In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asian-ness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asian-ness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.

《浮出历史地表》是系统运用女性主义立场研究中国现代女性文学史的经典著作。借助精神分析、结构、后结构主义理论，本书以作家论形式深入阐释了庐隐、冰心、丁玲、张爱玲等九位现代重要女作家，同时在现代中国的整体历史文化语境中，勾勒出了女性写作传统的形成和展开过程。理论切入、文本分析和历史描述的有机融合，呈现出女性书写在不同时段、不同面向上的主要特征，及其在现代文学史格局中的独特位置。本书自1989年问世后产生了广泛影响，被誉为中国女性批评和理论话语"浮出历史地表"的标志性著作。

奈良美智解读奈良美智——
“读完这本书，能对我有多一点点的了解，那就好了！”
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奈良美智即将在上海举办中国首展，这本书是他面向中国读者制作的首本书籍，也是他时隔多年的全新“自传”。
他的作品源自内心深处“空无一物被白雪覆盖的世界”，童年记忆、音乐、文学、在德国求学和生活的时光（1988—2000）、对自我的探索、来自欧洲和日本的当代艺术等都是他的灵感来源。在书中，奈良美智首次全面回顾自己的创作生涯，既是对自我的一次回顾与总结，也是面向未来的重新启程。
本书由自传《半生》、从七个角度（成长经历、美术、音乐、文学与电影、陶艺、旅行、与他人的联系）展开的深入访谈、近年展览、摄影作品、年表等内容组成，还收录了其生活照、经典及最新作品，是一本由奈良美智本人语言主导的史无前例的“奈良大全”。

在華北的洞兒溝村，曾經有位傳教士為了帶走一尊聖母雕像，被當地教眾極力阻攔，結果不歡而散；離開之際，他憤而詛咒這個農村將會遭受七年天災，誰知不幸言中。為了解咒，這些天主教村民走到山上興建了一座七苦聖母堂，年復一年的冰雹才終於停止。口耳相傳的故事還有相類似的版本，它們的共同背景，是傳教士與依附他們的貧苦村民之間千絲萬縷的對抗關係，屬於一場在更大範圍內、日益整合中國天主教和國際教會的博弈。可惜像洞兒溝這樣天主教已經傳播了三百多年的村莊，一直消失於經典的中國史和教會史敘事中。
《傳教士的詛咒》以普世性的視野，結合歐洲的情況，講述在外部力量影響下中國的宗教生態如何變遷、借鑒與融合。沈艾娣教授透過山西洞兒溝的案例，為我們提供了遠超出「禮儀之爭」或「文化適應」的視域—從17世紀耶穌會傳教開始，天主教就適應了中國傳統文化，只不過中外傳教士、教眾及羅馬教廷，在各種衝突和妥協中無意地形成一股合力，試圖把本地教會拉到全球發展的潮流中，而這個進程一直延續至今。
沈艾娣為中國天主教會歷史提供了一個重要的新視角，實際上幾乎是一個新範式。這一視角對世俗歷史學來說是變革性的，因為它促使我們重新認識殖民主義的影響，並找出聯繫中國史與世界史的新方法。
―趙文詞（ Richard Madsen），加州大學聖地亞哥分校社會學傑出教授
本書從微觀的角度，探討一個宏觀的問題。從村裏人的眼光來看，文化的融合從來都是一種日常的生活。
―科大衛（ David Faure），香港中文大學歷史系榮休教授
這是一本精彩而生動的全球史著作。它展示了一種全球史的方法：不一定要縱橫十萬里、上下五千年，而可以發掘各種微妙的全球性聯繫、交流和影響。就像這個山西村莊的足跡、認同和想像，竟然遠渡重洋連到了羅馬教廷，這就是全球史。
―葛兆光，復旦大學文科資深教授
這是把微觀研究與宏觀視野有機地結合在一起的一本引人入勝的著作。無論是觀察問題的角度、歷史資料的發掘，還是研究的方法，以及對我們了解天主教在華傳播的曲折經歷，都提供了一個非常有意義的個案。
―王笛，澳門大學歷史系主任、講座教授
關於中國基督教史的研究，業已走入目的論的死胡同，本書最了不起的貢獻，正是為之指出了一條新路。……作者格外強調中國天主教社會生活和宗教實踐在地方和全球兩個層面的互動，由此為中國基督教史研究帶來一種範式轉移，這同樣能啟發中國現代史其他領域的研究。
―《哈佛亞洲研究學報》（Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies）

★第一本探讨女性霸凌问题的专著，走进“战火纷飞”的女生世界。
★倾听遭遇隐性霸凌女孩的真实心声，勾心斗角并非女孩的天性，畸形的社交文化才是问题所在。
★一本数字时代的女孩反霸凌实用手册：谣言攻击、网络暴力、隐私泄露……数字化的新型霸凌同样不容小觑。
★汇总十余年来作者的实践经验，为学校、家长、老师提供反霸凌的全面策略。
◎内容简介
为什么昨天还很亲密的朋友，今天就突然不理自己了？为什么有人会躲在背后说坏话，抱团排挤人，甚至霸凌别人？比起男生间的“用拳头解决问题”，女生间的攻击似乎更为隐秘和复杂。然而从家长到老师，大多数人都将其视为女孩的天性，而非亟待解决的严肃问题。
在本书中，蕾切尔采访了曾是霸凌对象和霸凌者的女孩们，直面给无数女性带来困扰乃至创伤的畸形社交文化。相比男孩，女孩往往承载了更多社会要求：受人喜欢比表达真实想法更重要，成为“完美女孩”比拥有独立自主的人格更重要。对冲突和愤怒的回避令女孩们惯于采取“另类攻击”的方式处理争端，也令她们频频陷入人际战争的泥淖之中。
《女孩们的地下战争》希望能够重构社会对于女性霸凌问题的认知，并为家长和学校提供实际的解决策略。让每一个女孩都能学会尊重和倾听自己内心的声音，说出自己的真实感受，是本书作者和受访者共同的期待。
◎名人推荐
心理学家玛丽·皮弗在1994年畅销书《拯救奥费利娅》（Reviving Ophelia）中了分析神经性厌食和自杀受害者，时隔多年，本书再次点燃人们对年轻女性的关注。 ——《华盛顿邮报》
终于，西蒙斯让我们看到，人们正逐渐意识到女孩的隐性攻击行为有自己的名字：霸凌。在西蒙斯等人的启发下，一场扭转局势的社会大讨论展开了。有人说，这场关于女孩和霸凌行为的讨论是史无前例的……这种瞬间点燃的大讨论，让人回忆起二十年前女性刚开始公开讨论家庭暴力的时候。 ——《洛杉矶时报》
一部大家都期待已久的好书，它将唤醒我们所有关心女孩成长的人。一些女孩每天都在友情问题中苦苦挣扎，西蒙斯让我们听到了她们的声音。她揭露了一个成人看不见的隐性攻击世界。 ——苏珊·韦尔曼，“奥费利娅计划”主席
女孩和妈妈们的必读书目。 ——《波士顿环球报》
大胆之作，粉碎谬论。 ——《西雅图周刊》
撕开成年女性社会笑脸相迎的表面，暴露女孩的黑暗秘密：恶意心理战每天都在我们的初高中校园里游荡。 ——《旧金山纪事报》
将女孩的刻薄文化描绘得惟妙惟肖。 ——《旧金山湾卫报》
《女孩们的地下战争》为女孩、父母、教师乃至学校管理层都提供了实用的建议。说这本书姗姗来迟，相信每位女性都会表示赞同。 ——《得梅因商报》
本书鼓励女孩在愤怒或嫉妒时主动沟通，而非诉诸谣言。 ——《芝加哥论坛报》
打破沉默，大胆探讨女孩之间微妙的小摩擦和攻击。 ——《波特兰俄勒冈人报》
发人深省……对任何一位渴望获得友谊的青少年或父母来说都具有疏导作用。 ——《底特律自由新闻报》
复杂的攻击行为贯穿女孩们的日常生活和友谊，本书为理解处理此类问题提供了全新的描述语言。 ——全美高中体育教练协会
这本书对任何一位努力帮助少女渡过难关的成年人来说都很宝贵。 ——《书单》
为成年人预防女孩隐性攻击提供了实实在在的建议。 ——《图书馆日志》

China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties.
Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording nature—contrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of “traditional” systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to “modern” ones.

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.

Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?
Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations.
Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.

【编辑推荐】
✍️格非首部清华文学讲稿，三年“小说叙事研究”课精华
2018年至2020年，格非在清华大学中文系“小说叙事研究”课上，从19世纪中期以来的小说家里精选出三个案例，讨论一百多年来社会、历史和文化观念的变革。在课程录音与讲义的基础上，整理成这卷珍贵的文学讲稿。
✍️三位不安的现代隐士，三种带预言性质的伟大作品
《没有个性的人》｜穆齐尔：被二战的炮火惊醒，流亡瑞士
《暗夜行路》｜志贺直哉：一生搬家多达26次
《白鲸》｜麦尔维尔：一直在海洋与陆地、城市与孤岛的生活之间摇摆、
✍️对乡村文明衰落或城市化兴起引发的问题，尝试作答
对现代文明进程的强烈质疑和反思，是19世纪以来所有伟大小说的共同特征。本书所选的三位小说家，皆是由传统自然过渡到现代文明的居间者。格非条分缕析其作品，尝试对乡村文明衰落或城市化兴起引发的问题,做出理性回答。
从某种意义上说，今日危机并未消除。在他们向未来眺望的目光中，我们身处其间。
【内容简介】
《望春风》出版后，引发的对乡村文明衰落或城市化兴起的困惑与忧虑，余波犹在。2018年至2020年，格非在清华大学中文系“小说叙事研究”课上，将这些问题带入现代小说史的脉络中思考，从19世纪中期以来的小说家里精选出三个案例，讨论一百多年来社会、历史和文化观念的变革，由此形成这卷生动的文学讲稿——《文明的边界》。
本书聚焦奥地利作家罗伯特•穆齐尔、日本作家志贺直哉与美国作家麦尔维尔。从《没有个性的人》《暗夜行路》至《白鲸》，格非带读者穿梭于文学的森林，去拜访这三位不安的现代隐士。
对现代文明进程的强烈质疑和反思，是19世纪以来所有伟大小说的共同特征。这卷文学讲稿，以传统自然过渡到现代文明的居间者之视角，发出叩问：究竟什么是现代文明的边界？它到底要将我们带向何方？

本书从比较视角和历史维度研究作为一种帝国现象的恐慌，特别是传染病，如霍乱、鼠疫、流感，以及20 世纪末新出现的传染病等引发的恐慌。通过对19世纪初的东亚到21世纪的美国等一系列案例研究，本书探索了西方政府机构、政策制定者、规划者和其他权威机构为理解、应对和消除由传染病和其他危机引发的恐慌所做的尝试。本书还研究了从电报到医疗技术和公共卫生等多种技术对传播和约束“恐慌”信息所起的作用，考察了帝国复杂关系网络和恐慌之间的关系，并得出疾病威胁会产生特定焦虑和集体恐慌的结论。
本书重点关注从19 世纪早期到现在发生的恐慌反应的连续性和非连续性及其阐释。正如艾伦·莱斯特在第一章“帝国与恐慌之地”中指出，每一章节从不同方面研究恐慌：鸦片战争前的广东地形、英属印度的山间避暑小镇、流行疾病映射图、实施检疫措施控制恐慌和病毒传播等，主要集中在大英帝国和英语世界，涉及南非、中国香港、印度、新西兰和美国这些国家和地区。仅仅关注英国这一殖民帝国是本书的局限，但本书旨在对帝国恐慌进行初步概述，为今后更深入、更具比较性和包容性的研究做铺垫。

In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country.
The roots of China's tourism market stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition from Chinese empire to nation-state.

本書講述的是泰北孤軍的故事。
孤軍為何而「孤」？ 一九四九年，國民黨在國共戰爭中落敗撤離大陸時，千餘名在雲南的國民黨軍人與不願受中共統治的本地人，從雲南撤退進入緬甸，自此流落異域。這群人後又遭受緬甸政府武力驅趕，最後勉強棲身於泰北金三角地區，直至一九八〇年代才終於被泰國政府接納為公民。也就是說，期間這三十年，他們沒有政治歸屬，沒有經濟根基，歸鄉無期，孤立無援，一切只能自力更生從頭再來。
這些離散人群，是如何在陌生險惡的金三角叢林間「借土養命」存活下來？本書作者人類學家黃樹民率領團隊，在該地區一個規模較大的村落美弘村（化名）進行田野調查，帶著兩個主要提問，為這段奮鬥歷程寫下生存紀事。
眾所周知，金三角是惡名昭彰的毒品原料生產地，美弘村民初期也曾積極投入組織性販毒事業。但在好不容易擁有泰國公民身分後，即努力轉型，摸索發展出一套山地農作模式，專攻熱帶水果產銷，經營成功，物質生活逐漸充裕。但成功背後，他們的土地利用方式是否符合永續農業標準？在拚經濟的同時，是否有兼顧生態環境？這是作者第一個關懷。
作者第二個關懷則與他們的精神世界有關。本書描寫的人群，崇奉中華傳統文化，自詡為忠實守護者。他們如何於偏遠異地保存及再造其理想（想像）中的儒家道德秩序？作者透過勾勒美弘村的教育、儀式等日常機制，來呈現這類文化複製行動，並穿插村中年輕輩的想法。
時間進入二十一世紀全球化時代。上世紀五〇年代開始在金三角建立聚落的雲南武裝流亡者，早已擺脫借土養命的艱辛，轉為落地生根的安居。然而，作者指出，因為權力轉移問題和世代認同差異，衝突和緊張正在村內節節升高。
新時代帶來的難關，他們這次能順利度過嗎？微觀的民族誌研究，對巨觀的全球化理論，又能提供什麼反省啟示？作者將在本書末尾提出他的答案。

How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddhism are being transmitted to the West? Is it possible to know whether an interpretation of the Buddha’s words is correct?
In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist communities—secular versus religious, modern versus traditional, Western versus Eastern—are unpacked and critically examined. These reflections by contemporary scholars and practitioners reveal the dynamic process of reinterpreting and reimagining Buddhism in secular contexts, from the mindfulness movement to Buddhist shrine displays in museums, to whether rebirth is an essential belief.
This collection explores a wide range of modern understandings of Buddhism—whether it is considered a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle choice—and questions if secular Buddhism is purely a Western invention, offering a timely contribution to an ever-evolving discussion.
Contributors include Bhikkhu Bodhi, Kate Crosby, Gil Fronsdal, Kathleen Gregory, Funie Hsu, Roger R. Jackson, Charles B. Jones, David L. McMahan, Richard K. Payne, Ron Purser, Sarah Shaw, Philippe Turenne, and Pamela D. Winfield.

侯孝賢電影與文學的關係密切，但少有學者注意到中國抒情傳統對侯孝賢的影響。作者歷經十年寫作時間，企圖釐清侯孝賢的個人才俱如何挪用與轉化抒情傳統，在電影媒介中賦予它新的生命。本書特色是明確呈現侯孝賢的整體作品，並透過互文關係探索其電影與歐洲、日本及好萊塢電影之間的影響和指涉。
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著眼於電影與文學的互文關係，作者嘗試填補戰後臺灣文化史的脈絡，進一步探討侯孝賢電影與臺灣戰後中國抒情傳統之間傳承、辯證和矛盾的關係。延續抒情傳統研究在臺灣的學術之華，本書希望開創出具有臺灣特色、華人觀點與東方視角的侯孝賢研究，並重新反思抒情傳統在臺灣的文化政治。

/自笛卡儿方法论以来，探讨科学与哲学关系最重要的著作
人类需要邻人具有足够的相似处，以便互相理解
具有足够的相异处，以便激起注意
具有足够的伟大处，以便引发羡慕/
过去三个世纪以来，科学发展对世界的许多方面造成冲击而呈现出不同的面貌。科学与现代世界的密切关系早已超越我们的想象。本书为20世纪哲学大师怀特海在哈佛大学系列演讲集结而成的一部名著。全书从探讨近代科学的起源开始，横跨三个世纪的思想发展，在他笔下犹如一首高潮迭起的交响乐，奏出曲折而动人的时代流变。本书被誉为“自笛卡儿方法论以来，探讨科学与哲学关系的最重要著作”。

How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly textured analysis of these related issues and their intersection with law, culture, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Using a wide array of sources, Chen's study focuses on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the formative century before the First Opium War (1839-1842). He highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West, the First Opium War, and foreign extraterritoriality in China. The shifting balance of economic and political power formed and transformed knowledge of China and Chinese law in different contact zones. Chen argues that recovering the variegated and contradictory roles of Chinese law in Western "modernization" helps provincialize the subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of global modernity.
Chen draws attention to important yet underanalyzed sites in which imperial sovereignty, national identity, cultural tradition, or international law and order were defined and restructured. His valuable case studies show how constructed differences between societies were hardened into cultural or racial boundaries and then politicized to rationalize international conflicts and hierarchy.

宫崎骏、高畑勋、押井守、富野由悠季、大友克洋、安彦良和、川口开治……他们注定是日本动漫产业历史上影响最为深远、最为举足轻重的一代人，他们大多在20世纪六七十年代度过青春期，而那个时代，正是日本战后左翼社会运动最激烈的时代。日美安保条约掀起了长达十多年的社会运动风潮，正是这场日本历史上空前绝后的社会运动，洗礼了整整一代日本年轻人，其中的很多人投身日本动漫产业，共同打造出日本战后对世界影响最深远的文化产业，铸就了战后日本动漫的黄金时代。
本书从动漫人和动漫作品的角度出发，探寻黄金一代动漫人的青春岁月，追寻左翼社会运动与日本动漫亚文化的关联与脉络。

Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities.
In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe―from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan―the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.
The model emerged in North America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence.
Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors―victims, perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries―based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project, seeking a state without a nation.

For decades, the distressed cities of the Rust Belt have been symbols of deindustrialization and postindustrial decay, their troubles cast as the inevitable outcome of economic change. The debate about why the fortunes of cities such as Detroit have fallen looms large over questions of social policy. In Manufacturing Decline, Jason Hackworth offers a powerful critique of the role of Rust Belt cities in American political discourse, arguing that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on--and perpetuated--these cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause. Through a comparative study of shrinking Rust Belt cities, he argues that the rhetoric of the troubled "inner city" has served as a proxy for other social conflicts around race and class. In particular, conservatives have used images of urban decay to craft "dog-whistle" messages to racially resentful whites, garnering votes for the Republican Party and helping justify limits on local autonomy in distressed cities. The othering of predominantly black industrial cities has served as the basis for disinvestment and deprivation that exacerbated the flight of people and capital. Decline, Hackworth contends, was manufactured both literally and rhetorically in an effort to advance austerity and punitive policies. Weaving together analyses of urban policy, movement conservatism, and market fundamentalism, Manufacturing Decline highlights the central role of racial reaction in creating the problems American cities still face.