Stanford University: 1318 books
Legacies of Race
Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as...
Race Migrations
Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants...
by Eric Van Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways...
Race on the Move
Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for...
Envisioning America
New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike...
Gridlock
Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however,...
The Last Best Place?
Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed...
The Future and Its Enemies
In Defense of Political Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unable to deal with radical uncertainty, do not make policies with a view to the long term. Instead, we suffer from a sense of powerlessness, collective irrationality,...
The Rewards of Punishment
A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense....
The Politics of American Foreign Policy
How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this provocative book, Peter Gries directly challenges the widely held view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both domestic and foreign policy and...
State Phobia and Civil Society
The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the...
Of Medicines and Markets
Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of IP and health provisions are pivotal to both human rights advocacy and "free"...
Coca's Gone
Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
In a valley in the eastern foothills of the central Peruvian Andes, a wealth of cocaine once flowed. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, this valley experienced abrupt rises in fortune, reckless corruption, and the brutality of those who sought to impress their own brand of order. When this era of...
Formations of the Secular
Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and...