Exploring the relationship between race, older age, and health inequality in the UK: the experience of racialised minority older adults living in the UK.

ABSTRACT This conceptual essay problematizes intelligibility as an individual trait or responsibility of a speaker. Along with ignoring the interactional nature of intelligibility, this framing perpetuates racism, white supremacy, and coloniality. Drawing from terminology from sound studies scholar, Marie Thompson, the essay specifically argues that the individualization of intelligibility produces and is reproduced by white aurality, a racialized perceptual position that extracts sound from its social context. The white aurality of intelligibility is demonstrated by two main examples. The first example is the advertising of accent modification services to migrants, which frames intelligibility as the individual responsibility of the racially minoritized speaker instead of the listener influenced by ideologies of white supremacy. The other example is an analysis of how the early conceptualization of intelligibility as the individual acquisition of a universal phonology in English as a lingua franca research reinforced colonial notions of linguistic standardization. The essay concludes by stating that undoing the white aurality of intelligibility initially requires thinking of intelligibility in the plural and embracing complexity in oral communication.

ABSTRACT Millions of Black South Africans are food insecure and malnourished, 30+ years after the democratic transition to Black majority rule in 1994. Yet South Africa is an upper-middle-income country with sufficient food, a constitutional right to food, and comprehensive social protection. High levels of poverty and unemployment are key drivers of hunger, but this paper explores another plausible explanation: “normalisation.” Citizens and the state have become desensitized to Black hunger, after centuries of White domination. Racially hierarchized wealth inequalities and wellbeing outcomes are so entrenched that empathy toward poor and hungry Black people has been undermined. To test these ideas, data collection was conducted in three provinces in 2023-24. A quantitative questionnaire was administered to 600 respondents, stratified by residence, ethnicity, gender, age and education. Qualitative interviews probed individual experiences and attitudes to hunger. This mixed methods research finds confirmatory evidence of normalization, but no evidence of empathy deficits.

This article examines the types of racism experienced in community sport in Australia. Drawing on interviews with 51 community sport stakeholders, including 26 individuals with lived experiences of racism in sport, the article shows how Australian community sport maintains white dominance through everyday racisms including: the use of racial norms and stereotypes that shape how Indigenous peoples and racialised settlers are treated; favouritism and racial exclusion; and a consistent lack of action against racism. The types of racism work together in a self-sustaining system that makes them challenging to tackle, supporting the maintenance of white dominance in Australian community sport. This article addresses a significant gap in the literature by detailing the types, extent and nuances of everyday racisms in Australian community sport, particularly those that operate beyond the more visible and overt forms of interpersonal racism.

ABSTRACT This article examines Kamala Harris’ 2020–2024 presidential trajectory as a site where multiracial, diasporic identity confronts white supremacist nostalgia in contemporary US politics. Its central thesis argues that Harris’ transoceanic hybridity, rooted in Black Atlantic and South Asian Indian Ocean histories, both destabilizes hegemonic narratives of national belonging and reveals the structural limits placed on hybrid, gendered bodies within presidential politics. Drawing on Critical Mixed Race Studies and Diaspora Theory, the article investigates how Harris’ multi-ethnoracial identity was mobilized, scrutinized, and contested in media, campaign discourse, and political attacks, particularly in contrast to Donald Trump’s masculinist, frontier-based imaginaries of power. Methodologically, the study employs qualitative critical discourse analysis of key campaign texts, including the September 2024 presidential debate, Trump’s victory speech, and Harris’ concession speech, alongside close readings of Harris’ memoir. The analysis demonstrates how hybridity operates as a politically ambivalent force that can challenge exclusionary racial logics while remaining vulnerable to containment within dominant structures of power.

ABSTRACT Given the recent rise in popularity of feminist dystopias, and the resurgence of interest in classics such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, it seems appropriate to return to works such as Kindred that trouble both generic boundaries and readerly frames. Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel draws on the dystopic tradition to complicate and deepen her neo-slave narrative’s call to action, demonstrating how Black women’s bodies have always been tools in service of white supremacist futures. Kindred speaks explicitly to a Black feminist project of re-cognising the past, and simultaneously reclaims the dystopia as a space wherein past injustices might be actively apprehended – even remedied. This paper draws on Lee Edelman’s description of reproductive futurity not only to re-situate Kindred as a central text in the feminist dystopic tradition, but also to illuminate Butler’s attentiveness to the re-inscriptions of the slave past in the present moment. Ultimately, I argue for a new reading of the novel in which Butler’s dystopic vision might continue to inflect our orientations towards history and our own futurity, almost sixty years after its first publication.

ABSTRACT Expressions referring to Nazism, such as Nazi salutes, are present in Nordic schools. In this ethnographic study we observed the everyday life of seven lower secondary schools in Finland and scrutinised interviews with 100 members of the schools’ staff. We examine how the staff makes sense of the presence of Nazi expressions among pupils. Our results show that there were uncertainty, interventions, downplaying, indifference, and frustration in their responses. Although Nazi expressions were common in the schools, the staff downplayed their significance, considering them to be typical teenage boundary-testing and humour. The staff found Nazi expressions inappropriate, but they rarely connected them to white supremacy, racism, or radicalisation. The exception was one school where the staff conducted an intervention when they interpreted the incidents as having a connection to neo-Nazism. We find that the normalisation of Nazi expressions maintains white supremacy and racism in the everyday life of school.

ABSTRACT Identifying violent extremists online before their engagement in physical violence is an ongoing need for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers around the world. Yet the evidence base about their posting footprints or differences in their online behaviors compared to their non-violent counterparts is noticeably scarce. Even less is empirically known about the relationship between their posting behaviors, membership in a violent extremist group, and risk for categorization as violent. This study drew from a unique sample of violent and non-violent right-wing extremists to examine the effect of violent extremist group membership on posting behaviors and risk for violence categorization within a sub-forum of the largest white supremacy web-forum. This study also examined how violence status and violent extremist group membership predicts time to going dormant in the online space. Firth logistic regression modeling was used to examine whether group membership predicted risk for violence categorization. Hazard modeling and survival analysis were then used to examine extremist group membership and violence status as predictors of time to dormancy. Several noteworthy posting patterns were identified in the data that may assist law enforcement and intelligence agencies in identifying credible threats online.

This article examines the conceptual and methodological limitations of how the category “White” is interpreted and used in health equity research. I argue that such studies often rely on a binary White logic – a framework that organises ethnoracial comparisons around a dichotomy between people racialised as White and Non-White Others. Within this logic, the White category is treated as a homogeneous reference group that reliably signals uniform protection from racism and access to White privilege. This assumption operates both statistically and epistemically, with profound implications for how health disparities are measured and understood. Although this framework reflects broad ethnoracial dynamics rooted in White supremacism, it has serious shortcomings. One relevant but underexplored consequence is that it tends to biologise and essentialise Whiteness. It also obscures complex, context-specific processes of racialisation and marginalises groups that do not fit prevailing classificatory practices. I demonstrate that the uncritical use of the White category – as a default homogenous comparator category – in global health equity research reproduces epistemic injustice and misrepresents complex dynamics of racialisation, thereby concealing medically relevant experiences of representatives of such groups. I focus on people racialised as Eastern Europeans, whose ambiguous positioning within global ethnoracial hierarchies – often termed Off-White – renders them largely invisible in scholarship, despite evidence of racism affecting their health. To produce more accurate and socially responsible science, I call for a shift away from binary White logic towards more thoughtful, precise, and contextually appropriate uses of ethnoracial categories – and other proxies for racism – in research on racism and health.

Hopkins, IE, Patterson, SD, and Callaghan, SJ. White ball power hitting: a comparison of the anthropometrics and physical determinants in county vs. noncounty youth cricketers for predicting batting performance. J Strength Cond Res XX(X): 000-000, 2026-The study investigated physical determinants and anthropometrics on bat velocity performance in youth cricketers. Previous research has found bat velocity performance to be an effective predictor of success in other sports: golf, baseball, softball, badminton, and tennis. Fifty-three cricketers (N = 53; age 15.6 ± 1.7; height 176.0 ± 9.9 cm; body mass 65.8 ± 13.4 kg; maturity offset 3.7 ± 1.8) were subdivided into 2 groups (County-Representative [N = 26]; Non-County-Representatives [N = 27]). Cricketers were assessed for isometric lower- and upper-body strength (isometric mid-thigh pull [IMTP]; isometric push up [IPU]), lower-body power (countermovement jump [CMJ]; squat jump [SJ]), rotational power (medicine ball throw [MBT]) and anthropometrics (height, body mass, and seated height), and bat velocity. Anthropometrics were measured to calculate age at peak height velocity. Analysis of variance was used to conclude significance of IMTP, IPU, CMJ, SJ, MBT, and anthropometrics on bat velocity. Linear regression and stepwise regression were used to conduct variance of each test of bat velocity. An alpha value of p < 0.05 was selected to signify statistical significance. County-representatives produced greater bat velocity than noncounty-representatives (p < 0.05). Lower- and upper-body relative strength and jump height were greater than noncounty-representatives (p < 0.05). When controlled for maturity, cricketers further advanced in maturation outperformed lesser advanced cricketers in all jump and lower-body power-related tests (p < 0.05). Linear regression demonstrated that maturity status explained a small amount of variation in bat velocity (3.4%). Stepwise regression displayed jump height during CMJ (63.9%) and relative IMTP (6.8%) explained 70.7% of the variation in bat velocity. Consequently, practitioners should develop relative upper-body strength and lower-body power to maximize bat velocity performance in youth cricketers.

Drawing on insights from critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and critical whiteness studies, the authors examine how settler colonial and white supremacist ideologies may continue to structure their own family therapy theorizing and practice, with particular attention to the concept and practice of sociocultural attunement (SCA) as applied to Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT). SCA was developed within settler colonial structures and is increasingly promoted as a decolonial, anti-oppressive practice in family therapy. An anticolonial lens, paradoxically, makes visible the nature and extent of racial settler colonial logics in SCA, highlighting the need for a more nuanced analysis of SCA (and other therapy practices) that acknowledges tensions and contradictions. The authors' critical analysis invites reflection on the cultural and material conditions in which family therapy concepts and practices are produced, circulated, and applied and illustrates how interrogating family therapy concepts and practices can disrupt taken-for-granted assumptions, improve distinct forms of accountability for the impact of therapy, and reveal new targets for socially responsible work.

Queer Asian American men's self-objectification: A test of racially relevant factors.

Black women's embodied intersecting systems of oppression: A systematic narrative review of body image and maladaptive eating behavior.

Discourses of race and ability intermingled in depictions of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century American literature. Literary depictions of the illness established racialized burdens of care while simultaneously articulating a liberal individualism that embraced, rather than eschewed, physical vulnerability and social dependency. Attending to texts that disentangle the disease from its racial and ableist logics articulates an ethics of reserving care for those living with the health consequences of white supremacy.

ABSTRACT White social work staff and faculty often feel ill-equipped to provide an anti-racist education. In this pilot study 18 white social work staff and faculty participated in four focus groups at a large university. They reflected on many themes, including 1) dismantling white supremacy; 2) connection to community and relationships; 3) practice vs. knowledge; 4) speaking up; 5) emotions and making mistakes; and 6) the body. Racial justice teach-ins, faculty learning communities, anti-racism working groups, practicing initiating conversations around race, and an embodied anti-racist practice experience are suggested to help white staff and faculty deepen their anti-racist education and practice.

ABSTRACT The present article examines the normative reliance on color-based conceptions of race in scholarly literature on East Central European history and present-day societies, arguing that its unreflective application produces a systematic mismatch between theoretical frameworks and regional empirical material. While recent scholarship has sought to integrate the region into global histories of race – often through critiques of the region's “racial innocence” or “racial exceptionalism” – this article contends that such approaches risk obscuring historically prevalent forms of racialization that were not primarily organized around skin color. Even if many of them were underpinned by notions of white supremacy, the emphasis of local actors was often put onto other purported markers of biological belonging. Methodologically, the article offers a critical review of scholarship and different strands in the literature, and finally reflects on the implications of color-centered frameworks for the study of contemporary regional social and political dynamics.

ABSTRACT This paper examines the surprising historical entanglements of the concrete and dairy industries in early twentieth-century United States. Through close readings of industry publications, public health campaigns, and the history of the Rotolactor, it argues that concrete and milk shared an investment in the racialized ideas of cleanliness and purity. From the construction of sanitized concrete milking floors to storage siloes, concrete helped industrialize the modern US American farm. However, the modernization of farming equipment and spaces served to also imbue agricultural environments with white supremacist ideologies of racial purity. This transformation had severe consequences to human and animal bodies alike, as they were subjected to invasive testing and monitoring, all in the name of scientifically assured purity. By tracing these material intimacies, the paper shows how the two substances were co-constructed and collectively shaped modern ideas about cleanliness, efficiency, and human vitality.

ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of cis hell to describe the regulatory normativity over all bodies based on gender biopolitics as a global political pandemic. Centring the recent UK Supreme Court’s 2025 Equality Act ruling and connecting it to similar examples across the world, we demonstrate how biopower operates through social movements inspired by the new authoritarianisms to establish transnational regimes of bodily control. Drawing connections between trans exclusion in the UK, USA and pronatalist policies in Turkey, Hungary, and Russia, we argue these seemingly disparate developments represent coordinated manifestations of biopolitical logic reducing human worth to reproductive capacity. Authoritarian innovation threatens and destroys modest progress towards human rights for vulnerable groups. ‘Gender-critical’ activism, despite protection claims, functions within a broader masculinist restoration project threatening collective prosperity by constraining human potential and re-centring white, male, and cis supremacy. The purported ‘safety’ of cisgender categorization creates a hell of rigid taxonomies undermining human flourishing across the gender spectrum, necessitating a radical reimagining of gender justice as essential to global prosperity through participative co-design processes inherent in new social movements theory focusing on social identity, human potential, and affect.

ABSTRACT An area of life that is profoundly impacted by anti‐Black racism is the world of work. Black Americans face persistent barriers from hiring to wage inequality to everyday mistreatment. In response, we conducted a critical qualitative investigation to explore how racism manifests in workplaces, uncover overlooked aspects of Black Americans’ work lives, and examine their responses and resistance to racism and white supremacy within hierarchical work‐based structures. Twelve Black‐identifying participants shared their workplace experiences through in‐depth qualitative interviews. Participants’ narratives revealed racism at work as a pervasive, dehumanizing experience characterized by themes such as experiences of institutional racism, stereotypes, and isolation at work. In the face of racism, participants described drawing on social support, personal strengths, and acts of resistance to navigate their work environments. The findings of this study underscore the need for integrative, culturally responsive counseling approach, such as radical healing alongside sustained structural and policy reforms to address systemic racism to improve the working conditions and well‐being for Black workers.

ABSTRACT In Eveleen Mason's Hiero-Salem (1889), a little-known American utopian novel, feminist politics are undergirded by a religion focused on Divine Motherhood. While this connection between “God as a mother”, and feminist social vision, is not unique among literary utopias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Mason's is unusual for drawing on esoteric religion to ground its socio-political ethic – a mystical mode of spirituality that could often be obscure and otherworldly. Here it is shown that Mason's “revelation” of divine motherhood entails a politics of women's emancipation and public leadership, and the reconfiguring of society as a feminist co-operative. Moreover, Hiero-Salem models a strikingly diverse utopian community in terms of race, ethnicity, national background and religious practice, which contrasts with the white supremacy and nativism assumed in most white American women's feminist utopian texts of the period – albeit with limitations. Mason's feminism and multi-culturalism are grounded in the esoteric religious principle of uniting differences (gendered, racial etc) to create the ideal humanity in which the divine is realised. Mason's novel is here reclaimed as a meaningful contribution to the utopian genre, and to late-nineteenth-century debates on religion, feminism, and modern American nationhood.