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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
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Religion Dispatches
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Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Since 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S. security state and altered the very nature of surveillance and policing at home and abroad. And through it all, Big Tech has profited.
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Public Eye
Author Q&A with Daniel Martinez HoSang
A Q&A with Author Daniel Martinez Hosang about his book A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone.
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Political Research Associates
9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement
The anti-immigrant movement mobilized before 9/11 but used the fuel of the anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric post 9/11 to become the movement they are today.
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Political Research Associates
No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.
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Religion Dispatches
Like many other women living in Texas, news of the Supreme Court’s refusal to block Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) hit me hard. This extreme law not only bans abortion around six weeks in all cases of pregnancy…
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Religion Dispatches
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Political Research Associates
Refugees, Islam, and Germany’s Far Right
The German Right Wing has been mobilized by their xenophobic and islamophobic views. Crawford traces their rising popularity beginning with the refugee crisis and its relation to the anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S.
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