Politics of Color

July 23, 2015 0

Transgender Rights and Communities of Color

BY MELINA JUÁREZ Americans across the states joyfully celebrated the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell vs. Hodges delivered June 26th that legalized same-sex marriage. Although the decision garnered backlash from some conservatives, the decision was hailed as a historic milestone for LGBTQ [...]

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 [...]

March 26, 2015 0

Intelligence Services Need New Ethnic Approaches

BY SAMER LIBDEH The current wave of radicalization among numbers of Muslim youth in Europe is obliging intelligence services to reconsider its approach to tackling jihadism, though this would not be without controversy. As was recently revealed, the UK’s domestic security service MI5 once tried [...]

December 19, 2014 0

Immigrant Leadership for a New Arizona

BY SAYU BHOJWANI AND MAYOR REBECCA JIMENEZ When it comes to immigration, is Arizona finally making a U-turn? Perhaps not immediately, as many legislators and the Governor still support anti-immigrant policies. However, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a federal court’s ruling to [...]

December 16, 2014 0

Averting the Next Ferguson: A Simple Fix for Local Representation

BY ZOLTAN HAJNAL Most of the calls for reform in the wake of Ferguson have focused almost entirely on the criminal justice system. That focus is certainly warranted given the specific events that spurred the protest. Moreover, there are many positive steps that President Obama’s new Task Force on [...]

December 12, 2014 1

Our Silence Will Not Protect Us: Why We Must Talk About Ferguson In The Classroom

BY DIANE WONG When the Ferguson protests began in August, I had open conversations with friends about the extent to which we should engage our own politics in the classroom. How do we navigate the classroom in response to Ferguson? How do scholars of color talk about Michael Brown’s death in a [...]

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 9, 2014 0

From Ferguson to Staten Island: A Primer on State Violence (Part 1)

BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT As people around the world attempt to fathom what has recently taken place when US police officers shot and killed young, African American men, it is important to take a step back from the specifics of each situation and think a bit more broadly about what is involved. When [...]

December 5, 2014 0

Rashomon in Ferguson: The Multiple Meanings of Lethal Police Actions

BY ADRIANO UDANI, TYLER CHANCE, DAWNA WILLIAMS, and DAVID KIMBALL Many anticipated the public release of evidence that a grand jury considered in its decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson who fatally shot Michael Brown. Photos of Officer Wilson revealed no serious injuries. Yet, an exit [...]

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