Social and cultural history Books
University of California Press A Peoples Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
Book SynopsisAn alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests and demonstrations for decades, and from Berkeley and Oakland to San Francisco, Sonoma and beyond.CounterPunchA People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and eTrade Review"Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests and demonstrations for decades, and from Berkeley and Oakland to San Francisco, Sonoma and beyond. It’s probably worth saying that while Brahinsky and Tarr deserve major credit for this book, they had tremendous help from fellow authors, photographers, designers, colleagues in academia and from librarians and researchers. It takes a collective to bake bread, scones and pizza at Arizmendi. It also takes a collective to write and publish a book of this magnitude, beauty and truth." * CounterPunch *"If you’ve been staring into the soul-sucking abyss of cable news or doomscrolling through the implosion of American democracy, delving into the stories of anti-eviction battles, Ohlone resistance, strikes, and resilient celebration featured in A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area will provide a welcome glimmer of hope. Not naive optimism, but the kind of tempered determination that comes when you remember how bad things have been before–and how people successfully fought to keep them from getting worse." * East Bay Yesterday *Table of ContentsList of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 THE EAST BAY 1.1 1500 Block of Adeline Street | 1.2 924 Gilman | 1.3 Albany Bulb | 1.4 Berkeley High School | 1.5 Black Cultural Zone | 1.6 “Black Panther Park” (Dover Park) | 1.7 Black.Seed Demonstration, one expression of #BlackLivesMatter | 1.8 Emeryville Shellmound Memorial | 1.9 “Fossil Fuel” Corridor | 1.10 Frances Albrier Community Center | 1.11 Intertribal Friendship House | 1.12 Jingletown | 1.13 Kaiser Convention Center | 1.14 Lake Merritt | 1.15 Latham Square | 1.16 Mandela Grocery Cooperative | 1.17 Marcus Books | 1.18 Middle Harbor Shoreline Park | 1.19 Ogawa / Grant Plaza | 1.20 Pacific Center, Front Steps | 1.21 Parchester Village | 1.22 Peralta Hacienda Historical Park | 1.23 Piedmont-Oakland Border | 1.24 Rosie the Riveter Monument and National Park | 1.25 South Berkeley Social Justice Corridor | 1.26 Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 2 THE SOUTH BAY AND PENINSULA 2.1 Boyer Home | 2.2 Chùa Đu’ c Viên | 2.3 Daly City Teen Center | 2.4 Drew Center Pharmacy | 2.5 Eastridge Shopping Center | 2.6 Facebook HQ | 2.7 Fairchild Semiconductor | 2.8 Gold Street Bridge | 2.9 Heinlenville (San-Doy-Say Tong Yun Fow) | 2.10 Hellyer Park | 2.11 Keyhole | 2.12 Lawrence Tract | 2.13 May Day 2006 March | 2.14 McDonnell Hall | 2.15 Mission San Jose | 2.16 Nairobi School System | 2.17 New Almaden Mine Area | 2.18 NUMMI Auto Plant | 2.19 San Jose Labor Council | 2.20 San Mateo Fairgrounds | 2.21 Silicon Valley De-Bug | 2.22 Saint James Park | 2.23 “Victory Salute” Statue 3 SAN FRANCISCO 3.1 829 Fell Street | 3.2 Alex Nieto Park | 3.3 “An Injury to One . . .” Sculpture | 3.4 Bank of America Building | 3.5 Buchanan Mall | 3.6 Buddhist-Oriented Hospice Projects | 3.7 Castro Commons Parklet | 3.8 Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University | 3.9 Civic Center and United Nations Plazas | 3.10 Critical Mass | 3.11 Ghadar Memorial | 3.12 Hotel Whitcomb | 3.13 Hunter’s Point Shipyard | 3.14 International Hotel | 3.15 Japan Center, Nihonmachi | 3.16 KPOO Radio, 89.5 FM | 3.17 Lexington Club | 3.18 Media Moguls Corner | 3.19 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 3.20 Mission Dolores Cemetery | 3.21 Monkey Block | 3.22 Other Avenues Food Store Cooperative | 3.23 Panhandle of Golden Gate Park | 3.24 “Peoples Temple” Post Office | 3.25 Redstone Labor Temple | 3.26 Room 641A | 3.27 SOMA Pilipinas Streets | 3.28 South Park | 3.29 The Farm | 3.30 Trans March | 3.31 “Twitter Tax Break” Zone | 3.32 Westbrook Court and Hunter’s Point Hill Street Names | 3.33 Women’s Building 4 THE NORTH BAY AND ISLANDS 4.1 Alcatraz Island | 4.2 Angel Island Immigration Station | 4.3 China Camp | 4.4 Cuttings Wharf Housing | 4.5 Farallon Islands | 4.6 Golden Gate Village | 4.7 Greystone Cellars | 4.8 Jewish Community Center | 4.9 Lucas Valley Eichler Development | 4.10 Mission San Rafael Archangel | 4.11 Pierce Point Ranch | 4.12 Port Chicago Sailors’ Strike | 4.13 Prince Hall Masons Firma Lodge No. 27 | 4.14 San Quentin Prison | 4.15 Sausalito BART Stop | 4.16 Sonoma Plaza | 4.17 Tomales Bay Trailhead | 4.18 US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model 5 THEMATIC TOURS The Intertribal Bay | Capital and Its Discontents | Ecological Imagination | Youth in Revolt | Militarized States Acknowledgments Appendix A. Timeline: A Brief and Incomplete Outline of Bay Area History Appendix B. Resources Credits Index
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University of California Press South Bronx Battles Stories of Resistance
Book SynopsisCommunity activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and its decades-long commitment to develop nonprofit housing and social-services, and to advocate for better education, health care, and a healthier environment. For the South Bronx to remain a safe haven for poor families, maintaining affordable housing is the centralbut most challengingtask. South Bronx Battlesis the comeback story of a community that was once in crisis but now serves as a beacon for other cities to rebuild, while keeping their neighborhoods affordable.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword South Bronx Timeline Map of South Bronx 1. The South Bronx: An Introduction 2. How the South Bronx Became the Poorest Congressional District 3. Why the South Bronx Burned 4. People Fight Back: 1960s and 1970s 5. Progress, but Plagues Descend on the South Bronx: 1980s 6. Not Yet Paradise, but We’ve Come a Long Way: 1990s 7. Many Faces of Success: 2000–2018 8. “The Bronx Was the Last Place”: Reflections on Displacement and Gentrification 9. Lessons Learned EpilogueAcknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary Notes Interviews Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Savage Visit
Book SynopsisIn eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of savages from the New World provoked intense fascination. This book shows why the phenomenon grew and how it related to bitter debates over the morality of imperial expansion.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Names Introduction 1. The New World in England before the Eighteenth Century 2. Four from Iroquoia: The Appeal of Savagery 3. Seven from the Cherokee, Nine from the Creeks 4. Ostenaco and the Losing of America 5. Passing the Mantle: From America to Oceania 6. Mai and the Finding of Oceania 7. Palauans, Hawaiians, Tahitians: Diminishing Oddities 8. Bennelong from Resnullius: The Decline of Savagery Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press Making Roots
Book SynopsisWhen Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time. This book looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history.Trade Review"Delmont builds his narrative from extensive archival research. His ability to describe these findings in an engaging style keeps the pages turning. Dramatic episodes come alive." Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Before This Anger 2. The Gambia 3. Speaking Roots 4. Writing Roots 5. Producing Roots 6. Reading Roots 7. Watching Roots 8. A Troublesome Property Conclusion Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
£20.70
University of California Press Making New Music in Cold War Poland
Book SynopsisPresents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. The author examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland.Trade Review"Lisa Jakelski's Making New Music in Cold War Poland is an important contribution to international and transnational history... Logically organized and lucidly written." H-DiploTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Sounds of Revolution? 2. Building an Empty Frame 3. A Raucous Education 4. From Warsaw to the World 5. Mobilizing Performers, Scores, and Avant-Gardes 6. The Limits of Exchange Epilogue Appendix 1: Concert Program of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, 10–21 October 1956 Appendix 2: Biographical Notes Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Art of Connection
Book SynopsisNarrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 * The Art of Connection: An Introduction 2 * Mombasa Marginalized: Claims to Land and Legitimacy in a Tourist City 3 * Crafts Traders versus the State 4 * Negotiating Informality in Mombasa 5 * New Mobilities, New Risks 6 * Crafting Ethical Connection and Transparency in Coastal Kenya 7 * From Ethnic Brands to Fair Trade Labels Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Global History of Sexual Science 18801960 26
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Full of compelling critical observations and original historical insights, [A Global History of Sexual Science] makes an important addition to the histories of sex, science, and modernity." * Isis Journal *"This groundbreaking volume of essays offers the first historical account of the impact that the work of sexual scientists, doctors, writers and political activists from around the world had on the field of sexology and on wider sociopolitical changes during the 1880–1960 period." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"A thoroughly vivid, nuanced, and much more inclusive picture of the historical making of sexual science and sexualities than previously available. This important volume will not only serve as a welcome resource in a variety of classrooms but also certainly remain standard reading for future scholars of (the history of) sexuality, colonialism, and science, as well as a range of area studies disciplines." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Global History of Sexual Science: Movements, Networks, and Deployments Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, and Ryan M. Jones PART ONE: EVOLUTION, SEXUAL SCIENCE, AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE OTHER 1 • Global Modernity and Sexual Science: The Case of Male Homosexuality and Female Prostitution, 1880–1950 Pablo Ben 2 • “Let Us Leave the Hospital; Let Us Go on a Journey around the World”: British and German Sexual Science and the Global Search for Sexual Variation Kate Fisher and Jana Funke 3 • Westermarck’s Morocco: The Epistemic Politics of Cultural Anthropology and Sexual Science Ralph Leck 4 • Monogamy’s Nature: Global Sexual Science and the Secularization of Christian Marriage Angela Willey 5 • The “Hottentot Apron”: Genital Aberration in the History of Sexual Science Rebecca Hodes PART TWO: SCIENCE BY THE BOOK AND UNRULY APPROPRIATIONS 6 • Sexology in the Southwest: Law, Medicine, and Sexuality in Germany and Its Colonies Robert Deam Tobin 7 • Understanding R. D. Karve: Brahmacharya, Modernity, and the Appropriation of Global Sexual Science in Western India, 1927–1953 Shrikant Botre and Douglas E. Haynes 8 • The “Ellis Effect”: Translating Sexual Science in Republican China, 1911–1949 Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu 9 • Takahashi Tetsu and Popular Sexology in Early Postwar Japan, 1945–1970 Mark McLelland 10 • Mexican Sexology and Male Homosexuality: Genealogies and Global Contexts, 1860–1957 Ryan M. Jones 11 • The Science of Sexual Difference: Ogura Seizaburo, Hiratsuka Raicho, and the Intersection of Sexology and Feminism in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan Michiko Suzuki 12 • Time for Sex: The Education of Desire and the Conduct of Childhood in Global/Hindu Sexology Ishita Pande PART THREE: MOBILITY, TRAVEL, EXILE, AND THE CIRCUITS OF SEXOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE 13 • Latin Eugenics and Sexual Knowledge in Italy, Spain, and Argentina: International Networks across the Atlantic Chiara Beccalossi 14 • “Forms So Attenuated That They Merge into Normality Itself”: Alexander Lipschütz, Gregorio Marañón, and Theories of Intersexuality in Chile, circa 1930 Kurt MacMillan 15 • “Tyranny of Orgasm”: Global Governance of Sexuality from Bombay, 1930s–1950s Sanjam Ahluwalia 16 • Magnus Hirschfeld’s Onnagata Rainer Herrn 17 • Agnes Smedley between Berlin, Bombay, and Beijing: Sexology, Communism, and National Independence Veronika Fuechtner 18 • The Limits of Transnationalism: The Case of Max Marcuse Kirsten Leng Afterword: In the Shadow of Empire: The Words and Worlds of Sexual Science Howard Chiang List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Dating Divide Race and Desire in the Era of
Book SynopsisThe data behind a distinct form of racism in online dating. The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at digital-sexual racism,a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scalebehavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-fivein-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities, Curington, Lundquist, and Lin illustrate how the seemingly open space of the internet interacts with theloss of social inhibition in cyberspace contexts, fostering openly expressed forms of sexual racism that arerarely exposed in face-to-face encounters.The Dating Divide is a fascinating look at how a contemporary conflux of individualization, consumerism, and the proliferation of digital technologies hasgiven rise to a unique form of gendered racism in the era of swiping rightor left. The internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field,but the digital world also acts as an extension ofand platform forthe insidious prejudices and divisive impulses that affect social politics in the realworld. Shedding light on how every click, swipe, or message can be linked to the history of racism and courtship in the United States, thiscompelling study uses datato showthe racial biases at play in digital dating spaces.Trade Review"The Dating Divide claims that online dating creates a sort of apartheid, where individuals can filter, reject or simply ignore certain groups. . . . This original, thought-provoking, engaging book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring how racism seeps into every area of our lives." * Times Higher Education *"The Dating Divide adds historical background and in-depth interviews to explain where our dating biases come from. . . . A useful and thoughtful contribution to the literature, and well worth reading." * Social Forces *“The Dating Divide is a unique study of online dating, an area not readily studied but significant to modern society. . . . The role of race in these interactions is an important area of examination and will no doubt be increasingly important. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"The Dating Divide makes strong empirical interventions…[that] make this text quite useful for teaching about structural racism and its embeddedness in our personal lives in an accessible way." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction: Dear Tinder, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1. Where Hate Trumps Love: The Birth and Legacy of Antimiscegenation in the United States 2. From the Back Porch to the Computer Screen: The Rise of Choice in Courtship 3. New Rules? Gendered Online Engagement 4. A Privilege Endures: Dating While White in the Era of Online Dating 5. The Unique Disadvantage: Dating While Black 6. The Asian Experience: Resistance and Complicity 7. "Hey, You’re Latin. Do You Like to Dance?": The Privilege and Disadvantage of Latino/a Daters 8. Postracial Multiracialism: A Challenge to the White Racial Frame? Conclusion: Abolishing the Dating Divide Acknowledgments Appendix: Data and Methods Interviews Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Thinking Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Will become a foundational text." * Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain Introduction: History Moving Fast 1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power 2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters 3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: Th e Mangrove Nine Trial 4 • Black Studies 5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion Epilogue: Black Futures Past Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Remaking a Life How Women Living with HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisIn the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life changeand what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women's transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of dying from AIDS to living with it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.Trade Review“This book about women living with HIV/AIDS is remarkably uplifting and encouraging. In her latest work, Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes shares how these women are using their diagnoses to create radical, positive changes in their lives and communities. There are valuable lessons throughout that will help those living with HIV/AIDS, those loving them and those fighting for them.” * Ms. Magazine *"Watkins-Hayes provides a nuanced analysis of the opportunities that the safety net offers these women whilst simultaneously highlighting the impact of systemic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal racism on their ability to accept and thrive using these resources." * U.S. Studies Online *"Watkins-Hayes’ thoughtful book offers fresh insights into our current context. . . . reminds social workers that the most meaningful social science research is slow, intentional, and community-engaged." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"It is an exemplar of qualitative research and multimethod design. No exaggeration: Remaking a Life represents the very best sociology has to offer." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press Race and Americas Long War
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The components of this story have been told separately elsewhere; Singh’s achievement is to synthesize a broad swathe of scholarship into a singular sweeping argument. . . . Race and America’s Long War effectively consolidates the existing scholarship on racial capitalism and opens up new avenues of exploration in connecting racism and war. For these reasons, it is a remarkable work.” * Race & Class *“...[Race and America's Long War contains] a wealth of ideas that are vitally important to understanding the current sociopolitical moment.” * Pasatiempo *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Long War 1. Race, War, Police 2. From War Capitalism to Race War 3. The Afterlife of Fascism 4. Racial Formation and Permanent War 5. The Present Crisis Epilogue: The Two Americas Notes Index
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University of California Press The Fruits of Empire
Book SynopsisThe Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation's most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism. Trade Review“Richly illustrated and supported with meticulous research, The Fruits of Empire demonstrates the essential need to understand the history and politics behind our food consumption. In the midst of a national reckoning with racism in the United States generally and in the arts specifically, we as art historians need to use our scholarly platforms to raise consciousness about the racist and nativist origins of our national visual culture. As Klein’s book deftly demonstrates in the context of the fruit industry, images matter. But, as she also argues, so do Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latinx lives.” * Agricultural History *“Klein offers a concrete and approachable doorway to a discussion and study of race in America. She tells a compelling story, devoid of jargon and not requiring specialized knowledge, while still grounded in rigorous research.” * Food, Culture & Society *"The Fruits of Empire is a shrewdly articulated body of research. Shana Klein tells these stories with accessible panache and much conceptual originality. . . . In an enterprising new field, her book has already set an exacting standard." * The World of Fine Wine *“The selection of works in The Fruits of Empire leaves little place for humor, irony, or disapproval. Part of the reason for Klein’s largely deterministic interpretation may well lie in the absence of any attempt at classifying visual images and the different values and aims that propel advertisement (sales), painting (aesthetics), and photography (record). Yet, if Klein does not capture the entire, complicated story of art and imperial expansion, she tells an important and often sorry part of it.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"The book’s strength…rests in its accessibility and relevance to readers well beyond the classroom. A captivating read, it offers clear insight into the growth of the fruit industry and the many ways in which its attendant images sowed the seeds for the rhetorical and physical violence against Asian, Black, Latinx, and women-identified people that continues to haunt the United States to this day." * Panorama: Journal of the Associations of Historians of American Art *"Klein’s creativity, clear prose, and thoughtful exploration of fruit and the iconography of empire have produced an excellent book." * Journal of American History *"This well-written, well-illustrated book perceptively analyzes visual depictions of fruit and fruit cultivation from the nineteenth century to our own time." * Diplomatic History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Westward the Star of Empire: California Grapes and Western Expansion 2. The Citrus Awakening: Florida Oranges and the Reconstruction South 3. Cutting Away the Rind: A History of Racism and Violence in Representations of Watermelon 4. Seeing Spots: The Fever for Bananas, Land, and Power 5. Pineapple Republic: Representations of the Dole Pineapple from Hawaiian Annexation to Statehood Conclusion: New Directions in Scholarship on Food in American Art Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Cold War Cosmopolitanism Period Style in 1950s
Book SynopsisSouth Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many Golden Age cinemas that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a free world network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernitysuch as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerismin the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director. Afree open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org.Trade Review"With this meticulous study, Christina Klein has created a unique product that systematically and in great detail deals with changes in film culture, so I warmly recommend the book." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Overall, Cold War Cosmopolitanism is an exciting and welcome addition to interdisciplinary and transnational Korean studies. It is well documented, convincingly argued, and a pleasure to read." * Acta Koreana *
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University of California Press Empires Tracks Indigenous Nations Chinese
Book SynopsisEmpire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, ManuKaruka situates the railroad within the violent global histories ofcolonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative,military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains theimperialfoundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisitedinterdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionaryborder policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism.This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how thetranscontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire. Trade Review"Empire’s Tracks comes at a critical juncture, which only compounds its appeal. It is a moment where monopolies breathe new life as seemingly benevolent multinational, e-commerce corporations; when oil pipelines continue to cut through North America despite opposition from Indigenous peoples (amongst others); and when threats of mass deportations emanate from the highest political offices. . . .Karuka’s sincere meditation on the historicity of war, finance and countersovereignty is deeply welcomed as it sensitises readers to the tragically unexceptional reality of the present." * LSE Review of Books *"A timely and provocative book, creating new ideas with which to re-examine the well-worn story of the railroad." * Society & Space *".Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history. Karuka concludes with a meditation on present-day U.S. imperialism and a call for Indigenous, feminist modes of decolonization: an urgent project with deep roots in Indigenous histories, cultures, and economies. Historians would do well to pay close attention." * Western Historical Quarterly *"This is an impressive piece of scholarship. While Karuka’s argument that US imperialism predates 1898 is not new, his sophisticated interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on the historical intersection of capitalism and imperialism. It will prompt readers to think critically about historical interpretation and responsibility, and the future consequences of our exploitative political economy." * Journal of Cultural Economy *"Empire’s Tracks powerfully and effectively portrays how US countersovereignty uses the railroad to stop the unraveling of its own claims to land and space through an unceasing campaign of extirpation and violence. Its contributions to critiques of settler colonialism and racial capitalism are substantial and are sure to be influential in years to come." * Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Challenges existing scholarship and fields of study in profound ways. He transforms what, on its surface, appears to be a national American story into one of international, imperialist, and colonial history by reading contingency against assumed outcomes; decentering national creation myths; and foregrounding alternative Indigenous, Chinese, and other voices. In this, Karuka offers a case study for scholars of diplomatic history or international relations to turn inward to national histories they might otherwise overlook and consider new ways of bringing their expertise to seemingly domestic stories." * H-Net *"This fascinating, sophisticated book on the transcontinental railroad will produce more critical thinking on the part of readers than any railroad history they have ever read. Manu Karuka exposes the pageant of American exploration, expansion, engineering, and entrepreneurship as an imperialist project fueled by disturbing historical processes—Indigenous land expropriation, immigrant labor exploitation, and a “war-finance nexus”—but mythologized for a century thereafter as national destiny and Yankee ingenuity." * Journal of Arizona History *"Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Empire’s Tracks serves as an invitation to recontextualize colonial narratives within the silences and erasures inherent in these narratives, uncovering and decolonizing communities of knowledge and relationship through the careful study of archives, rumors, oral histories, literary representations, maps, and collective memories." * Great Plains Quarterly *"Karuka provides an essential critique of U.S. political economy, adding layers to Asian settler colonial history and the Chinese railroad worker narrative." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Karuka’s account refuses the more familiar liberal historiography of American exceptionalism that promises freedom through liberal democracy and progress through capitalist development, and in doing so, the author advances a number of bold arguments." * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1 • The Prose of Countersovereignty 2 • Modes of Relationship 3 • Railroad Colonialism 4 • Lakota 5 • Chinese 6 • Pawnee 7 • Cheyenne 8 • Shareholder Whiteness 9 • Continental Imperialism Epilogue: The Significance of Decolonization in North America Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The New Noir Race Identity and Diaspora in Black
Book SynopsisThe expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. InThe New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge's ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York's middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class. Trade Review"Drawing on the black ethnographic tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston, Clergé focuses on black middle-class residents of two New York City suburbs—Cascades, a majority black in-city suburb, and Great Park, a multiethnic, multiracial community in predominantly white Nassau County—to demonstrate the complexity of their lives. The book traces migrants from the US South, Haiti, and Jamaica, recounting their specific cultures, social classes, and experiences with slavery and white supremacy. . . . This well-researched and well-written book is an important study, accessible to general and academic audiences. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Aperitif 1. Village Market: Encounters in Black Diasporic Suburbs 2. Children of the Yam: From Enslaved African to the Black Middle Class in the United States, Haiti, and Jamaica 3. Blood Pudding: Forbidden Neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island 4. Callaloo: Cultural Economies of our Backyards 5. Fish Soup: Class Journey across Time and Place 6. Vanilla Black: The Spectrum of Racial Consciousness 7. Green Juice Fast: Skinfolk Distinction Making Conclusion: Mustard Seeds Appendix: Digestif Notes References Index
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University of California Press American Studies A Users Guide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a fun book that overwhelmingly proves quite dedicated to serious intellectual inquiry even when it goes for the cute way in to a topic or theme." * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Object of American Studies PART ONE: HISTORIES 1 • History and Historiography 2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes 3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?) PART TWO METHODS 4 • Methods and Methodology 5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit 6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit 7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit 8 • Power: A Th eoretical Toolkit PART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP 9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments 10 • Dispenser: A Case Study Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Deported to Death How Drug Violence Is Changing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those seeking a better understanding of the more searing aspects of US border and immigration policies, Deported to Death is essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Deported to Death provides an important look at what happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A striking exploration of the intense marginalisation and vulnerability faced by deportees. . . . Slack is unwavering in his pursuit of the cross-border nature of the forces at work in shaping this environment." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Violence of Mobility 2. I Want to Cross with a Backpack 3. Te Van a Levantar—They Will Kidnap You: Deportation and Mobility on the Border 4. They Torture You to Make You Lose Feeling 5. Guarding the River: Migrant Recruitment into Organized Crime 6. The Disappeared, the Dead, and the Forgotten 7. Resistance, Resilience, and Love: The Limits of Violence and Fear 8. “Who Can I Deport?”: Asylum and the Limits of Protection against Persecution Conclusions: Requiem for the Removed Appendix: A Note on Researching in Violent Environments Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bjornlie makes the material as readable as it’s ever going to be. . . . We need reliable, well-annotated translations, and products of this quality should be recognised as the original contributions they are. A formidable and committed translator, Cassiodorus would surely agree." * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsMaps Introduction Cassiodorus, the Variae, and Their World The Variae as a Letter Collection A Note on the Present Translation Chronology of Key Events Indictional Years Relative to Cassiodorus's Tenure in Public Offices Section I. Sixth-Century Italy in a Wider World: Diplomatic Letters from the Ostrogothic Court to the Eastern Imperial and Western "Barbarian" Courts Section II. The Senate in Public Life and Public Office: Letters to the Senate, Letters to Individual Senators, and Letters Announcing the Appointment of Senators to Office Section III. Civil Bureaucracy and Administration in Italy: Letters Describing Activities of the Court Bureaucracy and Letters of Appointment to Bureaucratic Posts Section IV. Taxes and Finances: Letters Describing Fiscal Organization and the Collection and Distribution of State Resources Section V. Administration of the Provinces: Letters Concerned with Ostrogothic Affairs in Regions outside Italy Section VI. Goths and the Military: Letters concerning Gothic Settlement and the Organization of the Military Section VII. Urban Life: Letters Describing Attention to the Urban Environment Section VIII. Rural Life: Letters concerning People in the Countryside and Their Obligations to the State Section IX. Religion: Letters to Bishops and Letters Touching upon the Court's Spiritual Sentiments and Involvement in Religious Matters Section X. Family and Gender: Letters concerning Households and Relations between Family Members and Letters to Women Section XI. Law, Order, and Conflict: Letters Describing the Court's Approach to Criminal Charges against Individuals Section XII. Intellectual Culture: Letters Pertaining to Aspects of Late-Antique Intellectual Culture Section XIII. Nature: Letters That Provide Literary Perspectives on the Natural World Glossary Concordance of Letters Cited in This Volume Selected Bibliography of Related Reading Index of Individuals Index of Concepts, Peoples, and Terms Index of Places
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University of California Press The Variae
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bjornlie’s translation is fluid and excellent. . . .this is a much-needed and masterfully crafted addition to the historical corpus, of interest to historians, Byzantinists, and scholars of the ancient world interested in the Ostrogothic Court, Justinian’s conquest of Ravenna, and the early Byzantine world." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction Italy in the Sixth Century Cassiodorus as Statesman and Author The Variae as an Epistolary Collection Nachleben The Variae in Translation Chronology of Key Events Indictional Years Relative to Cassiodorus’s Tenure in Public Offices Maps THE VARIAE Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Bibliography of Related Reading Index of Individuals Index of Concepts, Peoples, and Terms Index of Places
£84.00
University of California Press Collisions at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this beautifully-written and clearly-argued work, Genevieve Carpio demonstrates the interconnectedness of mobility and race in inland southern California . . . [and] teaches scholars that mobility has been continuously contested, even as whites have sought to erase this history." * Journal of Arizona History *"This text earns a place of prominence in the field of American and ethnic studies and contributes greatly to the study of US history." * Aztlan *"Carpio’s book is a noteworthy contribution to our historical and present-day understanding of how racial hierarchies are used to curtail the rights and privileges of communities of color. . . . Reading a bit like a local version of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, her writing poetically uncovers racial inequalities in the legal system, while simultaneously portraying a dynamic human experience." * Boom California *"Carpio's book will no doubt inspire future scholars to consider the relationship between place and space, race, and mobility in a variety of temporal and geographic locations." * Journal of the West *"Carpio shows how the Riverside Historical Society and many of the Inland Empire’s Route 66 historians manipulate their region’s history by remembering what they want to remember and ignoring the other accounts." * LA Taco *"This book is a must-read for all scholars of the U.S. West and those who wish to understand the historical precedent for limited mobility created by the current carceral state and immigration regime." * New Mexico Historical Review *"Carpio's attention to people's everyday negotiations with the structures that govern mobility will be of interest to historians of colonial and postcolonial mobility, to cultural historians of bicycles, automobiles, and highways, and to historians of migration, space, and place." * Journal of Transport History *“Collisions at the Crossroads . . . presents a critical contribution to our understanding of the relationship between place, mobility, and race.” * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Rise of the Anglo Fantasy PastMobility, Memory, and Racial Hierarchies in Inland Southern California, 1870–1900 2 • On the Move and Fixed in PlaceJapanese Immigrants in the Multiracial Citrus Belt, 1882–1920 3 • From Mexican Settlers to Mexican Birds of PassageRelational Racial Formation, Citrus Labor, and Immigration Policy, 1914–1930 4 • “Del Fotingo Que Era Mio”Mexican and Dust Bowl Drivers in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1930–1945 5 • From Citrus Belt to Inland EmpireMobility vs. Retrenchment, 1945–1970 ConclusionThe Reemergence of the Anglo Fantasy Past Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
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University of California Press How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Book SynopsisToday all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction.Households are where we face our economic realitiesas social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians' racist accounts of reproductionstories of Black welfare queens and Latina breeding machineswere the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all othersfrom immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.Trade Review"Makes a convincing argument that reproductive labor is at the heart of all public conversation and policy over the past several decades. . . . She manages to pull off this extensive examination in just 212 pages, using language that is accessible to those who are new to the material, while also creating crucial new understanding for those who consider themselves informed on gender and politics and/or people who are examining ways to use public policies to create change as part of broader justice movements." * Rewire *"Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs." * Against the Current *"This engaging book covers feminist theory and how it views a divergence of issues since the 1970s. Excellent for collections on feminism, current affairs, and American politics." * Choice *"Briggs concludes dramatically that 'in the US . . . there is no outside to reproductive politics.' Until governments and business pay attention to this, the crises of our time will only deepen—and not just in the US." * Times Higher Education Supplement *“Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs.” * In These Times *"Makes a clear and significant contribution to our understandings of reproductive politics." * Gender and Society *"Briggs handles complex politics clearly and straightforwardly. Her text is well-suited for academics and activists alike." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt? 2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget 3. Offshoring Reproduction 4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality 5. Gay Married, with Children Epilogue: The Subprime Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Undocumented Politics Place Gender and the
Book SynopsisIn 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politicsoffers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities' struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months,AbigailAndrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants' agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abetsgendered violence.Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate,Undocumented Politicsreveals how the excluded find space for political voice.Trade Review"Undocumented Politics provides rich theoretical advances to literature on transnational political strategies, the role of local-level contexts, and immigrant 'illegality.' . . . a powerful read that contributes to the literature on international migration, undocumented immigrants, and gender." * ILR Review *"I highly recommend this engaging and elegant monograph, suitable for students and researchers of migration and borders." * American Journal of Sociology *"Andrews has delivered an insightful, well-researched exposition on Mexican migration in the United States. . . . Undocumented Politics successfully showcases the ways that undocumented migrant women have self-advocated, despite their lack of access to legal and electoral outlets of political activism." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Legacies of (In)Equity 2. “Illegality” under Two Local Modes of Control 3. Stoicism and Striving in the Face of Exclusion 4. Cross-Border Fights, Rifts, and Ties 5. Pathways to Hometown Change Conclusion Methodological Appendix: Listening to Difference Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Mothering While Black
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University of California Press Flatlining Race Work and Health Care in the New
Book SynopsisWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in racial outsourcing, relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do equity workextra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing 2. “There Was That One Time . . .” 3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time 4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions 5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy Conclusion Appendix References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Flatlining Race Work and Health Care in the New
Book SynopsisWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in racial outsourcing, relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do equity workextra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities.Trade Review"Wingfield offers an engaging, insightful, and compelling portrait of the healthcare industry as a racialized (and gendered) organization that institutionalizes racial inequality through racial outsourcing and racial equity work." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing 2. “There Was That One Time . . .” 3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time 4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions 5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy Conclusion Appendix References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Made In Baja The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers
Book SynopsisMuch of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States. But how has this growth affected those living in Baja? Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Made in Baja examines the unforeseen consequences for residents in the region of San Quintín. The ramifications include the tripling of the region's population, mushrooming precarious colonia communities lacking basic infrastructure and services, and turbulent struggles for labor, civic, and political rights. Anthropologist Christian Zlolniski reveals the outcomes of growers structuring the industry around an insatiable demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. He also investigates the ecological damagewatercideand the social side effects of exploiting natural resources for agricultural production. Weaving together stories from both farmworkers and growers, Made in Baja provides an eye-opening look at the dynamic economy developing south of the border.Trade Review"Zlolniski’s book is a detailed account that demonstrates very effectively how ethnography can be marshaled to rehumanize the global processes of production, consumption, and exchange that often seem to leave little room for any form of humanity, community, or social solidarity." * American Anthropologist *"This is an important and recommended book for anthropologists with a political economy orientation and interested in agriculture and capitalism beyond the topic of peasant studies." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Birth and Development of Export Agriculture in the San Quintín Valley 2. Transnational Agribusiness, Local Growers, and Discontents 3. Labor Recruitment: From Local to Transnational Labor Contractors 4. “They Want First-Class Workers with Third World Wages”: The Workplace Regime of Transnational Agriculture 5. Resisting the Carrilla in the Workplace: Forms of Labor Protests 6. Colonizing and Establishing Roots in Arid Lands 7. Watercide: Export Agriculture, Water Insecurity, and Social Unrest Conclusion Appendix: Policy Recommendations Notes References Index
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University of California Press Black Handsworth Race in 1980s Britain
Book SynopsisIn 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core influence on cultural and political life. Through rich case studies, including photographic representations of the neighborhood,Black Handsworthtakes readers inside pubs, churches, political organizations, domestic spaces, and social clubs to shed light on the experiences and everyday lives of black residents during this time. The result is a compelling and sophisticated study of black globality in the making of post-colonial Britain. Trade Review"Connell has delivered an enriching history of everyday practices in Birmingham during the 1980s that established Handsworth firmly in the black Atlantic." * Journal of British Studies *"A fascinating and insightful read about the making of post-colonial Britain in the 1980s via its Black social actors in Handsworth." * Midland History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Black Handsworth 1. Shades of Black: Political and Community Groups 2. Visualizing Handsworth: Th e Politics of Representation 3. Dread Culture: Africa in Handsworth 4. Leisure and Sociability: Th e Black Everyday EpilogueNotes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Book SynopsisLet this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does thismoment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packedwith cautiously hopeful stories for the future. Trade Review“Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger is a rousing primer that illuminates the movement’s core principles. It demonstrates how interconnected disparate social movements are and shows that they can coalesce into more powerful networks.” * Foreword Reviews *"A concise and powerful description of environmental injustices in various settings across the United States and its territories." * World Medical and Health Policy *"A good introductory text for an environmental justice course but can also make for an easy read to provide some basic understanding on environmental justice to an unfamiliar audience." * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *"The book will also no doubt become essential reading for everyone—both inside and outside the academy—who wishes to participate in building a more just, equitable, and habitable world, now and into the future." * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"In this ‘moment of danger’ Sze’s book is a call to recognize how past, present, and future are intertwined." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction. Environmental Justice at the Crossroads of Danger and Freedom 1. This Movement of Movements 2. Environmental Justice Encounters 3. Restoring Environmental Justice Conclusion. American Optimism, Skepticism, and Environmental Justice Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Seeing Race Again Countering Colorblindness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Edited by some of the leading race studies scholars—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz—this collection of essays clearly outlines how the history of contemporary knowledge production and scholarship has a foundation in racially biased disciplinary frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogical strategies. . . . these essays serve as a guide for all academics." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye OpenKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz 1 • IntroductionKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz PART ONE : MASKS 2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White SupremacyGeorge Lipsitz 3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race TheoryKimberlé Williams Crenshaw 4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of RaceDwanna L. McKay 5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South AfricaMarzia Milazzo 6 • How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of ObamaKimberlé Williams Crenshaw PART TWO : MOVES 7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of MusicLoren Kajikawa 8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way StreetBarbara Tomlinson 9 • Colorblind IntersectionalityDevon W. Carbado 10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist DisavowalLeah N. Gordon 11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan PART THREE : RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION 12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic PsychologyGlenn Adams and Phia S. Salter 13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous SovereigntyAileen Moreton-Robinson 14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the HumanitiesFelice Blake 15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is NecessaryPaula Ioanide 16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching PracticeMilton Reynolds List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press How to Read a Protest
Book SynopsisExplores protesting as an act of faith . . .How to Read a Protestargues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a momentthey actually created one.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker O, the Oprah Magazine's 14 Best Political Books to Read Before the 2018 Midterm ElectionA fascinating and detailed history of American mass demonstrations.Publishers Weekly When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women's Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can't be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march, and record numbers of Americans have joined anti-Trump demonstrations, but when and why does marching matter? What exactly do protests do, and how do they help movements win? In this original and richly illustrated account, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America's major demonstraTrade Review"A fascinating and detailed history of American mass demonstrations" * Publishers Weekly *"Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a moment—they actually created one." -- Masha Gessen * The New Yorker *“At a little over a hundred pages, it’s a quick read but Kauffman’s familiarity with the mechanics of mass protest and the history of the U.S. left over the past half-century are evident throughout.” * The Indypendent *“A quick and easy read, filled with amazing historical images. Kauffman was a mobilizing coordinator for some of the largest Iraq War demonstrations, and her sources and mentors include some of the most driven organizers in movement building in the US since 1963. If you’ve ever organized a protest or put your theory into praxis, you’re going to find this book a real page-turner.” * AfterEllen *Listed as one of the "14 Best Political Books to Read Before the 2018 Midterm Election." "A seasoned activist shares her wisdom on the struggle for social change, using political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women's March, and the Bonus Army as examples." * O, The Oprah Magazine *“For a first draft of history still in the making, Kauffman is right to focus on the broad scale and wide impact of the Women’s Marches of 2017. As she persuasively shows, marches need not be the apex of a movement’s rise; they can also be its generative soil." * The New Republic *“How to Read a Protest begins, “Protests work?—?just not, perhaps, the way you think.” There are few people better placed to explain that than Kauffman.” * Hong Kong Free Press *"Drawing on 30-plus years as a grassroots organizer, L.A. Kauffman sheds new light on how and why protests work.” * Sojourners *“Kauffman sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the decentralized, bottom-up, women-led model that has transformed what movements look like and what they can accomplish.” * EcoWatch *Table of ContentsHOW TO READ A PROTEST Acknowledgments A Note on Protest Numbers Notes Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading Photo Credits Index
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University of California Press The Red Scare The States Indigenous Terrorist
Book SynopsisHow the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives Matter and NoDAPL movements in the United States. These do not represent new demands for social justice and treaty rights, which Indigenous groups have sought for centuries. But owing to the extraordinary visibility of contemporary activism, Indigenous people have been newly cast as terroristsa designation that justifies severe measures of policing, exploitation, and violence.Red Scare investigates the intersectional scope of these four movements and the broader context of the treatment of Indigenous social justice movements as threats to neoliberal and imperialist social orders. In Red Scare, Joanne Barker shows how US and Canadian leaders leverage the fear-driven discourses of terrorism to allow for extreme responses to Indigenous activists, framing them as threats to social stability and national security. The alignment of Indigenous movements with broader struggles against sexual, police, and environmental violence puts them at the forefront of new intersectional solidarities in prominent ways. The activist-as-terrorist framing is cropping up everywhere, but the historical and political complexities of Indigenous movements and state responses are unique. Indigenous criticisms of state policy, resource extraction and contamination, intense surveillance, and neoliberal values are met with outsized and shocking measures of militarized policing, environmental harm, and sexual violence.Red Scare provides students and readers with a concise and thorough survey of these movements and their links to broader organizing; the common threads of historical violence against Indigenous people; and the relevant alternatives we can find in Indigenous forms of governance and relationality.Trade Review"Illuminating and interesting." * American Indian Quarterly *Table of ContentsOverview Prologue Scared Red The Murderable Indian: Terror as State (In)Security The Kinless Indian: Terror as Social (In)Stability Radical Alterities from Huckleberry Roots Acknowledgments Appendix I: A Chronology Appendix II: Cherokee Treaties and Membership/Census Rolls Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Queer Public History
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes Trade Review"Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it." * Public Historian *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s 1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide 2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest 3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers 4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market 5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues 6. Political History and the History of Sexuality Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism 7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA 8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In 10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia 11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions 12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex 13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush 14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name 15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order 16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina” Part Five. Queer Immigration 17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003) 18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution 19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump 20. Defectives of the World, Unite! Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court 21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years 23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage 24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History 26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project 27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit 28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity 29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution 30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein 32. Stonewall and Queens 33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press The Streets Are Talking to Me
Book SynopsisThis sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for societythe lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-consciouTrade Review"The book is written in an engaging style, rich with affect. The book contains fascinating ethnographic anecdotes, felt reflections on events and exchanges by the author, long stretches of elicited testimony from interlocutors, and compelling photographs that highlight different materialities. Thus, it might interest those seeking to explore less formal modes of ethnographic writing and presentation." * Anthropology Book Forum *
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University of California Press Carceral Con
Book SynopsisA critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundationTrade Review"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition." * The Nation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform" 1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform 2. Follow the Money 3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling 4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform 5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion" 6. Imprisonment and Release 7. Threshold Notes Index
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University of California Press Road Trip to Nowhere Hollywood Encounters the
Book SynopsisHow a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture. By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967 to 1976) rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the counterculture and a corporate establishment still clinging to a studio system on the brink of collapse. Out of this tumultuous period many among the young and talented walked away from celebrity, turning down the best job Hollywoodand Americahad on offer: movie star. Road Trip to Nowhere elaborates a primary-sourced history of movie production culture, examining the lives of a number of talented actors who got wrapped up in the politics and lifestyles of the counterculture. Thoroughly put off by celebrity culture, actors like Dennis Hopper, Christopher Jones, Jean Seberg, and others rejected the aspirational backstory and inevitable material trappings of success, much to the chagrin of the studios and directors who backed them. In Road Trip to Nowhere, film historian Jon Lewis details dramatic encounters on movie sets and in corporate boardrooms, on the job and on the streets, and in doing so offers an entertaining and rigorous historical account of an out-of-touch Hollywood establishment and the counterculture workforce they would never come to understand.Trade Review"A spirited survey of the film industry’s responses to the culture shifts of the 1960s as major studios faltered and movie stars left the spotlight. . . . A study that’s as memorable as it is entertaining." * Publishers Weekly *"Road Trip to Nowhere differs from other popular histories of the period. . . in refusing to valorize the era. Instead, he shows it for what it was — the bad along with the good — while highlighting some of the stories lost in all the reefer smoke. . . . Road Trip to Nowhere tackles bumpy terrain and does not disappoint — though you may be disappointed by the behavior of some of its major characters." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Road Trip to Nowhere is the smartest, most fascinating film book 2022 has brought." * Bookgasm *"A unique and seminal contribution to the history of American Cinema, Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture is an impressively researched and meticulous work of deftly crafted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *“Beautiful writing, and an essential unpacking of a strange and troubling era.” * Film Stage *"An excellent starting point for both scholars and general readers interested in Hollywood and its associations with hippiedom." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"Provocative. . . . This meticulously researched, eminently readable book offers a fresh perspective on a critical period in Hollywood history." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Road Trips to a New Hollywood: Easy Rider and Zabriskie Point 2 Christopher Jones Does Not Want to Be a Movie Star 3 Four Women in Hollywood: Jean Seberg, Jane Fonda, Dolores Hart, and Barbara Loden 4 Charles Manson’s Hollywood Epilogue Notes Index
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University of California Press Road Trip to Nowhere
Book SynopsisHow a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture. By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967 to 1976) rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the counterculture and a corporate establishment still clinging to a studio system on the brink of collapse. Out of this tumultuous period many among the young and talented walked away from celebrity, turning down the best job Hollywoodand Americahad on offer: movie star. Road Trip to Nowhere elaborates a primary-sourced history of movie production culture, examining the lives of a number of talented actors who got wrapped up in the politics and lifestyles of the counterculture. Thoroughly put off by celebrity culture, actors like Dennis Hopper, Christopher Jones, Jean Seberg, and others rejected the aspirational backstory and inevitable material trappings of success, much to the chagrin of the studios and directors who backed them. In Road Trip to Nowhere, film historian Jon Lewis details dramatic encounters on movie sets and in corporate boardrooms, on the job and on the streets, and in doing so offers an entertaining and rigorous historical account of an out-of-touch Hollywood establishment and the counterculture workforce they would never come to understand.Trade Review"A spirited survey of the film industry’s responses to the culture shifts of the 1960s as major studios faltered and movie stars left the spotlight. . . . A study that’s as memorable as it is entertaining." * Publishers Weekly *"Road Trip to Nowhere differs from other popular histories of the period. . . in refusing to valorize the era. Instead, he shows it for what it was — the bad along with the good — while highlighting some of the stories lost in all the reefer smoke. . . . Road Trip to Nowhere tackles bumpy terrain and does not disappoint — though you may be disappointed by the behavior of some of its major characters." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Road Trip to Nowhere is the smartest, most fascinating film book 2022 has brought." * Bookgasm *"A unique and seminal contribution to the history of American Cinema, Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture is an impressively researched and meticulous work of deftly crafted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *“Beautiful writing, and an essential unpacking of a strange and troubling era.” * Film Stage *"An excellent starting point for both scholars and general readers interested in Hollywood and its associations with hippiedom." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"Provocative. . . . This meticulously researched, eminently readable book offers a fresh perspective on a critical period in Hollywood history." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Road Trips to a New Hollywood: Easy Rider and Zabriskie Point 2 Christopher Jones Does Not Want to Be a Movie Star 3 Four Women in Hollywood: Jean Seberg, Jane Fonda, Dolores Hart, and Barbara Loden 4 Charles Manson’s Hollywood Epilogue Notes Index
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University of California Press Camphill and the Future
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. The Camphill movement, one of the world's largest and most enduring networks of intentional communities, deserves both recognition and study. Founded in Scotland at the beginning of the Second World War, Camphill communities still thrive today, encompassing thousands of people living in more than one hundred twenty schools, villages, and urban neighborhoods on four continents. Camphillers of all abilities share daily work, family life, and festive celebrations with one another and their neighbors. Unlike movements that reject mainstream society, Camphill expressly seeks to be a seed of social renewal by evolving along with society to promote the full inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, who comprise nearly half of their residents. In this multifaceted exploration of Camphill, Dan McKanan traces the complexities of the movement's history, envisions its possible future, and invites ongoing dialogue between the fields of disability studies and communal studies. Trade Review"Diligent scholarship grounded in solid theoretical moorings and punctuated with perceptive personal interviews will make Camphill and the Future the definitive work on the first eighty years of this laudable humanitarian communal movement. It may well help shape that future." * Nova Religio *"Camphill and the Future…is an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. . . . McKanan not only challenges communal studies to seriously consider disability, but also makes a genuine appeal to students and scholars in disability studies to join the conversation." * Disability Studies Quarterly blog *"McKanan’s Camphill and the Future is an important contribution to the fields of both disability studies and the study of anthroposophy, communal movements, and Western esotericism." * Reading Religion *
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University of California Press Health in the Highlands
Book SynopsisPopulated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the first half of the twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to spread scientific medicine to their populaces, working to prevent and treat malaria, typhus, and typhoid; to boost infant and maternal well-being; and to improve overall health. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, David Carey Jr. shows that highland indigenous populations in the two countries tended to embrace a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, both governments encouragedor at least allowedsuch a synthesis: even what they saw as nonscientific care was better than none. Yet both, especially Guatemala's, also wrote off indigenous lifeways and practices with both explicit and implicit racism, going so far as to criminalize native medical providers and to experiment on indigenous people without their consent. Both nations had authoritarian rule, but Guatemala's was outright dictatorial, tending to treat both women and indigenous people as subjects to be controlled and policed. Ecuador, on the other hand, advanced a more pluralistic vision of national unity, and had somewhat better outcomes as a result.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Foreword Jeremy A. Greene Acknowledgments A Note on Sources, Methodology, and Evidence Abbreviations Introduction: Disease, Healing, and Medicine in Indigenous Highlands 1 • Hookworm, Histories, and Health: Indigenous Healing, State Building, and Rockefeller Representatives 2 • Curses and Cures: Empíricos, Indigeneity, and Scientific Medicine 3 • Engendering Infant Mortality and Public Health: Midwifery, Obstetrics, and Ethnicity 4 • “Malnourished, Scrawny, Emaciated Indios”: Perceptions of Indigeneity, Illness, and Healing 5 • Infectious Indígenas: The Ethnicity of Highland Diseases 6 • “Prisoners of Malaria”: A Lowland Disease in the Mountains Conclusion: Indigeneity, Racist Thought, and Modern Medicine Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisMartin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the costthe sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault liTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
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University of California Press The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes
Book SynopsisRacial tension divides American society. Racial equality remains a distant goal. Although the potion of Black Americans has improved in recent years, the widespread enthusiasm for the Civil Rights movement has waned. Why has progress slowed? What makes racial problems in America so difficult to solve?A principal cause, according to The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes, is the way in which white Americans explain, or account for, the social conditions in which most black Americans find themselves. A substantial proportion of whites believe that stereotypes that Black Americans are relatively less well off because blacks do not try hard enough to better themselves or because of the difference due to genertics or to God's plan. Whites who hold such views have relatively little sympathy for programs designed to improve the social conditions. In contrast, whites who believe that Black Americans are kept back either by deliberate discrimination or by the accumulated social results of past discrimination are much more receptive to policies designed to help blacks.Using qualitative and quantitive data, this book explores the variety and extent of these explanations for social differences; it also describes how each explanation--or combination of explanations--influences a person's views on policies designed to bring about greater racial equality.This study promises to influence not only the course of future academic research on race relations but also the formulation of public policy to deal with racial problems. It reveals that the resistance of many whites to policies favorable to racial equality are not isolated phenomenon but instead is part of a comprehensive view of how society works. If strides toward racial equality are to be made in the foreseeable future, the insights provided here must be considered seriously by policy makers and be incorporated into their strategies.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
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University of California Press European Witch Trials
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University of California Press To Make my Name Good
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University of California Press Life and Literature in the Roman Republic
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University of California Press Countering Colonization
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University of California Press Roman Satire
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University of California Press Coopers Landscapes
Book SynopsisCooper's Landscapes: An Essay on the Picturesque Vision delves into the vivid and enduring landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper's works, exploring how his descriptive artistry shaped the American literary imagination. This essay examines Cooper's unique ability to translate the grandeur of early 19th-century America into powerful visual panoramas that resonate with readers long after the characters and plots fade. Drawing on insights from European aesthetic traditions and the picturesque conventions, the book highlights how Cooper's narrative settings were inspired by both his American roots and his transformative years abroad. This perspective not only contextualizes his work within the broader scope of art and landscape painting but also underscores Cooper's innovative approach to crafting scenes that intertwine with the thematic elements of his storytelling. The book also offers a fresh critique of Cooper's aesthetic education, focusing on his mastery of landscape organization, the influence of his European experiences, and his application of landscape gardening principles in fiction. From early romances like The Last of the Mohicans to the nuanced complexities of later works such as Wyandotte, the essay reveals how Cooper's visual imagination evolved to serve his narrative ambitions. By connecting Cooper's artistry to the broader Romantic movement and theories of visual perception, this study illuminates the profound interplay between literature and the sister arts, offering a rich framework for appreciating Cooper's enduring contributions to American cultural and literary history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
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University of California Press Peasant Wisdom
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