Project MUSE®: Social Forces - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Social Forces.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 79, no. 3 (2001) through current issueLatest Articles: Social ForcesTWOProject MUSE®Social Forces1534-76050037-7732Latest articles in Social Forces. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Correction to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989522
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This is a correction to:Bettina Hünteler, Theresa Nutz, Jonathan Wörn, Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway, Social Forces, Volume 103, Issue 4, June 2025, Pages 1307–1328, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae151In the originally published version of this manuscript, Figure 2 is missing its legend and notes.This error has been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCorrection to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway2026-05-11text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®21142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989523
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The United States is a global leader in incarceration (Widra and Herring 2021). Incarceration rates in the United States skyrocketed in the latter half of the twentieth century, driven primarily by a growth in state prison populations. Beginning in the late 1960s, states passed and enacted massive suites of punitive, "tough on crime" policies that scholars speculate contributed to both the mass incarceration boom and the striking divergence of state-level incarceration rates over time (National Research Council 2014; Phelps and Pager 2016). As a result, the role of state incarceration policies has received growing attention in research on incarceration and a variety of outcomes driven by incarceration, including
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallHeterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States2026-05-11text/htmlen-USHeterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1755672026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Hiring the ideal remote worker: The gendered implications of the rise of remote work
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989524
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Employers believe "ideal workers" are highly committed to work, a norm with gendered implications (Acker 1990; Williams 2000). The ideal worker norm conflicts with stereotypes of mothers as being primarily devoted to caregiving (Blair-Loy 2005), leading employers to hire and reward women without children over mothers (Correll, Benard, and Paik 2007; Ishizuka 2021; Yu and Kuo 2017). In contrast, the ideal worker norm only sometimes negatively affects fathers. Men are generally stereotyped as primarily devoted to work, but fathers are penalized when they imply or express commitments to caregiving (Melin 2024; Pedulla 2016; Weisshaar 2018; Williams, Blair-Loy, and Berdahl 2013). The uneven application of parental
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallHiring the ideal remote worker: The gendered implications of the rise of remote work2026-05-11text/htmlen-USHiring the ideal remote worker: The gendered implications of the rise of remote work2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1589742026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Confronting the past in a polarized present: Holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989525
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Our present societies, their dynamics, and problems, are heavily shaped by their histories, including atrocities and gross injustices. As James Baldwin (1965) observed when writing about the continued influence of the history of slavery on race and racism in the United States, "history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations." In a similar vein, W.E.B. Du Bois noted several decades earlier that while societal problems, including "race problems," needed to be solved in the present, "their cause and their explanation lie in the past" (Du Bois, Green and Driver 1980, 36).A century later, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallConfronting the past in a polarized present: Holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism2026-05-11text/htmlen-USConfronting the past in a polarized present: Holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1539552026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989526
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Life courses are gendered across different contexts (e.g., Fasang and Aisenbrey 2022; Rowold, Struffolino, and Fasang 2025) and gender inequalities accumulate across the life course (O'Rand 1996). As a result, gender inequalities in old age, such as the gender pension gap (GPG), are associated with gender inequalities experienced at previous life stages, are often more pronounced (Hammerschmid and Rowold 2019), and indicate cumulative gender inequality over the life course. However, they receive less attention than earlier-life inequalities like the gender wage gap. At the same time, pensions reward life courses (e.g., Ginn, Daly, and Street 2001) and represent an example of "[w]hat is valued, protected, or
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallFull-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps2026-05-11text/htmlen-USFull-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1628202026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Echoes of silence: How student migrants navigate political taboos across borders
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989527
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People migrate in pursuit of better lives, including better education, more job opportunities, and greater political freedom. Much of the existing migration literature emphasizes class mobility, exploring how labor migrants experience upward or downward mobility in both their host and home societies (Ong 1999; Parreñas 2015; Ray and Qayum 2009). Similarly, research on educational migration predominantly focuses on economic aspects, such as how immigrant families prepare their children for global competition (Lan 2018; Ma 2020). Meanwhile, an extensive body of scholarship explores immigrant identities and assimilation (Jimenez 2017; Portes and Zhou 2014).However, far less attention has been given to the political
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallEchoes of silence: How student migrants navigate political taboos across borders2026-05-11text/htmlen-USEchoes of silence: How student migrants navigate political taboos across borders2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1607852026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Less than citizens: Varieties of workplace marginalization of immigrants to the United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989528
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Almost 31 million foreign-born immigrants currently work in the United States, accounting for 19 percent of the American workforce (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023). Indeed, foreign-born immigrants constitute the primary driver of America's labor force growth in recent years (National Foundation for American Policy, 2024), yet they continue to face numerous barriers to full labor market integration at their destination. Many studies have so far investigated various economic and social obstacles immigrant workers encounter, looking into the immigrant-native pay gaps upon immigrants' arrival and their progress toward economic parity with natives over time (Chiswick, 1978; Bratsberg et al., 2002; Ye, 2024). Research
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallLess than citizens: Varieties of workplace marginalization of immigrants to the United States2026-05-11text/htmlen-USLess than citizens: Varieties of workplace marginalization of immigrants to the United States2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1593522026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Parental education and children's cognitive development: A prospective approach
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989529
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Children from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds consistently outperform their lower SES peers on various cognitive measures in early childhood (Bradley and Corwyn 2002). SES can be understood as access to different forms of capital, financial, human, and social, which shape child development in distinct ways (Coleman 1988). While SES indicators like parental education, income, and occupation are correlated, each uniquely contributes to children's cognitive outcomes (Duncan and Magnuson 2003). Among these, parental education is consistently the strongest predictor (Davis-Kean 2005; Reardon 2011). For instance, children of college-educated parents score over 0.5 standard deviations higher than those whose
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallParental education and children's cognitive development: A prospective approach2026-05-11text/htmlen-USParental education and children's cognitive development: A prospective approach2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1737032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: An experimental approach
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989530
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Which types of migrants are allowed to cross physical and symbolic boundaries to the United States? The United States has a long history intertwined with immigration, with its "country of immigrants" moniker held in high regard. However, the United States has an equally long history of exclusionary laws that continue to uphold a White Christian majority over other immigrant groups (Fitzgerald and Cook-Martin 2014; Johnson 2004). This history of laws established a legal gatekeeping regime that works to enforce a homogenous racial hierarchy and exclude other racial groups from gaining a foothold within the country (Lee 2006). This exclusion is particularly pronounced toward Muslim migrants, who have become
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallRethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: An experimental approach2026-05-11text/htmlen-USRethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: An experimental approach2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1260942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Fighting over the kids: Gender roles, patrilineage, and child custody in Chinese courts
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989531
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Two parents and four grandparents appeared in a Nanjing courtroom to contest custody of a 2-year-old boy. The mother, the plaintiff, had been the child's primary caregiver while working full-time, assisted by her parents-in-law. Yet, the father won custody. The court explained:
"Although the plaintiff, the defendant, and their parents all have a strong desire to raise the child and have stable income, the child is a boy and is the family's only son, so it is better for the child to live with his father for his future character development. Both the plaintiff and the defendant have a job; they need assistance from their parents to take care of the child. While the defendant is an only son, the plaintiff has a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallFighting over the kids: Gender roles, patrilineage, and child custody in Chinese courts2026-05-11text/htmlen-USFighting over the kids: Gender roles, patrilineage, and child custody in Chinese courts2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1711422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Unpacking the nexus of Islamic religiosity and attitudes towards individual liberties and gender equality: A person-centered analysis among Dutch Muslims
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989532
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Public opinion on the issues of migration, gender, and sexuality is increasingly polarized in today's societies. Explicitly Islamophobic positions have attracted large voter shares in elections across Europe; the most recent (2023) parliamentary election in the Netherlands with one in four votes cast for a party that has championed anti-Islamic rhetoric (e.g., Kešić and Duyvendak 2019) is a case in point. To justify their exclusionary agenda, anti-Muslim pundits frequently mobilize discourses of threats to gender equality, sexual liberalism and the rights of sexual minorities (e.g., Bracke 2012). Indeed, survey-based research finds higher average levels of religiosity and greater conservatism among European Muslims
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallUnpacking the nexus of Islamic religiosity and attitudes towards individual liberties and gender equality: A person-centered analysis among Dutch Muslims2026-05-11text/htmlen-USUnpacking the nexus of Islamic religiosity and attitudes towards individual liberties and gender equality: A person-centered analysis among Dutch Muslims2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1350082026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Secularism, sorting, and Americans' political knowledge
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989533
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Among the reasons he advocated for state-funded public education, Thomas Jefferson argued the future of our democracy (or any democracy) depended on citizens being educated in the organization and workings of their own government (Meacham 2020). He explained the goals of education for each citizen would be "To expound the principles and structure of government […] To understand his [sic] duties to his neighbors, and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either. To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion [his representatives]; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor, and judgment" (Jefferson [1818] 2020).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallSecularism, sorting, and Americans' political knowledge2026-05-11text/htmlen-USSecularism, sorting, and Americans' political knowledge2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1877392026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Black in blue networks: Social network integration and racial disparities in police use of force
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989534
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Police lethal force is a leading cause of death among Black men between the ages of 18 and 25 (Edwards et al. 2018). Black men are 2.7 times more likely to be killed by police than White men and 1.5 times more likely compared to Latino men. While a large literature documents the adverse effects of policing on racial inequality (Anderson 1978; Bell 2020; Fagan and Ash 2018; Rios 2010), research on police use of force has largely overlooked the routine relational mechanisms that make group boundaries. Studies focus on external sources of officer behaviors, such as situational threats, neighborhood effects, and organizational context (Donahue and Torrats-Espinosa 2025; Grogger and Ridgeway 2006; Ray et al. 2024).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBlack in blue networks: Social network integration and racial disparities in police use of force2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBlack in blue networks: Social network integration and racial disparities in police use of force2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1846062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11From language to self-identification: Indigenous classification in the Americas
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989535
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After decades of declining Indigenous population counts based on Indigenous language usage, Latin American censuses now prioritize self-identification to officially enumerate Indigenous peoples (Loveman 2014; Del Popolo 2017). The change to self-identification coincided with nation-states embracing multiculturalism, accompanied by international conventions that grant Indigenous peoples greater legal protections (Falleti and Riofrancos 2018) and stipulate that self-identification should be the fundamental criterion for determining who is Indigenous (International Labour Organization 2003; Loveman 2014; Del Popolo 2017). Multiculturalism in Latin America in the 1990s was incorporated through rhetorical and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallFrom language to self-identification: Indigenous classification in the Americas2026-05-11text/htmlen-USFrom language to self-identification: Indigenous classification in the Americas2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1575622026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11The global rise in children's attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder prevalence: A macro-sociological explanation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989536
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disability characterized by a lack of attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity (Farone et al. 2003; Polancyzk et al. 2007). The number of children diagnosed with ADHD has increased globally since the 1990s, and ADHD is now increasingly recognized as a global issue by both international medical associations and the broader public (Conrad and Bergey 2014). Accompanying this trend, advocacy groups have emerged and flourished globally, actively promoting ADHD awareness in countries around the world (Conrad and Potter 2000; Conrad and Bergey 2014; Filipe 2016). Additionally, national-level legal regulations increasingly define ADHD as a disability
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe global rise in children's attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder prevalence: A macro-sociological explanation2026-05-11text/htmlen-USThe global rise in children's attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder prevalence: A macro-sociological explanation2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1747962026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11When expectations backfire: Educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989537
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International migration is a fact of life: individuals move to other countries for work or lifestyle reasons, to stay with loved ones, or to seek security. Even if international migration is carefully planned, it always involves uncertainty and limited personal agency, some of which migrants may not be aware of (Collins 2018; de Haas 2021). The fact that individuals emigrate in the face of such adversities has contributed to an understanding of migrants as risk-takers and optimistic decision-makers (Czaika 2015; Kao and Tienda 1995). Indeed, migrants have been likened to gamblers with high expectations who hope or think they can calculate the risks, although they are in fact exposed to the "migration game" (Belloni
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallWhen expectations backfire: Educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants2026-05-11text/htmlen-USWhen expectations backfire: Educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1491292026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Blending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnover
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989538
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The ethnic makeup of organizations is both a cause and consequence of workplace segregation. As immigrant populations in Europe and North America continue to grow, policymakers and social scientists are increasingly concerned with the implications of this demographic shift for workplace inequality and ethnic stratification (Dostie et al. 2023; Drouhot and Nee 2019; Heath and Cheung 2007; Hermansen et al. 2025; Melzer et al. 2018; Tomaskovic-Devey, Hällsten, and Avent-Holt 2015). The rise in the number of immigrants in the workforce does not, however, automatically translate into greater interaction between ethnic minorities and the native-born majority. In fact, ethnic workplace segregation remains pervasive
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBlending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnover2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBlending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnover2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1914092026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11My co-workers, my pay, our inequality regime: A relational inequality model
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989539
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Sociologists have been calling for investigations of workplaces as fundamental inequality contexts for more than forty years (Baron and Bielby 1980). Substantial progress has been made, including knowledge on the important role of closure processes in producing gender and racial segregation and earnings inequalities (e.g. Petersen and Morgan 1995; Stainback and Tomaskovic-Devey 2012; Ferguson and Koning 2018) and on the role of workplace practices in reproducing or reducing these inequalities (e.g. Castilla 2015; Kalev, Dobbin, and Kelly 2006). Recently, scholars have discovered substantial gender and racial earnings inequalities, even among people sharing the same job in the same workplace (Penner et al. 2023;
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallMy co-workers, my pay, our inequality regime: A relational inequality model2026-05-11text/htmlen-USMy co-workers, my pay, our inequality regime: A relational inequality model2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1523272026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality by Irene I. Vega (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989540
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Border and immigration enforcement in the United States, in terms of both budget allocation and staffing, has expanded exponentially since the 1990s, particularly in the post-9/11 era. This emergence of an immigration industrial complex has contributed to an economic dependence in many border communities along the US-Mexico border, not unlike what is seen in prison towns throughout the country. Amid its rapid growth, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has emerged as one of the largest US federal employers of Latina/os: roughly half of all US Customs and Border Enforcement (CBP) agents and about one-third of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are Latino/a, most of whom are Mexican-origin.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality by Irene I. Vega (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality by Irene I. Vega (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®107482026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Correction to: Review of "Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989541
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This is a correction to: Kimberly Garcia-Galvez, Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Review of "Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses", Social Forces, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf095In the originally published version of the manuscript there was a typographical error in the first name of the first author. This has been emended in the article to now read: "Kimberly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCorrection to: Review of "Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses"2026-05-11text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Review of "Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses"2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®17132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024 by Michael A. Messner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989542
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The 2020s have seen increasingly prominent, contentious discourse about youth gender expression and identity in sports. In The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024, Michael A. Messner offers a timely exploration of how sports have shaped—and gendered—the American high school experience. He uses 120 volumes of the Salinas High yearbook, El Gabilan, to show that girls' inclusion in sports surged, waned, and then surged again during the twentieth century. Messner's decades of scholarship on gendered sports media representation equip him for a longitudinal examination of how national trends are reflected in athletic experiences at Salinas High. This fascinating story of more than a century of girls'
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024 by Michael A. Messner (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USThe High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024 by Michael A. Messner (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®91562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance by Jennifer Randles and Kerry Woodward (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989543
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Purportedly, the purpose of the child welfare system is to protect children from neglect and maltreatment. But the editors and authors of this impressive and comprehensive volume argue that it more often serves another purpose: to police poor and low-income families of color under a gendered and racialized system of neoliberal poverty governance. Rather than providing the support families need to thrive, the child welfare system too often worsens families' circumstances under a logic that holds parents—usually mothers—accountable for being poor but does nothing to resolve the structural inequalities that generate intractable poverty.The contributors use the term family policing system to describe a public child
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallPolicing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance by Jennifer Randles and Kerry Woodward (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USPolicing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance by Jennifer Randles and Kerry Woodward (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®99902026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989544
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How can labor reverse decades of deunionization and win its battles against economic exploitation? Blanc's We Are the Union delivers a clear answer: by embracing worker-to-worker organizing models that shift strategic decision making, initiative, and responsibilities for organizing labor unions directly onto workers themselves. Blanc's lively and lucid book, built off a thorough on-the-ground account of labor mobilizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, is an analysis of changing organizing models that should be of interest to not only labor activists, but also sociologists of work, social movements, and organizations broadly.The central thrust of the book is an argument with the leaders of organized labor. American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallWe Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USWe Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®86182026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11The Global Journey of Racism by Michelle Christian (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989545
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From debates over whether we are in the last vestiges of capitalism and "Western" empire is falling to whether nuclear or climate disaster will take us out before we can even decide, many of us are grappling with questions of contemporary crises of economy, democracy, and humanity. In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian offers us a framework that challenges the very assumptions on which many of our analyses lie, that limit our thinking to particular historical junctures and particular places. With clear and lyrical prose, Christian deftly weaves together a deep and expansive landscape of scholarship to develop a global theory of racism on a "planetary" scale: how it is forged, reproduced, diffused
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe Global Journey of Racism by Michelle Christian (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USThe Global Journey of Racism by Michelle Christian (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®102332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests by Ming-sho Ho (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989546
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In the rise of authoritarianism, what can ordinary people do to resist the seemingly irreversible tide of state autocratization? The story of Hong Kong provides a global case for this question. In 2019, I stayed in a Hong Kong hotel interviewing "active" participants of street protests. Characterized by the ethos of "no big organization," participants saw themselves as autonomous, spontaneous citizens rather than followers of a particular leader organization. Their coordination was based on online communication technology grounded in a decade-long fear of authoritarian encroachment. Ming-sho Ho's extraordinary new book, Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests, examines and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBe Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests by Ming-sho Ho (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBe Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests by Ming-sho Ho (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®86432026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care by Fumilayo Showers (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989547
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Migrants Who Care is a timely and beautifully written qualitative study of middle-class women and men from West Africa who migrated to the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, settled in metropolitan Washington, DC, and found entry-level jobs in health care. Ultimately, many moved into professional careers in nursing or became business owners or managerial employees in health care and long-term care agencies. Using in-depth interviews and ethnography, Showers identifies the macro-, meso-, and micro-processes that intersected in West African migrants' lives. She explains why, after initially experiencing discrimination in the US labor market and downward mobility, these unintentional
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallMigrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care by Fumilayo Showers (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USMigrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care by Fumilayo Showers (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®93842026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989548
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Jada, a poised and confident Black ten-year-old, is the type of kid teachers dream of teaching. Even though she is years ahead in math, English, and science, she still works diligently on assignments and asks thoughtful questions about them. She has cool hobbies, drawing with a graphite pencil in her sketchbook and carrying around a collection of rare coins. Her peers look up to her, but she's not imperious with her status the way some ten-year-olds can be. She makes self-effacing jokes, and she sticks up for people who are more vulnerable than her. When a shy and anxious new girl named Sophia wets her pants in front of the class, Jada comforts her and keeps volunteering to work with her, just like she's been doing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallSlow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USSlow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®121072026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Powerless: The People's Struggle for Energy by Diana Hernández and Jennifer Laird (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989549
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In this well-written and persuasively argued book, sociologists Diana Hernandez and Jennifer Laird combine the descriptive power of quantitative analysis with the deep illumination that comes only from the hard work of in-depth interviews to reveal the extent and complexity of "energy insecurity." Simply defined as "the inability to adequately meet household energy needs" (p. 1), and long overlooked as a social problem, Hernandez and Laird demonstrate that energy insecurity is common, multifaceted, and demanding of the ingenuity of the individuals and households who must cope with disconnections, unpaid debt to utility companies, and the indignity of living without the power sources—electricity, gas, etc.—that are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallPowerless: The People's Struggle for Energy by Diana Hernández and Jennifer Laird (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USPowerless: The People's Struggle for Energy by Diana Hernández and Jennifer Laird (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®74072026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Managing motherhood: How "queen bee" managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989550
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Unstable work schedules are pervasive among low-wage workers in the US service sector. In an effort to reduce labor costs, service sector employers often seek to match staffing levels to real-time demand using scheduling practices that require employees to maintain 24/7 availability to work at a moment's notice and accommodate last-minute changes to their work schedule (Lambert 2008; Kalleberg 2011; Lambert, Fugiel, and Henly 2014; Schneider and Harknett 2019a). Schedule instability and lack of schedule control are particularly disruptive for mothers in the service sector. Mothers often struggle to secure consistent high-quality childcare arrangements and meet other family needs due to uncertainty around the times
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallManaging motherhood: How "queen bee" managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling2026-05-11text/htmlen-USManaging motherhood: How "queen bee" managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®1920422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education by Jose Eos Trinidad (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989551
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This is a remarkably clear-sighted and straightforward book demonstrating the importance of extra institutional influences on the success of school reform programs. As the author notes, "while policy research often highlights the effects and the implementation of policies, this book focuses on how they came about in the first place" (viii). I was convinced by the author that this is a major advance in the methodology of educational policy studies. It is often difficult to perceive the agents and contexts behind policy interventions but doing so is crucial for understanding and evaluating the success of such interventions.Trinidad employs a rich case study approach and Integrative Policy Analysis to explore how
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallSubtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education by Jose Eos Trinidad (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USSubtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education by Jose Eos Trinidad (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®86502026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Birth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison by Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989552
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Approximately 4% of incarcerated women in the United States are pregnant, which means that each year over 3,000 women experience (parts of) their pregnancies behind bars. These experiences, however, remain largely absent from public discourse and scholarship alike. Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey's book, Birth Behind Bars, addresses this gap directly. Based on in-depth interviews with thirty-five women who were pregnant in state prisons across the Midwest, this book offers a compelling and unsettling account of how "reproductive and carceral control collide" (4) in ways that fundamentally reconfigure the meanings of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. To account for how these forces intertwine, the book introduces the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBirth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison by Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBirth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison by Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®123132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration by Yasmin Y. Ortiga (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989553
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What happens when a nation that valorizes its emigrants suddenly immobilizes them? What right does a state have to keep its people in place, and how is that right justified? These are the questions Yasmin Y. Ortiga addresses in her new book, Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration. Ortiga's previous work explores the tension between the Philippines' state-led efforts to produce "export-ready" workers and the lived precarity of aspiring migrants who remain immobile when global labor demands falter. In Stuck at Home, Ortiga uses the unprecedented mobility restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Philippines to advance a novel thesis: migration governance entails immobility governance.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallStuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration by Yasmin Y. Ortiga (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USStuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration by Yasmin Y. Ortiga (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®192302026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer by Virginia Adams O'Connell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989554
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Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer by Virginia Adams O'Connell is a prime example of what Suzanne Fleischman referred to as an "intellectual documentary" (Fleischman, 1999). Using the analytic tools of her discipline, O'Connell describes her journey from acute shoulder pain, via malignant lymphoma to recovery using the disciplinary perspective of medical sociology.Fleischman had described the intellectual documentary as "written with roots that reach deeply into lived experience—that of an individual diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and receiving treatment within the American health care system" but also interpreted via "… a long career of thinking about language and communication."
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallRemission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer by Virginia Adams O'Connell (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USRemission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer by Virginia Adams O'Connell (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®122852026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989555
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"How does it feel to be a problem?" W.E.B. DuBois posed this question in 1903 in The Souls of Black Folk reflecting on his own belonging as an African American man in the United States (DuBois 2005). And yet, as Jessica Vasquez-Tokos conveys in Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation, DuBois' question remains relevant and urgent in the contemporary United States. Adopting DuBois' question about what it means to be a problem as her inspiration, Vasquez-Tokos thoughtfully weaves theoretical, historical, and first-hand interviewee perspectives and reflections on this question throughout her monograph. Rooted in the experiences of seventy respondents with diverse racial identities living in Oregon
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBurdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBurdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®152182026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds by Andrew McCumber (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989556
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It's about time a sociology of rats was written. Few animals loom larger in the cultural imaginary, and rats are indisputably the city's—if not society's—archnemesis. No animal carries more symbolic baggage. I recently passed a large inflatable rat with menacing fangs and talon-like claws looming over a restaurant where workers were protesting the owner's alleged union-busting tactics. The implication: the owner was a scoundrel, selling out his employees. Almost no one wants to associate with rats, be they figurative or literal. In New York City, I constantly see pedestrians recoil or shriek in disgust at the mere sight of one.While rat hate is ostensibly grounded in concerns about literal contagion (e.g. rats as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds by Andrew McCumber (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USBad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds by Andrew McCumber (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®91042026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work by Max Papadantonakis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989557
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In our current moment, the software development stands as a beacon of individualism, passion, and autonomy: a seemingly good career in which to secure the American Dream. Undergraduates flock to computer science majors and multitudes of existing workers reskill in data science coding camps in hopes of finding affluence and building the digital tools that will define our future. Others simply hope to raise their salaries and build better lives for their families. However, in Canaries in the Code Mine, Max Papadantonakis challenges such crystalline visions of the industry, revealing how meritocratic norms and flexible structures complicate workers' tech dreams and create deep inequalities that favor youth
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCanaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work by Max Papadantonakis (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USCanaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work by Max Papadantonakis (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®96602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine by Joanna Kempner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989558
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In the past decade, elites from silicon valley, the medical and pharmaceutical industry, and academia have revitalized a profitable market and renewed acceptance of a range of psychoactive substances once framed as dangerous or associated strictly with countercultures. To many the reemergence and normalization of psychedelic drugs as medicinal or therapeutic came seemingly out of nowhere with podcasters, celebrities, and billionaire suddenly touting their promise. However, the popular history of science and medicine often focuses on institutions, powerful people, and laws rather than citizens and practitioners acting in a non-official capacity.Such is the commonly told story about medical and psychological research
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallPsychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine by Joanna Kempner (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USPsychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine by Joanna Kempner (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®79142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City by Claudia Masferrer et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989559
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The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on international migration. The book makes two very significant contributions. First, it offers one of the most detailed examinations to date of the understudied process of return migration from the United States to Mexico. Second, it fills the important gap of focusing on the migration dynamics from Mexico City rather than rural or traditional sending regions.Based on 34 in-depth interviews, half of which were conducted with deported migrants, the book is structured around the life course of return migrants and the contextual forces that affect them. Together, it provides a comprehensive account of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City by Claudia Masferrer et al. (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USThe Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City by Claudia Masferrer et al. (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®87782026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method by Margaret K. Nelson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989560
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I write this shortly after learning about an online service that allows you to help (or, depending on your views, saddle) a loved one with telling their story. "Memoirs made easy" it claims—a claim that, I learned from Margaret Nelson's well-written and useful book, Sociology Meets Memoir, sends editors running but may be a boon for sociologists and certainly seems to be one for the curious public. What is it about the contemporary moment that makes memoirs so ubiquitous in the United States? Why do we feel so compelled to tell our stories in these public arenas? And why do more of us feel that our stories are worth sharing not just with family or friends but with dozens, hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallSociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method by Margaret K. Nelson (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USSociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method by Margaret K. Nelson (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®84952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989561
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This book contributes to development scholarship by discussing how the "liberation unionism" labor movement comprised of ordinary people in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) over the 20th Century made it possible for the country to achieve significant economic and social development in spite of a historical colonial context involving plantation slavery, weak institutions, over-reliance on energy exports, and racial divisions. According to the author Dr. Zophia Edwards, liberation unionism involves a pan-African, working-class, Black radical struggle attempting to liberate workers in all their diversity from imperialist, colonial, patriarchal, and racial capitalist exploitation. In T&T over time, there were improvements in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallFueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USFueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®82622026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989562
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The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes begins by asserting the "urgent present-day relevance" of the social scientific examination of morality (Lukes, 2025: ix). Beginning with the work of Enlightenment thinkers David Hume, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Adam Smith, Lukes escorts us through some of the complexities in this endeavor in this beautifully written book. Part of this complexity is establishing what the "diversity of morals" is: actual behavior, normative rules and conventions, and/or systems of belief about what is good and right and rules prescribing and proscribing how they should and should not live their lives (Lukes, 2025: 10)? This beginning implies a potential irreconcilable scientific divide, with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USThe Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®92842026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers by Utku Baris Balaban (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989563
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What explains the Islamization of politics in Muslim majority countries? This is the driving question behind Industrial Islam: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers, by Utku Balaban. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey and analyses of political and economic trends in Muslim majority countries, Balaban advances four key arguments. First, he contends that the Islamization of politics throughout the Muslimmajority world is closely linked to the dynamics of industrialization. Second, focusing specifically on the rise of Islamist politics in Turkey, he argues that the Islamist movement's success in obtaining and securing power depended on the emergence of a class of non-monopoly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallIndustrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers by Utku Baris Balaban (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USIndustrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers by Utku Baris Balaban (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®91122026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail by Sasha Davis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989564
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Sasha Davis's Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail (2025) starts with a bleak yet familiar problem. States have failed to address the global climate crisis as powerful corporations and obstinate politicians block any mitigation policies. Public protest and electoral strategies by environmental activists and frontline communities are largely unable to alter this course. Reformist strategies, while commendable, are doomed because modern state governance institutions are too intertwined with frontier extraction, military expansion and capital accumulation logics – what Davis calls the "infinite state." Davis roots the failure of state action with historical-institutional forces
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallReplace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail by Sasha Davis (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USReplace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail by Sasha Davis (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®179362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges – And What It Costs Them by Mara Casey Tieken (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989565
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In Educated Out, Mara Casey Tieken explores how the educational experiences of rural, first-generation students are shaped by marked spatial injustices, geographic isolation and invisibility within the educational attainment and mobility literatures. These inequities are so prevalent that even when the best and brightest of rural high school graduates enroll in a prestigious liberal arts college like Hilltop, this book's setting, their rural background continues to shape their academic journeys for better and for worse. Drawing on rich longitudinal interview data from nine rural, first-generation students, Tieken highlights the ways geography shapes different levels of postsecondary education ranging from the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallEducated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges – And What It Costs Them by Mara Casey Tieken (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USEducated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges – And What It Costs Them by Mara Casey Tieken (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®86072026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989566
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It can be nerve-wracking for a scholar when rapid changes brought on by current events threaten to make years of painstaking research seem outdated when it is finally published. Readers will certainly encounter Laura Garbes' excellent qualitative excavation of the historical origins and contemporary dynamics of race, gender, and class in US public radio in a far different political climate than when it was conceived. Based on data collected in 2020 and 2021, during the height of public awareness about institutional racism and the toll it continues to take on Black bodies, the book's 2025 publication is happening during a backlash, in which "DEI" is wielded as a three-letter slur. But as with other critical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallListeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes (review)2026-05-11text/htmlen-USListeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes (review)2026-05-112026TWOProject MUSE®84122026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-11