#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.

🐣 #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.

#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.

#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.

📈 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.

🐣 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.

🐣🔓 #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

🐣🔓 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.