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#NewIssue 📣

We’re proud to present our second issue of 2026: Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy, guest edited by E. Bonilla-Silva & A. E. Lewis.

This SI examines the how behind racism's mechanics, offering insights into the structures that sustain racial inequality.

Explore the full volume 49, issue 2 here: tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/49/2

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#ERSNew research flips the script on #development in Thailand’s uplands.

Despite poor roads and land restrictions, Lahu & Hmong villages thrive via cash crops, showing stable/growing populations.

A story of resilience, identity, and complex paths to modernity.

Check out this paper here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

#ERSNew #OpenAccess 🐣 🔓

This new study presents the Everyday #Colourism Scale-Adolescents and shows that it demonstrates good reliability and validity for use with Black and South Asian adolescents in the UK.

Check out this study below and feel free the scale in your research or teaching.

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#ERSBookReview 📘

In Bordering on Indifference Irene Vega delves into the intriguing world of US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – many who are Mexican American themselves.

Check out review by @NikkOstrand here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

#MostRead 📈🔓

Using the case of the UK Conservative Party, Donatella Bonansinga @sotonpolitics and Charlotte Forrest @uclspp demonstrate the powerful influence populist ideas can exert on mainstream parties, even when their original proponents have little electoral success.

Check out this #OpenAccess study below, one of our 3 most-read of 2025.

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#MostRead 📊 🔓

This 2025 top-read study presents robust evidence that workplace diversity training effectively reduces prejudice and promotes action.

Read the #OpenAccess paper by Susanne Ilanius Göransson and colleagues at @lunduniversity here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

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What racial dynamics were mobilised during the election and how are they unfolding under the Trump rule?

The introduction to the Special Issue: The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race by @Enid_Logan @UMNSociology was one of 2025's #MostRead ERS articles.

Check out this #FreeAccess paper here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

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Lamia Mellal offers a reflexive analysis of how a sound-based co-production workshop operated as a counter-space within a high school in France, tracing how this process enabled racialized students to be heard, to engage in inquiry, and to co-produce anti-racist knowledge.

This paper is part of our forthcoming Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on #AntiRacism in West-European Education

Read this #ERSNew study here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

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#Museums have a representation problem. Colonial narratives & institutional whiteness exclude young people from racialised backgrounds.

Sadia Habib @educ_research shows how #poetry can be a tool for anti-racist change. @EducationUoM @OSCH_Mcr @mcrmuseum

Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below:

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@ERSjournal I think you’ll be interested in the new Mixed Messages.@DrJarryd has spent years in Multiracial studies. He defines fluid identity, rights to identify & shares his own story showing how Mixed people have unique journeys & shared understanding. youtu.be/PE68Rz7WyEI?si…

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Drawing on a case study from Germany, @SarahGerwens @LSEEI shows how anti-racism can become operationalised as (and consequently reduced to) “correct” learning and speaking, which motivates more equitable language use, but ultimately protects white innocence.

Part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Anti-Racism in West-European Education

Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…