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111 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” (March 31, 2006), http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/31/ldt.01.html
112 “CBS Contributor Dobbs defends false leprosy claim after confrontation by CBS’ Stahl,” Media Matters.org (May 11, 2007), http://mediamatters.org/research/200705110004
113 “Hey, maybe we’ll finally get serious about borders now; Update: 2 swine flu cases confirmed in Kansas; 8 probable in NYC; Update: US declares public health emergency,” Michelle Malkin.com (April 25, 2009), http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/25/hey-maybe-well-finally-get-serious-about-borders-now/; “Paranoia Pandemic: Conservative media baselessly blame swine flu outbreak on immigrants,” Media Matters.org (April 27, 2009), http://mediamatters.org/research/200904270037
114 Jon Cohen, “Exclusive Interview: CDC Head Virus Sleuth,” Science Insider (April 29, 2009), http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/exclusive-cdc-h.html; Tom Philpott, “‘New Scientist’: Swine flu stems from virus that evolved in U.S.,” Grist.org (April 30, 2009), www.grist.org/article/2009-04-30-NS-swine-cafos
115 Chris Isidore, “Illegal Workers: Good for U.S. Economy,” CNN Money (May 1, 2006), http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/01/news/economy/immigration_economy/index.htm; Angela M. Kelley, “The Economic Impact of Immigration,” Immigration Daily (January 7, 2008), www.ilw.com/articles/2008,0107-kelley.shtm
116 Dustin Ensinger, “Illegal Immigration and NAFTA,” Economy in Crisis (February 5, 2011), http://economyincrisis.org/content/illegal-immigration-and-nafta; Roger Bybee and Carolyn Winter, “Immigration Flood Unleashed by NAFTA’s Disastrous Impact on Mexican Economy,” Common Dreams.org (April 25, 2006), www.commondreams.org/views06/0425-30.htm; “NAFTA and Illegal Immigration,” Economist’s View (July 1, 2006), http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/07/nafta_and_illeg.html
117 Save Ethnic Studies, Data Analysis and Evaluation (2011), http://saveethnicstudies.org/assets/docs/proven_results/Save_Ethnic_Studies_Data_Analysis_and_Evaluation.pdf; and for information on the overall benefits of Ethnic Studies courses, see Christine E. Sleeter, “The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies: A Research Review,” (Washington, DC: National Education Association, 2011), http://saveethnicstudies.org/assets/docs/proven_results/Academinc-and-social-value-of-ethnic-studies.pdf
118 Liliana Segura, “Pat Buchanan’s Latest Racist Rant: ‘Traditional Americans are Losing Their Nation,” Alternet.org (October 21, 2009), www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/143405/pat_buchanan’s_latest_racist_rant%3A_%22traditional_americans_are_losing_their_nation%22/
119 “Michelle Bachmann: Washington Is ‘Corrupt Paradigm’ and I’ll Change It,” NewsMax.com (June 26, 2011), www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/michele-bachmann-cbs-fox/2011/06/26/id/401506
120 “Glenn Beck Cries AGAIN on Air, Pining for a Simpler Time in America,” Huffington Post.com (October 15, 2009), www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/glenn-beck-cries-again-on_n_323197.html
121 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (April 4, 1967), speech at Riverside Church, NYC, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
122 Glenn Greenwald, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. (NY: Crown Books, 2008), www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307408027/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim/
123 Sahil Kapur, “Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly’ to end slavery,” The Raw Story (January 25, 2011), www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/25/bachmann-founding-fathers-worked-tirelessly-slavery/
124 Elizabeth B. Wydra, “Why did the GOP ‘edit’ the Constitution?” Huffington Post.com (January 6, 2011), www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-b-wydra/why-did-the-gop-edit-the_b_805224.html; Greg Sargent, “Huck Finning the Constitution,” Washington Post.com (January 6, 2011), http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/huck_finning_the_constitution.html; Robert McNamara, “Censoring the Constitution and Mark Twain,” http://history1800s.about.com/b/2011/01/07/censoring-the-constitution-and-mark-twain.htm; Evan McMorris-Santoro, “House Reading Amended Slavery-Free Constitution This Morning,” Talking Points Memo (January 6, 2011), http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/house-reading-amended-slavery-free-constitution.php
125 Bob Cesca, “Super Stupid,” Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog (January 25, 2011), http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/01/super_stupid_57.html
126 “Glenn Beck Failed His 40-Day Challenge,” Media Matters.org (October 29, 2010), http://mediamatters.org/research/201010290040
127 Johannah Cornblatt, “‘Town Destroyer’ Versus the Iroquois Indians,” U.S. News and World Report (June 27, 2008), www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/06/27/town-destroyer-versus-the-iroquois-indians; “Sullivan Expedition,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition
128 “Limbaugh attacks Thurgood Marshall for view that original Constitution which allowed slavery was ‘defective,’” Media Matters.org (May 10, 2010), http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005100049, and “Limbaugh: ‘Elena Kagan and Thurgood Marshall look at ‘me and people like me as the oppressors,’” Media Matters.org (May 10, 2010), http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005100047; “Republicans Defend
Slavery to Attack Kagan,” PERRspectives (May 10, 2010), www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001855.htm
129 “Rick Santorum: ‘America Was a Great Country Before 1965,’” Crooks and Liars.com (June 5, 2011), http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rick-santorum-america-was-great-country-19
130 Eric Hananoki, “Huckabee Explains Obama’s ‘Different Worldview’: ‘Our Communities Were Filled
With Rotary Clubs, Not Madrassas,’” Media Matters.org (March 2, 2011), http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103020040
131 Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, Income Years 1913-2011, The Tax Foundation, www.taxfoundation.org/files/fed_individual_rate_history-20110323.pdf
132 Robert McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nguyen, “The Gap Between Statutory and Real Corporate Tax Rates,” Multinational Monitor, 25:11 (2005), http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_welfare/real_tax_rates_plummet.php; Donald Barlett and James
Steele, “Tax Time: Are Corporations Paying Their Share?” What Went Wrong? (April 16, 2011), http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/taxes-and-corporations/; Barry Ritholtz, “Corporate Tax Rates, Then and Now,” The Big Picture (April 14, 2011), www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/corporate-tax-rates-then-and-now/; Eric Toder, “Is the Corporate Tax Going Away?” Christian Science Monitor (April 27, 2011), www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2011/0427/Is-the-corporate-tax-going-away
133 Joe Feagin, “Toward and Integrated Theory of Systemic Racism,” in The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, eds., Maria Krysan and Amanda E. Lewis (NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), 213–214.
134 Massey and Denton, 1993: 31; also Oliver and Shapiro, 1996.
135 David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (Oxford, 1999).
136 Dena Roth, “It’s Not the Diversity Stupid: The Case for Affirmative Action,” The Current (December 2005), www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/roth.html; “The GI Bill Was Affirmative Action for Poor Whites” The Devil’s Advocate (October 7, 2010), http://dissention.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/the-gi-bill-was-affirmative-action-for-poor-whites/; Ira Katznelson, “When Affirmative Action Was White,” (Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Poverty and Race, March/April, 2006), www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=1065&item_id=9751&newsletter_id=86&header=Race+%2F+Racism
137 John J. Siegfried, Better Living Through Economics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), p. 131; Bridgette Baldwin, “Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, and ‘Worthiness’ in Poverty Discourse and Policy,” The Modern American (Spring 2010); http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=tma; and
Kenneth Neubeck and Noel Cazenave, Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor (NY: Routledge, 2002).
138 DeNavas-Walt, Proctor and Smith, 2010: 44, Tables B-2 and B-3, pp. 62, 68.
139 www.nottoway.com/ht
ml/nottoway-plantation-history.htm; and M.R. Ailenroc, The White Castle of Louisiana, www.amazon.com/White-Castle-Lousiana-M-Ailenroc/dp/B003SH0DV8
140 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_Program
141 http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Laborers.html; Christopher Clark and Nancy Hewitt, Herbert Gutman and the American Social History Project. Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History to 1877 (St. Martin’s Press: 2008).
142 Sacramento Observer (August 11, 2004), www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-99959704.html (which notes
an anticipated annual consumer clout for blacks of around $965 billion by 2009, up from $723 billion at the time of the article), and Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford, eds., Black Political Organizations in the Post–Civil Rights Era (Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 167 (which notes that only about 7 percent of African American purchases are directed to black owned businesses).
143 Sarah Lawrence and Jeremy Travis, The New Landscape of Imprisonment: Mapping America’s Prison Expansion (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, April 2004), www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410994_mapping_prisons.pdf; Christian Smith-Socaris, “Prisoners of the Census: How the Incarcerated Are Counted Distorts Our Politics” (Progressive States Network, September 14, 2009), www.progressivestates.org/news/dispatch/prisoners-the-census-how-the-incarcerated-are-counted-distorts-our-politics
144 Michael Hudson, Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty (Common Courage Press: 1996), www.amazon.com/Merchants-Misery-Corporate-America-Profits/dp/1567510825/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
145 “Special Report: Banking on Misery – Citigroup, Wall Street and the Fleecing of the South,” Facing South 51 (June 5, 2003).
146 Historic information on redlining can be found in Massey and Denton, 1993: 31.
147 Derrick Henry and Janet Roberts, “Long Island Foreclosures Rise, With No End In Sight,” New York Times (May 13, 2009), www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/nyregion/long-island/17mortli.html?pagewanted=all; Courtney Allen, “Foreclosures 40% Higher in Long Island,” Foreclosure Warehouse.com www.foreclosurewarehouse.com/content/foreclosures/foreclosure-rates/foreclosures-40-higher-in-long-island/; Heather Hill Cernoc, “One in 10 NYC Mortgages Seriously Delinquent,” DSNews.com (June 28, 2011), www.dsnews.com/articles/one-in-10-nyc-mortgages-seriously-delinquent-2011-06-28. For additional information on the spread of the foreclosure crisis : “Foreclosure Crisis Worsens in Most U.S. Metros,” Fox News.com (October 28, 2010), www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/28/foreclosure-crisis-worsens-metros/
148 Martin Gilens, “‘Race Coding’ and White Opposition to Welfare,” American Political Science Review (1996), 593–595; Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote, Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have a European-Style Welfare State? (Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Discussion Paper No. 1933, November 2001), http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2001papers/2001list.html
149 www.amazon.com/Why-Americans-Hate-Welfare-Communication/dp/0226293653/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249928092&sr=1-1
150 www.amazon.com/Color-Welfare-Racism-Undermined-Poverty/dp/0195101227/ref=pd_sim_b_2
151 www.amazon.com/Welfare-Racism-Playing-Against-Americas/dp/0415923417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249928165&sr=1-1
152 Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote, 2001:133.
153 John Aidan Byrne, “U.S. Firms Hoarding $2 Trillion,” New York Post (August 6, 2011), www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hoarding_cash_Yzfk2c8aK1wAPrZCRdEVnJ; Rich Blake and Dahlia Fahmy, “Hoarding, Not Hiring Corporations Stockpile Mountains of Cash,” ABC News (April 1, 2010), http://abcnews.go.com/Business/hoarding-hiring-corporations-stockpile-mountain-cash/story?id=10250559; Ben Casselman and Justin Lahart, “Companies Shun Investment, Hoard Cash,” Wall Street Journal (September 17, 2011), http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576574720017009568.html
154 Catherine Rampell, “Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter,” New York Times (November 23, 2010), www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/business/economy/24econ.html
155 “Since 2009, 88 Percent of Income Growth Went to Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went to
Wages,” Think Progress.org (June 30, 2011), http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/30/258388/corporate-profits-recovery/
156 Sam Stein, “Florida GOP Debate: Newt Gingrich Blasts 99ers Over Unemployment Insurance,” Huffington Post.com (September 22, 2011), www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/florida-gop-debate-newt-gingrich-99ers-unemmployed_n_977059.html. For an additional conservative critique of unemployment benefits: Alan Pyke, “Rep. Steve King: Unemployment Benefits Have Created ‘A Nation of Slackers,’”
Political Correction (September 16, 2011), http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201109160005
157 “Rick Santelli’s Shout Heard ’Round the World,” CNBC.com (February 22, 2009), www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World; Eric Etheridge, “Rick Santelli: Tea Party Time,” New York Times Opinionator (February 20, 2009),
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/rick-santelli-tea-party-time/; Paul Bedard, “Rick Santelli Gets Credit for Tea Party Movement,” U.S. News and World Report (January 25, 2010),
www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/01/25/rick-santelli-gets-credit-for-tea-party-movement
158 Information on white allies can be found at www.timwise.org/reading-list/; and in Herbert Aptheker, Anti-Racism in U.S. History: The First Two Hundred Years, www.amazon.com/Anti-Racism-U-S-History-Contributions-American/dp/0275948080/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281354845&sr=1-1Herbert.
159 James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (Dell Publishing, 1963).