US Southern Command Chief Holds Rare Military Meeting With Cuban Officials at Guantanamo Bay 
DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into E. Jean Carroll Over Alleged Perjury 
Brazil Struggles to Stop Illegal Amazon Gold Mining as Gold Prices Surge 
US Tightens Ebola Controls as Congo Outbreak Sparks Global Concern 
US Designates Brazil’s PCC and Comando Vermelho as Global Terrorist Entities Ahead of FTO Listing 
Poland Considers Revoking Zelensky’s Top Honor Over Controversial UPA Army Unit Recognition 
Baltic Drone Incidents Raise NATO Security Concerns 
Iran-U.S. Nuclear Talks Remain Unresolved as Strait of Hormuz Risks Keep Markets on Edge 
Russia Prepares New Large-Scale Attack on Ukraine, Zelenskiy Warns 
Flavio Bolsonaro Meets Trump, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio Amid Brazil Political Crisis 
U.S. Lawmakers Back Ukraine’s Request for More Patriot Missiles Amid Rising Russian Attacks 
US Condemns Russia’s Oreshnik Missile Strike, Warns Against New Attacks on Kyiv 
U.S. Sanctions Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Authority as Global Oil Markets Face Turmoil 
Netanyahu Gaza Expansion Plan Sparks Hamas Condemnation and International Concern 
U.S.-China Taiwan Conflict Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation, IISS Warns 
US Launches New Trade Investigation Into Vietnam Over Intellectual Property Concerns 
Trump Nears Decision on Iran Ceasefire Extension as Key Disputes Remain 
The Republican Party in the United States has moved farther right in recent years. And as it’s done so, you would think racialized Americans might be distancing themselves from it and its policies.
But at last week’s GOP primary presidential debates, three of the seven people on stage were candidates of colour. Racialized citizens also have been drawn to far-right politics, including key players in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol and recent racist attacks.
Which begs the question: Why are racialized people upholding white supremacist ideologies that work against them?
Daniel Martinez HoSang, a professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration and American Studies at Yale University, has been exploring this question for a long time. He is the author with Joseph Lowndes of Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Race, and the New Right Wing Politics of Precarity. HoSang sat down with us to discuss what they call the politics of multicultural white supremacy.
Read more in the Conversation
Resources
Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes
President Nixon calls on the “silent majority”
“Two-Thirds of Republicans Believe Great Replacement Theory, New Poll Shows”
“Black, Brown and extremist: Across the far-right spectrum, people of color play a more visible role” (Washington Post)
How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy (Princeton U Press) by Hajar Yazdiha
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