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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
Conservative Christians have long seen the Walt Disney Company as an enemy in the culture war. In 1997, the Southern Baptist Convention launched an eight-year boycott over the company’s supposed…
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Religion Dispatches
Recently, we identified Jewish Studies scholarship that is sexist, racist, and cisheteronormative, arguing that neoliberal ideologies and metrics reinforce and promote such research. We invited…
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Religion Dispatches
I would never pick a fight with the formidable Michelle Goldberg, but I must pick a tiny bone in respect to her new take on what the Right is up to in the current public school wars. After aptly…
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Religion Dispatches
Dear CNN, Many questioned your decision to hire Rick Santorum as a senior political commentator back in January 2017. Not because he’s a conservative—diversity of opinion can be valuable—but because…
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Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
On 3.11.2021, PRA convened a panel of organizers and experts to reflect on the biggest hurdles ahead as we race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before the end of the decade.
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Religion Dispatches
There was a little “post-racial America” in the air Tuesday after a jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd. It felt similar to the night Barack…
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Religion Dispatches
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Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Anthea Butler
In this Q&A, Eleanor J. Bader talks to scholar Anthea Butler about her new book White Evangelical Racism, and Evangelical Christians’ use of religion to discriminate against marginalized communities.
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Religion Dispatches
When our colleagues in Jewish Studies courageously publicized the systematic and decades-long sexual harassment and assault perpetrated by sociologist Steven M. Cohen, among the many difficult…
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Religion Dispatches
Last month, a global consortium of leading scholars released the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), the product of a year-long labor to produce a new working definition of antisemitism that…
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