Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Racial Beachhead
Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance—a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo complete integration, the West Coast's...
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers
Volume Three, 1940-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers...
Globalizing Knowledge
Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however, are rarely considered critically....
Working the Night Shift
Women in India’s Call Center Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about...
Staged Seduction
Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game...
Shades of Difference
Why Skin Color Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
Black Autonomy
Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics...
Raising Global Families
Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising...
Paradise Redefined
Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status...
The Souls of Mixed Folk
Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders...
Patterns of Protest
Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Asked to name an activist, many people think of someone like Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks—someone uniquely and passionately devoted to a cause. Yet, two-thirds of Americans report having belonged to a social movement, attended a protest, or engaged in some form of contentious political activity. Activism,...
Flowers That Kill
Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning...
Islamism
Contested Perspectives on Political Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
As America struggles to understand Islam and Muslims on the world stage, one concept in particular dominates public discourse: Islamism. References to Islamism and Islamists abound in the media, in think tanks, and in the general study of Islam, but opinions vary on the differences of degree and kind...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that...