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Trump’s Name Appears on U.S. Institute of Peace Ahead of Rwanda–Congo Deal Signing 
Taiwan Opposition Criticizes Plan to Block Chinese App Rednote Over Security Concerns 
California Launches Portal for Reporting Alleged Misconduct by Federal Immigration Agents 
Pentagon Probe Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Risked Exposing Sensitive Yemen Strike Details 
U.S. Defense Chief Pete Hegseth Defends Controversial Second Strike on Suspected Drug-Smuggling Vessel 
Trump Administration Halts Immigration, Green Card, and Citizenship Processing for 19 Countries 
Michael Dell Pledges $6.25 Billion to Boost Children’s Investment Accounts Under Trump Initiative 
UN Chief Says Gaza Operation “Fundamentally Wrong” as Concerns Over War Crimes Grow 
Israel Receives Body of Deceased Hostage as Rafah Crossing Reopening Hinges on Final Returns 
U.S. Justice Department Orders Intensified Probe Into Antifa and Domestic Extremist Groups 
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IMF Deputy Dan Katz Visits China as Key Economic Review Nears 
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.
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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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