Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Sereda, Viktoriya (ed.), War, Migration, Memory: Perspectives on Russia's War Against Ukraine. (Forum Transregionale Studien) 420 S. 2024:11 (Transcript, GW) <749-819>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7587-0 paper ¥14,124.- (税込) EUR 60.00

War and mass displacement in Ukraine triggered intensive reevaluations of the past and collective identities. The contributors to this volume examine how memory is mobilised and how cultural, collective, and individual memories are being reshaped to deal with the ruptures and threats posed by the war. They offer a multi-scalar perspective on the transformational effects of war and displacement on Ukrainian society in various contexts ? local, regional, national, and global ? and deal with shifts of memory and symbolic representations, experiences of dislocation, shifts in the linguistic and religious landscapes, gender roles, and repercussions of war on minority groups.

帝国から冷戦までの日本における人種と優生学
Roebuck, Kristin, Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War. 320 pp. 2025:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-909>
ISBN 978-0-231-20438-5 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20439-2 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

At the peak of imperial expansion in World War II, Japan touted itself as a multiracial paradise. The state, eugenicists, and media supported intermarriage and adoption as tools of empire, encouraging "blood mixing" to fuse diverse populations into one harmonious family. Yet after defeat in World War II, a chorus of Japanese policy makers, journalists, and activists railed against Japanese women who consorted with occupying American men and their mixed-race children. Why did Japan embrace "mixed blood" as an authoritarian empire yet turn to xenophobic racial nationalism as a postwar democracy?Tracing changing views of the "mixed blood" child, Japan Reborn reveals how notions of racial mixture and purity reshaped Japanese identity. Kristin Roebuck unravels the politics of sex and reproduction in Japan from the invasion of Manchuria in the 1930s to the dawn of US-Japan alliance in the 1950s, uncovering eugenic ideas and policies that policed the boundaries of kinship and country. She shows how the trauma of defeat sparked an abhorrence of interracial sex and caused a profound devolution in the social status of "mixed" children and their Japanese mothers. She also unpacks how Japan's postwar identity crisis put pressure on the United States to bring Japanese brides and "mixed blood" children into the Cold War American family. Shedding light on the sexual and racial tensions of empire, occupation, and the Cold War, this book offers new ways to understand the shifting terrain of Japanese nationalism and international relations.

Wang, Po Hsun / Li, Jie, Interpreting the Evolution of Atayal Tribal Textile Patterns: Tracing the Anthropological Footprints of a Taiwanese Ethnic Minority Group. 218 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-933>
ISBN 978-981-9654-50-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book elucidates findings from an anthropological study that analyzes the patterns of Taiwan's Atayal tribe's fabric in their ethnic dress codes. By analyzing the changes and development of the patterns over time, the authors draw fascinating conclusions regarding the geographical migration and intermarriage practices between indigenous minority groups in Taiwan's history. The book brings new insights within East Asian linguistic anthropology in theorizing about the origins of legends and broader patterns of ethnic migration, integrating the characteristics and relationships among Atayal fabrics, and interpreting these relationships in connection with the flow of sub-ethnic groups. In doing so, the book provides rich empirical evidence for anthropologists and migration scholars to better understand the movement of ethnic groups in Taiwan, while also establishing a model for how studying textile design can be employed to establish such linkages. The book shows that the composition and changes of ethnic minority patterns have their own internal logic and causes. By studying this, the authors demonstrate how such work might translate intangible and tangible culture into explicit and shareable knowledge and provide a compass for other anthropologists and researchers in the fields of visual and linguistic anthropology, migration studies, and ethnic and indigenous cultures, in Asia and beyond.

運動における女性たち－西ベルリンにおけるトルコからの移民の政治空間　1961～89年
Kimmerle, Elisabeth, Frauen in Bewegung: Politische Raeume von Migrantinnen aus der Tuerkei in West-Berlin 1961-1989. (Geschichte der Gegenwart 38) 450 S. 2025:9 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-984>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5916-1 hard ¥9,180.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Wie Frauen aus der Tuerkei ihre politischen Handlungsspielraeume zwischen West-Berlin und der Tuerkei erweiterten ? eine neue Perspektive auf Migration, Geschlecht und politische Bewegungen. Migration hat die deutsche Gesellschaft tiefgreifend veraendert. Wenig Beachtung als politische Akteurinnen fanden bislang Frauen, die seit den 1960er Jahren auch aus der Tuerkei zur Arbeit nach Westdeutschland kamen. Dabei waren Migrantinnen oft treibende Kraefte sozialen und politischen Wandels. Ob Vereinbarkeit von Lohnarbeit und Familie, kommunales Wahlrecht oder eigenstaendiges Aufenthaltsrecht: Migrantinnen brachten Themen auf die politische Agenda, die geltende Konzepte von Arbeit, Geschlecht und Staatsbuergerschaft in Frage stellten. Elisabeth Kimmerle untersucht am Beispiel von West-Berlin, wie Migrantinnen aus der Tuerkei fuer ihre Rechte kaempften. Entlang sozialer Raeume wie der Fabrik, dem Frauenwohnheim, der Strasse und Frauenlaeden zeichnet sie den Wandel migrantischer Selbstorganisation zwischen 1961 und 1989 aus transnationaler und geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive nach. Anhand zahlreicher Archivquellen und Interviews mit Zeitzeuginnen werden deren Erfahrungen und politische Raeume jenseits von Parteien und Gewerkschaften sichtbar. Diese intersektionale Perspektive auf Migration und Geschlecht bietet neue Einblicke in die Geschichte migrantischer Kaempfe und zeigt, wie das ≫Private≪ in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft zum Politischen wurde.

Kahn, Jonathan, The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology. (Race, Inequality, and Health 16) 432 pp. 2025:6 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-75>
ISBN 978-0-231-22014-9 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-231-22013-2 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Race, it is widely understood, is a social category that has no genetic basis, yet biological notions of race keep reemerging. Attempts to redress disparities in biomedical research emphasize recruiting racially representative trial participants. Forensic use of DNA evidence purports to pinpoint the race of a potential suspect. Genetic ancestry tracing companies explain test results to customers using racial categories. The makers of genomic databases seek to ensure racial inclusivity.Jonathan Kahn argues that this predicament arises from a surprising source: the concept of diversity. Ranging across law, politics, science, and medicine, he examines the blurring of the distinction between social understandings of race and biological understandings of genetic variation. Because diversity has become such a central concept across domains, Kahn contends, it enables slippage between these contradictory ideas, entangling biological and social views of race. Tracing the parallel histories of the Human Genome Project, workforce diversification efforts, U. S. Supreme Court cases over affirmative action, the rise of precision medicine, and the COVID-19 vaccine trials, among others, he shows why diversity is often deployed in ways that threaten to biologize race or undermine efforts to address racial injustice. Combining incisive critique and interdisciplinary insight, The Uses of Diversity offers bracing new perspective on one of today's most vexed concepts.

Glassman, Ronald M., The Great Global Transformation: Gender, Race, and Democracy in the Age of Capitalism. (Contributions to Political Science) 252 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-760>
ISBN 978-3-031-90565-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores Karl Polanyi's concept of labor, land, and money as "fictional commodities" created by the market. Capitalism transformed these elements, shifting labor from artisanal crafts to factory wage work, land from communal ownership to private property, and money from a medium of exchange to capital for profit. The book extends Polanyi's vision to modern transformations, analyzing the impact of automation, Artificial Intelligence, and technological advancements on society. It examines the great changes in gender, sexuality, race, and religion, highlighting the ongoing evolution of social and cultural norms. Additionally, the book analyzes the complex relationship between free market capitalism and democracy, offering insights into the balance of power and the future of democratic governance in a rapidly changing world. This book critically analyzes the forces shaping contemporary society. It will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers in political science, economics, and the social sciences, interested in a better understanding of the great global transformation.

Threadcraft, Shatema, The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy. 288 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <749-773>
ISBN 978-0-19-775857-1 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-775858-8 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Coutin, Susan Bibler, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy. 186 pp. 2025:8 (U. California Pr., US) <749-538>
ISBN 978-0-520-42282-7 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. ?Immigrant residents seeking legal status in the United States face a catch-22: the documents that they must present to immigration officials-bank records, paycheck stubs, and contracts in their own names-are often challenging for undocumented people to obtain. In this book, Susan Bibler Coutin analyzes how undocumented immigrants and the attorneys and paralegals who represent them attempt to surmount this and other documentary challenges. Based on four years of fieldwork and volunteer work in the legal services department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit and in-depth interviews with those seeking status, On the Record explores these complex dynamics by taking seriously both documents themselves and the legal craft that has developed around their use.

Buxton, Rebecca / Ritholtz, Samuel, The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge. 229 pp. 2026:1 (U. California Pr., US) <749-544>
ISBN 978-0-520-39175-8 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39176-5 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The global refugee regime has shifted under our feet. Over the last forty years, the international system of asylum has expanded to include the queer and trans displaced. At least thirty-seven states accept LGBTIQ refugees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, with some countries providing specialized support. And yet, despite this expansion, there is growing backlash against refugee protection as well as the hard-earned rights of LGBTIQ people. While the refugee regime has expanded, the reality of global protection remains exclusionary.The Way Out displays the multifaceted character of displacement for queer and trans people around the world. In centering the personal narratives of LGBTIQ refugees, this book reveals the shortcomings of the existing refugee protection regime's capacity to provide sanctuary from the harms that drive displacement. Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz's focus on these experiences offers a vibrant example of theory brought to life.

Ozkaleli, Umut, De-essentializing Refugees: Perceptions, Experiences, and Becoming of Syrians in Tuerkiye. 207 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <749-554>
ISBN 978-981-9655-18-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book delves into the profound journey of Syrians from pre-war aspirations to the harsh realities of refugee life in Tuerkiye. Through the voices of seventy-nine individuals, it explores the transformation from hopeful citizens seeking social change to displaced refugees. Grounded in fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2016, the manuscript poses the critical question: "How is refugee 'becoming' experienced in dual spatiality and multiple temporalities?" By integrating innovative approaches like relational pragmatics and intersectional identities, this work enriches existing conflict theories.The author employs a unique methodological lens inspired by cinematic apparatus theory, utilizing an "eye-camera" perspective to create Brechtian "breaking moments" that invite readers to engage deeply with the narratives. This book is not just an academic exploration; it is a powerful call to confront the normalization of war and to understand the irreversible impacts of violence and displacement through the lived experiences of individuals. Ideal for those interested in both theoretical discussions and the raw realities of human experience, this manuscript offers a compelling look at the refugee experience that challenges readers to rethink their perceptions of conflict and resilience.

Auguste, Evan (ed.), The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance: "Let Them Not Be Forgotten". 244 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-607>
ISBN 978-3-031-90278-9 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This volume outlines the theoretical and ethical commitments for forensic psychologists in the struggle for Black liberation and details areas of focus for practice and research. It aims to highlight how Black forensic psychologists have historically engaged in these areas through the lens of Black psychology. The chapters that follow extensively cover the often overlooked relationship between forensic psychology and Black liberation, including chapters on: * Black forensic psychologists whose work contributed to political movements; * The psychologist's role in supporting reparations movements; * The importance of community healing collectives as alternatives to incarceration and policing; * Recommendations for introducing Black psychology into forensic practice. Examining the role of forensic psychology within America's racialized carceral systems, this book critically analyzes how psychological research and practice influence legal and material outcomes for Black individuals. Grounded in historical context and contemporary case studies, it offers essential insights for practitioners, activists, and scholars committed to challenging the systemic harms that disproportionately affect Black communities within the most incarcerated nation in the world.

Raufu, Abiodun, Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Africans in the Diaspora: Navigating Change. (Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology) 148 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-622>
ISBN 978-3-031-87388-1 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book investigates the high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among African immigrants across the world, addressing unique cultural contexts, acculturative stress, and identity which shapes their experiences. The author examines how migration-related stress, cultural norms, and systemic challenges intersect to influence intimate partner violence dynamics uniquely within the African diaspora. The book utilizes three theoretical frameworks to investigate this question: Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory; John Berry's acculturation stress theory; and Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality theory. This book situates the experiences of this unique immigrant population in the literature on IPV. It also provides global context by situating African diaspora experiences within broader discussions of intimate partner violence across immigrant populations. The author highlights the resilience and coping mechanisms of African IPV survivors and offers culturally sensitive strategies for prevention and intervention pathways to empowerment and healing.

反人種主義、多文化主義、人権－雇用と教育における多様性の政治の再想像
Dupont, Pier-Luc, Anti-Racism, Multiculturalism and Human Rights: Reconceiving the Politics of Diversity in Employment and Education. (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series) 146 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-265>
ISBN 978-3-031-87359-1 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

The continuing prevalence of racial inequality and discrimination is well documented in Britain. While there are multiple accounts of how state institutions are shaped by and reproduce racism, much less has been said about their current and potential contribution to anti-racism. This book elucidates the long-term impact on racism of positive action in employment and multicultural school curricula. It also explores whether international human rights law creates a duty for states to adopt these policies. Positive action and multicultural curricula are not new and have long been advocated by multiculturalists, but this book systematically unpacks how they can counter four structural drivers of racism: racialised national identities, racialised power inequalities, racial fearmongering, and racial segregation. The book goes on to examine the extent to which they have been implemented in Britain, as well as the legal and political opportunities for future development.

Graves, Joseph L., Jr., Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race and How to Fix It. 280 pp. 2025:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-296>
ISBN 978-0-231-21796-5 hard ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

There is a persistent gap in life expectancy between Black people and their white counterparts in the United States. It is a direct result of structural racism within American society and has nothing to do with genetic differences. In past eras, scientific racism sought to shift the blame to the supposed physical inferiority of people of African descent. Even today, medicine labors under false beliefs derived from nineteenth-century racial thinking, harming patients who are not of European descent.Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates that the medical profession still fails to grasp basic facts about race, tracing how deep-rooted falsehoods have perpetuated the disparity between Black and white lifespans. He equips readers with the tools to dispel the fallacies and errors of racialized medicine, including an understanding of evolutionary biology and human biological variation. Graves also debunks common misconceptions about race and health on topics such as high blood pressure, sickle cell disease, the microbiome, infectious diseases, and cancer. Why Black People Die Sooner closes by offering a sweeping vision for dismantling medical racism, from professional training to clinical practice through biomedical research. Timely and bracing, this book reveals why medicine keeps misunderstanding race-and how we can make it change.

Schewel, Kerilyn, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. 288 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <749-203>
ISBN 978-0-19-768071-1 hard ¥27,442.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-768072-8 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Hahmann, Andree, Kant und der Rassismus der Vernunft. (Blaue Reihe) 200 S. 2025:9 (F. Meiner, GW) <749-25>
ISBN 978-3-7873-5002-5 paper ¥4,683.- (税込) EUR 19.90

War Kant ein Rassist? Ist seine Philosophie selbst von rassistischen Vorannahmen durchzogen? Diese kontroverse Frage spaltet den philosophischen Diskurs und hat inzwischen auch eine breitere Oeffentlichkeit erreicht. Andree Hahmanns Buch bietet eine differenzierte Analyse der komplexen Debatte. Es trennt klar zwischen Kants persoenlichen Einstellungen und den systematischen Implikationen seiner Philosophie, betrachtet verschiedene Facetten des Rassismusbegriffs und untersucht die argumentativen und historischen Voraussetzungen der Kontroverse. Dabei werden wichtige Differenzierungen, die in der Kantforschung fuer das Verstaendnis der kantischen Schriften entscheidend sind, nicht aus den Augen verloren. Denn fuer die Beantwortung dieser Frage ist es nicht unerheblich, welche Teile der kantischen Philosophie genau gemeint sind. Handelt es sich um vorkritische Schriften oder um zentrale Aspekte der reifen kritischen Philosophie? Sind empirische oder apriorische Elemente betroffen? Welche systematische Bedeutung haben die umstrittenen Aussagen fuer Kants Gesamtwerk? Der Autor versucht, diese Fragen in einer Weise zu beantworten, die auch Nicht-Kant-Experten einen guten Ueberblick ueber Kants Werk und diese Debatte ermoeglicht. Dabei verfolgt er einen aufklaererischen Ansatz, der die historischen Kontexte beruecksichtigt und zugleich fuer begriffliche Klarheit sorgt. Auf diese Weise plaediert er fuer einen rationalen Dialog, der auf nachvollziehbaren Argumenten beruht. Das Buch richtet sich damit an alle, die diese wichtige philosophische Debatte in ihrer ganzen Tiefe verstehen wollen.

Cvorovic, Jelena, Unwanted Childbearing and Child Nutritional Status in the Western Balkan Roma Communities. 171 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1111>
ISBN 978-3-031-91535-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book investigates the relationship between maternal investment, unwanted births, and child nutritional outcomes in five poor communities of the Western Balkan Roma. Based on an evolutionary approach, the book directly assesses variability in Roma mothers' parental care using data from UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 5 and 6 for the Roma settlements in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book includes useful information about Roma communities in the Western Balkans and their history and sufferings in the region. It reviews this history against the data on unwanted childbearing globally and in low- and middle-income countries. It addresses concerns related to Roma people's integration into European society, despite their longstanding presence in Europe. The book analyses the existence of health differentials among Roma children themselves, suggesting that some children are especially vulnerable. Therefore, it critically assesses how multiple (levels of) vulnerabilities affect differential Roma parental investment in children. This book is a useful resource for researchers interested in Roma studies, children's well-being, wellbeing of marginal groups, social work and social justice.

Farrington, Lisa E. (ed.), Black Artists in Their Own Words. (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) 416 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1140>
ISBN 978-0-520-38411-8 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-38412-5 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art. What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored. Instead, their stories have been told by intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who defined "a school" of Black art in the early twentieth century. For the first time, Black Artists in Their Own Words offers an insightful corrective. Esteemed art historian Lisa Farrington gathers writing spanning a century across the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent-including from renowned artists Henry Tanner, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Romare Bearden, Wifredo Lam, Renee Cox, and many more-that reveals both evolutions and equivocations. Many artists, especially during the civil rights era, have embraced Black aesthetics as a source of empowerment. Others prefer to be artists first and Black second, while some have rejected racial identification entirely. Here, Black artists reclaim their work from reductive critical narratives, sharing the motivations underlying their struggles to create in a white-dominated art world.

Calloway, Jamall A., Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise. (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) 288 pp. 2025:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-116>
ISBN 978-0-231-20922-9 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20923-6 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the aftermath of the Fall in works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. In reflecting on Eden, he contends, these writers rethought what paradise could mean in the face of the catastrophes of the Black experience.By placing key novels in conversation with major religious thinkers, Calloway shows how Black writers adopted Edenic motifs to rebut orthodox interpretations of Genesis, with striking theological implications. He argues that Baldwin's Giovanni's Room counters St. Paul's proclamations on the mortification of the flesh, reads Morrison's Paradise against St. Augustine's City of God as a challenge to the exclusions of the Garden of Eden, investigates Wright's use of Soren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Adam in The Outsider, and demonstrates how Walker's The Color Purple and Catholic theologian Ivone Gebara offer a radical reconceptualization of the serpent in Genesis. The book concludes with a reflection on Lucille Clifton's poetry. Revealing the richness of Black writers' engagement with theology, Imagining Eden is a profoundly original consideration of literature and liberation, God and humanity.

竹谷悦子著　アフリカ系アメリカ人の文化的表現と黒人の核の太平洋
Taketani, Etsuko, Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific. (Transpacific Studies) 230 pp. 2026:1 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1179>
ISBN 978-0-520-42520-0 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41677-2 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Opening new archives and narratives that emerge when we take an aerial turn in transpacific studies, Etsuko Taketani examines the genealogy and contours of the aerial imaginary and the corollary shifting planetary imaginary that evolved in a transnational space she terms the "black nuclear Pacific." Following the first aerial drop of an atom bomb on humans and the subsequent military occupation of Japan by the United States, African American-Japanese encounters happened on a scale unimaginable before the war. Through texts from a diverse range of artists, writers, and political thinkers-such as the NAACP's Walter White, lawyer Edith Sampson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Malcolm X-who had formative interactions with occupied Japan, Taketani uncovers and analyzes African American cultural expressions that include a quasi-alien abduction narrative, a creation of a new tribe in the image of a rainbow on Earth, a black futuristic apocalypse, and a racial fantasy of the Mother Plane. Through these cultural expressions, Aerial Archives of Race tracks the black networks and exchanges with Japan from above that provoked new ways of thinking about (human) races on planet Earth.

Vernyik, Zeno / Klapcsik, Sandor (eds.), Brutal Aspects of Migratory Esthetics: Migration and Violence in Modern and Contemporary Culture. 272 pp. 2025:3 (Ibidem Pr., GW) <749-1182>
ISBN 978-3-8382-1731-4 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

Ever since the Second World War, the movement of refugees as well as of those seeking better opportunities for work, for education, or a functional democracy, has dominated headlines, influenced political debates, and shaped elections and referenda. Growing nationalist sentiments and policies are increasingly defined against, and clash with, the free movement of people. In light of these worldwide tensions, this volume explores aggressive and brutal dimensions of migration through literature, documentary films, feature films, and theater productions. Uncovering deep societal forces behind migratory violence, the contributions reveal that instances of structural and cultural violence are rooted in hidden, yet highly influential and destructive, ideologies. The authors also provide revelatory glimpses into how artistic productions and scholarly works might be themselves subverting or deconstructing structural and cultural violence against migrants. Offering a critical yet compassionate examination of our culture heavily influenced by borders, exclusion, terrorism, and resilience, the book primarily serves literary and cultural studies scholars with new perspectives on the intersections of art with structuralist and deconstructivist approaches to migration-related violence but also offers a fresh look at borders and migration-related phenomena for those active in the social and political sciences. The Editors: Zeno Vernyik is assistant professor and head of the English Department at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic, where he co-founded the university’s Borders and Migration Research Group and was the recipient of two grants for projects focusing on the teaching and research of the cultural representation of migration. So far, he has authored a monograph, edited four further volumes, and published a number of articles on urban literature, crime fiction, and comparative literature. At present, he is working on a monograph on Arthur Koestler’s fiction. Sandor Klapcsik is assistant professor at the Technical University of Liberec in the Czech Republic and a cross-border commuter living in Poland. With support from European exchange programs and the research grant Migration: Sociopsychological and Cultural Factors, his recent work has focused on liminality and acculturation in ethnic and migrant cinema. He has been a Fulbright-Zoltai Fellow at the University of Minnesota (USA) and has conducted research at the University of Tromso (Norway), the University of ?od? (Poland), and the University of Liverpool (UK). His monograph Liminality in Fantastic Fiction: A Poststructuralist Approach was published in 2012. He is currently working on a volume on European migrant cinema.

Amigoni, Livio, Ethnography on the Underground Migratory Routes from Sudan to the North: Sombok Is an Idea and Ideas Never Die. (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship) 222 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1205>
ISBN 978-3-031-78644-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book uses an ethnography of the migratory route from Sudan to the EU to understand how undocumented migration experiences take place and breed underground forms of mobilities and survival strategies. It pays particular attention to the production, circulation and resilience of migratory knowledge in transnational networks and how those produce and sustain specific mobility practices. The related research questions focus on: how and which narratives and popular imaginations circulate and foster high-risk journeys towards Europe, referred to as sombok; understanding how these kind of journeys are interpreted and framed according to gender, religion and family traditions; discerning how border regimes produce specific migration careers, decision making processes and forms of resistance and cooperation with other actors; how the figure of the smuggler is framed by people on the move and how one group of smugglers interpret their activities at the Ventimiglia border; and how the practices of homing on the move and solidarity housing experiences take place and prop underground routes. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration.

グローバルな移民の脆弱性
Becker, Johannes / Boes, Mathias / Cakir, Sevil (eds.), Fragility of Global Migration: Exploring a Constitutive Aspect of Migratory Forms. 191 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1207>
ISBN 978-3-031-89291-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book demonstrates the analytical power of the concept of fragility as a central and defining aspect of global migration processes. To this end, the book brings together authors from the Americas, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, fostering a global dialogue on the social structuring of migration fragility in and between the Global North and the Global South. The various chapters of the book focus on two aspects. First, it discusses the multiplicity of the migrant as a social figure. There is not just one type of migrant, but a multiplicity of different fragile configurations that lead to the migrantization of people. Secondly, the same applies to the process of migration itself. There is a plethora of different articulations of fragility in crossing borders and organizing a new life somewhere else. Both perspectives show that the fragility of migration is not an aberration from "normality". Fragility is an intrinsic part of the stabilization of social inequalities of migration between different migrants and different countries and regions of the globe. As such, this book is an important resource for researchers and students interested in the study of migration processes.

Biondi, Martha, We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. 328 pp. 2025:11 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1208>
ISBN 978-0-520-41771-7 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. For many civil rights activists, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists, who built an internationalist movement in Chicago committed to liberation everywhere but especially to ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa. Among their leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of Garveyism and labor militancy, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam, London, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad, Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white minority rule in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Rather than promoting a US conception of Black self-determination, they took ideas from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy debates. The biography of a man but even more so of a movement, We Are Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a transformative Black solidarity project.

Freidingerova, Tereza (ed.), Vietnamese Diasporas along the Former Iron Curtain: From Builders of Socialism to Builders of Capitalism. 222 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1215>
ISBN 978-3-031-89124-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines how socialism and post-socialism influenced or determined (if at all) the adaptive behavior and entrepreneurial activities, both legal and illegal, of the Vietnamese in Central Europe (CE). It considers the circumstances that accompanied the establishment of the migration channel between Vietnam and CE, the geopolitical changes that enabled the formation of Vietnamese diasporas, and the development of Vietnamese business. The authors argue that the rapid emergence and relative success of Vietnamese business after the change in regime was made possible by different factors such as the already existing illicit trade established under socialism, the hunger of (post-)socialist society for consumer goods, the significant economic differences between neighbouring CE countries after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the relatively similar initial post-1989 conditions for both majority and Vietnamese entrepreneurs, and, especially, the socialist moral flexibility and the silent agreement that accepted illicit, quasi-legal, and non-standard practices inherent to the business environment of the entire socialist and post-socialist area. Finally, the authors suggest that the establishment of a network, encompassing both formal and informal business relationships within CE, led to the creation of a unique spatial layer that more or less ignores state borders, referred to as a "Vietscape" - a breeding ground for the development of Vietnamese business in CE that has been significantly transnational since its inception.

Gomez Cervantes, Andrea, Illegality in the Heartland: Latinidad, Indigeneity, and Immigration Policies during Times of Hate. 333 pp. 2025:12 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1220>
ISBN 978-0-520-39388-2 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39389-9 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic participant observations, Illegality in the Heartland interrogates existing understandings of illegality and Latinidad by centering the voices and experiences of Indigenous and mestizo Latino immigrants in the American heartland during the first Trump administration, a distinct era of political uncertainty. Immigration policies and political narratives have long tied those suspected of being "illegal" to perceptions of Mexican origin and stereotypes associated with Hispanics more broadly. Likewise, Latin American immigrants in the United States have been positioned as a single group, thereby collapsing ethnoracial distinctions under the umbrella identities of Hispanic, Latina/o, or Latinx/e. Andrea Gomez Cervantes examines these ethnoracial divides among Latino immigrants as they seek to navigate life and make Kansas their home while undocumented. This work shines a crucial light on how immigration laws, racialization, and gender mechanisms intersect in spaces where immigrants are not yet an established part of the public imaginary-even as they make essential contributions to their communities and mobilize as increasingly influential constituents in their own right.

Juncker, Tom / Pscheiden, D. / Sulzenbacher, H. (Hrsg.), Schwarze Juden, Weisse Juden?: Ueber Hautfarben und Vorurteile. 320 S. 2025:10 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-1222>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5990-1 paper ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Juedische Identitaet im Spannungsverhaeltnis zwischen Eigendefinitionen, Antisemitismus und Rassismus. Welche Hautfarben haben Juedinnen und Juden - und welche werden ihnen zugeschrieben? Wie verorten sie sich selbst? Seit Jahrhunderten werden Menschen durch rassistische Weltanschauungen vor allem nach ihrer Hautfarbige bewertet. ≫Rassentheorien≪, Kolonialismus, Antisemitismus und andere Ueberlegenheitsfantasien schufen eine fundamentale Hierarchie: eine Ordnung der Welt, die auf der Ordnung nach Hautfarben beruht. Die Publikation beleuchtet diese Stereotypisierungen und Ausgrenzungen, die Jews of Color welt-weit - insbesondere in Europa, den USA und Israel - erfahren. Heutige Diskurse verstehen Hautfarbige als historische und soziale Konstruktion und weniger als biologische Kategorie. Gerade die juengste Eskalation des Nahost-Konflikts fuehrte zur Verfestigung des Stereotyps von Juden als Weisse Kolonialherren, die eine ≫nicht-Weisse≪, indigene Bevoelkerung unterdruecken. Dafuer wird ausgeblendet, dass Juedinnen und Juden?- nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Tatsache, dass ihre Geschichte von Migration, Vertreibung, und allen voran von der Schoa gepraegt ist - auf allen Kontinenten praesent waren und sind. Sind Juedinnen und Juden nun aber Weiss, ≫nicht-Weiss≪ oder Schwarz? Die verschiedenen Antworten und ihre weitreichenden Folgen bekraeftigen die Aktualitaet und Dringlichkeit dieser Publikation.

ドイツにおけるシリア人家族
Kaidouha, Kutaiba, Syrian Families in Germany: The Multi-Faceted Reality of Adaptation to a New Surrounding. (Migration & Integration 16) 288 S. 2025:5 (Nomos, GW) <749-1224>
ISBN 978-3-7560-2383-7 paper ¥17,419.- (税込) EUR 74.00

This book highlights the dynamics and conflicts of Syrian families within the German asylum context, examining the interplay of cultural, social, economic, and legal factors shaping familial relationships. Using anthropological methods such as participant observation, interviews, and focus groups, the book analyzes the challenges faced by Syrian families before, during, and after displacement. It focuses on marital conflicts influenced by gender roles, economic changes, cultural and religious differences, and the legal frameworks in Germany. Finally, it explores conflict resolution strategies within the new social and legal environment. This book provides readers with a profound understanding of the challenges and adaptations of Syrian families in the asylum context.

Kaufman, Jay S., The Race Variable: How Statistical Practices Reinforce Inequality. (Race, Inequality, and Health 14) 256 pp. 2025:12 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-1225>
ISBN 978-0-231-21362-2 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21363-9 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

From social science and biomedical research to government and media reporting, statistics on racial and ethnic disparities are everywhere. The numbers we typically encounter, however, are not straightforward comparisons. Researchers analyze data using adjustments such as regression models that are intended to address bias and confounding factors. Yet many common statistical practices produce misleading results, and some have flawed assumptions that inadvertently misrepresent the inequalities between groups.Jay S. Kaufman offers a clear and accessible guide to understanding the use and abuse of statistics on racial and ethnic disparities. Examining dozens of real-world examples spanning medicine, economics, education, and criminal justice, he shows how typical statistical practices-no matter how well-intentioned-have obscured the realities of injustice, with significant consequences for public policy. Kaufman considers how to select and apply statistical adjustments responsibly and systematically, and he proposes ways to improve the explanation and analysis of racial and ethnic inequalities.Written for readers without a background in statistics, this book provides an essential introduction to quantitative reasoning in terms of social justice. The Race Variable is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses across the medical and social sciences-including sociology, demography, public health, epidemiology, medicine, and public policy-that focus on racial and ethnic disparities, and for all readers interested in the statistical foundations of our understanding of inequality.

Kevonian, Dzovinar / Tronchet, Guillaume (eds.), Managing Global Student Migration in the Twentieth Century: The Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris Experiment. (Palgrave Studies in Migration History) 184 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1227>
ISBN 978-3-031-81765-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open-access book examines student migration in the twentieth century, focusing on the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1925 by the French government with support from a diverse coalition of international public and private actors, this campus was intended to host up to 10,000 students from various national backgrounds each year, thereby fostering French influence and promoting cross-cultural understanding. In this context, the book traces these students' trajectories through major social and political movements of the century-such as anti-colonialism, communism, and feminism-from the interwar period to the globalization in the 2000s. It explores the varied backgrounds of students, including democratic elites, exiles fleeing military dictatorships, and students from developing nations. Through this analysis, the book illuminates the forces driving global student mobility and academic diplomacy, assessing the roles of governments, universities, and philanthropic organizations in shaping these efforts. Furthermore, it reveals the complex intersections of class, gender, and race within migrant student communities, for whom the Cite served as a nexus of exchange and cultural transfer. By using the Cite Internationale as a case study, this work offers a distinctive perspective on the global history of student mobility and transnational higher education.

Louis, Diana Martha, Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century. (Race, Inequality, and Health 12) 352 pp. 2025:10 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-1228>
ISBN 978-0-231-21286-1 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21287-8 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used to reinforce slavery and Jim Crow? And how did Black people express alternative ideas about individual and communal mental health?Diana Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the "colored insane." She demonstrates how psychiatric discourses made Blacks "mad" both by inflicting real psychological harm within asylums, plantations, jails, and society writ large and by constructing mental disorders according to prevailing notions of race, class, gender, and sanity. Yet even as white medical professionals pathologized the enslaved as suffering from "drapetomania" (runaway slave syndrome), portrayed slavery as beneficial to Black mental health, or cast African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices as signs of madness, Black people developed their own complex perspectives on mental disability.Louis considers the lives and writings of Black intellectuals and cultural figures including James McCune Smith, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as a group of Black women who were incarcerated in Georgia Lunatic Asylum, showing how mental disability was entangled with questions of freedom, spirituality, and self-determination. Combining literary and historical analysis, Colored Insane is a rich account of nineteenth-century Black Americans' experiences of mental illness and wellness.

Ramos, Nic John, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles. (American Crossroads) 366 pp. 2025:12 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1230>
ISBN 978-0-520-40412-0 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40413-7 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Health as Property shows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of color. Nic Ramos examines a Black-led academic medical center known as King-Drew that was built in response to the 1965 Watts Uprising. Forged by the political willingness of white voters to experiment with anti-poverty programs in poor neighborhoods of color, the health system's multiple missions represented the freedom dreams of civil rights, Black Power, welfare rights, and consumer rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s. However, during Los Angeles's rise as a global city in the 1970s and 1980s, white voters' desire to realize these dreams was curtailed by renewed narratives of health rooted in racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic ideas about poor people of color. Instead of working to combat the forces of racial and sexual capitalism underlying health inequality, a diverse group of liberal progressive leaders inverted the healthcare aims of King-Drew. Health as Property demonstrates how healthcare policy in America is both labor and real estate policy, and as such preserves health as the property of a select few.

Thomas, Paul / Dzemidzic Kristiansen, Selma / Von Hof, J., Education and Cultural Evolution in Norway's Multiethnic Society: Bridges to Belonging. 203 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <749-1236>
ISBN 978-3-031-89017-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access volume explores the complex dynamics of ethnic and racial segregation in Norwegian schools, particularly in Oslo. It examines how educational institutions can reflect and challenge societal norms regarding race, culture, and identity. The book argues that while Norway pursues an egalitarian ethos, recent trends in school segregation undermine these ideals. The major contribution of this book lies in its critical exploration of the intersectionality of race, culture, and education, grounded in critical pedagogy principles. Through case studies, personal narratives, and literary analyses, the authors highlight how marginalized students navigate their identities within systems that often stigmatize them. Topics include authentic multicultural education, the reclamation of space and identity by non-white students, and the examination of "ghetto schools" as sites of both challenge and empowerment. Special features include visual illustrations and engaging literary analyses. Ultimately this volume serves as a compelling call for educational reform and cultural dialogue, emphasizing the transformative potential of education in promoting social justice and community cohesion.

Werth, Alex, On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland. 446 pp. 2025:10 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1240>
ISBN 978-0-520-41606-2 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41607-9 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland's culture, politics, and geography. Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps. On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting on the centrality of sound in everyday social movements-from the mobilization of funk music and boogaloo dance during Black Power to the policing of the Hyphy movement in the 2000s-Alex Werth argues that Black dance music is not merely a soundtrack to or record of urban resistance. Rather, its very sound waves have animated looping clashes over development, dispossession, and Black freedom. Through studies of downtown nightclubs, Lake Merritt, and the Eastmont Mall-geographies rarely considered, yet critical to Oakland's culture and politics-Werth reveals how the liberatory sonic politics of funk, hip-hop, and hyphy rap have been met with a repetitive "war on nuisance." As both a means of empowerment and a magnet for policing, Black dance music has transformed not only Oakland's nightlife, but also its streets, parks, and neighborhoods. On Loop is a rousing encounter with the sound that moves urban life.

Guglielmi, Marco (ed.), Immigrant Christianities: Religious Migration from Romania to Italy. (Religion and Global Migrations) 204 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-126>
ISBN 978-3-031-89090-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country's foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world. This volume is the first to examine the religious dimension of this vast migratory phenomenon from multiple perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, ethnology, history, and theology.The chapters study the patterns and transformations of Romanian Churches and Christian movements in Italy, with particular attention to the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Roman Catholic Church, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, and the Romanian Pentecostal Church. They also analyze how these immigrant Churches and religious movements engage with Italian society and respond to contemporary challenges.Drawing on the study of the Romanian diaspora and grounded in a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume develops the notion of immigrant Christianities. The latter provides a heuristic framework for highlighting the growing entanglements and transformative dynamics shaping the multiplicity of immigrant Churches and Christian movements in the contemporary world.

Frierson, Karma F., Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz. 203 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1021>
ISBN 978-0-520-41339-9 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41340-5 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the "happiest Carnival in the world," nightly live music, and public dancing. It is also where Blackness is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, but not of the individual self. In Local Color, anthropologist Karma F. Frierson follows Veracruzanos as they reckon with the Afro-Caribbean roots of their distinctive history, traditions, and culture. As residents learn to be more jarocho, or more local to Veracruz, Frierson examines how people both internalize and externalize the centrality of Blackness in their regional identity. Frierson provocatively asks readers to consider a manifestation of Mexican Blackness unconcerned with self-identification as Black in favor of the active pursuit and cultivation of a collective and regionalized Blackness.

ラディカルな主権－大戦間期ラテンアメリカにおける人種、国民、帝国の議論
Wood, Tony, Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America. 312 pp. 2026:1 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1032>
ISBN 978-0-520-39124-6 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39126-0 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the 1920s and 1930s, Latin American radicals engaged in urgent debates over how to combat racism, resist empire, and reimagine the nation-state. Drawing on a global array of sources, Radical Sovereignty reconstructs these transnational discussions that unfolded in such far-flung locations as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Moscow, and Brussels. Energized by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, communists, trade unionists, peasant organizers, and anti-imperial activists emerged from these debates with innovative ideas for addressing historical oppressions, including proposals for a pan-continental confederation and calls to grant black and indigenous peoples in the Americas the right to form their own sovereign states. While these projects did not come to fruition, they left an enduring mark on Latin America's political landscape, bequeathing approaches to race, ethnicity, and self-determination that have resurfaced in recent years.

Wallace, Javier, Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams. 200 pp. 2025:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-869>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2934-2 hard ¥21,610.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3280-9 paper ¥5,394.- (税込) US$ 25.95

Cohen, Kris, The Human in Bits: Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions. 216 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-871>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2885-7 hard ¥22,661.- (税込) US$ 109.00
ISBN 978-1-4780-3209-0 paper ¥6,444.- (税込) US$ 31.00

Kim Lee, Summer, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair. 256 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-895>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2883-3 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-4780-3205-2 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

Winters, Joseph R., The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred. 216 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-919>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2860-4 hard ¥21,610.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3185-7 paper ¥5,394.- (税込) US$ 25.95

Allen, Sylvester / Boggs, Belle, The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter. (A Ferris and Ferris Book) 288 pp. 2026:1 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-953>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8999-9 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Wyatt Outlaw's story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina's Alamance County. But in 1870, Outlaw was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, setting off a dramatic series of events: more lynchings, a Republican-led "war" against the Klan, and a white supremacist crackdown on Black political power that continues today. As a child, Black activist, musician, and Graham native Sylvester Allen frequently passed the site where Outlaw was killed without ever learning his name. Belle Boggs, white and also from the South, taught high school in Alamance County without knowing Outlaw's importance. Allen and Boggs both sought to discover why Outlaw had been erased from mainstream history books. In The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw, they share what they found in artful detail and connect Outlaw's story to the violence against Black people in Alamance and throughout the United States, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow, the civil rights era, and Black Lives Matter. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and their own personal stories, Allen and Boggs join the conversation begun by historian Peniel Joseph and activist William Barber II about a third Reconstruction in America, but they also offer ways to move forward for any community struggling with a history of racism.

Barrera, Mario / Torres, Rodolfo / Robinson, W. I. (eds.), Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays: Studies in Political Economy. 432 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-955>
ISBN 978-1-032-98292-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-98287-8 paper ¥11,022.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99

In Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays, Mario Barrera puts forth his seminal theory of racial inequality based on a synthesis of class and colonial analysis together with several essays and selections from Barrera's memoir that show how his thinking developed throughout his work.Reprinted here for the first time after becoming a modern classic of Chicano studies, Race and Class in the Southwest focuses on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the present. Barrera reviews the economic history of Chicanos, their relegation to a subordinate position in the labor force segmented along racial lines, their displacement from the land, the effects of waves of immigration from Mexico, the role of an emerging Chicano middle class, and state policies designed to reproduce the subordinate status of Chicanos. He reviews competing theories of racial inequality and concludes that an "internal colonialism" model that focuses on the institutional subordination of Chicanos offers the greatest explanatory value for understanding the political economy of Chicanos in the Southwest.The Editors, Rodolfo Torres and William I. Robinson, provide both an important historical and contextual introduction to the work, as well as thorough annotation that brings the scholarship into contemporary conversation with further theoretical development and highlights Barrera's significant contribution to recent and new debates that reflect his legacy at a time of rising social inequalities, political conflict and mass migration into the United States from Latin America.

Bland, Robert D., Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 288 pp. 2026:1 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-957>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9186-2 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9187-9 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their place in a nation still grappling with the legacy of slavery. Often remembered as a period of failed progressive change that gave way to Jim Crow and second-class citizenship, Reconstruction's tragic narrative has long overshadowed the resilience and agency of African Americans during this time. Requiem for Reconstruction chronicles Reconstruction's legacy by focusing on key Black figures such as South Carolina congressman Robert Smalls, Judge William Whipper, writer Frances Rollin, and others who shaped postbellum Black America. Robert D. Bland traces the impact of the Reconstruction generation-Black Americans born between 1840 and 1870 who saw Reconstruction as a defining political movement and worked to preserve its legacy by establishing a new set of historical practices such as formulating new archives, shaping local community counternarratives, using the Black press to inform national audiences about Southern Republican politics, and developing a framework to interpret the recent past's connection to their present world. Set in South Carolina's Lowcountry-a hub of Black freedom, landownership, and activism-this book shows how late nineteenth-century Black leaders, educators, and journalists built a powerful countermemory of Reconstruction, defying the dominant white narrative that sought to erase their contributions.

Bonfert, Lisa, Transnationality and Social Mobility: Navigating Social Structures. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) 150 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-958>
ISBN 978-1-032-60028-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Considering that changes in people's life chances are increasingly shaped by cross-border movements and transnational connections, this book proposes a transnational conception of social mobility. Emphasising the manifold ways in which contexts of migration and transnationality affect perceptions and evaluations of betterment, the book argues for linking the study of social and spatial mobility to better capture how people navigate social structures of inequality in a globalised world.Based on the experiences of people who moved to Germany to improve their lives in some way, this book links empirical findings with theoretical considerations from transnational and intersectional scholarship to propose an alternative concept of social mobility that emphasises people's subjective interpretations of success and failure in their search of betterment.Drawing on the concepts of social spaces, capitals, and reference group theory, a model of the cogwheel of social mobility is proposed to account for the varying ways in which cross-border migration and transnational connections initiate changes in people's social position within and across country borders.This book will therefore be of interest to scholars of sociology, geography and politics with interests in migration, transnationalism and mobility.

世界中の特権を持つ移民－包摂、排除、移動性の経験
Chattoraj, Diotima (ed.), Privileged Migrants Across the Globe: Experiences of Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 218 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-960>
ISBN 978-1-032-93809-7 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse. The book delves into the rising mobility of various groups, including students, skilled professionals, and lifestyle migrants. Despite their education and resources, these individuals encounter hurdles such as loss of status and their pursuit of integration into the host society. By highlighting the complexities of achieving privileged social interaction with the host population, the text emphasizes the fluid and relative nature of privilege. It provides a nuanced exploration of the experiences of privileged migrants, their strategies for integration, and the challenges they face in navigating between insider and outsider dynamics in their respective host nations. Rich in empirical evidence and practical insights, this is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and students of migration, as well as policy makers and practitioners engaged with migrant issues.

Davis, Georgiann, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family. 272 pp. 2025:10 (New York U. Pr., US) <748-966>
ISBN 978-1-4798-4039-7 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

An unforgettable journey from seventh-grade dropout to celebrated professor Georgiann Davis' family is white, but not the right kind of white. They're five star white trash. They borrowed money and tried to buy class. In this upside-down and queer response to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Davis introduces readers to the relatives who shaped her turbulent childhood: the Greek grandparents who guided her, the father who understood cars better than children, and the brother whose violence went unchecked in their home. Looming over them all was Davis' larger-than-life mother, who displayed her love through gifts they couldn't afford, empowering Davis with life lessons even as she downplayed their financial struggles. It took years to uncover the shocking medical secrets that her mother had kept from her -secrets that upended everything she thought she knew about gender and the human body. Davis guides us through her unusual life, from running the family's ice cream business to selling weed in her "monkey shit green" Dodge Neon. As she chronicles her journey from seventh-grade dropout to sociology professor, she reveals how whiteness colored her family's struggles. She connects her personal experiences of medical abuse, fatphobia, and fear of the intersex body with incisive critiques of white supremacy, the opioid crisis, and gendered oppression. Faced with unimaginable setbacks-identity theft, medical struggles, and family turmoil-Davis relentlessly pursued education. It was this quest that transformed her life, giving her the tools to tell her own story. The result is a deeply moving memoir which complicates our understanding of upward mobility and familial love.

Gregory, Steven, Towering Above Harlem: Geographies of Race and the Power of Elite Institutions. Ed. by E. Chin. 336 pp. 2025:9 (New York U. Pr., US) <748-970>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3137-1 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3138-8 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Charts racialized and class-based exclusion in Morningside Heights and its surrounding area by elite institutions New York City's storied diversity has also been a story of racialized class discrimination. Towering Above Harlem focuses on understudied players in this process: the elite institutions of Morningside Heights-Columbia University, Teachers College and the Riverside Church-to reveal the troubling ways in which they exploited existing geographic features to build a racially and economically exclusive "city on a hill." In his final book-length work, Steven Gregory explores the long history of economic and racial discrimination in Morningside Heights, beginning in the late 19th century and extending into the present day. This exclusion of the surrounding racial minorities and working-class population has been enacted physically, through the acquisition of property by Columbia and others, but it has also been enacted through a variety of discourses and practices aimed at setting apart the so-called "civilization-building" mission of the elites overlooking Harlem from the racialized others in the vicinity. The book shows that the major institutions of Morningside Heights have since the beginning tried to physically secede from the Black and Puerto Rican communities geographically below the Morningside plateau, while also symbolically rising above them as beacons of progress. The volume charts the coordinated effort among elites to use space to naturalize relations of power and prestige, illuminating the past, present, and uncertain future of racial discrimination and exclusivity in Morningside Heights and in New York City at large.

新自由主義の時代における人種主義　第2版
Hohle, Randolph, Racism in the Neoliberal Era: A Meta History of Elite White Power. 2nd ed. (New Critical Viewpoints on Society) 360 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-971>
ISBN 978-1-032-76935-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
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Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest Black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on a racial language of white-private/black public, operating as a web of racial meanings that connect social groups with economic policy, geography, and police brutality. When America was racially segregated, elites consented to political pressure to develop and fund white-public institutions. The Black civil rights movement eliminated legal barriers that prevented racial integration. The elite white response to Black civic inclusion was to deregulate the Voting Rights Act and banking policy - giving themselves tax cuts and implementing austerity measures on government programs to aid the poor, privatizing neighborhoods, schools, and social welfare, creating markets around poverty. Citizenship was recast as a privilege instead of a right. Neoliberalism is the result of an elite white meta strategy to maintain political and economic power.This new edition is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the further history and debates over neoliberalism in the Trump and Biden eras, and the significant social and political discussions around race and racism, policing, housing, health care, and citizenship as they interconnect with the American neoliberal economic and political system. The new edition will be a vital textbook for students, instructors, and researchers in sociology, politics, race, and economics.

Hunter, Antwain K., A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865. 320 pp. 2025:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-972>
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Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed, and used firearms-both legal and otherwise-and how the state and white people responded. North Carolinians, whether free or enslaved, Black or white, had different stakes on the issue, all of which impacted the reality of Black people's gun use. Antwain K. Hunter reveals that armed Black people used firearms for a wide range of purposes: They hunted to feed their families and communities, guarded property, protected crops, and defended maroon communities from outsiders. Further, they resisted the institution of slavery and used guns both against white people and within their own community. Competing views of Black people's firearm use created social, political, and legal points of contention for different demographics within North Carolina and left the general assembly and white civilians struggling to harness Black people's armed labor for white people's benefit. A Precarious Balance challenges readers to rethink how they understand race and firearms in the American past.