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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
Rush Limbaugh was a persistent son-of-a-gun, by which I mean he persisted at being an evil, racist, bloody-minded drug addict and possible sex tourist. And no, I’m afraid that unlike similar charges…
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Religion Dispatches
In the end Donald Trump didn’t have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He went one better. He just proved that he can shoot democracy in the face and get away with it. Or as the Washington Post ‘s Dana…
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Religion Dispatches
Two weeks after the historic Capitol riots, Joe Biden’s inauguration finally removed Donald Trump from office. For Asian Americans like myself, subject this past year to a torrent of physical and…
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Public Eye
A Snapshot
An annotated photograph of the January 6 Insurrection - key takeaways from an attempted coup.
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Public Eye
A new report, excerpted here, interrogates how enforcement of coronavirus-related public health orders replicates and expands the failed law enforcement paradigm that unevenly targets populations already most vulnerable to the pandemic.
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Public Eye
Far-Right Candidates Reveal Where the GOP is Headed
A look at three far-right candidates who embraced some combination of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, White nationalist, antisemitic, hard anti-LGBTQ, or far-right militia movements.
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Religion Dispatches
On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob of predominantly white domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the Senate from certifying…
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Religion Dispatches
When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on those who were Pro-Trump evangelicals and their ties to white Christian nationalism . Yet, as the…
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Public Eye
Photographs taken by Anthony Crider, a professor of astrophysics and a photographer, that reflect PRA’s 2020
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Religion Dispatches
Selfies and photojournalists’ images reveal mostly white men at January 6th’s Trump rally and siege of the Capitol. This is unsurprising; the nexus of whiteness and masculinity features prominently in…
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