Anti-Immigrant Lawmaking
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Robin Jacobson, professor and chair of politics and government, University of Puget Sound, and author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration, explores anti-immigrant sentiment in lawmaking.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 8:00 am
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference?
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.’
The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights presents Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary, a podcast from the lecture series and associated course presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to an understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. The series is self-consciously an entry point, designed to provide intellectual and moral building blocks to begin the transformative work of anti-racism in our students, on our campus, and in our broader communities.
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Robin Jacobson, professor and chair of politics and government, University of Puget Sound, and author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration, explores anti-immigrant sentiment in lawmaking.
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View EventMeet the Speaker: Robin Jacobson
Robin Jacobson teaches race, religion, state politics, and the politics of detention. Her writing focuses on immigration and the role of race in immigration politics, the debate over birthright citizenship, and the relationship between interest groups and immigration politics.
Her book, The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), explores the role of race in immigration politics. Other published articles on the topic include pieces on the debate over birthright citizenship, the relationship between the labor movement and other interest groups and immigration politics, and state laws about immigration. Her current collaborative project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, compares state responses to immigration from the last 19th century through the current moment in the Southwest and the Mid-Atlantic. She is also co-editor of the volume Faith and Race in American Political Life (University of Virginia Press, 2012).
Recommended Resources
Robin Jacobson recommends the following if you would like to learn more:
Natalia Molina, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Jessica Autumn Brown, “Running on Fear: Immigration, Race and Crime Framings in Contemporary GOP Presidential Debate Discourse” (Critical Criminology)
PBS Series: College Behind Bars
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