Books by SCU Authors 2025

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  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures: Working with Clients from Collectivist Cultures Living in North America

  Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Nina Zhuxiaona Wei, Deepa Sethu, Katerina Gazit, and Tina Golaw Scott

  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures: Working with Clients from Collectivist Cultures Living in North America recognizes the distinctive therapeutic needs of Asian Americans within a collectivist cultural framework. It imparts novel insights into the relational dynamics of four Asian cultures, offering practitioners strategies to navigate the interplay between traditional collectivist values and Western individualism in a therapeutic setting.
  
  The book provides a detailed examination of key cultural dimensions that influence therapy, including the impacts of collectivism, individualism, shame, and guilt, as well as the multifaceted process of acculturation. Emphasizing cultural competence, the book explores the complexities of real-world couple therapy and provides readers with a culturally attuned perspective.
  
  Couple Therapy Through the Lens of Four Asian Cultures is ideal for graduate-level courses focused on cross-cultural therapy, couple and family therapy, and immigrant mental health.

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  People v. the Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law.

  David L. Sloss

  The Constitution divides power between the government and We the People. It grants We the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over the government through our elected representatives. The Supreme Court has abused its power of judicial review and subverted popular control of the government. The Court's doctrine divides constitutional law into rights issues and structural issues. Structural constitutional doctrine ignores the Constitution's division of power between the government and We the People. The Court's rights doctrines fail to recognize that the Constitution grants the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over our government. People v. The Court presents an indictment of the Supreme Court's constitutional doctrine. It also provides a set of proposals for revolutionary changes in the practice of judicial review that are designed to enable We the People to reclaim our rightful place as sovereigns in a democratic, constitutional order

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  Religion in the Américas: Trans-hemispheric and Transcultural Approaches

  Christopher D. Tirres and Jessica L. Delgado

  Religion in the Américas explores the fluid, dynamic, and complex nature of religion across Latin America and its diasporic communities in the United States. Utilizing a transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric lens, this groundbreaking anthology transcends traditional scholarly boundaries—geographical, disciplinary, and temporal—as it explores ideas and cultural practices that share a common history of Iberian colonialism.
  
  This robust collection of essays forges a dialogue among scholars throughout the Americas who represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The book is divided into five sections: “Fluidity in the Afro-Latine Diaspora,” “Aesthetics in Las Américas,” “Critical Feminist Epistemologies and Activism,” “The Limits of Institutional Religion,” and “Spiritual Invasions and Contagions.” Throughout the volume, the concept of “experience” serves as a foundational lens, as chapters examine how individuals and communities actively interpret and negotiate their realities within diverse historical and social contexts.
  
  Focusing on religion as a culturally conditioned epistemic practice, Religion in the Américas invites readers to engage with religion in the Americas on multiple, intersecting levels of knowledge, including local insights, scholarly analyses, and the positionality and queries of readers themselves. The book’s dialogical approach encourages not only continual reevaluation of the complexities of religious experience in the Americas but also creative innovation that will inspire new avenues of inquiry.

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  Teaching User Experience: A Process Approach

  Heather Noel Turner and Emma Rose

  Outlining a process approach, this book offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for how to teach user experience (UX) from a technical and professional communication (TPC) perspective.

  Recognizing that pedagogy is local to an institution, context, and community, the collection includes teaching cases and stories that demonstrate how instructors in TPC uniquely approach the complexity of teaching UX. This book introduces a six-stage process (empathize, define, design, evaluate, iterate, and implement) that instructors can adapt to their own classrooms. It includes case studies that showcase innovative teaching using the six-stage process, such as creating accessible products for community partners with disabilities and culturally responsive content using Indigenous research methods. This book incorporates Black and Indigenous design perspectives, bridging theory and practice to prepare students for ethical design work.

  This book will appeal to instructors teaching UX within TPC programs and administrators interested in curricular innovation to bring more UX into their programs. The collection can also be used for postgraduate pedagogy courses offered within TPC programs.

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  Noche Oscura del Oeste

  Juan Velasco-Moreno and María Velasco-Moreno

  Juan Velasco presents The Massacre of the Dreamers as an allegory, a symbolic transposition of a territory and its time, perhaps a prophecy unintentionally in its creative moment, already transformed into a visionary announcement of a disoriented and foolish future (...) The Massacre of the Dreamers contains dreamers interwoven within it, all those who have left their dreams in an unredeemed West (Tomás-Néstor Martínez Álvarez).
  The America of 1988: NY-LA, appears to us as a liquid—perhaps gaseous—reality, as a “no-place,” an indelible part of a mythical but paradoxically tangible geography, without which it is impossible to understand our own vital and cultural geography; the America clinging to its religion of the ephemeral; the America of madmen wandering the city streets, like unexpected body snatchers; the America of the unbearable kitsch of pink flamingos. (Juan José Martín Ramos).
  In the third part, Calida Fornax, Juan Velasco sublimates and contextualizes the mythical and legendary California. Early chronicles had not entered the literary discourse because this history does not "exist" in present-day Anglo-American California, and therefore has not been literaryized. This is precisely what Chicano muralists, poets, and writers—like Juan Velasco—knowledgeable about this history of the North American colonial period, intentionally erased from schools, manage to sublimate. (Armando Miguélez).

  
  The present volume, Dark Night of the West, compiles in its three works a history of violence, the diary of a disquiet, and the representation of the violent epic upon which collective identity is founded.

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  Our Little Life: A Novel with Other Archival Texts

  José Antonio Villarreal and Juan Velasco-Moreno

  Our Little Life is the original title of José Antonio Villarreal’s groundbreaking 1959 novel Pocho, which shaped Mexican-American literature for decades. Pocho narrated the experiences of and challenges to the Mexican-American community in 1930s Silicon Valley through the story of Richard Rubio and his family, ending with the U.S.’s entry into World War II. With this new edition, author and editor Juan Velasco restores Villarreal’s original vision for his novel. Published in cooperation with the Villarreal estate, this edition of Our Little Life is based on archival materials from the Villarreal Special Collection at Santa Clara University.
  
  Our Little Life offers a much longer version of the Pocho story that extends a further 100 pages into the postwar period and follows Richard Rubio’s return from war and the changing shape of Mexican-American life in the 1940s. This newly discovered manuscript reveals Villarreal’s attention to Rubio’s struggles with PTSD and his efforts to depict a community and a family’s struggles with identity, belonging, and survival in postwar California. Our Little Life is an important work of archival recovery that sheds new light on Villarreal’s authorship and his place not only in Mexican-American literature but in the twentieth-century American literary canon.
  
  This first publication of Our Little Life includes a scholarly introduction that places this unpublished novel in the landscape of contemporary Mexican-American literary studies and offers a brilliant examination of how novels grow and change. The volume also includes materials from the Villarreal Special Collection that recontextualize the writer’s vision, editing, and marketing of this and later novels. Our Little Life will be of interest not only to everyone in Mexican-American literary studies, but also to scholars of postwar America, women and gender studies, LGBTQ studies, ethnic studies, and migration and border studies.

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  Comparative Environmental Law

  Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky, and Sara K. Phillips

  Discussing the law in theory and in practice, Comparative Environmental Law identifies the ways in which regulatory systems converge or diverge, examining key developments in international legal frameworks from every continent. Expert contributors review different comparative approaches and examine how these can be applied to the study of environmental law.

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  Reflections of an Infinite Beauty: Scientific and Theological Perspectives on the Ecological Crisis

  Aleksandar Zečević

  It is an uncommon privilege to encounter a scholarly work that situates itself at the confluence of science and theology—a text that engages with equal rigor the intricacies of atomic structures and heavenly orders, the mechanisms of biochemical processes and the intimations of divine immanence. In an era where the interaction between theology and science frequently manifests as disjointed monologues rather than a coherent dialogue, this volume emerges as a call to intellectual and spiritual communion. It is both humbling and illuminating to witness a scientist of Professor Zečević’s caliber traverse with such finesse the terrain of theological inquiry, addressing the interrelations of nature, creation, and the contemporary ecological predicament.