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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.

Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 2
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain, the fourth in our new From the Archives series.
Podcast
Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with John Washington
Reece Jones discusses the book “The Case for Open Borders” with author John Washington, and the idea of open borders and the way the Left and the Right react to the idea.
Q&A
Religion Dispatches
By now readers are likely familiar with the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating peoples’ pets. It goes without saying that these claims are, as the Springfield City Manager…
Article
Religion Dispatches
In a recent front-page article, New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham explores a historic gendered shift in church attendance. As the data show: survey after survey reveals a marked increase in…
Article
Religion Dispatches
Dedicated to Fred Moten, inspiration and friend. After listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a prominent Hillel rabbi at an elite university, I was…
Article
Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 1
We discuss the origins, unlikely intersections, and influence of the contemporary anti-immigration movement, including an overview of how this movement developed, from its White Nationalist origins, with significant bipartisan and centrist support.
Podcast
Religion Dispatches
Since 2016, I have been arguing here at RD that former president Donald Trump’s politics, and his appeal to White evangelical Christians, are best explained through the lens of authoritarianism…
Article
Religion Dispatches
Editor’s note: The following commentary doesn’t necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. RD is committed to publishing a variety of perspectives. In the largest sacrifice the world has ever…
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Public Eye
Weaponizing Antisemitism to Defend White Supremacy
Right-wing groups collaborate with right-wing Jewish groups to use the claim of antisemitism to suppress Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs on college campuses to push their White supremacist agendas.
Article
Religion Dispatches
Might as well say it up front: I am one of many progressive Christians who choose to believe that for every 10 MAGA Christians there’s at least one (and possibly even three) standing up on the other…
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