Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
The DREAMers
How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in the...
Purchasing Whiteness
Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al...
by Martin Carnoy, Henry Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals...
Being and Well-Being
Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There's no question work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have...
A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now...
by Karen M. Inouye
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen M. Inouye explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of...
Marked Women
The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease.
Drawing...
Outsourced Children
Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries...
The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security.
Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
Remote Freedoms
Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
What does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities.
Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how...
Composing Egypt
Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists, bureaucrats, journalists, and early feminists sought...
by Jean-Luc Marion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility—of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for...
Coercive Concern
Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Many liberal-minded Western democracies pride themselves on their commitments to egalitarianism, the fair treatment of immigrants, and the right to education. These environments would seem to provide a best-case scenario for the reception of immigrant youth. But that is not always the case. Coercive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a...