California Press: 1495 books
Stick Together and Come Back Home
Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Stick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional...
Trespassers?
Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly...
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more...
Epiphanius of Cyprus
A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual...
Being Christian in Vandal Africa
The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and...
Theodoret's People
Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics...
by Michel de Certeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture....
After Camp
Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on...
Living at the Edges of Capitalism
Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. As capitalism developed, people tried to escape capitalist constraints connected with state control. This powerful book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in...
Yakuza
Japan's Criminal Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most...
On Becoming a Teen Mom
Life before Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like...
by Srikanth Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Srikanth Reddy’s second book of poetry probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling...
The Global Edge
Miami in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines...
Classifying Christians
Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic...