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Racism & Anti-Immigrant

Racial inequality remains deeply embedded within U.S. social and economic structures and although the U.S. has long been considered “a nation of immigrants,” the question of who those immigrants are and where they come from, has provided fertile ground for exclusionary and bigoted policies for over 200 years. The projection that the U.S. will no longer be a majority White country sometime in the mid-21st century has reinvigorated White supremacist anxieties present in the U.S. since its founding. A well-funded and organized constellation of organizations with direct ties to racist eugenics and White nationalism are now at the forefront of efforts to slow this demographic trend.

Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 8
In this episode, Koki sits down with Shane Burley to discuss some of the most peculiar, and—at times, most influential—corners of the Far Right.
Podcast
Religion Dispatches
Donald Trump has shown the public many times who he is and in whose political tradition he’s planted himself. With the debate about the accuracy of using the “f-word” (i.e. fascism) in regard to…
Article
Religion Dispatches
In her just-released book Soul By Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims, journalist Adriana Carranca follows a Brazilian missionary known as Luiz and his wife Gis from their…
Q&A
Public Eye
The Institutional Policing of Dissent
In this commentary on the state’s use of the “outside agitator” narrative to violently repress progressive movements, Habiba Farh examines how “the powerful choose authoritarian control” to secure their rule over democratic challenges to their legitimacy.
Article
Public Eye
Reframing the 21st Century Border Crisis Narrative
Ethan Fauré discusses U.S. immigration politics and considers how two books, The Case for Open Borders and My Fourth Time We Drowned, challenge “border crisis” narratives.
Article
Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 7
In this episode, Koki reads “ Total Life Reform: The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift” by Shane Burley, the second in our new From the Archives series.
Podcast
Religion Dispatches
Should it gain Senate support, the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) just passed by the House will, despite its name, lead to more anti-Jewish violence in the US, not less. Why? Because this bill…
Article
Religion Dispatches
The Project 2025 plan published by the Heritage Foundation is, in the words of Peter Montgomery , “an unprecedented collaboration among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political…
Article
Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 6
Koki is joined by Aidan Orly to talk about Christian Zionism: the right-wing domestic and international movements that use a Christian biblical interpretation to promote and endorse Jewish nationalism.
Podcast
Political Research Associates
Christian Zionism comprises several authoritarian movements, and collectively forms the largest political base of support for Israel in the U.S.
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