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

いかに性、人種、労働が初期のフランス帝国を形成したか
Lamotte, Melanie, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire. 352 pp. 2026:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-984>
ISBN 978-0-674-27283-5 hard ¥10,384.- (税込) US$ 49.95

A richly detailed transoceanic history of the early French Empire, illuminating how it became bound by a common legal culture of race-as well as how enslaved and free people critically shaped the development of the colonies.From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-imperial history of the early French Empire in the English language, Melanie Lamotte shows how an increasingly cohesive legal culture came to govern the lives of enslaved and free people of African, Malagasy, South Asian, and Native American descent. She also illuminates the important role played by these populations in the development of the empire, from Louisiana to Guadeloupe, Senegambia, Madagascar, Isle Bourbon, and India.The early French Empire has often been portrayed as a fragmented conglomerate of isolated colonies or regions. Yet Lamotte shows that racial policies issued by the metropole, as well as by officials in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, significantly influenced one another. Rather than focusing on the actions of administrators, however, Lamotte also reveals the extensive influence of people on the ground-especially those of non-European descent. Through their sexuality and their labor, along with their socio-economic and political endeavors, they played a critical role in building the empire and setting its limits. As they sought justice for themselves, strove to protect their kin, and aimed to improve their social conditions, these individuals also pushed against the advancement of white dominion in unexpected ways.Archivally rich and rigorously documented, By Flesh and Toil illuminates the transoceanic connections that united the French colonial world-and recasts people of African, Malagasy, South Asian, and Native American descent as key actors in the story of empire-building.

Burch, Melissa, The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America. 248 pp. 2025:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-696>
ISBN 978-0-691-27210-8 hard ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions-and thus denying opportunities to those who need them most. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time-discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce development professionals, and job-seekers with felony convictions in Southern California, Burch shows that this discrimination is not simply a matter of employer bias. Hiring is shaped by a set of institutions, organizations, and industries that promote the erroneous idea that people with criminal records are dangerous to employ. This "criminal record complex," as Burch names it, encourages exclusion and undermines employers' common-sense ways of assessing candidates. In vivid and intimate detail, Burch reveals both the futility and devastating human consequences of discriminatory policies.Burch places today's routine practice of background screening within racialized notions of risk originating in early capitalist development, tracing how, over decades, criminal background checks became a convenient catch-all, leveraged by entities with a direct interest in growing the practice. Despite this reach, however, Burch discovers that small business owners tend to put less value on background checks, trusting their own judgment. Approaching the issue from both personal and policy perspectives, The Criminal Record Complex upends what we thought we knew about the causes of criminal record discrimination. It suggests that our best hope for creating safe workplaces lies not in the false promise of background screening, but in building the kinds of economies and communities that support true safety.

Gonzalez, Shannon Malone, The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence. 312 pp. 2025:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-699>
ISBN 978-0-691-26043-3 hard ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Why black women's stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violenceIn The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate, life history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, never even been asked to, or had tried repeatedly to speak to those around them to no avail. They all described the unspoken or whispered connections in the ways officers and communities socially control black women to put them "in their place." Centering black women's searches for recognition of their violent encounters with police and other people in their lives, Malone Gonzalez examines the pervasive and often invisible forms of everyday policing that render missing black women's stories from official data, headlines, and community conversations. Articulating what she calls "the space between" recognition of black women's stories and their encounters, Malone Gonzalez shows that policing is as much about silence as it is about violence. Black women's silenced stories, then, provide a way to name and critique the institutional and intimate forms of policing that break and bend black social relations into a complex web of social control. Drawing on abolition feminism and black knowledge traditions, she envisions storytelling-and listening-as a way to reimagine, remember, and reconnect in solidarity and worldbuilding.

Alam, Eram, The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare. (Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism) 216 pp. 2025:12 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-75>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5278-4 paper ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. In The Care of Foreigners, Eram Alam examines this migratory dynamic that began during the Cold War.The passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 expedited the entry of Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) from postcolonial South Asia and sent them to provide care in shortage areas throughout the United States. Although this arrangement was conceived as temporary, over the decades it has become a permanent fixture of the medical system, with FMGs comprising at least a quarter of the physician labor force since the act became law. This cohort of practitioners has not been extensively studied, rendering the impacts of immigration and foreign policy on the everyday mechanics of US health care obscure. Alam foregrounds global dynamics embedded in the medical system to ask how and why Asian physicians-and especially practitioners from South Asia-have become integral to US medical practice and ubiquitous in the mainstream US public imagination. Drawing on transcripts of congressional hearings, medical, scientific, and social scientific literature, ethnographies, oral histories, and popular media, Alam explores the enduring consequences of postcolonial physician migration. Combining theoretical and methodological insights from a range of disciplines, this book analyzes both the care provided by immigrant physicians as well as the care extended to them as foreigners.

James, Leslie, The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-802>
ISBN 978-0-674-27941-4 hard ¥10,384.- (税込) US$ 49.95

A revelatory account of Black Atlantic political thought in the era of decolonization, revealing how West African and Caribbean newspapers invigorated debates about imperialism, capitalism, and Black freedom.In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed their first issues. With small staffs and shoestring budgets, these newspapers nonetheless became powerful vehicles for the expression of Black political thought. Drawing on papers from Trinidad, Jamaica, Ghana, and Nigeria, Leslie James shows how the press on both sides of the Atlantic nourished anticolonial and antiracist movements. Editors with varying levels of education, men and women journalists, worker and peasant correspondents, and anonymous contributors voiced incisive critiques of empire and experimented with visions of Black freedom. But as independence loomed, the press transformed to better demonstrate the respectability expected of a self-governing people.Seeing themselves as "the Fourth and Only Estate," the sole democratic institution available to a colonized population, early press contributors experimented with the form and function of the newspaper itself. They advanced anticolonial goals through clipping and reprinting articles from a variety of sources; drawing on local ways of speaking; and manipulating photography, comics, and advertising. Such unruly content, James shows, served as a strategic assertion of autonomy against colonial bureaucracy. Yet in the 1950s, this landscape changed as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to govern itself. Influenced by new political paradigms, papers either standardized their formats or stopped publishing altogether. By the 1960s, intellectual debates about racism and colonialism had moved to other kinds of publications.Illuminating an extraordinary period in the history of Black Atlantic political thought, The Moving Word vividly portrays the power of experimental media.

黒人のトランプ支持をどう説明できるか？
Arhin, Kofi, How Can We Explain Black Support For Donald Trump?: The Impact of Black Identity and Religiosity on Black Voting Patterns. (Springer Series in Electoral Politics) 126 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <747-881>
ISBN 978-3-031-87954-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

African Americans have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party. Yet, the rise of Donald Trump, with his radical Republican stance, did not diminish their support for him compared to previous Republican candidates. This book analyzes an intriguing question: Why are some African American voters not deterred by Trump's rhetoric? Exploring a new theory, the book argues that Black Trump voters have varying degrees of attachment to Black identity. Those with weaker ties to Black identity are less likely to conform to the expected political behavior of their community. Instead, their primary identity, often Christianity, guides their voting decisions. This shift in identity prioritization leads them to support the Republican Party, regardless of the candidate. This book provides a fresh perspective on race, identity, and political allegiance in contemporary America. It will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science in general and electoral studies in particular.

Raychaudhuri, Tanika, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship: From Politica Learning to Partisan Leanings. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-898>
ISBN 978-0-19-782657-7 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-782653-9 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

なぜ（白人のリベラルも含めて）みんな白人のリベラルが嫌いか－歴史
Schultz, Kevin M., Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History. 256 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-900>
ISBN 978-0-226-82436-9 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals-and why it's time to change the conversation about them. If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate them for serving as capitalism's beard. Even liberals hate liberals-either because they can't manage to overcome their own prejudices, or precisely because they're so self-hating. This is the starting point for Kevin M. Schultz's lively new history of white liberals in the United States. He efficiently lays out the array of objections to liberals-ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian, and more-in a historical frame that shows how protean the concept has been throughout the past hundred years. It turns out, he declares, that how you define a "white liberal" is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test revealing your own anxieties. Sharply assessing how decades of attacks on liberals and liberalism have steadily hollowed out the center of American political life, Schultz also explains precisely what needs to be done to avoid digging ourselves even further into the hole of polarization. The ultimate goal, he argues, is to achieve political fragmentation that will fuel the rise of a true multiparty system, where ideology will matter more, not less. With a tight command of postwar American history and a spirited voice, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand-and envision a way forward in-the complicated landscape of American politics.

George, Babu / Wooden, Ontario S., AI Empowered: Pioneering African American Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age. 152 pp. 2025:8 (Emerald, UK) <747-482>
ISBN 978-1-83662-817-0 hard ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), new technology is reshaping business landscapes and creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation and growth. Professors Babu George and Ontario Wooden explore the transformative journey of African American entrepreneurs as they navigate the evolving AI era. Beginning with a conceptual analysis based on firsthand experiences with African American business leaders and supported by the existing literature, George and Wooden trace the historical trajectory of African American entrepreneurship, highlighting the resilience and ingenuity that have long defined this community. They examine critical aspects such as policy frameworks, financial strategies, educational initiatives, and the importance of networking within the AI ecosystem, underscoring the need for inclusive policies and accessible resources to ensure African American entrepreneurs can fully participate in and benefit from the AI revolution. At the heart of the discussion is AI's role in bridging socioeconomic divides, equipping African American entrepreneurs with powerful tools to overcome systemic barriers and advance toward economic empowerment. Through micro-case studies, innovative insights, and actionable strategies, the book brings home the hope that digital divides and systemic inequities can be overcome successfully. AI Empowered concludes with a forward-looking perspective, envisioning a future where African American entrepreneurs lead AI-driven innovation. It calls for a collective effort to support these trailblazers and foster a diverse, dynamic entrepreneurial landscape that reflects the promise of the digital age.

Light, Ivan / Dana, Leo-Paul / Chabaud, Didier (eds.), Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurs: History, Cases, and Frontiers. (Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies) 236 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <747-492>
ISBN 978-3-031-84289-4 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

In this broad-based, imaginative and challenging volume by front-runners in the domain of immigrant and refugee entrepreneurship, Ivan Light, Leo-Paul Dana and Didier Chabaud contribute a near boundless magnitude to our understanding of this realm of scholarship, agency, endurance, and survivorship. Their insights into the saliency of these forms of collective effort are as impressive as they are persuasive. Seven Gold, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University. This book holds significant academic merit and also serves as an essential tool for policymakers, scholars, and anyone keen on understanding the deep influence of immigrant entrepreneurship on global society. Additionally, it celebrates the relentless spirit of immigrant entrepreneurs who persistently foster innovation and drive transformative changes within their communities. Thomas Cooney, College of Business, Technological University Dublin "History, Cases, and Frontiers." That subtitle explains exactly what this remarkable book provides. The history section offers a depth of understanding that literature reviews cannot match. The cases assemble all the evidence now available regarding immigrant and refugee entrepreneurship in Europe, and the frontiers section takes readers to the boundary of theoretically informed current research. A glossary eases access for newcomers. It all amounts to a one-stop complete education that fills gaps in the knowledge of experienced researchers and enables others quickly to attain qualification. Marina Dabic, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb A carefully crafted volume with thoughtful case studies that capture the nuances of the complexity, diversity, changing patterns, and impacts of immigrant and refugee entrepreneurship.?? Min Zhou, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

移民とイノベーション研究アジェンダ
Lissoni, Francesco / Morrison, Andrea (eds.), A Research Agenda for Migration and Innovation. (Elgar Research Agendas) 224 pp. 2025:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-493>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0846-0 hard ¥26,856.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research.This Research Agenda presents an incisive overview of economic research on the multiple links between international migration and innovation. It both examines the key conceptual issues, explores data and methodological challenges and draws on the most recent empirical evidence to provide novel insights into the migration-innovation nexus and its significance for policy and practice.Expert scholars analyze the role of migrants in driving innovation, particularly through knowledge diffusion and diversity across workplaces, cities and regions. They engage with these central themes across varied historical and socio-economic contexts, evaluating the contributions of key actors such as migrant inventors and scientists, international students, and ethnic entrepreneurs within both their host and home countries. In so doing, this Research Agenda ultimately advocates for greater integration of migration policies into broader innovation strategies and for a more careful evaluation of global talent flows and their economic effects.Interdisciplinary in scope, this timely Research Agenda will benefit students and academics in migration studies, economic geography, economics of innovation, human geography and innovation policy. It is also an invaluable resource for policy makers, practitioners and government officers working in areas related to migration or innovation.

Qu, Zhenyuan / Deng, Ling / Huang, Xueli, Total Capital and Mixed Embeddedness: Unravelling the Entrepreneurial Journey of Chinese Millionaire Migrants in Australia. (Palgrave Studies in Global Entrepreneurship) 185 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-502>
ISBN 978-981-9643-32-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book focuses on the experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, exploring the challenges they face and the strategies they use to succeed in the business sector. Using interviews and in-depth case studies, and personal reflections, the book provides a rich narrative of personal and business experiences of these entrepreneurs. By exploring the real-life experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, the authors offer a deep dive into their daily lives and business operations and thereby providing detailed insights into their challenges and strategies. Whilst highlighting the main challenges such as cultural differences, language barriers, and difficulties in accessing resources, the book identifies the strategies Chinese migrant entrepreneurs use to overcome these challenges, including leveraging social networks and community support. Readers will find the discussion on how cultural differences affect business operations particularly interesting, as it provides a nuanced understanding of cross-cultural entrepreneurship. They would also be interested in the research into how Chinese business migrants contribute to Australia's innovation ecosystem through introducing new ideas and technologies, which is a key topic for understanding the broader economic impact of Chinese business migrants to Australia.

NAACP対アラバマ州裁判と結社の自由
Eagles, Charles W., A Victory for Democracy: NAACP v. Alabama and Freedom of Association. 368 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-637>
ISBN 978-0-19-779587-3 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Davis, Matthew, Third Sector Organisations, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Support During Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic. 87 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-660>
ISBN 978-3-031-85136-0 hard ¥8,235.- (税込) EUR 34.99 *

This short Pivot explores the the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of the lived experiences of asylum seekers on the staff and volunteers of third sector organisations who assist and support them. This research casts a direct light on the issues, challenges, and barriers of their work during and after the pandemic. It seeks to pinpoint the needs of staff which should be addressed by employers of third sector organisations to improve efficiency and wellbeing from an operational viewpoint, a mental health lens and psychological perspective. It adopts a Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) - a qualitative research method that involves co-constructing theories with participants. The research effectively examines how frontline organisations need to change given the social, economic and political challenges faced by asylum seekers and refugees in accessing support alongside the impact of new Government immigration, asylum policies and new legislation at that time. It also provides insights into the lived experiences of asylum seekers and refugees.

中欧におけるウクライナ戦争難民への援助　2022～24年
Dziekonska, Malgorzata / Luczaj, Kamil (eds.), Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024). 190 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-661>
ISBN 978-3-031-86180-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented situation following the later stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022. It explores the experiences of millions of Ukrainians who sought refuge in neighboring countries and examines the wide-ranging support they received. Focusing primarily on Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Moldova, the book highlights both the assistance provided by these nations and the personal stories of those who benefited from it. Based on qualitative research, including interviews and discourse analysis, and complemented by an examination of governmental documents and organizational initiatives, this work provides an in-depth account of the efforts made to support those displaced by the conflict. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners within the NGO and government sectors actively researching Ukrainian refugees in countries that have chosen to host larger numbers of Ukrainians, particularly in Europe and North America.

移民と人権ハンドブック
Rubio Marin, Ruth / Estrada-Tanck, Dorothy et al. (eds.), Handbook on Migration and Human Rights. (Elgar Handbooks in Migration) 400 pp. 2025:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-668>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0224-6 hard ¥57,953.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

This Research Handbook examines the complex issues faced by migrants and refugees in securing their human rights. By challenging and reformulating the crisis narrative often perpetuated by states and international organizations, it provides a cutting-edge, in-depth investigation of key themes central to the human rights implications of migration.Adopting an intersectional, interdisciplinary and gendered approach, the Research Handbook identifies the human rights challenges faced by migrants and refugees, especially women, girls and LGBTIQ+ persons, as well as the complex questions faced by states and supranational institutions in addressing diversity and managing human mobility. It considers socio-economic, health, and environmental crises, such as climate change-induced displacement, through a critical lens to determine the impact of these issues on the lives of migrants. The Handbook includes an analysis of global and local solutions to the fragilities of migration and refugee protection regimes, including those expressed by migrants themselves. Ultimately, it argues that the 'migration crisis' rhetoric is inaccurate, and that states' efforts ought to be directed at offering durable solutions to structural challenges ensuring respect of human rights for all.The Handbook on Migration and Human Rights is an essential resource for students and academics in international relations, migration, human rights and refugee law. Policymakers, UN and regional human rights bodies, and legal practitioners will greatly benefit from its unique insights into global and local governance.

アメリカにおける移民と医療のための戦い
Hoffman, Beatrix, Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States. 280 pp. 2025:1 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-403>
ISBN 978-0-226-82084-2 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-82086-6 paper ¥5,197.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don't inquire about immigration status. Further obstacles to health care, including discrimination and the fear of deportation, mean that immigrants, undocumented or not, seek and receive less medical attention than any other population in the country. Yet immigrants haven't always been ostracized from health care in the United States-providers and activists have for over a century worked to make medical services available to newcomers and migrants, including, at times, the undocumented. Drawing together stories from diverse communities from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Borders of Care examines how health care in the United States has both included and excluded immigrants. Beatrix Hoffman analyzes both the health and immigration systems, adding to our understanding of why these structures, and the policies that support them, have resisted reform. Moreover, she shows that immigrants, often scapegoated as burdens on the healthcare system, have strengthened it through their responses to systemic exclusion. By creating hospitals and clinics, serving as practitioners, fighting for safer workplaces, filing lawsuits, organizing and protesting, immigrants and migrants have improved medical access for everybody and advanced the idea of health care as a universal right. As accessible as it is authoritative, Hoffman's survey could not be more timely.

Greene-Hayes, Ahmad, Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans. (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) 288 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-181>
ISBN 978-0-226-83884-7 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83886-1 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space. Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms-ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more-to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, Underworld Work celebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.

Kaelin, Kelly, Women, Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Convert, Migrant, Missionary. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World) 240 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-193>
ISBN 978-3-031-84574-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book focuses on women's participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean. It argues that white women missionaries and Black women converts played a crucial role in the history of its religious movement as the Church shifted from an ethnically German organization to a form of Black Atlantic Christianity.

Treadwell, Aaron M. (ed.), Tongues of Fire: Black Preaching in the Face of Lynching. 276 pp. 2025:11 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-236>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8490-5 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

フランスにおけるムスリムのコミュニティの政治
Wesselhoeft, Kirsten, Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France. (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) 224 pp. 2025:3 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-239>
ISBN 978-0-226-83826-7 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83828-1 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

An exploration of ways that discord binds rather than divides communal life, through an ethnography of French Muslim activism. The conversation about Islam in France is framed by the presumption that Muslim communities are a threat to secular solidarity or fraternite. In the face of state repression, French Muslims have not closed ranks around a narrow range of voices; instead, Kirsten Wesselhoeft finds that young Muslim activists have continued to purposefully spark debate about the values that anchor community life. Wesselhoeft argues that such disagreements, far from dividing communities, actually constitute a form of belonging. Some activists call this ethic "fraternal critique," and Wesselhoeft finds in it profound insights about the place for critique in civic life. The French state has reacted to Muslim solidarity with repression, but Wesselhoeft argues that unity need not come at the expense of dissent. Instead, fraternal critique can teach us how to build communities that are worth fighting over and fighting for.

21世紀のための人種、エスニシティ、経済統計
Akee, Randall / Katz, L. F. / Loewenstein, M. A. (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century. (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth) 560 pp. 2026:1 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-245>
ISBN 978-0-226-84378-0 hard ¥31,185.- (税込) US$ 150.00

クイア・トランス研究入門
Rifkin, Mark, The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies. (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) 280 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1249>
ISBN 978-1-009-43566-6 hard ¥21,202.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-009-43561-1 paper ¥6,498.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

Thomas, Paul / Kuyini Alhassan, Abdul-Razak / Von Hof, J., Media and Education: Addressing Racism in Norway. (Critical Media Literacies Series 12) 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <747-1269>
ISBN 978-90-04-73793-8 hard ¥18,832.- (税込) EUR 80.00

In Media and Education: Addressing Racism in Norway, we explore critical questions about Norway's hidden history of racism and its implications today. Why has Norway largely overlooked its role in the transatlantic slave trade? How do media representations shape public perceptions of race? What can education do to confront and dismantle systemic racism? This book uncovers the complex interplay between historical narratives, media portrayals, and educational practices, offering fresh insights into the ongoing struggle for racial justice in a diversifying society. We present rare archival images and previously unpublished data that challenge conventional understandings of Norwegian identity and history. Through compelling case studies-like the "Human Zoo" exhibition and the tragic death of Eugene Obiora-we engage you with powerful stories that highlight the lived realities of racism in Norway. You will witness how these histories resonate within contemporary antiracist movements and educational discourse. This timely work is essential for educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding and addressing racial issues in Norway and beyond. Join us in sparking meaningful conversations and actions towards a more inclusive future.

Zackodnik, Teresa, Great Thinkers and Doers: Networking Black Feminism in the Black Press, 1827-1927. (The Black Press in America Series) 352 pp. 2025:8 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-1270>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5196-1 hard ¥14,542.- (税込) US$ 69.95

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers and Doers, Teresa Zackodnik looks at the vital-and largely overlooked-role of Black women readers, writers, and editors in the development of the Black press in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Understanding the relationship between the Black press and Black women's political and community organizing helps illuminate how important Black women were to this media phenomenon in its first one hundred years. In the nineteenth century, Zackodnik reveals, the Black press was second only to the Black church in its centrality to Black politics and communities, but histories of its development have long credited its founding and development to the Black men who were its editors. Despite their underrepresentation in the leadership of Black public politics and the Black press, women were overrepresented in the mutual benevolent, moral improvement, and literary societies that functioned as community centers of political, oratorical, and print culture work. These societies supplied the Black press with content, a readership, and distribution nodes in Black communities throughout the nation. Zackodnik examines the vital opportunity that this networking of the Black press with literary societies offered Black women readers to enter Black print space and advance communal goals. She also explores how Black women gained a foothold within publications-often, initially, with "gateway genres" such as letters to the editor and women's columns-and shaped the Black press. This book will change how we understand the early Black press and overlooked Black feminist print practices.

Barbarin, Oscar, Building Emotional Resilience in Black Boys: Building Social Assets to Overcome Racism and Adversity. 280 pp. 2025:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-1287>
ISBN 978-0-19-774749-0 hard ¥11,434.- (税込) US$ 55.00

英米の資本主義におけるグローバルな不平等、人種の境界、組合の台頭　1870～1929年
Batzell, Rudi, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1929. 392 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1288>
ISBN 978-0-226-83876-2 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83878-6 paper ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize inclusive trade unions like those formed by their counterparts in the United Kingdom? Comparing American and British capitalism in the port cities of Baltimore and Liverpool and the steel cities of Pittsburgh and Sheffield, Rudi Batzell reveals that the answer lies in the legacies of slavery and entrenched structures of racial inequality. Strikebreaking succeeded more often in the United States because landless Black Americans were, out of economic desperation, more likely to become scabs and fracture the class solidarity of any union movement. Batzell shows, in short, how racism was and is deeply connected to class, migration, and capitalism in a global economy marked by slavery and empire. In emphasizing the geography of economic inequality, this book offers new clarity on the late-nineteenth-century successes and failures of working-class formation. More broadly, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery makes it clear that the pursuit of justice today will require sustained economic reparations for slavery and colonialism.

Byfield, Lavern G. / Kaya, Jean (eds.), Immigration, Identity, and Inclusion in the Lives of Faculty of Color: Stories of Hope and Perseverance in Higher Education. 181 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-1290>
ISBN 978-3-031-87038-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book draws from social, psychosocial, and psychological perspectives to highlight the fatigue experienced by immigrant faculty of color in institutions of higher learning. In addition to a brief history of migration to the United States of America and a synopsis of the historical contexts of race relations, contributors share autoethnographic narratives of resistance and hope, as well as findings from qualitative and mixed-methods studies showcasing the inner voices, resilience, determination, and courage of immigrant faculty of color. The book illuminates multiple aspects which shape the identities and experiences of immigrant faculty of color as they navigate the academy. This book is a resource for faculty, administrators, and international doctoral students of color who aspire to become faculty in higher education.

Hummrich, Merle / Schwendowius, D. / Terstegen, S. (eds.), School Cultures in Migration Societies: Studies on Relations of Difference in German-American Comparison. 265 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <747-1304>
ISBN 978-3-658-47618-2 paper ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

The volume brings together contributions that were created as part of a qualitatively comparative research project in German and U.S. schools. Building on the school culture approach, it examines the social construction and management of migration-related relations of difference at various levels of society. The contributions provide nuanced insights into how ethnically coded relations of difference and inequality are processed in schools across different migration society contexts and school cultural orders.

Janska, Eva (ed.), Transnational Trajectories and Diaspora Policies: The Case of Czechia in Comparison to Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. 210 pp. 2025:4 (Karolinum Pr., Charles Univ. in Prague, XR) <747-1306>
ISBN 978-80-246-5919-0 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A fascinating examination of Central European diasporic policy bolstered by individual case studies of the new Czech diaspora. The book examines diaspora policy in Central European countries in the context of changes following their accession to the EU, utilizing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary as case studies. With a focus on the previously underexplored new Czech diaspora (i.e., the emigration of Czechs/Czechoslovaks after 1990), individual case studies provide a comprehensive description of the contemporary Czech diaspora while also elucidating key inquiries directed towards its current character and specific needs.

Kim, Sunmin, The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate. 304 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1308>
ISBN 978-0-226-84590-6 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84592-0 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Koulish, Robert / Calvo, Ernesto, Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals: How Scoring Algorithms Transformed Anti-Immigrant Sentiments into Policy. (SpringerBriefs in Political Science) 99 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <747-1309>
ISBN 978-3-031-86961-7 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Since 2012, scoring algorithms created to manage risks in the United States penal system have been adopted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies across the United States. First developed as a mechanism to reduce anti-immigrant biases and to ensure the humane treatment of detainees, scoring algorithms suffered constant revisions to accommodate DHS enforcement priorities as well as the preferences and punitive biases of ICE agents. With the arrival of the Trump administration, a technology created to ensure the humane treatment of undocumented immigrants became central to the policy of criminalization of the immigration process. This book provides historical, qualitative, and quantitative evidence of the process that placed risk assessment technologies at the forefront of the anti-immigration battle. Using very large data sets on immigration and detention proceedings obtained from DHS through multiple FOIA requests, this Brief reveals the inner workings of the risk classification algorithms (RCA) used to process tens of thousands of immigrants each day. Chapters examine the tension between risk algorithms and end users and explain how ICE officers' preferences shape the scoring properties of RCA used in immigration enforcement. Illustrating how scoring algorithms oppress immigrants of color, this book is interest policymakers, immigration scholars, lawyers, criminologists, political scientists, and university professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the behavioral sciences.

Livesey, Andrea (ed., with an intro.), Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana: The WPA Narratives. 592 pp. 2025:9 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1314>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8302-1 hard ¥13,513.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Lopez, William D., Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance. 264 pp. 2025:11 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-1315>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5370-5 hard ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Coming soon: Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez.Coming soon: Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez.

Ort, Jan, The Roma as Agents of the "G*psy Question": Belonging, Mobility, and Resettlement Policy in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. Tr. by P. Jones. 266 pp. 2025:8 (Karolinum Pr., Charles Univ. in Prague, XR) <747-1317>
ISBN 978-80-246-6052-3 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Reexamines mid-60's state policies toward Czechoslovak Roma from the overlooked perspective of the Roma people themselves. The story of Romani people in communist Czechoslovakia has long been framed by a discriminatory policy of assimilation, and thus by fatal interventions into Romani family ties and their broader socio-cultural systems. Paradoxically, such a narrative failed to integrate the perspective of the Roma themselves, who often associated the same period with an unprecedented experience of social inclusion and material security. In this book, Jan Ort examines the state policy that in the mid-1960s aimed at the definitive elimination of "G*psy backwardness" through the placement of thousands of Roma families in non-Roma society, thus becoming a symbol of the social engineering interventions of the Communist regime in the lives of Czechoslovak Roma. In contrast to the predominant focus on the perspective of state authorities, Ort seeks to map the practice of this policy in specific places with an emphasis on the experiences and agency of the Roma themselves, especially those who had their homes in eastern Slovakia. In the empirical richness of a micro-historical approach, Roma as Agents of the "G*psy Question" uncovers the diverse stories of ordinary Roma who were able to incorporate various aspects of state policy into their own lives without necessarily giving up their distinctive cultural identity.

Patterson, Martha H. / Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (eds.), The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937. 648 pp. 2025:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1318>
ISBN 978-0-691-26859-0 paper ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of newly unearthed pieces by major figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, and Drusilla Dunjee Houston as well as writings from Cuba, the US Virgin Islands, Dominica, France, Sierra Leone, South Africa, colonial Zimbabwe, and the United States. Demonstrating how this evocative and supremely protean concept predates its popularization in Alain Locke's 1925 anthology of the same name, The New Negro takes readers from its beginnings as a response to Henry Grady's famous "New South" address in 1886 through the Harlem Renaissance and the New Deal.Opening a fascinating window into a largely unexplored chapter in African American, Afro-Latin American, and African intellectual history, this groundbreaking anthology includes writings by Gwendolyn Bennett, Marita Bonner, John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Bertram Clarke ("Jose Clarana," "Jaime Gil"), Anna Julia Cooper, Alexander Crummell, Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marcus Garvey, Hubert Harrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, D. Hamilton Jackson, Fenton Johnson, Claude McKay, Oscar Micheaux, Jeanne "Jane" Nardal, Jean Toomer, Gustavo Urrutia, Booker T. Washington, Dorothy West, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, Fannie Barrier Williams, Carter G. Woodson, and a host of others.

Ramirez, Marla A., Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. 336 pp. 2025:10 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1321>
ISBN 978-0-674-29594-0 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans-mostly women and children who were US citizens-were forced to relocate across the southern border.From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called "repatriation" was in fact banishment: 60 percent of those expelled were US citizens, mainly working-class women and children whose husbands and fathers were Mexican immigrants. Drawing on oral histories, transnational archival sources, and private collections, Marla A. Ramirez illuminates the lasting effects of coerced mass removal on three generations of ethnic Mexicans.Ramirez argues that banishment served interests on both sides of the border. In the United States, the government accused ethnic Mexicans of dependence on social services in order to justify removal, thereby scapegoating them for post-World War I and Depression-era economic woes. In Mexico, meanwhile, officials welcomed returnees for their potential to bolster the labor force. In the process, all Mexicans in the United States-citizens and undocumented immigrants alike-were cast as financially burdensome and culturally foreign. Shedding particular light on the experiences of banished women, Ramirez depicts the courage and resilience of their efforts to reclaim US citizenship and return home. Nevertheless, banishment often interrupted their ability to pass on US citizenship to their children, robbed their families of generational wealth, and drastically slowed upward mobility. Today, their descendants continue to confront and resist the impact of these injustices-and are breaking the silence to ensure that this history is not forgotten.A wrenching account of expulsion and its afterlives, Banished Citizens illuminates the continuing social, legal, and economic consequences of a removal campaign still barely acknowledged in either Mexico or the United States.

Salomo, Ben / Lemmer, Christoph, Sechs Millionen, wer bietet mehr?: Judenhass an deutschen Schulen. 170 S. 2025:10 (Juedischer Vlg., GW) <747-1326>
ISBN 978-3-633-54342-7 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) EUR 18.00

Fuer Tausende deutsche Schueler ist der Rapper Ben Salomo der erste Jude, den sie im Leben treffen. Der Berliner ist seit Jahren auf Tour durch Schulen ueberall in Deutschland unterwegs. Jedes Jahr haelt er rund 150 Vortraege in Turnhallen oder Aulen zu den Themen: Was sind Juden? Was ist Antisemitismus? Wie konnte der Ueberfall auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 passieren? Und wie daraufhin der Hass auf Juden eskalieren? Das sind Fragen, die er mit Schuelerinnen, Schuelern und deren Lehrern diskutiert ? deutsche, muslimische, zugewandert oder hier geboren. In seinem Buch hat er aufgeschrieben, was er dabei erlebt. Was Hoffnung macht und was alarmiert. Wie die Erinnerung an den Holocaust verblasst. Und was man tun kann, damit sich die Geschichte nicht durch Zeitablauf erledigt - wohlwissend, dass die Schueler von heute die Gesellschaft von Morgen repraesentieren.

Terry, Brandon M., Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. 480 pp. 2025:11 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1328>
ISBN 978-0-674-27128-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.We are all familiar with the romantic vision of the civil rights movement: a moment when heroic African Americans and their allies triumphed over racial oppression through courageous protest, forging a new consensus in American life and law. But what are the effects of this celebratory storytelling? What happens when a living revolt against injustice becomes an embalmed museum piece?In this innovative work, Brandon Terry develops a novel theory of interpretation to show how competing accounts of the civil rights movement circulate through politics and political philosophy. The dominant narrative is romantic. This "arc of justice" narrative is found in popular histories, the speeches of Barack Obama, and even the writings of the liberal philosopher John Rawls. Despite being public orthodoxy, these romantic visions are exhausted and unpersuasive on their own terms. The breakdown of the authority of this history of justice has created space for a rival ironic mode, embodied in the political ideas of Afro-Pessimism. While offering a sympathetic critique, Terry ultimately finds Afro-Pessimist thought self-undermining and unworkable.Instead, he argues, the civil rights movement is best understood in tragic terms. By challenging the attachment to triumphant pasts, Terry demonstrates that tragedy exemplifies what the civil rights movement has been and can still be. Provocative and original, Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope offers an optimistic political vision without naivete, to train our judgment and resilience in the face of reasonable despair.

Yadon, Nicole D., The Politics of Skin Tone: African American Experiences, Identity, and Attitudes. (Chicago Studies in American Politics) 272 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1332>
ISBN 978-0-226-84033-8 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84035-2 paper ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African Americans with darker skin earn lower wages, suffer worse health outcomes, and endure more negative criminal justice experiences than lighter-skinned African Americans. Nicole D. Yadon conceptualizes skin tone as one facet of the multidimensional construct of race that powerfully influences racialized experiences which, in turn, can influence political identities and attitudes. Drawing on evidence from one hundred in-depth interviews, multiple surveys, and a survey experiment, The Politics of Skin Tone investigates the political associations of skin tone. Yadon finds that skin tone correlates with political attitudes, particularly on issues where color-based disparities are especially pronounced such as criminal justice. Moreover, a sizable number of African Americans adopt a skin tone-based identity. In an era of shifting racial boundaries and growing color-based discrimination, The Politics of Skin Tone examines the implications for both scholars and policymakers.

Chang, Wen-Chin, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands: Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War. (Harvard East Asian Monographs) 416 pp. 2025:1 (Harvard Univ. Asia Center, US) <747-1000>
ISBN 978-0-674-30254-9 hard ¥12,463.- (税込) US$ 59.95
ISBN 978-0-674-30255-6 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands is an ethnography that explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants via the Sino-Burmese borderlands during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including their engagement in Taiwan's espionage in Burma, military operations of the Communist Party of Burma, mule transport for the Burmese authorities, underground cross-border trade, and pursuit of a Chinese education. Through the lens of existential anthropology, Chang illustrates how these migrants' lived experiences intersected with the volatile situation in the frontier areas where many ethnic groups and political entities co-existed. Although subjected to state and non-state violence, these individuals demonstrated their resilience, political liminality, economic adroitness, and skillfulness in networking as they moved across borders in search of a better life. In contrast to conventional historical narratives often focused on global politics and ideological confrontations, Chang's examination of these migrants' overlooked stories offers a compelling and nuanced Cold War history of the Sino-Burmese borderlands, where exclusion pushed people to seek out change and adversity was met with creative adaptation.

中国への移民ハンドブック
Haugen, Heidi O. / Wang, Bingyu (eds.), Handbook on Migration to China. (Elgar Handbooks in Migration) 448 pp. 2025:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-1004>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3269-4 hard ¥60,780.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This insightful Handbook explores the dynamics of historical and contemporary migration flows to China from across its bordering regions, Asia and other continents. It analyzes the social, economic, cultural and legal developments that arise from migration to China.Leading experts discuss how China has become a key destination for international migration, outlining the resulting diversities within Chinese society. They examine the ways in which migration has been encouraged, tolerated and contained by Chinese authorities, investigating how policies towards migrants reflect China's evolving position in the global migration order and the development trajectories it follows. The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of legal and policy changes in the field, demonstrating the connections between immigration policy reforms and broader economic and societal developments.The Handbook on Migration to China is an essential resource for students, scholars and researchers in Asian politics, policy and development, Chinese studies, migration and population studies. Interdisciplinary in scope, it will also benefit practitioners and policymakers working in migration, regulation, governance and public policy.

Lew-Williams, Beth, John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. 336 pp. 2025:9 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1009>
ISBN 978-0-674-29411-0 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labor. Over the next seventy years, officials in California, Oregon, Washington, and other western states instituted more than five thousand laws that marginalized and controlled their Chinese residents. Long before the Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese immigration, these laws constrained the activities and opportunities of Chinese people already living in the United States.In this eye-opening account, Beth Lew-Williams describes a legal architecture redolent of Jim Crow but tailored specifically to people often referred to only as "John Doe Chinaman" or "Mary Chinaman" in official records. Enforced by police and tax collectors, but also by schoolteachers, missionaries, and neighbors, these laws granted the Chinese only limited access to American society, falling far short of equality or belonging. Cementing stereotypes of Chinese residents as criminals, invaders, and predators, they regulated everything from healthcare to education, property ownership, business formation, and kinship customs. Yet in the face of these limitations, Chinese communities reacted resourcefully. Many fought, evaded, and manipulated these laws, finding ways to maintain their prohibited traditions, resist unfair treatment in court, and insist on their political rights.Drawing on dozens of archives across the US West, John Doe Chinaman reveals the depth of anti-Chinese discrimination beyond federal exclusion and tells the stories of those who refused to accept a conditional place in American life.

Possamai, Adam / Tittensor, David (eds.), Muslims in Contemporary Australia. (Muslim Minorities 47) 360 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-1033>
ISBN 978-90-04-54401-7 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This edited book provides a much-needed update on the field of Islamic Studies in Australia, which has come a long way since the pioneering work of both Riaz Hassan and Gary Bouma to whom this volume is indebted. By highlighting the richness of the contributions of Muslim Australians in diverse areas such as art, literature, architecture and popular culture, alongside the more standard sociological contributions on the ongoing challenges, this book will inspire researchers to look beyond the hackneyed notions of conflict, difference and fear, and seek to tell stories that glimpse behind the curtain and give insight into the Australian Muslim 'backstage' experience.

Sabastian, Luna, Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva. 288 pp. 2026:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1041>
ISBN 978-0-674-29943-6 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

A revisionist account arguing that Indian nationalism served as a laboratory for fascist ideas that continue to animate the Hindutva political movement of today.Fascism swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s, but not only because of the seductive rhetoric of Mussolini, Hitler, and their collaborators. In India as well, a distinctive brand of fascist thought emerged-influenced by Euro-American ideologies but also departing from them in critical ways. The first systematic examination of this political philosophy, Fascism in India revises our sense of what fascism can be, while demonstrating that it is very much with us in the form of Hindutva, the ethnic-nationalist movement at the center of Indian politics today.Luna Sabastian offers a novel interpretation of Hindutva, both its canonical formulation by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and its reinvention by Deendayal Upadhyaya after Indian independence. Sabastian shows how Hindutva generated ideas of Hindu race and religion that had the potential to erase Muslims not through genocide or ethnic cleansing but by means of violent absorption. Focusing on aggressive miscegenation, Indian fascists proposed a singular kind of racial project, eschewing notions of purity even while maintaining a starkly eliminationist objective. Fascism in India also grapples with Hindutva ideas of caste and its relation to race-particularly in comparison with Nazi uses of these concepts-and of sovereignty, which Indian fascists envisioned beyond the "blood and soil" narrative of the nation-state. Finally, Sabastian reflects on Hindutva's reorientation toward Hindu piety after the creation of Pakistan effectively resolved India's "Muslim problem."Bringing clarity to an ideology little understood in the West, Fascism in India is an eye-opening perspective on Hindutva and a profound meditation on the proliferation and evolution of right-wing thought.

George, Shantel A., The Yoruba Are on a Rock: Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada. (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) 346 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1071>
ISBN 978-1-009-35896-5 hard ¥21,202.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

The Yoruba Are on a Rock focuses on the Africans who arrived in Grenada decades after the abolition of the British slave trade and how they radically shaped the religious and cultural landscape of the island. Rooted in extensive archival and ethnographic research, Shantel A. George carefully traces and unpacks the complex movements of people and ideas between various points in western Africa and the Eastern Caribbean to argue that Orisa worship in Grenada is not, as has been generally supposed, a residue of recaptive Yoruba peoples, but emerged from dynamic and multi-layered exchanges within and beyond Grenada. Further, the book shows how recaptives pursued freedom by drawing on shared African histories and experiences in the homeland and in Grenada, and recovers intriguing individual biographies of the recaptives, their descendants, and religious custodians. By historicising this island's little-known and fascinating tradition, the book advances our knowledge of African diaspora cultures and histories.

Collins, Michael, Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England. 240 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-1087>
ISBN 978-0-19-887570-3 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? As empire declined and gave way to complex patterns of migration, what part did cricket play in the life of the Windrush generation in post-war Britain? Following the work of the great Trinidadian intellectual C. L. R. James, much has been written about the profound importance of cricket for the development of social and cultural life within the Anglophone Caribbean. And yet, from at least the 1930s, Black West Indian cricketers were celebrated far beyond the Caribbean, in England and across empire. Cricket was in fact a major factor shaping imperial ideas about Black people--how they looked and behaved, what their imagined characteristics and traits were--placing the West Indies, as the Caribbean islands were then known, within a racialised, hierarchical structure of cricket-loving peoples, alongside the colonies of white settlement: South Africa, New Zealand, Australia. During World War II, Black West Indians played prominent roles in the surprisingly large amount of cricket played in England, part of a wider propaganda effort to promote the idea of a multiracial empire, united in common cause against fascism. For post-Windrush arrivals after 1948, cricket was not just a peripheral pastime or a recreational footnote. Cricket was a cornerstone of Black West Indian social and cultural life and self-empowerment in England, integral to the earliest creation of social and community groups and the development of support networks. Watching the West Indies international cricket team win on the field of play was just one part of the Windrush story. Through the late 1940s and into the 1950s, the growth of an extensive network of Windrush cricket teams and clubs, and, by the 1970s, the evolution of Caribbean cricket leagues and competitions, created a subtle and multifaceted sense of being a West Indian in England. In due course, the children of Windrush migrants would seek to play cricket for England, challenging the very notion of what it means to be English. Interweaving extensive archival and oral history research into an engaging, often surprising narrative about empire and postwar Britain, Windrush Cricket challenges a range of orthodoxies, arguing that cricket constituted a foundational, yet almost entirely ignored aspect of the way in which Windrush migrants settled and made new lives in postwar England.

Cornelissen, Sharon, The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit. (Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries) 248 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1147>
ISBN 978-0-226-84471-8 hard ¥5,716.- (税込) US$ 27.50

Gentrification is not inevitable, reveals Sharon Cornelissen, in this surprising, close look at the Detroit neighborhood of Brightmoor and the harsh reality of depopulation and urban decline. In the minds of many, Detroit is undergoing a renaissance thanks to gentrifying urbanites who've been drawn to the city with the promise of cheap housing and thriving culture. But what happens when gentrification attempts to come to one of the most depopulated neighborhoods in the country-a place where every other property in the neighborhood was a vacant lot and every third house stood empty? To find out, Sharon Cornelissen moved to the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit for three years and became the owner of a $7,000 house. The Last House on the Block takes us to Brightmoor to meet Cornelissen's fellow residents. She introduces us to the long-time residents of the neighborhood who reveal their struggles to keep a home while keeping violence, tall grass, and yes-gentrification-at bay. We also meet the eclectic white newcomers of Brightmoor and learn about their real estate bargains, urban farms, and how they became the unlikely defenders of urban desolation. Where oldtimers take pride in neatly mowed lawns and hope for a return to residential density, newcomers love the open space and aim to buy more empty lots to raise chickens and goats. It is a story of gentrification, but not at all in the usual sense: it is a case of failed gentrification. We often think about gentrification as an unstoppable force-once the first white newcomers with yoga mats enter an often brown or Black community, the coffee shops and restaurants follow. But in Brightmoor, the dreams of white newcomers met the harsh reality of decade-long decline. Nearly a decade after Cornelissen's fieldwork began, Brightmoor is even emptier than it was when she started. Today, depopulation remains more common than gentrification in poor communities. Cornelissen's story offers deep insights into what it is like to live in a declining neighborhood, and through the example of Brightmoor, Cornelissen reveals why depopulation continues and helps us imagine a more inclusive and equitable city turnaround.

断絶とキャンセルカルチャー
McNamara, Robert Hartmann, Disconnection and Cancel Culture: Karens, Kyles, and Intolerance in American Society. 208 pp. 2025:8 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-1187>
ISBN 978-1-0353-6500-5 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Taking a sociological approach, this timely book explains the significance, development, and impact of cancel culture. Robert McNamara discusses the popular phenomenon of 'Karens' and their male counterparts, often known as 'Kyles,' 'Kevins,' or 'Kens', demonstrating how they are symptomatic of a larger trend in American society.McNamara examines how the tendency of these archetypes to find fault over minor inconveniences is reflected in wider debates, where people struggle to consider perspectives that differ from their own. He illustrates how the weaponization of cancel culture can serve as a form of social capital punishment in response to disagreements on issues such as race, free speech in higher education, religion, and sexuality. Adopting a neutral approach, the book investigates how an inability to disagree constructively has made cancel culture increasingly popular across America's political spectrum, intersecting with contentious topics such as white privilege, identity politics, and political correctness. It emphasizes how this has made it more difficult to maintain meaningful social relationships, contributing to the loneliness epidemic in American society.Disconnection and Cancel Culture is a vital resource for students and scholars of cultural and political sociology, anthropology, and political science. Academics studying gender politics, inequality, and social movements will also benefit from the book's theoretical and practical insights.

Cross, Christina J., Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families. 208 pp. 2025:9 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1191>
ISBN 978-0-674-27849-3 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan's controversial 1965 report on "The Negro Family," the disadvantages of the single-parent household have been at the center of debates about racial inequality in the United States. In particular, absent fathers and single-parent homes are seen as fundamental to the "tangle of pathology" that supposedly underlies Black disadvantage. Redressing inequality thus requires interventions that promote marriage and shore up the two-parent family.Inherited Inequality is a decisive refutation of this narrative and a definitive account of the harm it has caused. Marshaling extensive longitudinal data of African American and white children from birth through young adulthood, sociologist Christina Cross demonstrates that the two-parent family is no equalizer. While growing up with two parents increases average household income and allows for more parental involvement, the resulting gains are racially skewed: Black children brought up in a two-parent home still fare much worse than their white counterparts, in school and on the job market. Thus, interventions aimed at correcting the supposed deficiencies of the Black family will not fix these inequities. To the contrary, Cross insists, focusing on family structure distracts us from the racist legacies and logics that persistently leave African Americans with fewer resources and opportunities, regardless of who raises them.The first comprehensive empirical study of its kind, Inherited Inequality is a resounding repudiation of welfare policies that, to this day, favor marriage counseling over economic assistance. More than that, it is a provocative invitation to rethink the meaning of family in Black communities.