns about corruption. It is argued that the Party is failing among students to maintain its earlier role as both a parent figure and an embodiment of the country as a whole. Ethnographically thick descriptions of students from different familial backgrounds show that party-membership is experienced as a strategy for self-cultivation and an attempt to open paths to the future, which leaves students with a rural background particularly disillusioned and angry. 6The Double-binds of 'Education for Quality' chapter abstractThis chapter starts off with a personal anecdote from a pre-school that the author's son attended. This vignette serves to frame the argument that creativity is fostered in an authoritarian way. It then places the educational reform in a broader historical perspective by describing the interest in American education, starting with the popularity of the pedagogical philosophy of John Dewey. This is being revived today in the effort to instill creativity and individuality as educational principles, thus countering the extreme focus on rote learning for examinations. It is argued that the state's attempt to form docile citizens who will follow their parents and the state while at the same time becoming innovative individuals who will guide China to world dominance is creating a set of irresolvable tensions among the students, those termed 'self-sacrifice' and 'self-realization'. 7Success, Well-being and the Question of Suicide chapter abstractThis chapter takes the reader back to where the book started – that is with the many instances of suicide which are a 'public secret'. It suggests that incidents of suicide are a form of social criticism. This argument involves an analysis of the historical importance of suicide in China, which was traditionally common among in-married wives in a patriarchal household, who have committed suicide as a form of social protest. It reflects on the relationship between this culturally specific notion of suicide and its relationship to a universal imperative to experience oneself as an actor, not merely acted upon. It also investigates the Chinese educational reforms' attempts to reduce the pressure of education and argue that they in practice seem to objectify and quantify a concern for well-being, generating new forms of pressure and competition. 8Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion sums up the paradox that the lucky few who have made it through the needle's eye and have entered a top university in China face great pressure and often experience education as something which has come at a great cost. It reflects on how this excessive pressure is not likely to diminish in the years to come but rather seems to increase creating ever more complex forms of pressure. As China is looking to the West to find the key to success in the knowledge economy, the West seems to be looking East. Therefore this pressure where means are often so important that the ends are forgotten have wider global implications. The conclusion also summarizes how the existential dilemmas (aporias) experienced by Chinese elite students are a telling window to life in a society undergoing radical change, they also point to aspects of the shared human condition.
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John Wiley & Sons The World of the Crow Indians
Book SynopsisExplores the society of the Crow Indians, who have survived more than a century of assimilation pressures. Frey attributes their resilience to their world-view: in the same way that pieces of driftwood lodge together, so clan members cling together in a turbulent world.
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