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STANFORD BRIEFS 5
Black Power and Palestine South Central Is Home The Border and the Line
Transnational Countries of Color Race and the Power of Community Race, Literature, and Los Angeles
Michael R. Fischbach Investment in Los Angeles Dean J. Franco
The 1967 Arab–Israeli War Abigail Rosas The Border and the Line takes
rocketed the question of Israel South Central Los Angeles is often up the central conceit of “the
and Palestine onto the front pages characterized as an African American neighbor” to consider how the
of American newspapers. Black community beset by poverty geography of racial identification
Power activists saw Palestinians as and economic neglect. But this and interracial encounters are
a kindred people of color, waging depiction obscures the significant represented and even made
the same struggle for freedom Latina/o population that has possible by literary language.
and justice as themselves. Soon called South Central home since Dean J. Franco probes how race
concerns over the Arab–Israeli the 1970s. More significantly, it is formed and transformed in
conflict spread across mainstream conceals the efforts African American literature and in everyday life, in the
black politics and into the heart and Latina/o residents have works of Helena María Viramontes,
of the civil rights movement itself. made together in shaping their Paul Beatty, James Baldwin, and
Black Power and Palestine uncovers community. South Central Is Home the writers of the Watts Writers
why so many African Americans— investigates how communities of Workshop. Exploring metaphor and
notably Martin Luther King, Jr., color like South Central experience metonymy, as well as economic
Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, racism and discrimination—and and political circumstance, Franco
among others—came to support how in the best of situations, they identifies the potential for reconcili-
the Palestinians or felt the need to are energized to improve their ation in the figure of the neighbor,
respond to those who did. The book conditions together. Abigail Rosas an identity that is grounded by
reveals how American peoples of shows how financial institutions, geographical boundaries and which
color create political strategies, a War on Poverty programs like invites their crossing.
sense of self, and a place within U.S. Headstart for school children, and “So much more than a regional case
and global communities. community health centers emerged study, this book gifts us a comparative
“An indispensable read on the civil as crucial sites where neighbors imaginary as far-reaching as it is
rights and Black Power era.” engaged one another over what was urgently needed.”
—Cynthia A. Young,
best for their community. Through —Keith Feldman,
Penn State this work, Rosas illuminates the University of California, Berkeley
promise of community building, 208 pages, January 2019
296 pages, 2018
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HISTORY 7
After the Rise and Stall of The Cult of the Constitution Defending the Public’s Enemy
American Feminism Mary Anne Franks The Life and Legacy of
Taking Back a Revolution Ramsey Clark
The Cult of the Constitution reveals
Lynn S. Chancer how deep fundamentalist strains Lonnie T. Brown
After the Rise and Stall of American in both conservative and liberal Defending the Public’s Enemy is the
Feminism takes the long view of American thought keeps the first book to explore the enigmatic
the successes and shortcomings Constitution in the service of and perplexing life and legal career
of feminism(s). Lynn Chancer white male supremacy. of U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
articulates four common causes— As religious fundamentalists Clark. Clark’s life and work were
advancing political and economic do with their sacred scriptures, enmeshed with some of the most
equality, allowing intimate and constitutional fundamentalists notable people and events of the
sexual freedom, ending violence read the Constitution selectively 1960s: Martin Luther King Jr., the
against women, and expanding and self-servingly. The worship of Watts Riots, the Voting Rights Act,
the cultural representation of guns, speech, and the Internet in the Black Panthers, Muhammad Ali.
women—considering each in turn the name of the Constitution has Clark worked tirelessly, especially
to assess what has been gained blurred the boundaries between to secure the civil rights of black
(or not). It is around these shared conduct and speech and between Americans. Upon entering the
concerns, Chancer argues, that veneration and violence. private sector, the former insider
we can continue to build a vibrant became one of his government’s
and expansive feminist movement. The Cult of the Constitution lays staunchest critics, providing legal
Ultimately, this book is about not bare the dark, antidemocratic defense to internationally-despised
only redressing problems, but also consequences of constitutional figures, alleged terrorists, reputed
reasserting a future for feminism fundamentalism and urges readers Nazi war criminals, and brutal
and its enduring ability to change to take the Constitution seriously, dictators.
the world. not selectively.
The provocative life chronicled
“Interrogating feminism’s own thorny “Uncompromisingly critical, Franks in Defending the Public’s Enemy
contradictions and challenges, Lynn challenges both liberal and conser- personifies the contradictions at the
Chancer offers women a bold and vative views of the Bill of Rights in
the name of equality…agree or heart of American political history,
inspiring plan for claiming equality and our ambivalent relationship
with men—once and for all.” disagree with Franks’s conclusions,
her arguments require attention.” with dissenters and marginalized
—Lisa Wade, groups, as well as those who
Occidental College —Rebecca Tushnet,
Harvard Law School embody a fiercely independent
232 pages, February 2019 revolutionary spirit.
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8 POLITICS
Politics of Empowerment The Immigrant Rights Migrant Crossings
Disability Rights and the Cycle of Movement Witnessing Asian and Latina/o
American Policy Reform The Battle Over Migrants Trafficked in the
David Pettinicchio National Citizenship United States
Despite the progress of decades-old Walter J. Nicholls Annie Isabel Fukushima
disability rights policy, including the In the months leading up to the Migrant Crossings examines the
landmark Americans with Disabilities 2016 presidential election, liberal experiences and representations of
Act, threats continue to undermine outcry over Donald Trump’s ethno- Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked
the wellbeing of this group. In nationalist views espoused a notion in the United States into informal
this regard, the U.S. is a policy deeply embedded in American economies and service industries.
innovator and laggard. In Politics social life: we are a nation of im- Through sociolegal and media analysis
of Empowerment, David Pettinicchio migrants. Given the pervasiveness of court records, press releases, law
offers a historically grounded of this rhetoric, it is easy to overlook enforcement campaigns, film represen-
analysis of the singular case of US its genesis in the not-too-distant tations, theatre performances, and the
disability policy, countering long- past. Indeed, before 2010, there law, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions
held views of progress that privilege was no national immigrant rights how we understand victimhood,
public demand as its primary driver. movement equating immigrants criminality, citizenship, and legality.
Beginning in the 1970s, a group of to de facto Americans. This book Fukushima examines how migrants
legislators and bureaucrats came to traces the story of the movement’s cross into visibility legally, through
act as “political entrepreneurs,” and grassroots origins through its frames of citizenship, and narratives
were seen as experts leading the meteoric rise to the national of victimhood. She explores the inter-
movement within the government. stage—and reveals tradeoffs made disciplinary framing of the role of the
But as they increasingly faced ob- along the way. Highlighting the law and the legal system, the notion
stacles to their legislative intentions, way this vibrant movement became of “perfect victimhood” and iconic
nascent disability advocacy and a part of the system that it sought victims, and how trafficking subjects
protest groups took the cause to the to transform, this book serves as a are resurrected for contemporary
American people, forming the basis call reinvent a revolution that has movements as illustrated in visuals,
of the contemporary disability rights defined a generation. discourse, court records, and policy.
movement. Drawing on extensive
296 pages, August 2019 Migrant Crossings deeply interrogates
archival material, Pettinicchio 9781503609327 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale what it means to bear witness to
reveals the cycle of progress and
migration in these migratory times
backlash that is embedded in the
– and what such migrant crossings
American political system.
mean for subjects who experience
256 pages, August 2019 violence during or after their crossing.
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POLITICS 9
Borders of Belonging Shifting Boundaries A Place to Call Home
Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed- Immigrant Youth Negotiating Immigrant Exclusion and Urban
Status Immigrant Families National, State, and Belonging in New York, Paris,
Heide Castañeda Small-Town Politics and Barcelona
Borders of Belonging investigates the Alexis M. Silver Ernesto Castañeda
impact of immigration policies on As politicians debate how to ad- Immigrants are faced with endless
undocumented migrants and their dress the estimated eleven million uncertainties that prevent them from
family members in the U.S., some of unauthorized immigrants residing feeling that they belong. Drawing on
whom possess a form of legal status. in the United States, undocumented extensive ethnographic observation
Heide Castañeda’s ethnography youth anxiously await the next and interviews, Ernesto Castañeda
reveals the experiences of mixed- policy shift that will determine offers a uniquely comparative portrait
status families as they navigate the their futures. From one day to the of immigrant experiences.
emotional, social, political, and next, their dreams are as likely to 208 pages, 2018
medical difficulties that inevitably crumble around them as to come 9781503605763 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
arise when at least one family within reach. In Shifting Boundaries,
member lacks legal status. Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the NOW IN PAPERBACK
“In this superior work of scholar- currents of exclusion and incorpora- Broke and Patriotic
ship, Heide Castañeda allows readers tion that characterize their lives. Why Poor Americans Love
to experience the sorrow, pain, and Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork Their Country
trauma current immigration laws and in-depth interview data, she
and practices have inflicted not just Francesco Duina
finds that contradictory policies at
on undocumented migrants, but the national, state, and local levels Why are poor Americans so patriotic?
also on their family members with interact to create a complex environ- Francesco Duina contends that the
some form of legal status. Engaging best way to answer this question is
and brilliantly observed, Borders ment through which the youth must
of Belonging makes an incredibly navigate. These constantly changing to speak directly to America’s most
timely and policy-relevant argument pathways shape their journeys into impoverished. Conducting over 60
about the interlocking fates within early adulthood. revealing interviews, his participants
mixed-status families. This book is explain how they view themselves and
poised for instant success within and “This extraordinary study provides a
fresh perspective on immigrant incor- their country.
beyond the classroom.”
poration and the importance of place STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY
—Roberto G. Gonzales, during political instability.” 240 pages, 2018
author of Lives in Limbo:
Undocumented and Coming
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—Roberto G. Gonzales,
of Age in America author of Lives in Limbo
10 POLITICS
Uncle Tom Whither Fanon? Jazz As Critique
From Martyr to Traitor Studies in the Blackness of Being Adorno and Black
Adena Spingarn, Foreword by David Marriott Expression Revisited
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Frantz Fanon is most known for his Fumi Okiji
From his origins as the Christ-like political writings, but he was first A sustained engagement with
protagonist of Harriet Beecher a clinician, a black Caribbean psy- Theodor Adorno, this book looks
Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle chiatrist who had the improbable to jazz for ways of understanding
Tom has become a widely recognized task of treating disturbed and the inadequacies of contemporary
epithet for a black person deemed traumatized North African patients life. Adorno’s writings on jazz are
so subservient to whites that he during the wars of decolonization. notoriously dismissive. Yet Adorno
betrays his race. Adena Spingarn Investigating and foregrounding does have faith in the critical
offers the first comprehensive ac- the clinical system Fanon devised in potential of some musical traditions.
count of this figure in the American an attempt to intervene against Music, he suggests, can provide
imagination, demonstrating his negrophobia and anti-blackness, this insight into the destructive nature
centrality to American conversations book reads his clinical and political of modern society while offering
about race and racial representation work together, arguing that the two a glimpse of more empathetic, less
from 1852 to the present. We learn are mutually imbricated. For the first violent ways of being together in the
of the radical political potential time, Fanon’s therapeutic innovations world. Taking Adorno down a path
of the novel’s many theatrical are considered alongside his more he did not go, Jazz As Critique calls
spinoffs, its changing fortunes in overtly political and cultural writings attention to an alternative sociality
the post–Civil War and Jim Crow to ask how the crises of war affected made manifest in jazz. In response
eras, and how Tom was censored by his practice, informed his politics, to work that tends to portray it as a
black cultural figures of the Harlem and shaped his subsequent ideas. mirror of American individualism
Renaissance. Through Uncle Tom, This combination of the clinical and and democracy, Fumi Okiji argues
black Americans have contested political involves a psychopolitics that that jazz is a model of “gathering in
the viability of various strategies is, by definition, complex, difficult, difference.” Noting that this mode
for racial progress and defined the and perpetually challenging. Marriott of subjectivity emerged in response
most desirable and harmful images details this psychopolitics from two to the distinctive history of black
of black personhood in literature points of view: that of Fanon’s socio- America, she reveals that the music
and popular culture. therapy, its diagnostic methods and cannot but call the integrity of the
272 pages, 2018
concepts, and that of Fanon’s cultural world into question.
9780804799157 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale theory more generally. 160 pages, 2018
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432 pages, 2018
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12 POST *45
A SERIES EDITED BY LOREN GLASS AND KATE MARSHALL
Maximum Feasible Provisional Avant-Gardes Vicious Circuits
Participation Little Magazine Communities Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End
American Literature and the from Dada to Digital of the American Century
War on Poverty Sophie Seita Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Stephen Schryer Arguing against the notion that the In December of 1997, the Interna-
Maximum Feasible Participation traces avant-garde is dead or confined to tional Monetary Fund announced
American writers’ contributions and historically “failed” movements, the largest bailout package in its
responses to the War on Poverty. With this book offers a more dynamic history, aimed at stabilizing the South
the 1964 Opportunity Act, the John- theory of avant-gardes, one that is Korean economy in response to a
son administration provided a federal more inclusive and that accounts for major credit and currency crisis.
imprimatur for an emerging model of how they work today. Provisional Vicious Circuits examines what it
professionalism that sought to eradi- Avant-Gardes focuses on the me- terms “Korea’s IMF Cinema,” the
cate boundaries between professionals dium of the little magazine—from decade of cinema following that
and their clients— a model that early Dada experiments to feminist, crisis, to consider the transforma-
appealed to writers, especially African queer, and digital publishing tions of global political economy at
American and Chicano/a writers networks—to understand avant- the end of the American century. It
associated with the cultural national- gardes as provisional, heterogeneous argues that the cinema that emerged
isms gaining traction in the 1960s communities. Paying attention to after South Korea’s worst ever
inner city. These writers privileged neglected writers, artists, and editors economic crisis was preoccupied
artistic process over product, rejecting alongside more canonical figures, with economic phenomena. As
conventions that separated writers it shows how little magazines can the quintessentially corporate art
from their audiences. Ranging from change our views of literary and art form, film in this context became a
the 1950s to the present, the book history while shedding new light site for thinking through the global
explores how Jack Kerouac, Amiri on individual careers. Sophie Seita political economy in the transitional
Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar models a new methodology for moment of American decline and
Zeta Acosta, Alice Walker, Philip writing about avant-garde practice Chinese ascension. An explicit focus
Roth, and others exposed the War on across time, one that is applicable of state economic policy, IMF cinema
Poverty’s contradictions during its to other artistic and non-artistic not only depicted the economy, it
heyday and kept its legacy alive in the communities and that speaks to embodied it. The book’s window on
decades to come. contemporary practitioners and Korea offers a peripheral but crucial
scholars alike. In the process, she perspective on late U.S. hegemony
“Here’s one reliable sign of success: addresses fundamental questions and the contradictions that ultimately
I am sure that I will read these texts
differently from now on.” about form and politics, and what corrode it.
we consider to be literature and art. 264 pages, March 2019
—Carlo Rotella,
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Nisei Naysayer The Chinese and the Inscrutable Belongings
The Memoir of Militant Japanese Iron Road Queer Asian North
American Journalist Jimmie Omura Building the Transcontinental American Fiction
James Matsumoto Omura Railroad Stephen Hong Sohn
Edited by Arthur A. Hansen Edited by Gordon H. Chang Inscrutable Belongings considers
Among the fiercest opponents of and Shelley Fisher Fishkin narrative strategies in queer Asian
the mass incarceration of Japanese The completion of the transcon- North American literature, in which
Americans during World War II tinental railroad in May 1869 is LGBTQ narrators are excluded
was James “Jimmie” Matsumoto usually told as a story of national from normative family structures
Omura, a newspaper editor who triumph and a key moment for and must contend with multiple
fearlessly called out leaders in the American “manifest destiny.” But histories of oppression, erasure,
Nikkei community for what he saw while the transcontinental has and physical violence.
as their complicity with the U.S. often been celebrated in national “The genuine melding of narrative
government’s unjust and unconstitu- memory, little attention has been theory, queer theory, and ethnic
tional policies. In 1944, Omura was paid to the Chinese workers who studies that we have been waiting for.”
indicted, arrested, jailed, and forced made up 90% of the workforce on —Sue J. Kim,
to stand trial for unlawful conspiracy the Western portion of the line. UMass Lowell
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redress and reparations for wartime
Contraceptive Diplomacy
themselves have remained largely Reproductive Politics and Imperial
violations of civil liberties and invisible. This landmark volume
human rights. Edited and with an Ambitions in the United States
shines new light on these workers
introduction by Arthur A. Hansen, and Japan
and their enduring importance,
Omura’s memoir provides a firsthand illuminating more fully than ever Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
account of Japanese American before how immigration across the This transpacific study draws con-
wartime resistance. Pacific changed both China and the nections between the birth control
“Offering new insight into Omura’s U.S., the dynamics of the racism the movement and the history of eugen-
controversial sedition trial, Nisei workers encountered, the conditions ics, racism, and imperialism in the
Naysayer reveals the depth of Omura’s under which they labored, and their twentieth century.
commitment to constitutionalism and role in shaping both the history of
freedom of the press.” the railroad and the development of 336 pages, 2018
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—Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, the American West.
University of California, Los Angeles
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