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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
Keeping it all in perspective as the presidential race gets hotter.
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Religion Dispatches
Christopher Caldwell, like so many Eurabian alarmists, is untroubled by violence or extremism, except if it affects them, their interests, or those considered “like” themselves.
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Religion Dispatches
As NAACP President Ben Jealous told the Times last week, “it’s become clear that, just as Bayard Rustin admonished us all, that we would either stand together or die apart.” “ Who admonished us?” readers must have asked. Bayard Rustin’s role as advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech) should have assured his place in American social and political history. But Rustin has long been denied his proper place—largely because he was an openly gay man.
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Religion Dispatches
The Weekly Standard’s Christopher Caldwell, who sees the integration of Muslims in Europe as troublesome, reviews two new books that see the integration of Muslims in Europe as troublesome.
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Religion Dispatches
Along comes Jersey Shore with its cast of self-described Italians. These are not the magical white folks of world-conquering, democracy-building myth-but they’re still “white”. They behave like the Museum assumes only people of my color behaved. The sum total of their television life is a kind of late-capitalist tragic anthropology: doing laundry to go to parties, in order to have sex. For me, it’s been tremendously liberating to know that people of my color and faith are not the only people who are embarrassing to watch on television.
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Public Eye
Organizing & Advocacy in a Time of Struggle
What are the impacts of Muslim community resistance in a post-9/11 world?
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Public Eye
Looking at Michigan’s Fusion Centers
The new Fusion Center in Michigan coordinated the national security intelligence efforts for law enforcement departments, threatening marginalized communities.
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Religion Dispatches
Wait, I thought Republicans liked politicians to read the Bible!
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