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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
In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show’s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D…
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Political Research Associates
An online video call discussion on anti-racist resistance with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Political Research Associates, and Rural Organizing Project.
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Religion Dispatches
Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation: the Muslim Ban. And this new administration’s slapdash effort to ban travel from Iran…
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Public Eye
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Religion Dispatches
Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.
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Religion Dispatches
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