Politics and Government
On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Politics and Government broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Politics and Government: Allocation of Resources, Border Policy, Civil Rights, Citizenship, Colonialism, Control, Democracy, Deportation, Deregulation, Disaster Response and Relief, Dog Whistle Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Drug Policy, Federal Aid, Felon Disenfranchisement, Environmental Policy, Gerrymandering, Housing Rights, Identity Politics, Immigration Policy, Imperialist Intervention, LGBTQIA Rights, Privatization of Public Resources, Public Health Policy, Power, Reactionary Politics, Redlining, Representation, Segregation, Social Policy, State Sanctioned Violence, Treaty Rights, Tribal Sovereignty, Voting Rights, Voter Suppression, White Nationalism
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Video Clips
Source: PBS NewsHour. (2021, June 30).
Source: Vox. (2018, August 23). The Fractured Politics of a Browning America. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjciJvacXY
Source: Vox. (2020, July 26). What "defund the police" really means. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9w841nrIBg
Source: AJ+ (2020, October 21). How U.S. Politicians Rig Elections. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6g-ngoWxI0
Source: AJ+ (2022, June 24). The U.S. Isn't A Democracy. YouTube.https://youtu.be/9C3Yrwwwr1s
Source: AJ+ (2018, October 21). How The U.S Leaves Behind Its Own American Territories. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiZZmZYOA8
Source: AJ+ (2017, May 25). How the U.S. Government Segregated Chicago. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_8KIpmZXs
Books
Podcasts
Race and Regulation
Episode: Citizenship, Race, and Political Inequality
TransLash
Episode: A Coordinated Attack on Trans Youth
At Liberty
Episode: Refugees of Color Matter Too
This Land
Host Rebecca Nagle reports on how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.
Still Processing
Episode: When Your Neighbor’s the Highway
At Liberty
Episode: How the Supreme Court Could Silence Black Voters
Race and Regulation
Episode: Redlined Forever?
At Liberty
Episode: Why Is America so Keen on Separating Families?
Immigration Nation
Episode: Seeking Asylum in the United States
Code Switch
America's Concentration Camps?
At Liberty
Episode:Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia
Vox Conversations
Episode: The Original Meaning of “Identity Politics”
(with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
At Liberty
Episode:Student Debt Is a Racial Justice Issue
Black Gaze
Episode: Voting in the Hood
At Liberty
Episode: Why Do We Take Voting Rights Away in America?
Code Switch
Episode: Black And Up In Arms
At Liberty
Episode: Do Black Americans Have the Right to Bear Arms?
Momentum: A Race Forward
Episode: Discussing Felony Disenfranchisement
Articles
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- (2023) Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr | NPR
- (2022) Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering, explained| Vox
- (2022) In Attack on Voting Rights, DeSantis’s Election Police Arrest 20 Former Felons for Voting in Florida| Democracy Now
- (2021) Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups Are Backing Voter Suppression Efforts | them.
- (2021) The Brewing Voting Rights Clash | New York Times
- (2020) Indigenous Voters Are Getting Hit Hard by Polling Station Cuts in North Dakota | Vice News
- (2021) Georgia G.O.P. Passes Major Law to Limit Voting Amid Nationwide Push | New York Times
- (2021) Here's why voting rights activists say Georgia's new election law targets Black voters | CNN
- (2021) This Is How Hard It Is to Vote After You've Left Prison | Vice News
- (2022) Federal bill seeks to end race and income disparities in FEMA aid after disasters | NBC News
- (2022) As Climate Change Worsens, Native Tribes Compete for Relocation Grants| New York Times
- (2021) FEMA Disaster Aid Favors White People | New York Times
- (2020) How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality | Bloomberg News
- (2021) How a Federal Agency Excluded Thousands of Viable Businesses From Pandemic Relief | ProPublica
- (2020) Millions in lawsuit settlements are another hidden cost of police misconduct, legal experts say | ABC News
- (2020) Puerto Rico refers investigation into unused emergency supplies to DOJ | ABC News
- (2022) 'We are not surprised': Women of color say the courts have never served their communities | CNN
- (2021) Justice Dept. Seeks to Pare Back Civil Rights Protections for Minorities | New York Times
- (2022) Nearly 240 anti-LGBTQ bills filed in 2022 so far, most of them targeting trans people | NBC
- (2021) G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them) | New York Times
- (2019) America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others. | NyMag 1619 Project
- (2023) These states are narrowly defining who is 'female' and 'male' in law | NPR
- (2023) 17 States Have Now Tried to Pass Bills That Strip Powers From Reform-Minded Prosecutors| Intercept
- (2023) Florida expands ‘Don’t Say Gay’; House OKs anti-LGBTQ bills | AP News
- (2021) Disputing Racism’s Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools| New York Times
- (2022) Michigan’s New Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Care-Providing Parents With Life in Prison | Intercept
- (2022) No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution | New York Times
- (2022) Not just Florida. More than a dozen states propose so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bills| NPR
- (2021) Law Enforcement Groups Drive Anti-Protest Laws, New Analysis Shows | Intercept
- (2022) Seeking Marriage Equality for People With Disabilities| New York Times
- (2021) Minn. lawmaker proposes revoking convicted protesters' student loans, food stamps | NBC News
- (2021) Nearly a dozen states want to ban critical race theory in schools | CBS
- (2021) Do Black lives matter to Congress? The fate of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act will tell us | Los Angeles Times
- (2023) The War on Immigrants| Intercept
- (2023) Republican-led states ask judge to shut down DACA program for immigrant "Dreamers"| CBS News
- (2022) Race, culture and politics underpin how — or if — refugees are welcomed in Europe | NPR
- (2022) The Origins of the G.O.P. Tactic of Sending Migrants to Blue States| New York Times
- (2022) Black immigrants are more likely to be denied US citizenship than White immigrants, study finds | CNN
- (2021) An Asylum Mirage | Intercept
- (2021) The People We Left Behind: How Closing A Dangerous Border Camp Adds to Inequities | ProPublica
- (2021) HHS Is Cutting Safety Corners to Move Migrant Kids Out of Overcrowded Facilities | ProPublica
- (2021) How ICE Avoids Judicial Accountability by Quietly Releasing Immigrants Who Challenge Being Detained | ProPublica
- (2020) Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found | New York Times
- (2021) Images of Confusion, Then Anguish: Migrant Families Deported by Surprise | New York Times
- (2023) 17 States Have Now Tried to Pass Bills That Strip Powers From Reform-Minded Prosecutors| Intercept
- (2023) G.O.P. Lawmakers Override Kentucky Governor’s Veto on Anti-Trans Law | New York Times
- (2022) How political rhetoric factors into violence against the LGBTQ community | NPR
- (2022) At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking | New York Times
- (2022) Calls grow for a tougher legal approach to white nationalist group Patriot Front| NPR
- (2021) What the history of the Ku Klux Klan can teach us about the Capitol riot | Vox
- (2021) Canada Lists Proud Boys As A Terrorist Group, Alongside ISIS And Al-Qaida | NPR
- (2021) Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, but Weaker Laws | ProPublica
- (2021) Members Of Right-Wing Militias, Extremist Groups Are Latest Charged In Capitol Siege | NPR
- (2019) White Supremacism in the U.S. Military, Explained | New York Times
- (2020) White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism | Atlantic
Scholarship
- (2019) New Tricks for an Old Dog: Deterring the Vote Through Confusion in Felon Disenfranchisement | by Emily Rong Zhang
- (2017) Racial Inequality in Democratic Accountability: Evidence from Retrospective Voting in Local Elections | by Patrick Flavin
- (2020) Voting rights, Anti-intersectionality, and Citizenship as Containment | by Jo V. Hsu
- (2017) Voter Turnout, Felon Disenfranchisement and Partisan Outcomes in Presidential Elections, 1988-2012 | by Edward Burmila
- (2017) Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes | by Zoltan Hajnal
- (2018) Using Microaggression Theory to Examine U.S. Voter Suppression Tactics | by Keith P. Parker
- (2013) Trusting an Abusive System: Systemic Racism and Black Political Engagement | by Matthew Simmons
- (2018) Challenging and Preventing Policies That Prohibit Local Civil Rights Protections for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People | by Jennifer L. Pomeranz
- (2017) Opportunity, Resources, and Threat: Explaining Local Nativist Organizing in the United States | by Matthew Ward
- (2019) Managerial Society and the Emergence of Black Policy Experts | by Floyd W. Hayes III
- (2016) What is Racism? Racial Discourse and Racial Politics | by Ashley Doane
- (2019) Cities, Fair Housing, and Gentrification: A Proposal in Progressive Federalism | by David Troutt
- (2017) Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, and the Future | Jessica A. Shoemaker
- (2015) Democracy in Action?: NIMBY as Impediment to Equitable Affordable Housing Siting. | by Corianne Payton Scally
- (2019) The Last Stages of Gentrification: Washington, DC, Mayoral Elections and Housing Advocacy | by Lorenzo Morris
- (2015) People of the Outside: The Environmental Impact of Federal Recognition of American Indian Nations | Rebecca Mitchell
- (2018) Quantifying Partisan Gerrymandering: An Evaluation of the Efficiency Gap Proposal | by Benjamin Plener Cover
- (2019) Race and Poverty Matters: Black and Latino Linked Fate, Neighborhood Effects, and Political Participation | by Todd Shaw
- (2020) Geographies of Algorithmic Violence: Redlining the Smart City. | Sara Safransky
- (2019) Fear and Loathing (of others): Race, Class and Contestation of Space in Washington, DC. | Brandi T. Summers
- (2019) The Enormous Price We Have Paid for Allowing the Explicitly Racist Policies of Federal and Local Governments to Segregate America | by Gilda Graff
- (2019) Restraining the Political through Stay-Away Orders: The Case of Occupy Oakland | Emily Brissette
- (2020) What's Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender & Economic Inequality in the United States | by Jamila Michener
- (2018) The Racial Structure of Inequality: Consequences for Welfare Policy in the United States | by Rodney E. Hero
- (2020) Intersectionality and Child Welfare Policy: Implications for Black Women, Children, and Families. |
- (2017) The Federal Spending Paradox: Economic Self-Interest and Symbolic Racism in Contemporary Fiscal Politics | by Katherine Krimmel
- (2008) Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Response to Unnatural Disasters | Robert D. Bullard
- (2016) A Policy Approach Toward Climate Justice | by Jalonne Lynay White-Newsome
- (2020) Recognition of and Response to Energy Poverty in the United States | by Dominic Bednar
- (2017) No Equity, No Triple Aim: Strategic Proposals to Advance Health Equity in a Volatile Policy Environment | by Geoffrey W. Wilkinson
- (2022) Toward a Cohesive Union? Currents and Cleavages in State Civic Education Policy Discourses.| by Ariel Tichnor-Wagner.
- (2020) Education Policy and Black Teachers: Perspectives on Race, Policy, and Teacher Diversity | by Terrenda White
- (2021) Perpetuating Inequalities: The Role of Political Distraction in Education Policy | by Amy Farley
- (2021) "A marketplace of schools": race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region| by Jacob S. Bennett
- (2019) What Have You Done for Me Lately? Educational Research and Urban Schools | by Jacob S. Bennett
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