Skip to main content

Announcement Bar

​Sustain the research & strategy needed to defeat authoritarianism. 
Become a monthly donor to PRA & RD today​.

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.

Public Eye
This excerpt of a roundtable discussion on reproductive justice looks at the intersectionality of the reproductive justice movement, and the collaboration between other right-wing movements and anti-abortionists.
Article
Religion Dispatches
Over the last few months, South Asia has been caught in yet another cycle of religious violence. In October, Muslim extremist mobs in Bangladesh inflicted serious violence against the country’s Hindu…
Article
Political Research Associates
A Gift Guide and/or Reading List to Close Out 2021
From fighting White Evangelical Racism to searching for A Wider Type of Freedom, here’s what PRA’s been reading in 2021.
Book Review
Religion Dispatches
Montclair High School recently found itself embroiled in a controversy of its own making when it decided to honor the late Rabbi Meir Kahane as part of its Jewish Heritage Month communication, a…
Article
Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Kathleen Belew
Shane Burley talks to Kathleen Belew about the book she coedited: A Field Guide to White Supremacy. They discuss the broader picture of White supremacy, the definitional work missing in reporting, and community-based solutions to far-right violence.
Q&A
Religion Dispatches
News outlets like Iowa Starting Line and The Salt Lake Tribune have recently reported on a group called The Heartland Research Group (HRG) which has taken to the cornfields of Montrose, Iowa in search…
Article
Political Research Associates
A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror
Gardiner reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, looking at what Ackerman got right, and where he could have gone further in his analysis.
Book Review
Religion Dispatches
“Zionists just want to be happy.” - Hermann Cohen I do not think it’s provocative to state that liberal Zionism is in crisis . By that I mean that the present iteration of liberal Zionism as a…
Article
Public Eye
How Taylor Caldwell Set the Mood for the Far Right
Taylor Caldwell’s novels, published in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, breathed life into anti-Communist conspiracy theories and motivated right-wing women to take political action with lasting impact today.
Article
Religion Dispatches
“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take over Woodland Park.” Thus spake theocratic leader Andrew Wommack at a political mobilization conference in April at the Charis…
Article