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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.

Religion Dispatches
As a scholar of American evangelicalism, I often spend my time writing and teaching about the overt beliefs and practices that White conservative Protestants employ to further entrench Christian…
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Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches’s sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion…
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Religion Dispatches
In recent weeks, as Republicans rejected an immigration bill that met most of their demands for increased border security, pundits noted their willingness to give up enormous policy victories for the…
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Religion Dispatches
In November 1990, an election took place in Bosnia, my home country, that changed the course of my life. I had no idea that it would; at sixteen, I was too busy growing out my hair, playing in a band…
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Religion Dispatches
I know, it’s easy to dismiss Trump’s extremist rhetoric as just another occasion of “Trump being Trump.” Because the deluge is unrelenting, paying attention is emotionally and morally exhausting. But…
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Political Research Associates
Countering Violent Extremism has been lauded by some academics, politicians and activists, but targets communities harmed by the War on Terror.
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Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion…
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Public Eye
How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism
Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation coalition launched in 2022, aims to “take the reins of government” during a Republican presidency, and further its authoritarian agenda.
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Public Eye
Author Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal
Dr. Maha Hilal discusses the pervasive and ongoing effects of the War on Terror, and the dehumanization of Muslims across the globe.
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Public Eye
The Rise of the Far Right in Western New York
Local sheriffs and government officials have ties to a small but active Far Right in Erie County. As the county becomes more multiracial, far-right groups continue to grow and organize locally..
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