California Press: 1495 books
Guerrilla USA
The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This...
The Unvarnished Truth
Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2000
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth...
Real Indians
Identity and the Survival of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and...
Another Politics
Talking across Today's Transformative Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a "new spirit of radicalism is blooming" from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges....
by Roger N. Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends...
The Jail
Managing the Underclass in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin...
Evolution's Wedge
Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits...
Millennial Monsters
Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters...
On the Line
Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?"—From the Preface
In this gutsy, eye-opening...
Barrio Dreams
Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2004
Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization...
Lives in Limbo
Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza
Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system,...
Masculine Compromise
Migration, Family, and Gender in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as...
Hidden Truth
Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. Adam D. Reich, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes vividly and memorably about the young men he came...
City of God
Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews...