Much is made of her status as the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. Less attention is given to her likely status as an “anchor baby.”
Nathalie Baptiste
Nathalie Baptiste is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. Follow @nhbaptiste
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Anti-Choice ‘Personhood’ Measures Fail in North Dakota and Colorado
But in Tennessee, an anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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GOP’s Neo-Confederate Theocrat Wins Council Seat in One of Richest U.S. Counties
Voters were looking for something new when they elected Michael Peroutka to run as a Republican for a seat on Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Council. What they got was something very old—like ante bellum kind of old.
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After Ferguson, ‘Dear White People’ Arrives Right On Time
Then again, any time would have been right. Systemic white privilege and the language of racism is an American tradition as old as the republic.
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Staggering Loss of Black Wealth Due to Subprime Scandal Continues Unabated
Two years after we last investigated the the foreclosure crisis in the most affluent black county in America, things aren’t exactly looking up—except, maybe, for the banks.
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Social Contagion and Facebook’s Mea Culpa: An Interview With Deanna Zandt
The social media giant may have misfired with its secret manipulation, but a leading technologist says that such mapping—done right—can be a tool for good.
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At Religious Right Gathering, Dubious Plan Emerges for Recapturing the Presidency
At the Values Voter Summit, politicians were told that the path to victory is in promoting issues that turn out to alienate young people and women.
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Republicans Seek to Tar All Muslims With the Brush of ISIL
When the president said the terrorist group was not Islamic, his opposition got hopping mad.
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Jindal’s Assault on Abortion Rights the Latest Round in the War on Women
The Louisiana governor and 2016 presidential hopeful has signed into law a measure that would shut at least three of the state’s five abortion clinics.