Articles by Politics of Color

August 30, 2016 1

California Republicans Effectively Constrained a Trump-like Candidate in 2014, Why Couldn’t the RNC?

BY NICHOLAS BOUSHEE Parties have preferences, the recent DNC email leak showed that much. My year in the field with the California Republican Party (CRP) revealed further that the preferences of party leadership can make a great difference in the nomination process. Though this presidential [...]

April 19, 2015 0

Has “Secure Communities” Really Secured Our Communities?

BY DONGJAE JUNG Immigration issues in the United States have historically been contentious among policy actors in terms of who can and cannot immigrate and naturalize, and what categories of noncitizens should not be allowed to assimilate. Interestingly, the dividing line between which noncitizens [...]

April 1, 2015 0

Governor Cuomo, Fracking, and Why Terry is the New Brown

BY A. RAHMAN FORD On December 17 of last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a state-wide ban on hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” The New York State Department of Health’s December 2014 report entitled “A Public Review of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas [...]

December 11, 2014 0

Policing Our Communities, Policing Our Borders

BY RODOLFO ESPINO There are many topics that can be discussed regarding the recent uprisings surrounding a grand jury’s decision in St. Louis County, Missouri. I will simply focus on the problematic issues related to policing our communities, policing our borders, and the intersection of the [...]

December 4, 2014 0

Perils of Monotony: Protest, Recreation and Re-Creation in Ferguson

BY A. RAHMAN FORD The Ferguson episode has been instructive in many ways. On the one hand, the protest and catharsis are inspirational and invigorating. On the other hand, there is also that residue of concern that it will become troublingly illustrative of a much larger malady plaguing post-Civil [...]

December 3, 2014 2

Combating Institutional Racism: From the UK to Ferguson

BY TERRI E. GIVENS The murder of Michael Brown has raised a variety of issues around policing, including excessive force, but perhaps more importantly, institutional racism. The initial reaction by police, to paint the victim as a “thug” or somehow violent has been a consistent theme in the [...]