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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
RD Senior Correspondent Haroon Moghul on CNN yesterday discussing GOP candidate Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about the parents of slain U.S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan, who accused Trump…
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Religion Dispatches
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Public Eye
Challenging the Policing Paradigm Rooted in Right-Wing “Folk Wisdom”
Broken windows policing is not only all too often lethal, it also contributes to the use of excessive and illegal force in the context of the most mundane police encounters.
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Religion Dispatches
There’s lots of good stuff in the new PRRI/Brookings poll on immigration and cultural change released yesterday, including, oddly, a long section on voters’ views on terrorism, crime, and unemployment…
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Religion Dispatches
The first jihad of the modern era was not against the West, but against gay Muslims.
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Public Eye
Simone Browne, an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, describes her new book, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness, as a conversation between Black Studies and Surveillance Studies—the latter a young discipline devoted to investigating the technological and social dimensions of surveillance.
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Religion Dispatches
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Religion Dispatches
I walked away after seeing Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade,” with the profound sense that I had “been to church.” And this is no small claim for someone who has devoted her life and work…
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Religion Dispatches
Did Pope Francis just throw a wrench into Donald Trump’s machinations to win the evangelical vote? Referring to Trump’s “plan” to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the Pope suggested…
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