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How has policing fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience? The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by experiences of criminalization and violence at the hands of law enforcement. Marisol LeBrón argues that policing has left an indelible mark on Latinx communities across the country and has come to shape our understanding of what it means to be Latinx. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, Policed: A Latinx History of State Violence (U California Press, 2027) examines how policing became a key component in the formation of Latinx identity and political consciousness, and still lies at the heart of many pressing issues confronting Latinx communities today, including immigration, employment, health, and housing. More than simply telling a story of police brutality and harassment, Marisol LeBrón powerfully shows that Latinx people have continually resisted state violence and worked to build a more liberated future.
In this conversation, we discuss the violent formation of the border, the criminalization of Latinx youth, the surveillance of Latinx political activism, and the diversity schemes of twenty-first century police forces. Marisol LeBrón's Policed is a timely and powerful synthesis of the policing of Latinx peoples in the United States.
Dr. Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. LeBrón is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, social inequality, policing, violence, and protest.

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The modern market-based economy generates wealth, but it lags on well-being; it has mastered efficiency, but struggles with equity; it boasts size, but falls short on sustainability. In other words, our economy delivers performance but neglects progress (i.e., well-being, equity, and sustainability). Many rightly call for tighter regulation, higher (“true”) prices, and longer-term incentives. Others appeal to corporate purpose, shared value, and stakeholder-centricity.

Beyond regulation and the practice of business, we must attend as well to education and the theory of business. In particular, we must look at business theory's core assumptions, whose weaknesses are long known. In an applied field such as business, where theory tends to be normative, flawed assumptions could act as a “wedge” cleaving apart performance and progress.

In Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge Between Performance and Progress (Oxford UP, 2025), Subramanian Rangan brings together eminent social scientists and philosophers to explore core assumptions in each of the major fields of business-including economics, strategy, marketing, operations, decision science, leadership, governance, technology, and finance. This structured field-by-field reflection reveals and expands the bounds of our rationality. Core Assumptions in Business Theory proposes a revised profit function that integrates harm, outlines how economic actors may draw on moral philosophy to enact Pareto-equity (and not just Pareto-efficiency), suggests a two-stage rationality approach that can attend to well-being, and recasts marketing as consumer education and not merely demand promotion.

With an emphasis on education rather than regulation of economic power, this volume argues that moral reasoning and moral roles can fruitfully supplement prudential reasoning and functional responsibilities. Such an evolution will enable our economy to be both modern and moral.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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From nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation's revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the long, largely francophone nineteenth century, and concluding with present-day Haitian writing in the English language, A History of Haitian Literature (Cambridge, 2024/2026) presents the political, cultural, and historical frameworks necessary to comprehend Haiti's vast literary output. Whether writing in Haiti or its wide-ranging diasporas, Haitian authors have boldly contributed to pressing conversations in global letters while reflecting Haiti's unique cultural and historical experiences. Considering an expansive array of poets, playwrights, and novelists - such as Baron de Vastey, Juste Chanlatte, Demesvar Delorme, Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Kettly Mars, Dany Laferrière, and Évelyne Trouillot - the contributors to this volume offer a fresh examination of a richly polyglot, transnational literary tradition that spans more than two centuries.
Guest Marlene Daut is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, with a focus on the history of the Haitian Revolution, literary cultures of the greater Caribbean, and racial politics in global media. Her prize-winning biography, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025), explores the fascinating life of Haiti’s only king while delving into the complex history of a 19th-century Caribbean monarchy. Daut’s other books include Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (UNC Press, 2023), co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool, 2015), and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017).
Guest Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, and is completing a biography, “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life” and an essay collection, “‘Blackness’ in French: Race Matters in Translation.” She is an award-winning translator of francophone literature, founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and founding co-director of In the Same Boats, an Afro-Atlantic digital cartography. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the NYPL Cullman Center.
Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama, with research concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Their monograph Posthumanist Ecology in Global French Surrealism is forthcoming in 2027 from Northwestern University Press

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In this Episode, current Editor of 19th-Century Music and the outgoing Editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society offer an inside look into publishing shorter research articles under the rubric “Object Lessons” which take an innovative approach to extending the study of music beyond score and performance to objects involved in the creation and reception of music. They discuss how this genre of scholarly writing as well as its materials and methods may contribute to a disciplinary intervention,
Nineteenth-Century Music and the Journal of the American Musicological Society are published three times a year by the University of California Press. For more information about the journals, including subscription and submission information, please visit the NCM and JAMS websites. If you are interested in supporting the work of UC Press and its Journals Program, please consider making a charitable donation to the UC Press Foundation.
To learn more about the UC Press Foundation and how to contribute, please visit here.
Articles mentioned:
“Touching Music, Making Musicology” JAMS Vol. 79 (2026) Issue Supplement
Object Lesson: Samsung/Schubert NCM 49.1 (2025)
Object Lesson: Four-Hand Nietzsche NCM 49.2 (2025)
Object Lesson: Mel Bonis’s Hand NCM 49.3 (2026)
Object Lesson: Chopin’s Last Pleyel Piano NCM 50.1 (2026)
Hosted by Berthold Hoeckner in conversation with Jake Johnson
Berthold Hoeckner is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame and Professor Emeritus of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Jake Johnson serves as Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Musicology at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music

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The supernatural has always been part of human experience. Divine and diabolical forces were as dangerous and mundane as rotten harvests and sweeping sicknesses. Miracles abounded. During the First World War, soldiers put faith in visions and protective charms, and Spiritualists were still believed to reach beyond the veil. When we understand the supernatural as a feeling, not an idea, we can grasp the truth behind our ancestors' fears and passions.
In this Worlds of Fear and Wonder: Living with the Supernatural, Past and Present (Profile, 2026), Professor Malcolm Gaskill examines our haunted past from alchemical dens to witchcraft trials, and in uncanny encounters with mediums, vampires and flying nuns. Searching hearts as well as minds, he unlocks the secrets of the unseen world, opening a new perspective on the magical and marvellous.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.

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