One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of Americans to their results. In 1846, the U.S. went to war with Mexico for no...
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Barack Obama won Cuban-Americans in Florida, 49-47.
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart.
On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town's entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre, demonstrated the power of white supremacy to the Gilded Age white working class, and is...
On August 23, 1927, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrant anarchists by the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the murder of two men in a.
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of California farm labor. Farm workers lived pretty tough lives. The itinerant nature and physical stress...
Jamelle Bouie has an excellent article arguing that progressives' dreams of a demographic majority with the rise of the Latino population is a chimera. Progressives have a vision that endless.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's piece from a couple of days ago explaining his research connecting racially charged Google searches with voting patterns for Barack Obama has made the rounds. And while I'm.
Ruben Navarrette suffers from the condition known as Beltwayitis. It's when pundits and politicians hang out together all the time without ever discussing anything of substance that might get in the way of people being invited to Megan McArdle's or Tom Daschle's or whoever's Christmas...
So says noted maverick John McCain. In fact, this was McCain's contribution to the floor debate over the clearly qualified federal judge nominee Adalberto Jose Jordan. Dana Milbank uses the.
Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of.