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The Punishment/El Castigo: Undocumented Latinos And U.S. Immigration Processing, Ruth Gomberg-Munoz

Ruth Gomberg-Munoz

Wglt Interview, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

Professor Megan Burke discusses her new book, "Race, Gender, and Class in the TEA Party" with WGLT's Charlie Schlenker.

La Asfixia, El Estado Racista Y La Movilización Social En Defensa De Las Vidas Negras (Asphyxiation, State Racism And The Black Lives Matter Movement), Andrés Henao Castro

Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro

¿Cómo existir para los otros cuando el aire por el que circula la voz está contaminado con gas lacrimógeno? El movimiento social y la protesta popular constituyen una respuesta, se trata de multiplicar la singularidad de la voz rechazada por el estado racista en la pluralidad de todas esas gargantas congregadas en las calles. Se grita “¡no puedo respirar!” para transformar la asfixia del estado racista, para limpiar el aire contaminado ya no con el aire acondicionado del capital corporativo sino con el que circula, impropio, por las gargantas en común de la protesta popular.

Race, Gender, And Class In The Tea Party: What The Movement Reflects About Mainstream Ideologies, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

It has been all too tempting to characterize the Tea Party as an irrational, racist, astro-turf movement composed of members who are working to subvert their own economic interests. Race, Gender, and Class in the Tea Party reveals a much messier and much more fascinating analysis of this movement. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with organizers and fieldwork at conservative campaign trainings and conventions, its rich ethnographic data explores how the active folks in this movement, specifically organizers in one Midwestern state, understand their world, and how they act on that basis to change it. As this book will reveal, most …

The Myth Of The White Minority, Andrew Pierce

Andrew J. Pierce

In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like ‘whiteness’ are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about these fundamental inaccuracies, one must wonder why the myth of the white minority persists. I will argue that by re-envisioning whites as a minority culture struggling against a hostile dominant group, and by promoting …