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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
Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race and racism function, is under attack by conservatives who claim that CRT promotes a distorted view of…
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Religion Dispatches
Last week, the Biden administration published the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism . With an initial summary released in March of 2021, the full report is in response to…
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Political Research Associates
Events in New York state shine a spotlight on the growing alignment of the anti-vaccination movement and a constellation of far-right movements, including the anti-abortion and militia movements.
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Religion Dispatches
On June 15 th , the U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth is the result of emancipation delayed by Confederate control over Galveston, Texas…
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Religion Dispatches
“Whenever the church gets in bed with politics, the church gets pregnant. And our offspring does not look like our Father in Heaven.” - J.D. Greear, Southern Baptist Convention President, June 15…
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Religion Dispatches
In recent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates , popular Bible teacher Beth Moore , and Ethics…
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Religion Dispatches
The departure of Russell Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention has been a long time coming. As I noted here on RD last March, since the completion of the right-wing coup known in SBC circles as…
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Public Eye
An excerpt from Prisons Make us Safer by Victoria Law, published by Beacon Press.
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Public Eye
A Book Review
Shane Burley reviews the recent anthology Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump, considering how, in the years after World War II, a new transnational fascist movement emerged, united by demographic panic about the end of a “pure” White race.
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Religion Dispatches
The following piece has been updated with an adendum titled: Is a Fixation on Race Betraying the Class Struggle? Scroll down to go directly to the update. - eds In her otherwise terrific cri de coeur…
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