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

Hasnain, Nadeem, Islamic Minorities of South Asia: An Ethnographic Account. 140 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-905>
ISBN 978-1-032-96358-7 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Islam and Islamicate South Asia have generated interest since 9/11 as never before. However, Islamic Minorities, specifically, is still a relatively neglected area of study in South Asian Islam. It may be due to the reason that there has been a tendency to look at Islam as a monolithic faith and Muslims as a monolithic population to the western world.This book focuses on such Islamic minorities as the Shias (dominant Isna Ashari/Twelwer Shias), Ismaili Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra and Ahmedia/Qadiyani communities and looks at them from the perspective of their interaction with the Hindu cultures and traditions. Written in a lucid language from a sociological perspective, it should be an important contribution to the field of "Lived Islam' or 'Islam in Practice'.This book will be invaluable to all those interested in religion, society, and culture of Muslim South Asia.

Thiong, Daniel Akech, Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan: An Ecological Approach for Political Cooperation. 176 pp. 2025:8 (Zed Books, UK) <750-969>
ISBN 978-1-350-43995-5 hard ¥24,029.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

In this important, multidisciplinary, open access study, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in Africa reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize. Focusing on the climate-shock-induced migrations of the Dinka people of South Sudan's Jonglei state into the Equatoria region, Thiong investigates the long-term ecological roots of conflicts among pastoralists, or between pastoralists and agriculturalists, over access shrinking waterholes and grazing zones. In so doing, he not only offers important correctives to prevalent, short-term narratives around individual political conflicts-narratives that provide little fodder for any long-term solutions--but also sheds new light on the role of governance, both national and local, in creating or mitigating the conflicts. Thiong in fact reveals examples of unusual cooperation between diverse ethnic groups amidst climate-change-induced disasters, and these findings shed new light on similar developments elsewhere in Africa, all of which offers new lessons for those who wish to mitigate future clashes related to climate-shock-induced displacement and encourage social stability. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Barnes, Willie, Jr. / Carter, J. Scott, Original Sin?: The Reproduction of Racism in a Multiracial Church. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) 168 pp. 2025:9 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-97>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7416-1 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7417-8 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Original Sin? explores the ways that a multiracial church struggles with race, racism, and social activism during a turbulent time in U.S. history. In the shadow of the murder of George Floyd, the authors show how members and leaders of Without Walls Church, a multiracial church claiming over thirty-six thousand members, perpetuate a racial ideology based in color-blind theological teachings that minimizes teachings on racism in the church and social activism outside the church. Barnes and Carter also shed light on church practices and policies that reproduce racial inequality and shaped the church's early response to the murder of George Floyd. Original Sin? shows us that despite being diverse places of worship and despite shifting demographics, churches like this one face challenges that lead to the reproduction of the racial status quo.

Al-Rawi, Ahmed, Mediated Racism and Democracy in Canada: Interrogating the News Industry, Political Systems, and Public Discourses. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) 160 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-785>
ISBN 978-1-032-95421-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies. Taking Canada as a case study of a multicultural society, it uses a mixed methods approach to present insights from racialized politicians and journalists that explore how they navigate the issues of democracy and racism. Drawing on empirical critical race theory, it addresses crucial knowledge gaps about the political realities of people of color in a democratic nation, and how they perceive these experiences to impact the functioning and progress of democracy. It will therefore appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in race and racism, multiculturalism, democracy, and critical race theory.

Karcic, Harun, Balkan Muslims and the Middle East: The Influence of the Arab World on the Islamic Revival. 224 pp. 2025:12 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-794>
ISBN 978-0-7556-4684-5 hard ¥24,029.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

The current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims did not simply start when war broke out in Bosnia in 1992. It is part of a much longer history of contact with the Middle East.This book is the first to examine the evolving relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East covering three phases: the establishment of communist Yugoslavia in 1946, the period of its violent collapse, and during its uneasy post-war and post-Yugoslav independence. Haruc Karcic identifies how official links with the Middle East sparked an Islamic revival. Particularly significant were the large-scale student exchanges between Yugoslavia and the Middle East, and Yugoslavia's export of its military and technological knowledge to the Middle East. The book reveals that Yugoslavia realized it could use its Muslim population as 'gate openers' in winning lucrative business deals in the Arab world. Furthermore, the visibility and increasing number of Yugoslav Muslims in the Middle East were used for their Arabic skills to lobby for support when the war broke out.The book uncovers how Balkan Muslims have survived and adapted to their turbulent history and what contact with Muslim-majority states meant to them. It is based on empirical research and primary sources including interviews, the archives of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and articles and reports published in the journals 'Glasnik' and 'Takvim', and the newspapers 'Preporod' and 'Oslobodjenje'.

フェミニストの移民の倫理学
Reed-Sandoval, Amy, Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics. (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) 184 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <750-87>
ISBN 978-0-19-781031-6 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-781032-3 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Tam, Kwok-kan / Li, Lily (eds.), Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists: Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China. (Routledge Contemporary China Series) 272 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-872>
ISBN 978-1-041-02884-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Including chapters on artist-writers such as Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin and Hong Ying, Tyrus Wong and Shen Wei, the book explores personal cross-cultural experiences through their literary and other artistic works, reflecting on their cultural identity, their native home and their new home, the past and the present. By writing, filming and painting about their diaspora/diasporic experience, they are writing about their selves and the traumatic experience many of them have gone through in forgetting the past, forgiving the damage, and foreshadowing a future by re-visioning their selves. Their experience represents a generation's quest for an identity of being Chinese but culturally distanced from China.As a study of cross-cultural human experience through the lens of literature, film and other arts, this book will not only appeal to students and scholars of Chinese diaspora studies, it will also appeal to those with an interest in Chinese literature, film and culture.

Pap, Andras L., Race, Ethnicity, Nationality and the Law: Legal Paradoxes in Conceptualization and Operationalization. 368 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-426>
ISBN 978-1-032-87577-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides a complex insight into how law, as a distinct tool and technology, conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality. The focus of the comparative project, by bringing examples from five continents and scores of jurisdictions, as well as showcases for hybrid, intersectional groups, is specifically the morphology and dynamics of legal categorization. Separate discussions concentrate on conceptualizing groupness and membership, as well as agency and contestation. The book shows that although identity politics has dominated the past decades, ethno-racial self-identification is not the only operationalizing model legal regimes apply, especially with the recent boost in artificial intelligence, and bio-genetic research. Examples for the "re-biologization" of ethno-racial conceptualization are brought from a wide range of legal regimes, including citizenship, anti-discrimination, asylum and indigenous law. The work provides a journey through the administrative-political construction and contestation of ethno-racial classifications, with particular attention paid to the concept of free choice of identity, covering, and fraud, as well as the arbitrariness, historical path dependence and the role of merit in conceptualization. While the starting point of the book is to capture ethnicity as a category of law, it shows how legal conceptualization and operationalization is intertwined with categories of analysis and experience. The methodology applied is comparative constitutional and international law, but the research will have wider interdisciplinary appeal offering a novel perspective for a broad audience in social sciences and humanities.

日系カナダ人と戦時の憲法
Adams, Eric M. / Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. (Law and Society) 328 pp. 2025:10 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-442>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7284-3 paper ¥7,889.- (税込) US$ 37.95

In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross detail the circumstances and personalities behind the exile. They follow the lives of families facing government orders that uprooted them from their homes, stripped them of their livelihoods and possessions, and proposed to exile them from Canada. And they analyze the court case in which lawyers and judges grappled with the meaning of citizenship, race, and rights in times of war and its aftermath.Unfolding in a context of global conflict, sharpened borders, and racist suspicion, the story told in Challenging Exile has enduring relevance for our own troubled times.

非正規移民、難民の地位、法
Grundler, Maja, Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys. (Law and Migration) 250 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-478>
ISBN 978-1-032-64174-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Through an investigation of the protection needs of 'irregularised migrants', this book offers a novel approach to the phenomenon of irregular migration by reframing it as a matter of refugee law.Thousands of people have died, disappeared, and suffered mental and physical harm on their dangerous migratory journeys to Europe. This book addresses an issue which, so far, has been largely omitted from the study of refugee law: the fact that harm experienced during irregular migration is often as serious as harm feared by recognised refugees in their countries of origin. Grundler argues that harm experienced during dangerous journeys can constitute persecution and that a risk of irregular (re-)migration can form the basis for a claim to refugee status. Drawing insights from comparative content analysis of trafficked persons' asylum claims, other disciplines such as psychology and sociology, and additional case law, this book provides readers with new understandings on the scope of refugee definition, adds new concepts to migration theories and challenges states' migration control policies.This volume will be an important point of reference for scholars, practitioners, policymakers and students working on refugee and human rights law, (irregular) migration and vulnerability.

Fili, Andriani, Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention. (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship) 220 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-553>
ISBN 978-1-138-35458-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece's immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and personal experience as an NGO practitioner, it exposes how detention has been used as a tool for border control, racial exclusion, and social punishment.The book traces the evolution of Greece's detention system, from its roots in the 1990s through the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 to the present, connecting these practices to broader European border policies. Through vivid stories from detainees, activists, and practitioners, the book documents acts of resistance inside detention centers and the solidarity movements that support them. It highlights how state institutions, including the police and NGOs, sustain and legitimize violence under the guise of humanitarianism and security. Engaging with abolitionist thought, the book challenges the inevitability of detention, calling for a future without cages.It will resonate with readers interested in migration, social justice, and human rights, offering a vital contribution to contemporary debates on borders, confinement, and resistance across Europe and beyond.

Gamino, Eric, Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) 200 pp. 2025:9 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-555>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7392-8 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7393-5 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

As a lifelong resident of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Eric Gamino has always been curious why some U.S.-born Latinos were indifferent toward Latino immigrants, especially since both groups lived within the same majority Latino-origin community-the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (RGV). Enforcing Order on the Border offers a personal, ethnographic examination of Gamino's life as a resident of the RGV coupled with his experience as a police officer for two different police departments in the region. Gamino reveals how the concept of race functions within a predominantly Latino-origin community.Gamino unpacks the interplay between local police, federal immigration officials, and civilians as they encounter immigration. Enforcing Order on the Border illustrates how institutional practices such as immigration enforcement occur on the South Texas-Mexico borderlands as collaborative eff orts between local police and the U.S. Border Patrol from an institutional perspective. Consequently, this collaborative eff ort in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands creates a distinctive method of policing, which he tellingly refers to as "constitution-free policing." Gamino provides a unique perspective on how the concept of race in a predominantly Latino-origin community complicates intraracial/intraethnic relations on the South Texas-Mexico borderlands.

移民のケア労働、フィリピン人の若者、国境を超える家族生活
Shaw, Jennifer E., Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life Across Borders. 255 pp. 2025:4 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) * paper 2025:12 <750-229>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7130-3 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-7748-7131-0 paper ¥7,889.- (税込) US$ 37.95

To meet demand in Canada, more and more women are migrating from the Philippines to become domestic workers. What happens to family left behind? Tender Labour investigates the experiences of young people as they navigate precarity in all its forms when their mothers work elsewhere.Jennifer Shaw conducts nuanced research with youth who have been separated from and later reunited with their mothers in Canada, incorporating their own voices through poems, song lyrics, and photographs. She focuses on how their tender labour - the work they perform within their families - emerges not only from necessity but also from the stresses and dreams that tug at the threads of kinship.The role of young people in familial migrations reveals the hard consequences of capitalist extraction of transnational labour. Nonetheless, despite childhoods shaped by economic inequality and racialized disparity, Shaw discovers that these Filipina/o young people keep their hope of a good life.

Garg, Divya, Decolonizing Media Fandom: Disability, Race, and Marvel Superhero Fans. (Fandom & Culture) 246 pp. 2026:2 (U. Iowa Pr., US) <750-244>
ISBN 978-1-68597-043-7 paper ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Luthra Sinha, Bobby / Devi Gopal, Nirmala et al. (eds.), Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities, Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States. 270 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1186>
ISBN 978-1-041-05889-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-06156-4 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights. Dwelling on ethnographic case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the USA, and Europe, the volume illuminates the experiences of vulnerable communities, showcasing their solidarities, networks, and supportive dynamics that emerge from the harsh realities of social life. Analysing the world from the lens of fraternal relations and spaces that arise and abound in the lifeworld of the marginalised and vulnerable communities, this edited volume illustrates how without these burgeoning solidarities, migrants and other at-risk populations may have a harder struggle to navigate the socio-economic and political challenges they face. Furthermore, the book emphasises that nation-states would encounter even more profound and complex difficulties without such intricate coping mechanisms. The essays within the volume demonstrate that these mechanisms are vital to addressing dilemmas, stalemates, and the stakeholder politics surrounding people living in precarious, hidden and dark contexts. The case studies which enrich theoretical debates, also indicate how these dark contexts would be significantly more difficult to traverse without the robust and nuanced messages coded in actor solidarities and resilience.The volume is poised to attract significant attention from scholars and researchers committed to anthropology, ethnography, history, migration, international politics and refugee studies.

Bamsey, Victoria / McNair, Lynn J. / Campbell, N. (eds.), Antiracism in Early Childhood Education: Theory and Practice. 224 pp. 2025:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1196>
ISBN 978-1-350-44103-3 hard ¥21,202.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-350-44104-0 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

This book explores racism and anti-racist practice in early childhood education (ECE), exploring how different theoretical lenses can enable students and practitioners to consider the complexity of race and racism in early childhood and education and the impact it has on young children's lives. Written by academics and practitioners based in the USA, New Zealand, and the UK, the chapters cover a range of Issues and theories including, race and play, decolonial approaches in ECE, Marxism, critical pedagogy, child-centered pedagogy, pro-Black pedagogies, Black feminist perspectives, critical race theory and immigration. Throughout the book, new conceptualisations of race and anti-racist praxis emerge that have the potential to transform children's lives not only in day-to-day practice but also one's way of being in the world.

Blackmer, Peter D., Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers. (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) 396 pp. 2025:9 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <750-1198>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5375-5 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5376-2 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life Unleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary people mounted their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North. The richness of Black radical thought and action in this period made Harlem a key battleground in the national civil rights movement, transformed local Black grassroots politics, and facilitated the rise of Black Power in New York City. At the same time, the city's attempts to clamp down on activists revealed the repressive nature of Northern liberalism and heralded the expansion of the carceral state. Peter Blackmer argues that this decade of confrontations between Black communities and white state power caused Harlem residents and activists to seek 'new means' for achieving freedom within a city, state, and nation determined to deny it. Tracing the dual evolution of Black radicalism and white resistance, Unleashing Black Power offers a new framework for analyzing the epochal urban uprisings in the 1960s.

Brux, Jacqueline Murray, The Global Intersection of Nationalistic Populism and Immigration. 216 pp. 2025:10 (Emerald, UK) <750-1199>
ISBN 978-1-83708-953-6 hard ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Across the world, nationalistic populism is on the rise, reshaping economic and political landscapes and creating opposition to existing "establishments" and immigration. In both the United States and Europe, populist leaders exploit economic anxiety and manufacture cultural divisions, directing public resentment toward immigrants and other marginalized communities. Meanwhile, developing countries grapple with poverty, conflict, and climate crises, often created or heightened by the policies of the developed world. These forces drive migration and, in turn, fuel the rhetoric of nationalistic populism. As these dynamics intensify, understanding the intersection between these forces becomes more urgent than ever. In The Global Intersection of Nationalistic Populism and Immigration, Dr. Jacqueline Murray Brux offers a sweeping examination of how nationalistic populism shapes, and is shaped by, global migration patterns. This compelling study explores the ideological foundations of populism and nationalism, their impact on immigration policies, and the often-overlooked role of developing nations as both sources of migration and victims of global power structures. With in-depth analysis spanning the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Brux unpacks the circular relationship between populist movements and migration crises, shedding light on how misinformation, xenophobia, and economic myths sustain this feedback loop. Based in rigorous research, this volume presents a necessary critique of the forces threatening democracy and human rights worldwide. Bringing together political analysis, economic research, and firsthand narratives, this study is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the global forces driving populism and migration today.

Budabin, Alexandra Cosima / Metcalfe, Jody et al. (eds.), Minority Women, Rights and Intersectionality: Agency, Power, and Participation. (Routledge Advances in Minority Studies) 284 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1200>
ISBN 978-1-032-83473-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This collection focuses on minority women through the perspectives of minority rights and intersectionality to investigate such key concepts as discrimination, inequality, agency, participation, resistance, and solidarity while also unpacking dynamics of power. It presents diverse grounded empirical cases drawing on field research and data collection while offering a global perspective that explores intersectionality and its effect on minority women ascribed alternately by nationality, religion, ethno-culture, gender, migration background, and race in seven countries as well as in digital and international political spaces. The authors include legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists who study inequality, minority rights, race and gender issues, and the digital sphere. This interdisciplinary concatenation of authors offers an advantage when working at the junction between intersectionality and minority rights. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of Human Rights Law, Minority Rights, Gender Studies, Political Science, Social and Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.

Burciaga, Edelina M., Life Undocumented: Latinx Youth Navigating Place and Belonging. 192 pp. 2025:9 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-1201>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5304-4 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5303-7 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Life Undocumented captures the compelling stories of Latinx undocumented young adults growing up and living in two distinct sociopolitical contexts: California, which provides legal pathways into higher education for undocumented youth, and Georgia, which does not. The book is about how undocumented young adults in these two contexts navigate the pathway to and through adulthood, and the powerful role state laws and policies play in shaping their prospects for social mobility and their sense of belonging. Edelina M. Burciaga examines how state laws and policies in California and Georgia shape the pathways to adulthood for these individuals. California, with its supportive legal frameworks, contrasts sharply with Georgia's restrictive environment, highlighting the significant impact of state-level immigration policies. The book highlights the complexities and contradictions that emerge from these distinct legal ecologies, which include the intersections of federal, state, local, familial, and individual dynamics, and shape the daily lives and future orientations of undocumented young adults. This book underscores the resilience and agency of undocumented youth as they confront and resist the structural constraints imposed by immigration laws, offering a vivid portrayal of their emotional and social journeys. This book is a vital resource for anyone committed to creating equitable and inclusive systems for undocumented students.

Crumpton, Stephanie M., We Gon' Be Alright: Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012-2021. (The Feminist Wire Books) 184 pp. 2025:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-1203>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4122-5 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

We Gon' Be Alright: Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012-2021 is a profound exploration of Black activism and organizing during a pivotal decade in American history. Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton explores the practices of care, reflection, and creativity that Black activists employed to heal and resist amidst the sociopolitical turbulence from the Obama era through the first Trump presidency. This period, marked by the myth of a "post-racial" America, saw a resurgence in racial violence and hate crimes, culminating in the 2021 Capitol insurrection. Against this backdrop, Crumpton captures the resilience and ingenuity of Black movement workers as they navigated these challenges. Drawing on oral histories and personal narratives, Crumpton provides an intimate look at the lived experiences of thirty-seven full-time community organizers. These activists and organizers share their strategies for maintaining an ethic of care that sustains them while fighting against both external oppression and internal community struggles. The book highlights how contemporary Black resisters have leveraged a growing understanding of trauma and healing to enhance their activism. This blend of historical knowledge and modern therapeutic practices has equipped them with a broader array of tools to support their communities. Rooted in womanist practical theology, We Gon' Be Alright emphasizes the interconnectedness of white supremacy with other forms of oppression such as sexism, homophobia, and classism. Crumpton's work underscores the necessity of "deep, deep healing" to address these multifaceted threats to Black life. This book is an essential resource for scholars, activists, and anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of Black resistance and healing in contemporary America. Through its detailed examination of the past decade, it offers valuable insights into the ongoing struggle for Black humanity, dignity, and a thriving future.

Decker, Jeffrey Louis, Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City's Italians and the Fight for Civil Rights. (SUNY series in Italian/American Culture) 288 pp. 2025:9 (Excelsior Editions / State U. New York Pr, US) <750-1204>
ISBN 979-88-558-0343-3 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 979-88-558-0342-6 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true story of a rivalry between a pair of improbable social justice crusaders--Mary Sansone, an Italian homemaker, and Joe Colombo, a Mafia boss--set against the backdrop of Brooklyn's racial and ethnic feuds of the 1960s and 1970s. From her basement kitchen, Mary Sansone launched the Congress of Italian American Organizations, a social-action coalition operating multimillion-dollar programs on behalf of the Italian poor. From his office suite high above Madison Avenue, Joe Colombo defied omerta to commandeer the Italian American Civil Rights League, an audacious anti-defamation organization that convinced thousands to join sidewalk pickets and mass demonstrations. When, around 1970, Mary and Joe's paths finally cross, they battle each other for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt. This book challenges stereotypes of the docile Italian wife and the parochial Mafioso by recasting these actors as a rebel girl and a renegade wiseguy. It offers an alternative history of the 1960s and 1970s, when it was presumed that white ethnics living in urban America were predisposed to responding to the civil rights movement with backlash and the women's movement with scorn.

Escayg, Kerry-Ann / Daniel, Beverly-Jean (eds.), Disrupting Anti-Black Racism in Early Childhood Settings: A Pedagogy of Promise. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity in Education) 160 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1205>
ISBN 978-1-032-84080-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This edited volume draws from a special issue published in the Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership to explore children's perceptions, experiences and handling of anti-racism approaches in the contexts of teaching, learning, and parenting. Often marginalized and overlooked in the renewed vigor for racial justice is the lived experiences of young Black children, with a critical focus on the unique ways anti-Black racism theorizing can shed light on innovative pedagogies and other practices aimed at improving their quality of life and early years experiences. By drawing on a diverse body of theoretical scholarship, including anti-racism and critical anti-Black racism, the authors not only bring much-needed perspectives on racism in relation to young children's daily lives, but also discuss teaching and parenting practices as sites in which young children can ultimately adopt anti-racist beliefs, recognize their agency, and develop as global citizens committed to justice and racial equity. This text, one which builds on and expands the special issue, anchors Black epistemologies, focuses on the unique experiences Black children encounter in their larger social contexts as well as ECE settings, and provides institutional and pedagogical strategies that center and amplify Black humanity and agency.With a balance of conceptual and empirical chapters, the book provides a timely and interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological analysis of children and race. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in fields across Early Childhood Education and Child Development concerned with issues of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice.

Fonseca-Chavez, Vanessa / Huizar-Hernandez, Anita (eds.), MeXicana Roots and Routes: Listening to People, Places, and Pasts. (Arizona Crossroads) 344 pp. 2025:9 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-1207>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5514-7 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5513-0 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Community voices are often an underrepresented aspect of our historical and cultural knowledge of the U.S. Southwest. In this collection, established and emerging scholars draw upon their rootedness in the U.S. Southwest and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The meXicana contributors use personal and scholarly inquiry to discuss what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and explore and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes. From the recruitment of Latinas for the U.S. Benito Jua rez Squadron in World War II, to the early twentieth-century development of bilingual education in Arizona, to new and insightful analyses of Bracero Program participants and their families, the book details little-known oral histories and archival material to present a rich account of lives along the border with emphasis on women and the working class. As the inaugural publication of the Arizona Crossroads series, readers will find Arizona featured as a central node of borderlands roots and routes. Each section of the book intentionally centers Arizona within broader comparative and cross-state dialogues, alongside chapters that reflect regional concerns in other southwestern states, including Texas, California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Throughout, this volume highlights the ways in which personal experience, community building, and scholarly perspectives can provide a powerful space for community voices. Contributors Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez Lillian Gorman Gloria Holgui n Cuadraz Anita Hui zar-Hernandez Christine Marin Valerie A. Martinez Alina R. Mendez Karen R. Roybal Yvette J. Saavedra Liliana Toledo-Guzman Andrea Tovar

アメリカ・メキシコ国境地域における緊張関係
Fortune, Clea, Tensions In The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: From Border Security To Local Insecurity. (Routledge Borderlands Studies) 200 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1208>
ISBN 978-1-032-79167-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Over the last thirty years, the United States government has reinforced security around its borderlands with Mexico continuously, with migration becoming a top political issue. But what does this mean for the residents whose lives straddle the border? This book investigates the disconnect between what border security represents for state and non-state actors, and the social, economic, and cultural realities of the borderlanders living in U.S.-Mexico border towns.Focusing on the sister cities of Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, the book classifies borderlanders into four categories and highlights the ways in which border security actually creates disruptions in historical cross-border interactions and forms of economic and human insecurity. The book paints a rich picture of transborder connectedness which contrasts starkly with the rhetoric of fear and invasion used by state and non-state actors. Its findings will be of interest to researchers and students working on border studies, international relations, geography, and security studies.

Hammann, Andrew F., Words Colliding: The Debate Over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America. (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) 324 pp. 2025:10 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <750-1212>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5368-7 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5369-4 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that the United States was destined to become a nation free of slavery - and of its entire Black population. Following his cue, Henry Clay and other prominent politicians founded the American Colonization Society in 1816, launching the Black expatriation ('colonization') movement, a political force that, over the next eighty years, promoted the removal, with federal support, of the nation's Black population. Throughout this time, Frederick Douglass and the overwhelming majority of Black Americans opposed the colonization movement with great vigor and conviction, characterizing it as one of their greatest enemies, second only to slavery itself. Words Colliding offers the fullest account to date of this political debate, highlighting its dramatic impact on the national conversations regarding enslavement and Black civil rights. Colonization advocates claimed that centuries of racialized bondage had made civic equality impossible. Black activists vehemently rejected this claim, denying that Black freedom was a national problem and warning that colonization rhetoric encouraged and justified racial oppression, in its varied forms, both during the pre-Civil War decades and the long era of Jim Crow, the afterlives of which persist to this day.

Hyres, Alexander D., Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School. (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South) 200 pp. 2026:1 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-1214>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7529-8 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7530-4 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle-or outright opponents-Black high school teachers, and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers' pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools.

Jeffery, Hannah E., A Monument to Blackness: Murals and Black Liberation, from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter. 312 pp. 2026:1 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-1215>
ISBN 978-0-8203-6630-2 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7522-9 paper ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95

A Monument to Blackness offers an in-depth excavation of Black murals across the United States, from interior murals in the South to street murals predominantly in the North and West. It shows us how Black murals were-and remain-an integral but commonly overlooked artistic expression in the movement for Black liberation across the country. Focusing on works from 1930 to the present day, Hannah E. Jeffery illuminates the elusive connection between Black politics, public art, memory, and space to reveal how murals created unprecedented interactive sites of Black imagination and empowerment within Black communities. Showcasing Black life, Black love, Black Power, and Black history and painting it onto buildings in the streets, muralists creatively transformed walls of isolated Black neighborhoods into spaces of education, ritual, performance, and commemoration. By tracing the genealogy of Black muralism throughout the movement for Black liberation, A Monument to Blackness excavates how, why, and when murals became catalysts for inspiring community interaction, and it unearths a largely unwritten narrative of Black visual protest in the fight for twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black liberation.Jeffery calls on original artist testimony, extensive archival research, and the fields of Black, visual, and American studies to underscore how walls in racially isolated Black communities became inspirational, imaginative, and subversive spaces for residents to protest against social, racial, and political oppression; contest geographical confinement; celebrate Blackness; and commemorate a Black history. Not only does A Monument to Blackness help deepen our understanding of the movement for Black liberation by uncovering an overlooked expression of Black community art, but it arrives at a moment in America's history when understanding the deeper roots of this powerful mural movement will help contextualize the current wave of murals sweeping across the nation in this age of Black Lives Matter.

Katz-Fishman, Walda / Scott, Jerome, Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) 216 pp. 2025:9 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-1217>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7427-7 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7428-4 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and katz-fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.

Obiakor, Festus E., No Time to Retreat: Why We Must Solidify Multicultural Education. 136 pp. 2025:11 (Emerald, UK) <750-1220>
ISBN 978-1-83708-903-1 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-83708-905-5 paper ¥9,979.- (税込) US$ 48.00

While there is much goodness in today's world, it often feels like the world is ablaze. Across all regions, we face conflicts, wars, inhumane actions, racism, xenophobia, crimes against humanity, poverty, social injustice, and other forms of hatred. As global citizens, we seem to have forgotten the value of our multicultural world and the importance of embracing our differences. No Time to Retreat: Why We Must Solidify Multicultural Education is a book that acknowledges these challenges and advocates for leveraging our diverse thoughts, talents, strengths, and skills to create a more liveable world. Our global problems are evident in our nations, communities, organizations, institutions, schools, and among individuals. In the United States, for example, many of our multicultural gains in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are under attack; and our hard-fought freedoms are eroding. This book reminds us that we are in this together and urges us to shift paradigms, refocus our energies, and realign our vision and strategies to achieve our goals. On the whole, this book emphasizes that now is "no time to retreat" and that we must "solidify multicultural education."

Schmidt, Garbi, Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research: A Focus on Denmark. (Routledge Approaches to History) 208 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1224>
ISBN 978-1-032-00011-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book investigates the benefits of integrating history, sociology, and ethnography to better understand migration and its consequences, using Denmark's history of migration as a case study.Although migration research is an interdisciplinary field, much research on migration still occurs in disciplinary containers. The field is not least affected by a methodological presentism: a scholarly and societal tendency to understand social phenomena within a limited contemporary framework, neglecting possible effects and similarities embedded in and established through human history. This book builds upon previous research underscoring the importance of examining migration from a longer, diachronic, and genealogical viewpoint, and it is among the first to advocate for a more profound methodological discussion regarding how, why, and when this should be addressed. The book's analysis draws on empirical examples from Denmark, a Northern European country where the impact of migration is currently hotly debated, yet the history of migration is frequently overlooked. Specific themes examined in the book range from demography/immigrant statistics to the understanding of "the ghetto," the implications of discussions around "Danishness," and how migration has influenced and molded a particular neighborhood in Copenhagen (Norrebro) over time.This volume is innovative and pertinent for an international audience of researchers and students interested in the genealogies of migration and eager to explore new pathways for pursuing this research interest.

Sheffield, Ric S., False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio. 277 pp. 2025:9 (Swallow Pr., US) <750-1226>
ISBN 978-0-8040-1257-7 paper ¥5,602.- (税込) US$ 26.95

Brings to life the struggle for Black suffrage in nineteenth-century Ohio In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the state's nineteenth-century restrictions on suffrage. Though ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ostensibly extended the franchise, state election laws still forced men of color into a perilous struggle for full citizenship. Ric S. Sheffield depicts their courage and determination, revealing their humanity through stories of sacrifice, resistance, and hope. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman's concept of critical fabulation, Sheffield weaves together historical records with imaginative reconstructions of dialogue, setting, and descriptive elements beyond the dusty courthouse pages. Grounded in archival evidence yet reimagined to fill in the silences, these stories recount the lived experiences of those who risked everything to exercise their right to vote. False Promises also connects these historical battles to the present, illustrating how voter-suppression tactics in today's Ohio have roots in the racial exclusions of the nineteenth century. By exposing the enduring legacy of white supremacist policies, the book challenges the widespread misconception that racial disenfranchisement was solely a southern problem. Ohio's complex racial history-noted for its role in the Underground Railroad but also for its repressive Black Laws-also includes a fierce and ongoing struggle over the right to vote. Through compelling storytelling, historical analysis, and a reclamation of voices lost to history, False Promises urges readers to reconsider their understanding of democracy and the right to vote.

Stievermann, Jan / Smith, Caitlin B. / Glaude, E. S. (eds.), James W. C. Pennington: Essays Toward Rediscovering a Great African American Intellectual and Reformer. (Oxford New Histories of Philosophy) 296 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <750-1228>
ISBN 978-0-19-769070-3 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-769071-0 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Stievermann, Jan / Smith, Caitlin B. / Glaude, Eddie S., The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W. C. Pennington. (Oxford New Histories of Philosophy) 400 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <750-1229>
ISBN 978-0-19-769075-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-769076-5 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Wiseman, Angela M. / Cappello, Marva / Turner, J. D. (eds.), Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research: The Seen and the Unseen. 278 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1232>
ISBN 978-1-032-72477-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-72475-1 paper ¥13,283.- (税込) GB￡ 46.99

Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research advances critical research methodologies for analyzing visual and multimodal data, with particular attention to racial justice and minoritized communities. It presents innovative theoretical frameworks and analytical approaches for examining how visual representations impact, perpetuate, and potentially transform systemic inequities in educational research.Organized into three sections, this book explores analytic frameworks, methods for critical visual analysis, and visual praxis in schools and communities. Contributors weave together transformative theories while demonstrating innovative approaches to visual analysis including photovoice, collage, slow looking, and radical curation that center participant perspectives. The book showcases rigorous approaches to analyzing visual data while maintaining methodological depth. Key findings illustrate how visual methodologies can reveal hidden power structures, document lived experiences, and generate new knowledge about how minoritized communities engage with and create visual meaning. The work advances understanding of perspectives across the lifespan-from children to youth to adults-through visual and multimodal research methods.This book is designed for emerging and established educational scholars interested in critical visual and multimodal methodologies, and serves as an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate research courses. It offers valuable insights for researchers studying representation, identity, and equity, while advancing innovative approaches for analyzing visual and multimodal data in educational research.

Mallick, Bishawjit, Environmental Non-Migration: Rethinking Sustainable Solutions for Climate-Induced Challenges. (Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change) 236 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1006>
ISBN 978-1-032-74235-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).It provides insights into why communities choose to remain in specific locations despite environmental risks and how staying can be an active adaptation strategy. It integrates theoretical frameworks, historical contexts, and global case studies, highlighting cognitive, cultural, and socio-economic influences. By offering policy recommendations and real-world examples, the book equips researchers and policymakers with a new perspective on climate adaptation, fostering resilience, community empowerment, and sustainable development while preserving cultural heritage and strengthening local adaptation efforts.This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in climate adaptation, environmental studies, migration studies, development, urban planning, and those who are exploring resilience strategies, community-based adaptation, sustainability, and socio-environmental decision-making.

Spratt, Tanisha, Ungrievable Lives: Racism, Risk and Responsibility in Neoliberal Societies. 272 pp. 2026:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1063>
ISBN 978-1-350-40081-8 hard ¥18,375.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-40080-1 paper ¥6,216.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

In this book, Tanisha Spratt offers an original and much-needed exploration of whose lives society deems grievable and why. In 2020, the global fight against COVID-19, coupled with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) following the death of George Floyd, brought into stark clarity what many scholars and activists have long argued - that when it comes to matters of sickness and health/ life and death some lives matter and others do not. By developing Judith Butler's theory of grievability to include contemporary discussions of blame, risk, death and dying when it comes to racial disparities in health and mortality rates, Spratt calls in contemporary and historical case studies including that of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic and Shamima Begum. From immigration and prison reform, medical ethics, health behaviours, and citizenship denial, Spratt demonstrates how, under neoliberalism, some lives are more valuable than others - and how racist, sexist and homophobic perceptions of value, risk and vulnerability deem some deaths less worthy of grief than others.

Ali, Mehrunnisa Ahmad, Research with Refugee Children and Families: Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights. 176 pp. 2025:10 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-1081>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7182-2 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00

In the aftermath of the war in Syria, Canada and Germany welcomed thousands of refugees. Scholars in both countries conducted studies to learn how the refugee children and families were faring, and how local populations and non-governmental agencies were responding. This book presents researchers' accounts of responsible ethical conduct in complex situations such as these.In this volume edited by Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, contributors describe the challenges of data collection, analyses, and dissemination of findings. These include getting institutional and parental permissions to access children; ensuring privacy, comfort, and safety; and developing trusting relationships with those whose language, culture, and lived experiences are very different from one's own. In doing this work, researchers can get caught between their obligations toward the refugee children and families, research ethics boards, service providers, and government agencies. This book also offers advice on navigating these competing ethical obligations.Research with Refugee Children and Families reveals ethical dilemmas, insights, and methodological innovations to build an effective framework for refugee research in various contexts.

Othman, Enaya Hammad, Crafting Marriages: Palestinian American Women Transforming Gender Boundaries. (Critical Arab American Studies) 277 pp. 2025:10 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <750-1082>
ISBN 978-0-8156-1194-3 hard ¥11,423.- (税込) US$ 54.95

In Crafting Marriages: Palestinian American Women Transforming Gender Boundaries, Enaya Othman draws on three decades of ethnographic research to chart how Palestinian women have reimagined and reshaped marriage practices across generations. Through careful analysis of over sixty personal narratives, family documents, and marriage videos, Othman reveals how these women have become key agents of cultural change, negotiating between traditional expectations and contemporary possibilities. Her research demonstrates that rather than following a single pattern, Palestinian American marriages reflect complex interactions between religious identity, cultural heritage, and modern American life. Othman's groundbreaking study shows how the rise of global Islamic revival movements since the 1970s have created new opportunities for Palestinian women to challenge traditional marriage customs. By emphasizing Islamic values over ethnic ties, younger generations are expanding the boundaries of acceptable marriage partners across racial, cultural, and national lines. This shift has profound implications for how we understand the intersection of gender, religion, and cultural identity in diaspora communities. By illuminating how Palestinian American women navigate between tradition and transformation, Crafting Marriages offers important insights into broader questions about gender, agency, and cultural change in transnational communities.

Coghlan, Jo / Hackett, Lisa J. / Nolan, Huw (eds.), The Barbie Phenomenon. Volume 1: Gender, Identity, Race and Sexuality. (Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies) 192 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1098>
ISBN 978-1-041-00762-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Barbie's role in shaping societal perceptions of identity, gender, race, and sexuality. It traces Barbie's journey from a post-war American doll reflecting stereotypical ideals to a significant cultural icon whose image both reflects and influences complex contemporary discussions on identity. By situating Barbie in her historical and social context, this book explores how this iconic doll has navigated, and at times challenged, shifting societal norms. Structured thematically, this book dedicates each chapter to specific aspects of Barbie's influence, from her portrayal of femininity and body image to her evolving representations of race and sexuality.By examining Barbie's diverse career roles and responses to beauty standards, this book encourages readers to consider both the empowerment and the limitations embedded in her narrative. It also critically addresses efforts to diversify Barbie's image, questioning whether these initiatives genuinely engage with diverse communities or commodify inclusivity for commercial appeal. Aimed at scholars and students in fields such as gender studies, sociology, and cultural studies, this book draws from multidisciplinary insights to enhance the reader's understanding of Barbie's impact.Its rigorous theoretical framework and balanced perspective make it an essential resource for those interested in consumer culture, identity formation, and media representations. By engaging with Barbie's complex legacy, this book provides a timely and thought-provoking contribution to discussions about the intersections of identity, representation, and popular culture.