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
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
Episode: Citizenship, Race, and Political Inequality
Episode: A Coordinated Attack on Trans Youth
Episode: Refugees of Color Matter Too
Host Rebecca Nagle reports on how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.
Episode: When Your Neighbor’s the Highway
Episode: How the Supreme Court Could Silence Black Voters
Episode: Redlined Forever?
Episode: Why Is America so Keen on Separating Families?
Episode: Seeking Asylum in the United States
America's Concentration Camps?
Episode:Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia
Episode: The Original Meaning of “Identity Politics”
(with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
Episode:Student Debt Is a Racial Justice Issue
Episode: Voting in the Hood
Episode: Why Do We Take Voting Rights Away in America?
Episode: Black And Up In Arms
Episode: Do Black Americans Have the Right to Bear Arms?
Episode: Discussing Felony Disenfranchisement
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