A small-town Sri Lankan merchant family, their homes, and daily lives reveal how class, kinship, and ambition unfold after war. A Merchant’s House shows how domestic spaces shape social relations, moral decisions, and family futures in ways that reflect the pressures and possibilities of postwar life.

Exploring the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Susan E. Phillips offers a new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace and uncovers a pedagogy that is expansive, flexible, and inclusive.

Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families in Paris and Dakar negotiate “economic moralities,” and how French-born children of middle-class Senegalese, acutely aware of prejudice against Muslims in Europe, forge connections abroad that reproduce transnational kinship.

Through searing firsthand accounts by students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We’re Seen chronicles COVID-19’s devastating effects on working-class communities of color and the resilient ways those communities banded together.