The Complexity of Claiming Native American Identity
What do Blake Lively, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, and Bill Clinton have in common? They all have claimed Native American ancestry. Of the four, Bieber is the on...
Immigration and Civil Rights Issues
Critics Chat: Indigenous Identity and the 2018 Midterms
In recent weeks, there have been high-profile public debates about the identities and legal standing of Indigenous people. On October 9, the Supreme Court refus...
The Rhetoric of Trump’s Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy
For more than five months, controversy has swirled around the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance immigration policy, which separates families for crossing th...
America is in the middle of a battle over the meaning of words like ‘diversity’
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on July 23, 2018.
You might think that the culture war over race and immigration primarily transpires in...
When the President Attacks Private Citizens: Scapegoating Jemele Hill and the NFL Protesters
On September 11, 2017, ESPN employee and SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill tweeted that "Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself wi...
The Fourth of July is a day to #Resist
Once again, stores are stocked with miniature flags and coal for grilling. Americans are breaking out picnic blankets and American flag-themed apparel. At the s...
‘Our Little Get-Together’: Trump and Obama on Black History Month
On February 1, 2017, President Trump delivered a speech for Black History Month to about a dozen black Americans, all of whom support or work for him. During hi...