From the Streets to the Polls From the Streets to the Polls
Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm elections and beyond.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Paloma Esquivel
The Hard Edge of Hatred The Hard Edge of Hatred
American white supremacist groups have a long and ugly history of using anxieties over immigration as a recruitment tool. It's happening again, with a vengeance.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Chip Berlet
Nightly Nativism Nightly Nativism
CNN pundit Lou Dobbs has made himself a "specialist" in channeling nativist, nationalist and even white supremacist rhetoric.
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
Locked and Loaded Locked and Loaded
The Minutemen have been transformed from an extremist "citizen border patrol" to part of the neocon establishment. Has their leader sold out, or bought in?
Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse
Same Old Song Same Old Song
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Tichenor
White Heat White Heat
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution. It's also the white-hot nexus of the new Americ...
The New Nativism The New Nativism
The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill tha...
Aug 10, 2006 / The Editors
What They’re Marching For What They’re Marching For
With or without a comprehensive immigration bill, a working-class immigrant Latino movement is emerging--allied with progressive groups--that could reverse a tide of xenophobia and...
Jun 1, 2006 / Feature / Saurav Sarkar
A Shared Vision A Shared Vision
The vitality of the new Latino-led immigration movement could provide the spark to jolt the civil rights movement out of its complacency and create a shared notion of an imagined f...
Jun 1, 2006 / Feature / Salim Muwakkil
A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale
Grassroots activists tap into the momentum of the immigrant rights movement to bring blacks and Latinos together on shared concerns.
Jun 1, 2006 / Feature / Michelle García