Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S.…

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21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement
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More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

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Tracking Blackness: A Q&A with Dark Matters Author Simone Browne

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…

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When Secure Communities Meet Border Security

Looking at Michigan’s Fusion Centers
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In the Winter 2009/Spring 2010 edition of The Public Eye, we reported on the rise of Intelligence Fusion Centers, created to coordinate the national security intelligence efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Justice, CIA…

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Cruising on Military Drive

"Good" Latinos and "Bad" Latinos in the Age of Homeland Security and Global War
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If you want to understand how Homeland Security influences us, go to south Texas and take a walk around neighborhoods whose streets were paved by the “clash of civilizations” in cities and towns at or near the border. One such street is San Antonio’…

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Homeland Security

Low-Intensity Conflict Targets Non-Citizens
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Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the so-called war on terror has provided the U.S. government with a rationale for dramatically increasing state repression. This repression, linked with an upsurge of nationalism and nativist scapegoating,…

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